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Anyway, the
lure will, in fact, 'back up' as it falls. That was its primary
hype. The ads said you could toss
it to the edge of say a boat dock and the jig would glide backwards
up under the dock. With the large part of
the jighead weight on the REAR part of the hook shank and the
plastic jig body turned BACKWARDS, the
lure will fall away from the direction of the hook eye and sort of
'glide' backwards (as advertised). I suspect
the biggest single problem is that most guys missed a key point --
when the lure is cast and hits the water,
the line MUST BE LEFT SLACK so the thing can sort of coast to the
rear.
Now, the key part is "will it
catch fish". Yes, it certainly will.
To start
off, I liked the Flying Lure plastics bodies so much that I first
fished them on a normal 1/8 oz jig
head with the body affixed in the normal forward manner. Because the
plastic body is flat and wide, it falls
rather erratically and sort of glides forward and side-to-side as it
falls. It also (due to the shape) falls rather
slowly, making it as good a lure for catching fish on the drop as I
have seen. It works very well at that.
Later, I
took the jig and rigged it in the manner it was advertised. Using
light line 8-10 lb (which I think is
a necessity/won't fall away from you if it has heavy line to hold it
back), I fished it along hydrilla beds and
boathouses. If you remember to give it slack line as it hits the
water, the 'weight to the rear' head and the
reversed body with its wide flat shape, does in fact glide backwards
away from the direction it was cast. I
checked it in a swimming pool and will tell you that it will glide
2-3 feet backwards in 6 feet of water and 6-8
feet backwards in 12 feet (BUT, you gotta give the slack line!!!).
PROBLEM:
giving the slack line makes the strike on the fall hard to detect on
mono. I found Fireline worked
better for giving me the feel I needed to detect the strikes on the
fall, plus the smaller diameter line did not
hold the lure back when it was doing it 'bassackwards' glide.
Hydrilla
grows up and curls outwards, so the jig did get up under the edges
of those grass mats OK. It
also went up under docks and boathouse pretty good.
Did it catch
me more fish? Can't say for sure. I normally catch just as many on
other conventional jigs
and worms. I will say that on the conventional jig head with the
plastic body facing in a normal forward direct,
I caught a lot more fish on the DROP. And, that's a major way I use
it today - on a conventional head. I
believe the flat wide plastic body is the real advantage to the
lure, not the glide backwards capability. The
slow, erratic and 'glide around' fall gives a fish a chance to hit
it on the drop, plus it LOOKS alive as it falls
and moves around.
However,
when the bass are tight under cover (such as bright sunny days), the
Flying Lure in its originally
intended configuration WILL get you up under the docks and edges of
the grass. It can be doubly effective
around those docks if you skip it up under a way on the cast and
THEN let it do its 'backstroke' bit.
Hope this
gives you some insight as to one person's way of using it. But, then
the first bass I ever caught
was on a piece of red and white Winston cigarette package paper on a
bluegill hook. And, I once caught a
limit of bass on a white shoestring when I forgot my tackle box and
plastic worms. I suppose I still subscribe
to the theory that bass are dumb as rocks and will bite anything
that you can make move.
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