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Article: The miraculous minnow plug.(includes related articles)(Column)
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- Field & Stream (West ed.)
- Article date:
- August 1, 1996
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1996 Bonnier Corporation. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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THE MINNOW PLUG. You can twitch it, jerk it, rip it, pause it, pop it, float it, dive it, suspend it, swim it, troll it, and in some way use it for nearly every major sportfish some dive, some float, some even 5 in freshwater. Call it a stickbait, a smart to own a wide varies' jerkbait, a twitch bait, a minnow bait, a slim-minnow plug, or a body bait, it's perhaps the greatest lure in the century-old history of plug-down.
Minnow plugs are predominantly plastic or wooden floating-diving lures. Their diving depth varies from models that barely submerge to those that reach 20 or more feet on a cast-and-retrieve. Most do not produce a rattling noise, but some do. They ...