shrimp vs DOA

[ertauber]

I usually fish with live or unfrozen shrimp when available. Lately this has not been available I tried DOA white shrimp and started catching trout regularly in all of my regular spots. Today I went back to live shrimp on one Pop n cork and DOA on another and limited on DOA and caught nothing on the other. Weird?

[JIm Smith]

pretty much what all our guides in Cedar key use, and so do I with the exception of saltwater assassion sea shad instead of DOA for the most part

[silverking]

Not weird at all. I've out-fished buddies with DOA shrimp when they were using the real thing. Several reasons for this. If freelined, the live shrimp will try to bury in the grass. Pinfish, puffers, lizardfish and others trash fish will tear a shrimp to pieces before the trout or other game fish can find it (trash fish will nip at DOA shrimp too, but not as bad).

DOA shrimp are infused with real aqua-culture grass shrimp, so they do have scent. If you want even more realism, add a squirt of Pro-Cure shrimp gel. The designer, Mark Nichols, developed the lures after watching real shrimp react in his father's bait shrimp tanks. The closest pattern to the real McCoy is the near clear, but my local favorite has always been the gold glitter/glow. I usually fish them plain, although they also work extremely well under a clacker-style cork.

There are a lot of new-comer shrimp lures now on the market, including Vu-Du, Live Target, Savage and some blatant knock-offs. But DOA has stood the test of time and still keeps putting fish in the boat. You're a graduate of the Flats Pro Seminars. Remember, they're Deadly On Anything!

[countrycorners]

DOA would work great for me when I lived/fished down on the Indiana River. I moved up here 'bout 5 years ago & For me, they don't work as well as gulp when I fish out of Econfina/Aucilla.

[DixieReb]

I have several DOA plugs and try them at times, but I seem to do better with gulps.