anyone tried the river 2 sea tungsten vibes?? any feedback on them for about $13 they look pretty good
Last edited by aussie_stu; 05-03-2007 at 10:25 AM.
I dont own any other style of lipless crankbait (why buy an inferior product?) but a mate who comes fishing with me quite often does own a few...and any other cheap and nasty jackall knockoff on the market.
To put it simply...Jackalls win hands down!
The first time I tried it with a mate (he didnt know the experiment was taking place) I caught about 5 fish for his 1...I let him know that I was keeping count on the way home and he was a little cut about it (as he refuses to buy a jackall). The best excuse he came up with was that I had the front of the boat, therefor I had first shot at new water. That had some merit I thought to myself, so we moved to part 2.
The next time we went out, I gave him the front casting deck and control of the bowmount and we were away...fishing in a totally different area then we did the first time. (God it was good fishing without having to worry about the elec motor, but thats another story). Once again, the jackalls came out on top. Jackalls scored more than double than my mate got.
Once again he tried with the excuses and came up with nothing...even tried the "I stirred em up"...but had nothing when I asked why the bass werent chewing on his replicas after I stirred them up a few weeks previous.
They do work...what else can I say!?
Though I have had days when they dont work...but on these days you can pretty much be assured that not much else is working either....And on days when you have to throw softly weighted pastics, waiting half an hour for the things to sink down to 25' where the fish are sulking, just to get one fish...you can have that, I got better ways to spend my time.
Last edited by Leigh77; 05-03-2007 at 05:04 PM.
Maybe you're just a better fisherman, and I don't mean to be rude. The next step for a true experiment will be for him to use your jackalls, and you use his replicas. That should shine a final light on any ecuse he feels, and make an end to the whole point.
cheers'rob
This is all very interesting, but I will say (even though i have been the main nocker of the catch F@#kall Jackall), that while fishing a dam out west (Tamworth way) I was out fished by a couple of young fellas using Jackalls.
This was just after the lure was released on to the market.
These boys lobbed up after I and a mate had been casting for two hours, using every lure available to us (except jackalls) and caught 5 yeelow belly within ten minutes. I had a look at their lures and to this day fail to see the difference between their jackalls and the rapala that we were using.
When I asked why they work, one of the boys said,
"I don't really know, but I do know they attract around seven to eight strikes for every ten or so casts, where as your rapalas would only attract maybe two strikes for every ten or so casts".
Me personally I can't answer as I have had little succes on any of these bibless type lures, but after all of your contributions to this thread I would say it's because of my lack of experience and impatience.
Thanks guys for the contribution you all have made to my education in the art of bibless lure fishing for Bass. I hope to put it to good work.
Rob
I honestly dont think fishing "ability" has anything to do with it...I will flash back now to the first ever time I used a jackall.
I was fishing Hinze Dam and i was trying my normal arsenal of lures/flies, including spinnerbaits, beetlespins, hardbodied lures of different colours and depths and was catching nothing!
I entered a bay that just had that Bassy look all over it...fished it hard with both spinnerbaits and hard bodied lures and got nothing...meanwhile my first ever jackall was sitting in my tacklebox (still in its box). I bought the thing, so I may as well try it out.
I refished the bay using the jackall...2nd cast and I was on. I couldnt believe it, the hype may be right afterall. By the time I finished fishing that bay (again) I had caught 14 fish and approx 6 of those hit the lure on the drop. That made me a believer!
But to get back to the experience/patience factor...I had never used a lipless crankbait before that day! Like in one of my previous posts here...just chuck it out, and slowly retrieve back to the boat.
They may not look much different from the other style crankbaits, but thy act and sound different. The jackalls have a deeper rattle then others and IMO a better action (especially on the drop)
If you ever get a jackall, just take note on how many fish you get hooking up straight after you engage the real and the lure moves that slightest bit...I think that the action on the drop gets most of the fish interested and the rest is history.
I dont know if it still does, but when they first came out part of the writing on the back (in japanese) says "for fish, just add water".
Last edited by Leigh77; 07-03-2007 at 06:42 AM.
I dont know if it still does, but when they first came out part of the writing on the back (in japanese) says "for fish, just add water".[/quote]
That's the problem Leigh, we have plenty of Jackalls but we don't have enough water.
M62