Banjominnow ???

[witty_d]

Is the Banjominnow as good as the infomercial makes it out to be? I was up late... or it could have been early I'm not sure and watched an infomercial on the Banjominnow. They made it out to be the best thing since sliced bread. Anyone ever used it or is it?

http://www.banjominnow.com/?src=BM19TWG

 

[rsimms]

See if you can find out how many people on the BASS Tour or the FLW are using the Banjo Minnow. That might answer your question. emoBigsmile

 

[craazyboutbass]

A freind of mine from Memphis had it, he told me that it was just a waste of his money.

 

[kickinbass35]

I think it is as good as the Roland Martin hellicopter lure myselfemoLaugh

 

[heath j]

I actually have had absolutely great success with them.

 

[foodsaver]

i have caught a few fish on the ones my mother gave me for christmas one year. They were actually pretty good until I ran out of baits.

 

[SPOON]

Leonard"s Bait & Tackle sells a lot of just the bodies, so they must work good below nick .
( I think they are used behind a jig head and not using " The System".)

 

[DoubleB]

Just make your own...

Make your own Banjo Minnow

 

[Pastor Bill]

I bought the banjo in 1997 after being mesmerized by a television ad. I paid $19.99 and in a week it arrived and I began catching fish just like I always had.
The trick with the banjo is that it does mimic (very well) a wounded fish. This is supposed to trigger the "Genetic Response". I have the same amount of success with my ole' stand-bye the Culprit Salt and Pepper Soft Jerk Bait rigged through the nose with a 1/0 weedless hook. Its deadly in pads. Banjo minnow would be better if it actually played the banjo. Then it would be worth the 20 bucks.
Bill

 

[Daniel Tn]

Yeah all they are is really well made soft plastic jerk baits. You could rig your own and have less in them but the concept is a good one for someone just wanting a little kit with different sizes lures and the riggings in one little kit. Similar to the lizard kits and drop shot kits they got now...you could get it all by itself and save money but for some people it's just more convenient to get it all in a kit.

But basically they are nothing more than a soft plastic jerkbait rigged a certain way. It ain't gonna work better than anything else...but like everything else there is a time and place that it will work better. In some ponds the banjo frogs are about the best frog lure you can find.

 

[Banjo]

I just bought the banjo kit two weeks ago. I fell for the commercial. That lure pulls bass like crazy. I fished in davis pond and crater lake in prentice cooper with my buddy who didn't have the banjo, and caught 8 bass that day. He had live bait and caught none. We stood side by side at one point and I pulled out two one pounders on back to back casts and he stood straight rodded. I have had less luck in fast currents, the bait seems to lose some of it's action, but if you are bass fishin in slow current and can work the Banjo correctly ( I think disbelievers can't fish it correctly and blame ther inadequacy on the lure) it is an excellent lure, well worth the $20. My buddy tried to rig his own fake banjo minnow, but it just doesn't come close to having the same action, so I dubbed his version the mandolin minnow. I will say that it is harder to get good hook sets because of the slack in the line necessary to give the banjo its action, but I get twice as many bites on the banjo. I will never be without the banjo in my tackle again!