I remember when the forefathers introduced these (Roland, Lidner, Houston) were throwing these....

I was in the same bass club as the inventor, Herb Reed. He worked on this lure for a long time before he was satisfied it was ready. Still works!

Herb Reed was hand poring that bait in the late 80’s and won the Red Man on Lake Wallenpaupack with it and gave me some. We both qualified for the Federation National Championship in 1991. I won and caught a good chunk of my fish on a Slug go! Herb finished 2nd, nobody else was close. I still catch a lot of fish on it.

Your story reminded me of one of my worse break offs. The displacement of water looked like i was snagged on tree trunk and was pulling it up. After i broke off i casted at that spot for the next hour. I even tied on a naked power ned hook to pull up the "tree" so i could tell myself it wasnt a fish.... Nothing... It haunts me and makes sick TO THIS DAY!

bro NOBODY talks about these anymore these are what i’ve grown up always knowing as “jerkbaits” these soft plastic types i was shocked to learn what jerkbaits actually are i feel like these baits have disappeared they are so fun to fish i LOVE that you’re talking about these types of baits watching you relive that strike is great

YES!!!!! CT in the house! born and raised, been throwing slug-gos and fin-s since 1991.

Well, it has finally happened! Sluggo is being" Discovered" I am 60 and my father(passed) and I have been fishing these on jig heads virtually since they hit the market. Small mouth, walleye, sauger, largemouth, wiper, white bass, crappie. Everything eats them. It's all about the jig head/ perfect balance

@otroflores91

4 ай бұрын

What is one of your favorite jig heads for them? The gentleman who turned me on to them has also been fishing them since the start. He gets on and off the boat with a walker now but he puts a hurting on the saltwater bass still. 6inch sluggo with a 1/2- 1oz lead masters jig head is how we fish it.

@timlacy2284

4 ай бұрын

I'm a old school too ,I started back fishing in the mid 80s after I gotten out of the U.S. Army, my dad and brother were tournament bass fishing, and I still have a bunch of my lures from back then and still fish with them. I remember when Sluggo came out. Old School lures the bass haven't seen them still catch Bass and Crappie.

@timmarkowicz779

4 ай бұрын

I fished a group of campground lakes for largemouth a while back, and I knew a guy that ONLY used Sluggos. All day, every day.

@brianpierson7708

4 ай бұрын

I have fished them from the 80’s and have used them every way possible Texas rig with a 1/16 oz over grass and mats is my favorite with them

@Boethius411

4 ай бұрын

Lunker city also has a lure called the hellgie that will absolutely spank some river smallies.

When I was a kid back in the 90's slugo was one of my goto"s.

Been throwing that since the late 90's ABSOLUTE 🔥🔥🔥

That's funny, i just ordered some Slug-go's couple days ago...i prefer the 7.5" & caught a 7 lb last spring on the 9"...Thats a HUGE soft jerkbait...Big bait=Big fish

I still fish Black and Black and silver Slugos mostly at night here in hot summer nights in Texas and Oklahoma.

I haven’t found it to be so weather dependent-maybe because I fish it no matter what, or maybe because I’m in the northeast. I do dead stick it when fishing is slow, and get some of my biggest fish that way every year. Try a black 3” for streams and 4” for rivers. Killer on smallmouths.

I tend to keep quiet about some of the old school stuff just because, but interesting to hear your take on this bait, there is quite a bit more to this one than you spoke of but I have tinkered and experimented with this one for almost 30 years limited only to your imagination!

I bet it would work on that hover rig too , a light one

Slug-Os are awesome. I joined a bass club a couple years ago and guys kinda poked fun at me because I fished them. I got the last laugh

So glad u posted this... I have so many of 5 differe t colors. I still use them. I remember them being popular and reading about them in bassmaster magazine in the late 90s. My friend and I threw them when we were 13 yrs old

Thanks for the lesson, I've got some in the box, never have thrown them.

I got a bunch of them...Gold-Black flake DEADLY!!

@JamesBondDZero7Mi6

4 ай бұрын

That and the black & silver depending on the light conditions. Never had a problem with those colors in stained water.

Absolutely love the sluggo ss 7”. Weightless on a spinning rod. 🔥

In North Carolina when they came out we crushed them everywhere. We even used them on jig heads to catch speckled sea trout and puppy drum. I still use them

Thanks for the link man, I didn't know somebody still made them.

One of my all time fave lures! Responsible for my PB twice. I use the Lunker City texposer hook with the golden shiner and black colors.

Just got back into fishing after 20 years. A white Sluggo was what I caught my top 2 personal best on.

Great classic bait! Thanks Randy

I have been fishing sluggio's 4:14 since I believe 1990. They still work today and have never stopped. I use them all year long especially when things get tough. I rigid the original way with a weight in it or a weighted hook and fish it from the bottom to top

@adamsnelson4689

4 ай бұрын

The Rainbow colored sluggo worked the best

@williamgould2470

4 ай бұрын

@@adamsnelson4689 I tried all the colors but best for me were the either black back or blue back and silver side, Followed by a light line green with specs in it that they don't make anymore, And then the bubble gum. I don't like the way Randy hooks them because if you hook them with an offset wormhook they become weedless due to the concave on the back of the bait. He is right in saying when a fish hits give the fish a second to turn and then set the hook. Glad someone else is using them but if they were discontinued I have a lifetime supply.

@otroflores91

4 ай бұрын

​@@williamgould2470 I need to catch up with my collection then. Like hitting up the clearance colors.

@mattthomen1608

4 ай бұрын

I have the small ones,and the blk back.white belly was good,and the rainbow for smallies .

@williamgould2470

4 ай бұрын

​I usually use the 4 1/2 in size but do have some of the bigger ones and the smaller ones​@@mattthomen1608

Yup, 16 years old caught my PB on. Texas rig Sluggo. Still haven't beat it.

One of my favorite lures that I've been fishing since they came out... and If you fish ponds this is pure gold.

Love this lure!

Fishing them on Eagle Lake in Ontario worked great for smallies, but were even better for pike. Unfortunately the pike would tear the shi+ out of them. Glad you mentioned the swivel. Very important!

Yup. That's a good one.

Manns here in Alabama used to make them back in the 90's. My friends dad used to work there and he would bring them home to bag up to make extra money. I was just a kid back then but still have a large variety of them, and they are still in good shape. I always thought the rounded side was the top, I'm going to have to try it your way and see how that works. Thanks for the video Randy.

@williamlaws2353

4 ай бұрын

Manns made the shadow Incredible bait

My dad loved this bait. We caught lots of bass on them.

I'm just starting to get into freshwater fishing. Fished saltwater for years now. Met an older gentleman named Lance, his been fishing since a child. Worked in the saltwater fishing industry his whole life too. Pinhead to captain of long range tuna boats. Anyways Lance put me on to slugos after watching him out fish us kids on a few trips. Have caught many saltwater bass on them since. They will catch anything it seems, we rig them on jig heads or weighted ewg hooks.Caught mahi mahi on them last year. I have a collection of assorted colors and sizes up to 9 inches. Never thought about throwing them for largemouth but I'll try. MC baits also make slugs and they work too.

love me a Sluggo.

I remember when slogos came out. I was from South Carolina and I drove all the way to North Carolina and bought all they had at the only place I could find that sold them and I had 24 fish in one week over 6 lb on lake wateree South Carolina want a tournament made some money that was my first initiation in the fishing with a slugo. probably lost more fish than I caught just because I didn't know to use a 5/0 hook

I was regrettably slow on slugs when they first appeared… I looked at them in the pack and just wasn’t impressed. The first time I saw one in the water I knew it would be deadly though and I have kept some ever since.

My sluggos always have a spot in my boat

That is crazy you mad that video I just Got some of them yesterday I bought some old Tackle yesterday and came with 94 wood baits and all kinds of old worms

Did you know the senko was created to be a competitor to the sluggo? But (almost) nobody fishes the senko like a sluggo. Weighted hooks with screw in or push in connectors work well with both. Now those hooks are often called weighted swim bait hooks. Of course the zoom super fluke has taken over this tactic over both.

@greggkonitski743

4 ай бұрын

Almost nobody fishes a Sluggo like a Senko either.

P.b. 180 sauger in four hours, every cast. They never stopped, we just got tired and went home. Whenever anybody asks what we were using we always said live bait

Randy, what lures did you turn to in the tournament once the slug-go bite turned off?

The real pig in jig was first, Slugo was second, spinner bait was 3rd , in a Rattle trap was 4th back in the day.. For March tactics no one threw jerk baits to often . When that slugo came out it was the IT !! Lure .. but I swear u loose a lot of fish on those . Maybe it's because back then we just had worm hooks. But I just remember loosing so many fish on them..

losts of us westcoast cali guys use this type slug for saltwater all the time

How do you hook it weedless?

Maybe I missed it but was size hook was that looked like 1aut

Arkansas is THE color

The old Sluggo

Clear water at night in late spring and summer.

You're not gonna find "gin-clear" water on Toho today brother..... It's beyond heartbreaking to see what Florida's turned into.

Doug Hannin God bless him ❤

How much difference with a sluggo and a fluke?

@otroflores91

4 ай бұрын

Sluggo feels more dense , limper tail and the shape .

@adambrodahl9849

4 ай бұрын

They can throw that slug-o real easy .. it's pretty heavy.. But you could walk the dog with it under water ..

Shhhhhhhhhh!

Nooooo!

So killing fish by tongue hooking them is ok now, as long as you're not using Forward Facing to do it? I love your tips, but some of them just seem irresponsible...