Genesis Reversible Lures Target Species

The Double Donny lure is designed to catch the striped bass. It will catch bluefish and one model has been designed specifically for fresh water fish like large and smallmouth bass, pickerel and muskie among others. Designing a lure for bluefish would be as useless as designing a new type of fork. Bluefish are so aggressive they will hit just about anything that moves. They will also destroy the lure they attack. Their sharp teeth will scratch the finish off the best lures. Softbaits such as the popular soft baits can only be relied upon to catch one bluefish as they will literally be destroyed during the fight.

The striped bass presents another problem altogether. The problem is not what they will do to a lure as much as it is trying to get them to take the lure in the first place. The striped bass has excellent vision both day and night. As predators go, the striper is at the top of the chain. You won't see a blufish hiding behind a piling waiting for something to come by. The striper has a keen sense for where its prey will be and knows what it has to do to overcome its next meal.

These characteristics are not to be confused with intelligence. A striper is still just a fish that eats its own young as well as anything else it can catch. The striper is lazy and knows how to obtain the most with the least effort. This is a well entrenched concept of survival in the animal kingdom. Unlike humans, animals eat to survive. An animal that has to burn 200 calories for a meal of 100 calories will still be hungry and such a small meal will not contribute much to its growth.

When retrieving lures therefore it is important to retrieve the lure slowly, try to mimic injured fish, and give the striper every opportunity to strike the lure.

Another factor in the equation is that sometimes stripers attack a lure NOT because they are hungry but they are angry. On several occasions stripers have been witnessed to attack bright colored objects and floats but not so much as to devour it but to strike at it. It may be a matter or territoriality or fear. Whatever the cause, there is more going on with a fish that attacks a bobber instead of the worm dangling a few feet below it.

When fishing for stripers, understand that you are trying to catch a predator. This would be not much different than hunting a lion versus a wildebeast. The wildebeast just stands there by the thousands chewing grass. The lions are either hiding, sneaking up, or preparing to ambush the unsuspecting (and less intelligent) prey. They won't just sit there and let you take them down. You have to think like them. Same with stripers. They survive to great sizes because they have a heightened sense of survival and keen senses. What you present to striped bass will literally have to be irresistable in order to catch them.

Double Donny lures give you more variety and versatility for less.