Anybody used the Hogy plastics for vertical jigging?

[chowder]

Came across a video of guys jigging lakers using these 10" 'Hogy' baits. They looked like they had great action. Just curious if anybody has tried them on the FLX.

[hermit]

Not those, but I've tried other 8" and 12".   Never caught one but didn't spend more than 2 hrs max with them.  I was catching fish on 4", wasn't on the big ones, decided more was better and stuck with the smaller ones.  I have talked to several guys that use 8" or so and they said they don't get many but the average size is larger.   Makes sense.  

 

I wonder what the primary baitfish is for those lakers in your video, our sawbellies rarely get large and so if one is matching the bait I'd say 8" as a top end with most adult alewives around here being 4-6", so that's what I'm generally putting down there.   But the big beastly top dog lakers... they may  be eating something else and go for something considerably larger!

[BAITNH]

We have used Buzz bombs for salmon, Striped bass when they hit it you know it

[Tg8]

I tried 6.5" shadalicious on a 1.5oz jig with a stinger, on keuka in November. I had a few on it. Of course it is keuka, but I found bigger fish hit that along with my 80gram shimano flatfall jig.

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