This adjustment allowed me to switch and use a baitcaster setup when I was fishing around cover and needed the extra back bone to be able to get the bass out and to the boat. Because of the weight of this offering I mainly fished it on a spinning setup when fishing it in the shallows, but in the times that I wanted to fish this setup in deeper water or in heavier cover I would take and use a weighted EWG hook. Worm Hook / Weighted HookOne of the ways that I experimented in fishing the Coontail was to fish it rigged on a EWG worm hook texas rigged or I fished it wacky style rigged on a Gamakatsu Weedless Wacky Hook. I also fished the Coontail on the Shaky Head with a drag-n-hopping retrieve: in both cases of retrieves I was able to trigger strikes.įor this method I fished my Coontail, Shaky Head combo on a 7ft medium action spinning setup, teamed with a matching spinning reel that was spooled with either Sunline 7lb Sniper Fluorocarbon line or Sunline's new SX-1 20lb braided line with a 10lb fluorocarbon leader. When I would get the Coontail up to a rock I would give it a few shakes to free some of the trapped air bubbles and it worked to trigger a few strikes. I liked how the bait felt as I dragged it along the bottom. Getting the bait home I started fishing the Coontail rigged on a Shaky Head and headed to a small rock point that was holding a few post spawn bass. He also was impressed with how the bait looked and how it caught fish. Jeff has been playing with this bait for a few months before we even got to Table Rock and explained about how the Coontail with all its rings will trap air and as the bait falls, the air bubbles would come off the bait even when it is just sitting on the bottom. One of the very first ways that I saw the Coontail fished was when Jeff Kreit had one rigged on a Shaky Head. I have been able to fish this new bait for a couple of months now and played with rigging it a few different ways here is just a start in how you can fish this bait on your waters. I was introduced to it at the writer's conference that we had in April on Table Rock Lake in Branson, Missouri and after seeing it catch bass there I could not wait to get home and put it to work on my home waters. The Big Bite Coontail is the newest bait to come in the Russ Lane signature line of baits.
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