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Don’ t Forget To Include Flatfish In Your San Pablo Reservoir Tourney Arsenal!
The first working prototype of the Flatfish crankbait was completed by Charles Helin, a Detroit autoworker, on September 12, 1933. Flatfish caught fish then and they still catch fish now, yet few anglers use them these days for anything beyond river salmon.
Here’ s a news flash, as effective as those massive T-55s are at eliciting strikes from river run kings, smaller versions of the same lure are super effective for trout, when a slow moving erratically wobbling bait is needed. And for San Pablo’ s cold water winter rainbows a slow moving lure with ample vibration may be just what you need!
Why are Flatfish such effective trout catchers? Clearly speed and action are the keys to the lure’ s effectiveness. The lure provides lots of wiggle, putting off a ton of vibration and flash, yet do to it’ s design it creates this disturbance at very low speeds. This means that the Flatfish offers a bunch of action and vibration, while staying in the strike zone for an extended period of time.
A glance at the Yakima Bait catalogue reveals that Flatfish come in 2 million colors and 1 millions different sizes … Okay I’ m exaggerating, but there are a bunch of choices to sort through.
For trout stick to baits in the F-2 to F-7 size range. I use F-4s and F-7s almost exclusively.
Historically the all time hands down favorite color of Flatfish for trout is Yellow Dot Frog. If you are a trout angler and you don’ t have a Frog pattern Flatfish, it concerns me!
When the conditions are dark I like to run Flatfish in Frog and black w / chartreuse dots. When the conditions are bright, I like to go with flashy baitfish colors, with the California Watermelon finish being a real favorite of mine.
I don’ t run Flatfish with blades or attractors, but I’ ll often wrap or tip them to make them even more attractive. For tipping I use either a small anchovy fillet or a tiny piece of worm. For wrapping I employ nylon thread and a small anchovy or shad fillet. I apply it to the plug just as I would for river salmon, everything is just done on a smaller scale-www. yakimabait. com
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