 Well it's that time of the week again Ray and Mandy are back with another edition of Fishing Tips. Hello again everyone and this evening we'd like to talk a little bit about plastics and imitation baits. There are lots of varieties and when we get out in the lake and later segments we're going to show you how to use some of these how to rig them up in different formats but there's a lot of things that you can buy now that replace and we're not promoting just getting rid of minerals or nightcrawlers or leeches but if you want to start getting into plastics there's a lot of options out there. One of them is gulp which is a product that's actually made with real fish parts. This is an imitation leech this is an imitation minnow and when you put this stuff on your hands you smell like you're an imitation leech yourself but it's very popular made of real fish parts it's biodegradable so it doesn't pollute the water the way some of the plastics do. There's also a product made for panfish and a little nuggets and they also are made out of actual fish parts so they will biodegrade in the lake and they're not harmful to the water which is a real plus for that and then you can buy this product in a variety of packages a variety of different things for bass for northerns for wall rise. You can also buy salted fish these are real fish these are fat heads you can buy these and instead of getting the live ones if you want to do that and you can also buy real kits this is a little copy kit if you're not familiar with what to use you can buy this little kit it comes with the hooks it comes with the imitation baits and it's all you really need to get started. Mandy I'm going to turn it over to you with some of your plastics. Plastics plastics plastics you love it so we always hear match the hatch right so that could be what kind of forge that that is is it you know something that perch is really prevalent out there and that's what they're feeding on then you can actually get perch colored little baits. A lot of things that we will see is crayfish so crayfish happens to be like the bacon for bass it's one of their favorite forages that they eat you'll see all these little different baits and different colors and different styles they all actually kind of look like a crayfish so there's multiple different styles that you can have and you can cover with them another one if you don't like to handle night colors or worms there's also a plastic version of these they come in different colors you can rig them different ways but they're great overall plastic to use for multiple species. I'm Ray Gildahl within this one guys Lee and I'm Andy Yerick the bass and biologist. All right you're getting the boat next week with them right? Yep next week we'll be out on the water uh we we got the basics down now we'll go out and catch some fish. All right. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland news please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.