Just curious! How many still use a Kastmaster as a attractor and a dropper?

[Preacher_man]

 I tried this about 10 years ago and it seemed to work. I was just wondering how many of you still use this setup?

[bobberbill]

Not a clue as to what they are..

[Preacher_man]

 Does someone out there have a picture of what I'm talking about?

[spoofhoundicefisher]

kastmaster is a type of spoon.  gold and silver are the most popular and prob most old timers never leave home without one.  have caught lots and lots of fish on them over the years from gills to eyes and everything in between.

[rivereddy]

I don't have a picture, but, I too, used to use this on my go to ice rig.  I would replace the treble hook on a
1" (small) Swedish Pimple with a small barrel swivel. from the swivel I would tie 2# fluorocarbon line to form a short
4-7" leader.  I then would either use a small ice fly or just a #10 Aberdeen thin wire hook.  I used it with a spinning
reel when my targeted panfish were down deep (15' +). I more or less stopped using it because light biters were inhaling
 the fly or hook and it was hard salvaging the 2# leader.  I also started fishing shallower lakes and didn't need the pimple
to drop the bait.

fish on,

Rivereddy

[jlreeder43]

We still use it here in Wyoming for jokes and bows, whitefish to

[Zeker259]

Kastmaster or Swedish Pimple tipped with a minnow head or perch eye are my go to lures.

 

[Icemole]

 Kastmasters are sold by our sponsor - Acme.  Along with my favorite open water spoon the Little Cleo(although since they took the Hula girl off it doesn't have quite the same shimmy ... LOL)

 

[coldfish]

I use them every time i fish very good spoons.

[jlreeder43]

I've got a bunch with the hula girl on them maybe tomorrow they will bring me luck

[rdhammah]

I thought that a small kastmaster was a staple item in every ice fishing tackle box

[ice dawg]

I use one with about a three inch mono dropper to a small jig. It may still be called a search lure if googled. Crappies love it at times.

[IceholeHEN]

I only heard one other guy use perch eyes and he said they crushed. Is this true....

[Bigassbassman]

I only heard one other guy use perch eyes and he said they crushed. Is this true....

YES!  On kasties or jigging raps, perch eyes can't be beat

[SLAYERFISH]

All caught yesterday on a Kasty tipped w/ perch eye!

[Agronomist_at_IA]

I tried this about 10 years ago and it seemed to work. I was just wondering how many of you still use this setup?

Still use the kastmasters, and yes for perch/panfish I will put a metal dropper chain on them. Simple spoons with droppers for panfish are hard to beat. Spoons in general are hard to beat for fish. Kastmasters work well, just look at the number and amount of copy kat names selling kastmaster spoons.

[slipperybob]

Most definitely use them.

[Agronomist_at_IA]

Does someone out there have a picture of what I'm talking about?

like this?

[RyanW]

VMC's flash champ spoon are the same profile (literally) but with rapala colors. Work great all year long.

[85gillgetter]

How Di's any fisherman not know what kastmasters are even at a young age every body has at lest three in there arsenal lol

[1moslab]

I also use sometimes castmaster 2.5-3" mono 3mm fisker.works good to call them in than give them something small.read it in in-fisherman ice fishing secrets   ,pretty good read

[FG Steve]

Been using a Kastmaster about 2.5 ft above my deadstick worms for about 20 years, while trout fishing.  I remove the hook and put snap swivels above and below.  There was that day when dropping my bait in the lure got swarmed--made me consider putting the hook back on...

[Preacher_man]

  I made one up!!

[MichiganMan]

I didn't think anyone didn't use them from time to time.

[Gonefission]

I fish kastmasters and/ or pimples in one variant or another on every tripi just recently started using the perch colored one and have had good luck .

[NateD]

A kastmaster will catch anything, from bluegills to stripers. I mainly use them for snapper blues when I want some live fluke bait but as everyone has said they work through the ice too.

[Spider1]

I use kastmasters all the time. I take the treble off of mine and add a small swivel with a #10 hook.

[LongPoleKole]

I never leave the house without one rod rigged with a kastmaster spoon and size 18 red zebra midge.  Caught everything from perch to trout with it.

[jackpine]

Nobody here mentioned how they "work" the Kastmaster. Jig them, dead stick,???

Please let us know how to use them.

[Agronomist_at_IA]

Nobody here mentioned how they "work" the Kastmaster. Jig them, dead stick,???

Please let us know how to use them.

The point of the kastmaster with a dropper is for the kastmaster spoon to create flash & vibration when jigging to draw in the fish like perch. Then the dropper offers a smaller snack for them which they hit. It is pretty much made for Jigging.

However, I've also used a kastmaster with a dropper that had a bare hook and back hooked a minnow using it for a dead stick. The spoon acts like an anchor and keeps the minnow from going to far, yet the dropper allows for the minnow to move giving it action which tends to be a little more free vs using a lead head.