Anyone ever use 1/8 ounce rattle traps?

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Anyone ever use 1/8 ounce rattle traps? #7195605 02/20/12 09:04 PM
Joined: Feb 2012 Posts: 87 G Greenandfeisty OP Outdoorsman
OP Greenandfeisty Outdoorsman G Joined: Feb 2012 Posts: 87	Anyone ever use 1/8 ounce rattle traps? Just picked up some red ones from Dicks, what tackle do you use with them?

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Re: Anyone ever use 1/8 ounce rattle traps? [Re: Greenandfeisty] #7195672 02/20/12 09:16 PM
Joined: Apr 2006 Posts: 3,267 Twok Yacht Club T tommyc TFF Team Angler
tommyc TFF Team Angler T Joined: Apr 2006 Posts: 3,267 Twok Yacht Club	Originally Posted By: Greenandfeisty what tackle do you use with them? Nope, never used them and that is a good question Tom Cornelius Romans 10:9-11

Re: Anyone ever use 1/8 ounce rattle traps? [Re: tommyc] #7195845 02/20/12 09:49 PM
Joined: Feb 2009 Posts: 423 Lubbock, TX C cove_crawler Angler
cove_crawler Angler C Joined: Feb 2009 Posts: 423 Lubbock, TX	I've used them in local ponds. I threw mine on a light spinning rig w/ 6lb test.

Re: Anyone ever use 1/8 ounce rattle traps? [Re: Greenandfeisty] #7195846 02/20/12 09:49 PM
Joined: Jun 2007 Posts: 23,013 Dallas B Bill Waldschmidt TFF Guru
Bill Waldschmidt TFF Guru B Joined: Jun 2007 Posts: 23,013 Dallas	Would have to be light spinning gear, and a very shallow presentation. I usually use 1/2 - 3/4oz.

Re: Anyone ever use 1/8 ounce rattle traps? [Re: Greenandfeisty] #7195942 02/20/12 10:09 PM
Joined: Feb 2012 Posts: 210 S spooker Outdoorsman
spooker Outdoorsman S Joined: Feb 2012 Posts: 210	Sometimes schooling fish get so zoned in on a certain size bait fish, and when the shad are small and they are pushing them, you can murder the bass with that little trap. I use a Castaway skeleton medium cranking rod, daiwa crazy cranker and 10lb mono

Re: Anyone ever use 1/8 ounce rattle traps? [Re: Greenandfeisty] #7196462 02/21/12 12:10 AM
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ftabangler13 Pro Angler F Joined: Mar 2011 Posts: 733	The biggest thing I can get away with throwing them on. Gig Em Ags! Dead BQ, Class of 2013

Re: Anyone ever use 1/8 ounce rattle traps? [Re: Greenandfeisty] #7196492 02/21/12 12:18 AM
Joined: Feb 2006 Posts: 950 Colorado/Texas K kirbydog Pro Angler
kirbydog Pro Angler K Joined: Feb 2006 Posts: 950 Colorado/Texas	Spinning gear, 6 or 8 lb test line. Never seen an 1/8 oz trap-is it alot smaller than 1/2 oz?

Re: Anyone ever use 1/8 ounce rattle traps? [Re: Greenandfeisty] #7196510 02/21/12 12:22 AM
Joined: Dec 2005 Posts: 381 College Station T texag87 Angler
texag87 Angler T Joined: Dec 2005 Posts: 381 College Station	I used to have good luck using the 1/4 ounce traps at times

Re: Anyone ever use 1/8 ounce rattle traps? [Re: Greenandfeisty] #7196566 02/21/12 12:34 AM
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Bass Bug TFF Guru Joined: Feb 2008 Posts: 24,707 East Texas	i used them with ultralight spinning gear for sand bass

Re: Anyone ever use 1/8 ounce rattle traps? [Re: Greenandfeisty] #7196585 02/21/12 12:39 AM
Joined: Apr 2010 Posts: 27,752 chateau d'if P patriot07 TFF Guru
patriot07 TFF Guru P Joined: Apr 2010 Posts: 27,752 chateau d'if	My PB, 9 lbs 12 oz, was on a 1/4 oz chrome with blue back. Hadn't even heard of 1/8 oz trps. Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. - Soren Kierkegaard

Re: Anyone ever use 1/8 ounce rattle traps? [Re: Greenandfeisty] #7196612 02/21/12 12:44 AM
Joined: Oct 2008 Posts: 268 waco T trombone Angler
trombone Angler T Joined: Oct 2008 Posts: 268 waco	I throw a 1/4 oz trap on a Cara Weightless Worm rod w/a Curado E7, and 12 floro. The chrome w/blue back is a great combination.

Re: Anyone ever use 1/8 ounce rattle traps? [Re: patriot07] #7196624 02/21/12 12:46 AM
Joined: Mar 2011 Posts: 37 P pourhousecustombaits Outdoorsman
pourhousecustombaits Outdoorsman P Joined: Mar 2011 Posts: 37	Where have you guys been? The 1/8 oz trap has been around for years. Like the man said, when the bass key in on the threadfin shad, when they are that small, this little bait will kill them. I would throw it on a spinning outfit and 8 lb test. Give em a try!

Re: Anyone ever use 1/8 ounce rattle traps? [Re: Greenandfeisty] #7197678 02/21/12 04:34 AM
Joined: Jan 2010 Posts: 507 Pitdad Pro Angler
Pitdad Pro Angler Joined: Jan 2010 Posts: 507	I fished with a guide who took the rear treble hook off a 1/8 oz trap and replaced it with a very small spoon shaped spinner (he called it a rinky dink, but so far nobody else I've met has heard of it). The guide told me they crank this rig on Toledo Bend and bounce it off trees and rocks. We fished it similar to a drop shot rig and beat up both white and LMB near a dam. More recently, I cast it out, let it sink until it's straight below the end of my rod tip and then fish it like a drop shot before casting again. It usually gets hit when it's falling. That's the value of fishing and learning from a guide... I sure wouldn't have come up with that idea on my own. Good fishing!

Re: Anyone ever use 1/8 ounce rattle traps? [Re: Pitdad] #7197741 02/21/12 05:03 AM
Joined: Jul 2008 Posts: 6,020 Liverpool, TX B Bayou Burner TFF Celebrity
Bayou Burner TFF Celebrity B Joined: Jul 2008 Posts: 6,020 Liverpool, TX	Originally Posted By: Pitdad I fished with a guide who took the rear treble hook off a 1/8 oz trap and replaced it with a very small spoon shaped spinner (he called it a rinky dink, but so far nobody else I've met has heard of it). The guide told me they crank this rig on Toledo Bend and bounce it off trees and rocks. We fished it similar to a drop shot rig and beat up both white and LMB near a dam. More recently, I cast it out, let it sink until it's straight below the end of my rod tip and then fish it like a drop shot before casting again. It usually gets hit when it's falling. That's the value of fishing and learning from a guide... I sure wouldn't have come up with that idea on my own. Good fishing! Bill Lewis Spin Trap "Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway." John Wayne ADHAERO VIRTUTI

Re: Anyone ever use 1/8 ounce rattle traps? [Re: Bayou Burner] #7197747 02/21/12 05:08 AM
Joined: May 2011 Posts: 21,994 Watauga, TX Caribou TFF Guru
Caribou TFF Guru Joined: May 2011 Posts: 21,994 Watauga, TX	Originally Posted By: Bayou Burner Originally Posted By: Pitdad I fished with a guide who took the rear treble hook off a 1/8 oz trap and replaced it with a very small spoon shaped spinner (he called it a rinky dink, but so far nobody else I've met has heard of it). The guide told me they crank this rig on Toledo Bend and bounce it off trees and rocks. We fished it similar to a drop shot rig and beat up both white and LMB near a dam. More recently, I cast it out, let it sink until it's straight below the end of my rod tip and then fish it like a drop shot before casting again. It usually gets hit when it's falling. That's the value of fishing and learning from a guide... I sure wouldn't have come up with that idea on my own. Good fishing! Bill Lewis Spin Trap Got one in my tackle box. Been throwing it at a pond, yet to get a bite on it. Been fishing it like a rattle trap.

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