Many years ago while guiding on Basswood lake, in my never ending tackle quest, I snapped on a J-Plug for the first time and cast into waters where I suspected big northerns would be hanging out.  I placed many casts and found this to be a funny-acting plug.  The stainless steel hooks you see above on the little cord are are also attached to a stainless steel ball chain which you can't see because it runs through the plug at an angle.  You hook your snap swivel onto the end loop in the chain which you can see sticking out of the J-plug above.  It seemed like this would be a problem for casting, but it wasn't.  I had no trouble zinging this plug out and retrieving it.  On return, it wobbled erratically from side to side. (Note: It floats very easily and has a dive-down of about six feet deep depending on the speed of your return. Crank it in more slowly over the top of the weeds.)

After numerous casts, I hooked a monster!  The northern slammed the J-Plug and I buried the hooks deep in it's lip with a strong set.  I had three other people in the boat and the fish began to pull my 18 foot tow boat ever so steadily toward the center of the bay where the water was deeper. 

Meanwhile, the J-Plug did what no other plug does.  The plug body slid up my line to the water's surface, out of the way of the big fish's mouth.  As a result, I just ignored the plug body and fought the fish who could not use the plug body for leverage to shake the hooks loose as is common with other big lures.  This resulted in a really clean fight.  Very cool!   It turned out to be an 18 lb., 39 inch,  northern that I finally landed.  It was a great fight and he's probably still swimming around in Basswood (too big to eat and most likely a spawner).  Anyway's this is a great plug for northerns, but it is also great for lakers, too.  Troll it behind your canoe on Kekakabic lake or across Thomas.  Better have a rod with a fast tip.  Too stiff a rod might get ripped right out of the canoe!

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