Point Wilson King Candy Plugs......

anytime you see that holographic finish you can rest assured that they are designed to catch fishermen not fish. Sure maybe they work, but has anybody actually caught anything on them?

Yeah, I have been doing a little reading on another forum and it looks like the outcomes haven't been impressive. Well, that's why they invented the receipt. :)

Damn. I guess I'm lucky gear whoring is a catch and release sport.
 
anytime you see that holographic finish you can rest assured that they are designed to catch fishermen not fish. Sure maybe they work, but has anybody actually caught anything on them?

Yeah, I have been doing a little reading on another forum and it looks like the outcomes haven't been impressive. Well, that's why they invented the receipt. :)

Damn. I guess I'm lucky gear whoring is a catch and release sport.
 
anytime you see that holographic finish you can rest assured that they are designed to catch fishermen not fish.

I actually agree with that one! Solid colours for some reason seem to work better. Never really had success with much metallic/holographic spoons/lures, besides the certain live image coyote spoons... I had a jig like that too. Yes it worked on bottom fish, but not much else. Then I lost it :) Meh!

I have a bunch of tomics I got late last year I'm excited to use... Those work
 
I don't agree..

I used the Brad mini-cutplug in green chrome holographic and that thing slays 'em....if you rig 'em right......

My wife catches monster Chinooks on the green holographic 2 3/4 inch Spinnow when she's jigging....she also uses the bigger one for Lings (in season).

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The live image spoons that are really small in met green and met blue work very well at certain times and places....
 
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These plugs come with a pretty wimpy hook which is embedded in the body..there is a piece of wool tied to the line ahead of the hook they call the "scent chamber".

So I am going to try a bigger Mustad hook on a very small swivel (although the swivel is rated 145lbs..it's the kind they use on CJ lures) with a small plastic bead ahead of the swivel as a ' stopper'.

I can still get the 'scent chamber wool' in there. Hook on swivel will not impede lure action and goes farther back for the 'short biters'.

If I use a flasher I will run it about 6ft back.

I rigged it on 30lb Maxima.

Should be good at 2mph and faster...

If bead doesn't stand up to the abuse I'll use a tougher bead.......

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Here's the Brad's Mini Cutplug by comparison.......

One thing I don't like about the Brad's is the rubberband keeps coming off the end easy when it's in the water....so I just got some thread and tied the back end together with the sponge still inside the body....and then put a touch of waterproof glue on it so it doesn't unravel. I can still squirt chunky goop into it through the big hole in the back. But a lot of times I've used them without anything in them except a squirt of fish oil...and they still work....


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You know what's funny about the brads mini cut plugs? One year we limited out 2 guys on a 2 day trip in Sooke on the black jack and it outfished anchovies. Next year couldn't get a sniff on it. Haven't tried it since
 
These plugs come with a pretty wimpy hook which is embedded in the body..there is a piece of wool tied to the line ahead of the hook they call the "scent chamber".

So I am going to try a bigger Mustad hook on a very small swivel (although the swivel is rated 145lbs..it's the kind they use on CJ lures) with a small plastic bead ahead of the swivel as a ' stopper'.

I can still get the 'scent chamber wool' in there. Hook on swivel will not impede lure action and goes farther back for the 'short biters'.

If I use a flasher I will run it about 6ft back.

I rigged it on 30lb Maxima.

Should be good at 2mph and faster...

If bead doesn't stand up to the abuse I'll use a tougher bead.......

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I was thinking of rigging it up on one of my hoochie leaders. Tandem tied hooks with a small bead to keep them out of the hole. But if I dont like the action, I'll just run a smaller hook into the body and get a hang back hook dangling just behind the tail.

Then again, I like to think on the "lighter" side. I dont like huge honking hooks and swivels dangling behind my lures, unless they're Tomics or Silver Horde plugs.

Great set up picture though.
 
FYI I found this on the website.

"The King Kandy candlefish lures work best on a 43 inch leader using the hook they come with or at least a hook not much bigger."
 
The Mustad hooks in the pic are really light for their size. I use them on all my spoons. The swivels are very small and light (and strong). The only place I know that has that kind of swivel is PNT in Parksville.

The hook that comes with the King Candy is pretty small and thin gauge. I tried putting a bigger hook in there ( not too much bigger), but you are limited as to what will actually go in there.

Anything much bigger than the stock hook you can't get it in there.

When you think about it, having the hook inside the body unable to freely turn would slow down the overall action of the plug anyway (water resistance).

Leader length behind a flasher is open to interpretation per the user. Same argument as those who use Coho-killers and similar lures:- you hear anywhere from 36 inches to 6ft....and everybody swears their length is correct.

I'm going 6ft to start with on this one........shorten if need be...have to see what the action is like first. I use 6ft on the Brad.
 
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Slabby 20:- the overall length is 4 1/2 inches.

Steely Dan:- I've had days like that. It happens. Last year one day I went out the T-Rex needlefish hoochy was smokin' hot......the next time I went out and used it :- Nada. Ditto for the Kermit spoon.

Ditto for a lot of tackle...

Also get times where fishing is not good and then you come in and another guy caught a good catch on lure "X". So you get Lure "X' and run it the next time out and the next time after that and so-on...and you don't get a damn thing on it ever....but the other guy does. Purple Haze hoochy comes to mind in this instance. Works like a hot dang for others but won't even catch seaweed for me.


The hooks in the pic look big but they aren't. Actually the red PW hook is about 2/0 size. The Mustad I think is 3/0 or 4/0.

They use those Mustad hooks on the TKO spoon.
 
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