Best Spearing Decoy Money Can Buy!!!

[bassNspear]

Here is the decoys that I use. I have been using these for about 4 years. Have used there products for 10 years. I have used the homemade ones that I have had made, but nothing works better then these. Just my opinon

They are made by Bear Creek. All Bear Creek Spearing Decoys are hand assembled and painted for the highest quality

available today. They use there popular epoxy coating

as a finishing touch to insure that the paint will

remain intact for years of spearing pleasure. I perfer the red and white, and the goldfish color 10" inches in length. They swim like champs, and with a live decoy under it, connected with a DP-1 decoy pin, its tuff to beat. I suggest you try them. There great.

[Central Bassman]

U got that right... I love these decoy also, this body style seem to get more fish into the hole, witch is a good thing. If u are looking or already are into spearing u need to use these decoys. I have used the red/white ones and also one in firetiger. i like useing different color to see if it will help make the fish react different!!!

[red bricks]

I like the decoys with the bendable back fin. Then I can adjust the width of the circle. The ones I have with the "fixed" tail seem to swim very tight circles. How tight do these swim? Thanks

[bassNspear]

very tight. and smooth

[iffy]

I still use a yellow bear creek just like those. I bought it over 30 years ago. I've got more than my share of real pigs with it. Highly recommended.

[glenn57]

i agree with BnS, love those decoys. mine are older than those in his picture, they dont have the glitter look on the side. i have one with flouresent green in it also. another one i like another spearer friend made me a salamander decoy. it looks cool in the water ad does its job bringing in nords.countdown 38 days!

[bassNspear]

i have some that dont have the glitter on them as well.

[glenn57]

i also have an orange and yellow spotted frog decoy thats handmade i like to use. i have but 4 that i use that i have faith in.

[nine-tiner]

I am with redbricks.

I like to use a red/white 6 or 8" wood decoy with the bendable "tin" fins. One can reall change the movement of the decoy. Nice sweeping motion to tight little circles even get them to almost do a flip like a dying minnow. I also have the same in perch, firetiger, black/yellow, pink/white, black/white and a couple others. Most of the time I also have a live sucker down using a "stickpin" and weight. This is off to the other side of the spear hole and above or below the decoy. The depth difference seems to make the pike think about things a little longer.

[Jackpine Rob]

Sorry guys, but I'm not on board here.

The only decoys I use are handmade by myself, my dad, my grandpa, or earlier ancestors. Jr. has a couple we are working on, and we have used a few he has painted after I carved them out, weighted and finned them.

We don't use any live bait whatsoever - for me it kinda takes the charm out of spearing to stick a live minnow down the hole. If the decoy I'm using isn't enough, its time to change out decoys.

Unlike some of the "purists" in other sports, I surely don't look down my nose at those who choose to use a minnow, and I really don't care that some choose to use commercially made decoys.

Its just the satisfaction of seeing the slimer come in after the chunk of wood I spent a few hours hacking out of a cedar limb - doesn't make me right or wrong - just a little different.

What the heck, my wife considers me real different.....

[Hammer Handle]

I love homemade decoys too, but love the small northern perch-colored Bear Creek.

Great decoy if you don't have the time or effort to make your own.

My dad always made his own except for his one Bear Creek. Now, that is all he uses...but I am convincing him to make some more for this year!

[bassNspear]

i have tried using homemade ones before, but i always go back to my bear creek. I have had nothing but good luck with it, so in that case, i will always use bear creek untill otherwise. Its just a great all around decoy.

[jigginjim]

Have you tried bear creek decoys, painted like a small pike?

[bassNspear]

i have, but i still always go back to red/white, or orange with a live sucker under my bait.

[Hammer Handle]

I have, but perch and red/white seem to work best for me.

But, somedays the little pike works better....

Color is kind of a gimmick. The action and flash are what bring them in.

[fisheye]

B n Spear - when you say a live sucker under your decoy - do you mean on the same line? Hooked to the decoy somehow? How far below the decoy?

I always use both - but on separate lines. Always willing to try something new.

Thanks.

[bassNspear]

i tie it a line to my decoy, so then my live decoy is under it. when you are looking at the hole, its right under the decoy. I will take a picture when i get out the first time so you all can see it.

[browning_gold]

I always run a bear creek red and white 9"sucker decoy and always have my mini-teaser going with a daredevil with the hooks removed. Works Great

[Central Bassman]

If im on a trip for a few day and im still looking down the same hole for a while i like to use a daredevil. It some times will bring fish in on a reaction and just giving me enough time to get them.

[bassNspear]

or a sore neck.

[spearman]

stiff back,full bladder ( dont want to leave the house cause that's when the fish come in)

[bassNspear]

its that the thruth. How many times does a guy walk out of the house, and comes back in, shuts the door, looks down the hole, and the decoy is gone??

happens alllllll the time.

[Huey]

Bass-n-Spear,

Where did you find the bear creek decoys with the reflective tape? I found some pianted ones at Fleet Farm, no prism tape tough. It did look like there was a small hole in some of them. Is that supposed to be there? Also what is a DP-1 pin?

Thanks, Huey

Ps I enjoyed your podcast.

[bassNspear]

i order them straight from the factory. If you need the website, contact me via email.

Thanks for the Podcast. Its fun tot alk about somethign that you know alot about and love

[cat-man]

i'm sold on the bear creek decoys too, but my go to decoy is the shorter skinnier model in rainbow trout pattern. then i heated the tail and straighten it abit so it makes about a three foot circle pike can't resist. o ya and a teaser with a red and white dardvele under it worked like a charm on saturday.

[bassNspear]

ya man, there tough to beat. They make a decoy that is by far the best out there. Ya i understand that the wood decoys have the favors as well, but these guys build them to fit perfect, and make a decoy of any size and shape that you know will bring in fish.

[10,000 Casts]

Bear Creek Decoys are probably the most mainstream decoys outthere, I like ones that are hard to find. Bear Creek makes a good decoy but I don't think that they are anything special, the red and white one that BNS has in his pic is the best one they make imo if not the only good one that isn't very ordinary. I like the Decoys made by Ice Shanty Gear, they were... made by a guy in Little Falls but I think he passed away a short time ago and I am not positive but pretty sure that they aren't making them any more. They have adjustable fins and the three eyelits on top. It's one of the easier decoys to get to swim nice and control and it has no problem bring in the fish.

[bassNspear]

i would have to say for me, that the orange is the best color for me on clear lakes, and red and white on dirty lakes. I have done this over many years, and has always worked for me.