Paddletails

[Granpop]

Hi,

I have a couple of paddletails (swapped for a couple of grubs). How do you fish them - their action sux! Even redfin ignore them!!

[geoff_abrams]

fish them slow on a light jig head (say , 1/16 or 1/32) with a fair few hops in it so goes like this /\/\/\/\/\ the tail will swim on the lifts and drops better than a slow straight retrieve. The hits will most likely come on the drop.Good luck

[Granpop]

Ta Geoff,

I still get a better result with shads. BTW our redfin love the tomato core grubs - caught 15 in a couple of hours on Friday.

Dave

[Evileye]

hi gran pop
I have the atomic paddle tail in blue pearl pepper and i have alot of luck with them , i use a retrive then twitch but not such a rough twitch its more like a pull and even the redfin go mad for mine, so its probably just the retrieve or sumting, so hope that helped,
Ashley C

[panger]

Gran pop,
are you talking about the atomic paddle tails? I find the tails on them a lot stiffer than say a slider paddle tail. You need to move them alot faster to get the tail to wiggle.

[Granpop]

Looked at the Atomics - not those. I may have mis-named them, they look like a flat horizontal beaver tail at the rear end.

Dave

[panger]

Might be something like a Eco gear pad tue then.

I've never used them myself but other guys have definitely caught good bream on them. I don't think the tail is supposed to waggle on those. I think the whole lure is supposed to zig zag on the drop. You will probably need to change the way you work the lure.

[Dave W]

I think a bit of clarification is needed here

Tails such as the Sliders are actually T-Tails, same goes for the Atomics as well.

True Paddle Tails are things like the Pad-Tues, some of the Yum plastics etc.

From memory I think it says Paddletail on the packet of the Atomics, but they should say T-Tail.

It tends to get a bit confusing.......

[geoff_abrams]

Daves right.................again

[panger]

For those guys that have had success with the true paddle tails, what sort of a retrieve do you use? It might help Granpop get some fish on his new plastics (and convince me to add another plastic to add to the shopping list )