What colors and lead size/shapes work for quetico? Anyone use these types of baits?

When I was up last season one of the rangers suggested these lures to me, but wasn't specific as which kind to get.

We've done will on pumpkin, brown and black. I think they were 4 inch ones.

Smoke red flake has caught the big three for me. Fished texas rigged with a shaw grigsby hook and either 1/8, or 3/16 slip sinker.

Bruce

I stick with white or crayfish colors.

In general, stick with the more subtle colors....3-4in. ArkansasMan has it nailed. The "fall" of this lure is interesting, it corkscrew's down. Just try not to overpower it with weight. SMB killer.

Bassnut, are you talking about the Gitzit dying shad? Fishwhisperer22 is not specific, the next three posts appear to be discussing tube baits. I've never fished tube baits, but I cant imagine them spiraling down. The dying shad looks like it would. I get the impression that you are quite impressed with whatever lure you are talking about. I'd rather eat Walleye, but I'd much rather catch SMB. Help.

Thanks,

quote joe47: "Bassnut, are you talking about the Gitzit dying shad? Fishwhisperer22 is not specific, the next three posts appear to be discussing tube baits. I've never fished tube baits, but I cant imagine them spiraling down. The dying shad looks like it would. I get the impression that you are quite impressed with whatever lure you are talking about. I'd rather eat Walleye, but I'd much rather catch SMB. Help."

The ranger showed me one of the gitzit lures he had. He had a leaded hook that he stuck up into the bait and then popped the eye hole through the soft plastic for tying the line onto.

While it does not seem feasible the tube baits do spiral down on a slack line. I have used them to catch 1000s of bass, all three species. Just have to be careful of weight of slip sinker used at the end when fishing them if you want them to spiral. Great baits, two favorite colors are the smoke red flake and 87 brown (crawfish brown with black, green, gold flakes)

Here's the hook.

Hook

Bruce

Gitzit, not the dying shad....

With the shaw grigsby hook where does the weight go?
Thanks for the pointers and help. I'm excited to try out a new lure/technique this season. Any tips for feeling the hits on this lure? I've read that watching the line can be key as most of the hits happen on the way down.

Slip sinker goes on first, then tie on the hook, take the Gitzit and run the hook through the point end of the bait and down about 1/4 inch and back out. Thread the hook through the opening until you come to the clip. Unhook the clip and slide the hook in as far as it will go and then to re-attach the clip. I usually then take the hook and run it through the middle of the skirt to the opposite side and pinch the barb under the plastic to make it weedless. Weight will slide down and hit the clip and top of bait. Sorry could not find a video to show how to use it! But here's a picture:

Link

Bruce

Gitzit! I got it Bassnut. Do you think the brand matters, or is "gitzit" just another name for tube lure? Thanks for the picture
Bruce, you and Bassnut have broadened my horizons, bass-wise.

I became curious about tube baits when an 18" (or so) Landlocked Salmon hit what might have been a 3/4" tube jig fished thru the ice last month. That was followed by a short Lake Trout. I'm getting skunked, and my old Army buddy is getting action on something I thought a Bluegill might think was too small to bother with. The slightest movement of the tube, and the skirt just seethed with motion. Got me thinking.

Thanks again,

It's just a brand name of the tube-type plastics. They were developed for a particular niche, a certain lure movement.
A curly-tail can be slowly reeled just above cover(say weeds), and then drop the weedtip, and it plunges into the weeds, mimicing a feeding baitfish. Pick it back up, and reel another 1-2-3ft.

A gitzit, or tube was designed to be sharply pulled up off the bottom, 2-3-4ft., and then allowed to plummet on a slack(or near) line, corkscrewing back to the bottom, with the tentacles waving in the current This is supposed to mimic a crippled baitfish or crayfish trying to swim away. Maybe fish this on a flat with smaller predator fish hitting baitfish in the upper water column, and the LARGE predators are just hanging out underneath, picking off cripples.

No soft plastic can cover all situations...these different body designs all kninda have their niche, their little place they shine.