KwickFish for Springers....Your Favorite?

[Blue Water 23]

I am bored after not working for three weeks and not being able to get the boat out the last few days so I was just curious...

What color/ size is your favorite kwickfish?

What length leader and dropper do you use?

What is your favorite scent?

Do you wrap it?

It is all personal preference so let's see who is open and honest.

[Blue Water 23]

I will start. K-14 with chartreuse lines on the side and a chartreuse bottom. Wrapped with sardine with Mike's Gel Scent in Sardine Flavor. 36" dropper and 42" leader.

[Pete]

Heck, if you're stuck at home, you should decorate some Kwikies! Here's my fave with obvious enhancements.

[Salmonator]

K-14, chartuese bill chrome body, owner cutting points, 2' dropper, 4' leader. Sardine wrap, mikes anise gel.

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[Mojo]

Double Trouble wrapped with stinky fish, Gammies to replace stock hooks, fished 4 feet behind a size 50 Jet Diver.

[Wreckless]

k-15 Double trouble, with a little "custom" lime green on the lip and tail, sardine wrapped. 36 - 40" dropper, long leader (5' or so).

Also don't overlook the k-15 "cop car" in off color water....really.

[Silver Hilton]

I'm kinda partial to this one



I use a four foot leader and a 24 to 30 inch dropper. I have a stack of others that I like as well, that are all some variation of silver and chartreuse. I'confident with any kfish that is swimming well. I don't think color matters much. AS long as there is chartreuse, or silver, or both.

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[Bait O' Eggs]

Not sure which of my knockoffs are my favorite because I havent gotten them in the water yet, but since I couldnt get to work the last couple days I made some quickfish shaped lures out of cedar, painted them up and put an epoxy finish on them.

This is the "Jeff Melberg" signature series, because I wanna be just like Jeff

Some I squared up the nose, some I narrowed down the tail, trying to see what kind of different wiggle I can get out of a wood plug. I ran out of screw eyes and couldnt get to the store to complete them, but soon these will be in the water, maybe swimming, maybe not [img]graemlins/dork.gif[/img]





My biggest complaint about Quickfish is, if the eye isnt centered the plug wont run true, I have a new appreciation for getting that eye centered [img]graemlins/eek13.gif[/img]

[fishingfirst]

How many fish do you hook on the belly hook?? This is my first year using qwik fish and I was told to remove the belly hook to make it easier to remove from the net. I went six for six this year with the qwik fish, so not sure on the hook up ratio without the belly hook (have not hooked enough to see yet) but at this point it looks like I don't need it. What are some thoughts on this?


And my favorite scent is Procure Double Red egg cure (mixed with water to make a brine). Soak the sardine wraps in this for a couple of days prior to fishing, it not only toughens the wraps, it puts off a really nice scent trail as well! It outfished plain wraps two to one on the fall chinook this year.

Thanks,
Scott

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[NEUTRON]

Darn good Roy....

[k9jeff]

Double Trouble (silver/green tips) or Dill PIckle (glows in the darkw/green) Deadly.

[slabhunter]

fishingfirst, You don't need the belly hook to be there. But, if you remove it you should replace it with a small weight to retain the proper action of the lure. Think of the belly as the balance point of the plug. If you go lighter (without hook) the plug will swing more (from side to side.) IMHO you want a tighter action for chinook.

[Blue Water 23]

So I can add prism tape to them and it shouldn't hurt. I do that to my wobblers but haven't seen it much on kwikfish. I have this blue prism tape that looks like fish scales that I put on my wobblers and flashers in the ocean and it seems to be deadly. I might add it to a blue k-14 that I have.

[GutZ]

This one was in the water for 10 minutes before it got it's first fish. A beauty about 20 pounds on Knucklebuster off of The MC.

It's pretty funny that his 10 year old nephew put him on it. He stood there with his hands on his hips, like an Old Salt and said "Better git two."

The rerig was learned here on Ifish.

[Tanner]

BOE,
Those are really cool. Good job...

Now you can take those out and NOT catch any springers with them. :tongue: :grin: :tongue:

[Fish mojo]

K15 California watermelon, w/scent.

[5-Cents]

I like the ones my little girl Maddie drew up for me...




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[Small Fry]

Shane too cute. :smile:


I would have to go with a fickel pickel or chrome with chartruese butt. I add an extra large split ring on both hooks to get them back a bit.

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[Fish Hawg]

Shane, That is a great picture. Pretty soon she will be out fishing you :grin: ....Ross

[5-Cents]

She already has a bigger salmon than me :shocked:

Her first solo salmon ever was this September, a 39lb chrome URB hen [img]graemlins/hearton.gif[/img]

[Fish Hawg]

Well, she has me beat by 1 pound. :blush: :grin:
Cant wait for the SPRINGERS ....Ross

[Flatfish]

Silver and chartruse. K-14.

Owner hooks.

Maxima UG leaders.

Black dog.

Mark and the pretty much semi famous dog.

[Willow Drifter]

Bait O' Eggs are any of those fancy guys for sale? I think one of those would work Great up here on the Susitna.

[Reno Reeler]

I'm sure most of you have already heard that Pro-Troll is going to release an e-chip enhanced Kwikfish called the Stingfish this spring. They already released an e-chip enhanced Apex lure called the Stink King.

[Fish Hawg]

This one has saved the day now for over two years :grin: .It is one of those plugs that work, I really dont think color matters that much

[slabhunter]

Two ounce sinker, two foot droper, five foot leader to my plug of choice. I also wrap and use with anise or sardine scent. Size K15 with 1/0 hooks. That dog will hunt!

[rola76]

Gold main body with fluorescent orange accents
K-15 wrapped with a fresh, stinky sardine!!

[Gun Rod Bow]

Pete,

I've got one in my box that looks AWEFULLY close to that one. Have you been peeking?

Mmmm, eyeballs!

[Quasimodo the fish killer]

I use a k14 lemon head mostly I do use some of the old lemon lime heads also.

I run a 4 ft leader up to a sliding sinker set up with a 1 ft drop leader for the lead.

I am mostly fishing small rivers as I do not have a power boat. to be honest I catch far more fish back bouncing bait then I do on kwik fish.

[luguando]

Pete,

That's a great combo of two of my favorite colors (silver with the red clown dots + silver with chartreuse head and/or tail) and my other favorite is the fickle pickle. I fish K14s when there's decent water clarity and K15s in the dill pickle pattern (glow in the dark green) juiced up with a flash bulb when offcolored. I add a second "O" ring and replace the stock hooks with Owners. I wrap my plugs with sardines and have experimented a bit with different scents. I've had the most success soaking the sardines overnight in a combination of Columbia River water, rock salt, squid oil, and Dr. Juice's concentrated formula.