Dinger

[voeller101]

What's the best way to fish a YUM Dinger and similar baits? I don't fish them a lot but when I do, I tend to T-rig them on a 5/0 hook (5inch dinger). I work them similar to a fluke but a bit slower. I was watching Bill Dance one day and he said he never uses his rod tip to move a Dinger. He lets it sit on the bottom and turns the reel ever little bit. Of course, he was fishing shallow water. I'm usually in deep clear water.

[Pate]

Try fishing this type of bait weightless with 4/0 or 5/0 EWG hook. I've had good luck casting to cover and trying to follow the bait down with controlled slack in the line. Once the bait hits bottom wait a few seconds - then jerk it off the bottom and fall again with controlled slack. Good luck - we all need it.

[walkeraviator]

I hereby resurrect this thread... I have never fished one ofthese, but was thinking of adding it to my list of thing to fish T-rig style. I looked it up on teh internet, but everyone shows videos of wacky fishing it...

[offdtop]

Use a pro model Spot remover shakey head - works great!!!!!!!

[bassman_ky]

Use the big 6" model and carolin rig it.

[walkeraviator]

what water conditions are these presentations good for?

[walkeraviator]

Use the big 6" model and carolin rig it.

I thought carolina rigging required a soft plastic that floats...

[bassman_ky]

Very few plastics you buy actually float. Charmers are the only plastics line I personally have fished with that will keep a 3/0 hook on top of the water while setting still. Back to the Dinger. I have caught a ton of fish using a Dinger on a carolina rig. That's about the only way I fish them. I don't have the patients to fish them wacky style. On the carolina rig, I fish whatever plastics the fish will bite. I have heard of a lot of people using a Zoom Super Fluke and having good luck doing so.

[softcraw]

I have had good luck fishing the 5in. Dinger on a shakey head and Texas rigged. The Texas rig works really well in grass.

[Col Forbin]

I fish them quite a bit. The only time I T-rig them is when I am fishing them near brush or grass - they just don't get hung near as easy. 90% of the time I will fish them wacky. I use the 0-rings, and a small circle finesse hook. I basically cast them out, and let them sink. I will let them sit still on the bottom for a bit, and then stroke it up a few feet and let it fall again. Most of the time they will hit it on the slow fall, but every once in a while they will take it off the bottom.

They are good any time of the year in the right spots. I prefer them in the spring when fish are up shallow. But have had good luck on them in the middle of summer too. I have already caught one 7 pounder this year on them. I think it is hard to beat the original senko's, but have been using the netbait salt-licks some this year too.

[DJD]

I like to fish them weightless and rigged Texas style. I use a 3/0 gammy. I toss them SHALLOW and twitch it

[Col Forbin]

I guess I should have said weightless on my T-rig too.