Fishing Michigan

I put this in the Lure Making category, but like many of the other ideas I present, its more of a customizing thing.  Like many of the blade type baits that I use for trolling; spoons and spinners, salmon spoons can be dressed up to help increase your salmon and trout catches during the dog days of August and September.  The time to hit these monster fish is now, before they begin running into the rivers.

WTP offers several types and styles of lure tape that the salmon anglers can apply to their spoons.  You can also touch up your favorite type of flasher, as well.  One of the most popular colors, really isn’t a color at all, but glow tape in a variety of cuts is by far one of the most productive additions you can make.  If glow rocks for salmonoids, then glow in a combination with green simply rules.  It has been by far one they most consistent combinations over the years in spoons, flies and even the flashers.

WTP already offers premade “spoon cuts“.  No more messing and trying to match your cuts to the curve of the spoon.  Its ready to go for application right out of the package.

Dress up the spoons with a well placed flat or 3-D eye adhesive.  That extra flash of color often seems to trigger fish when the bite slows down.

Ladderback strips can be applied to any of the spoons you already own,  and with the 7″ in strips you should be able to get two spoons done for each strip.  Add some flash or a glow pattern to your favorite color patters on the spoons.  Often a contrasting color works well with the existing blade/spoon.

If you remember how I dressed up some of the walleye blades, you will recognize many of these ideas.  THEY ARE NOT LIMITED TO ONE SPECIES OF FISH, nor are they limited to certain seasons.  There is nothing like touching up one of your favorite spoons to increase your catch rates.  Also try stripping off the paint of old spoons that have been beat up, or unproductive and create your own patterns with the tape.  Just read some reports, purchase the colors working the best, and start creating.

Next up for a tape project will be on ice fishing lures probably in November or December as I gear up for another tournament run on the ice.  Will  have some information the new tourney organization, as well as products in October when I have another seminar with the Huron Valley Sportfishing Club in Trenton.