Guys, I was wondering if anybody has any experience using little george baits made by Mann. I believe quite awhile ago Corey or somebody mentioned them as one of their favorite lures to use, but I may be mistaken. Anyway I picked some up really cheap and decided to try them out. What I was wondering is how you like to fish them. Steady retrieve, slow jig/twitch, etc.....
I'll find what works best for me, but was just curious as to what might seem more productive and what you seem to catch with them.

Oh by the way if this is the wrong place to post this, delete it and I will repost.

Thanks,
-Will

The Little George is one of the best artificial lures ever invented, possibly the absolute best. I am down to my last one. It got me a ten pound 29 inch walleye and a lot of pike and white bass. I'm going to lose it soon and need to get some more.

If you want to use the Little George, you need to understand what its strengths are. They are as follows:

1) Long casts. You can cover more water with a Little George than with any other lure. With fairly light line and a limber, long-casting rod, you can cover four times as much water as you could with a rapala, from a single fixed position. Most light spinning rods can easily be cast down to the metal; with a high-line capacity reel you can cover more water. The Little George is basically a streamlined chunk of lead, painted with eyes, with a spinner blade and a hook. It casts farther than any other lure.

2) Depth and speed. The little george sinks quickly and when worked proiperly is very fast covering water. Combine its casting distance with its ability to work deep water very quickly and create a ruckuss, and you see why its effective. You can also burn it just under the surface so the blade bulges the water. But you can also fish it in super-heavy current using a do-nothing retrieve which swings it along the bottom.

So, when you are using The George, you are targeting active fish and covering massive amounts of water at all depths. Use it to the extreme. Make every cast a long one. Cast again as soon as it is reeled in. Vary the speed of your retrieve until you find the right speed. On rivers, use a long limber rod and fish eddies on the far bank. On lakes, make long casts paralel to the weedline and let it run deep.

A good spin-fisher could do away with most of their lures if they learn to use the Little George properly. I have been using it since I was 8. I might not bring a rapala when I go fishing somewhere, but I will always have a Little George.

Dammit those bastards who manufacture the Little George should be paying me to say this kind of crap. But you can make Little George's yourself! Check out Netcraft. However they are cheap and it's really not worth it to build your own.

Wow man I didn't expect such a response, but highly appreciated. Corey if you need some I found them at well less than a buck apiece and will gladly send you some no charge, as a way to show my gratitude of your hard work with this site. I also have some lures made here in Pennsylvania(in the town of St. Mary I believe), I would love you to try out. They are made by hand by a family who has, on a few occasions, been attempted to be bought out by some bigger name brands. The little georges I found are a little limited as far as colors though, Black/white, white, gold, silver, and a sorta greenish yellow. I would like to send this out to you, so if you want PM me an adress to send it to.

-Will

Great frickin lure. I'm also down to my last one, but it's the perfect size and I repainted it and put a fresh treble on it this Spring. It's been my ace in the hole all year. For me, most of the time if I am using artificials I go for the flyrod. Of course, by using a flyrod sometimes fish are just plain out of casting range. For example, when I go to a certain area of the lower St. Croix river, I look for feeding schools of white bass just before dark, then I set-up for gar. I bring the flyrod, a selection of baitfish-imitating flies, my live bait rigs for gar, and.....my Little George. Only lure I bring. Many times this Summer, I have found Whites smashing into shad way out of casting range for the flyrod and tied the George onto a spinning combo and caught dozens of fish. It's an aggressive, water-covering, long-casting bait that should be in every Roughfisher's box. Work it like a tiny, fast-sinking spinnerbait. For white and smallmouth bass, I like to bulge the surface and use a very fast retrieve. This works great when predators are busting shad. It's also a great bait for fishing deep cabbage edges and rockpiles in the Fall. Pump it just along the bottom and let it free-fall, as you work the structure. Pike especially love 'em. I have sen Corey catch some monster pike on this bait. Plenty of fish come up through a hole in the ice courtesy of the George as well. ~andy