surface lures eh? must be heart stopping stuff i myself am just getting into lure fishing but theres so many types of lure its hard to know where to start. theres loads of hints and tips in this thread but i was just wondering how some of you other lure men approach lure fishing? any advice would be great
If you are just starting out with lures I can recommend savage gear 4plays and deviators, both about 7" long although I think they now do a 9" deviator wake bait but I have yet to try them.
The 4plays are good catchers they have saved me from blanking quite a few times, they are slow sinking swimbaits (they say suspending but as soon as a wire trace is added they are slow sinkers) and cant really be fished wrong you can twitch em, jerk em, straight retrive, erratic retrive, it doesn't seem to matter!
The Deviators on the other hand I tend to do better with when the pike are up for it, the way you work them is with a tap of your rod tip and get a nice rythm going and it will dart from side to side with a nice belly flash, hold on to your rod though cos they tend to hit em hard! I've had a few fish on them literally seconds after they hit the water.
I'm sure there are plenty of guys on here with more experience and better catches than me who can add a bit but those are two lures I have done well enough with since I started lure fishing in january.
Also worth noting, I seem to do better on my darker colour 4plays but better on my bright coloured Deviators. I dunno the reason but in the few months I've used them it certainly seems to be the case, for me at least.