Jigfishn10

Two Florida fishermen, MCS and RoLo, decided to take a weeks vacation in Maine one winter to do some ice fishing for the very first time. They gave up after only one day and returned home. When they were asked why they returned so soon, MCS replied: “Heck, it took us six hours just to get the boat in the water!”

Two old fishing buddies, Long Mike and Fishing Rhino, were out fishing in some rough waters when Long Mike suddenly lost his dentures over the side of the boat. After seeing the devastated expression on his friend’s face, Fishing Rhino decided to play a prank on his old friend to cheer him up. He removed his own set of false teeth and hooked them on his line and pretended to catch and reel in the missing dentures. After unhooking the false teeth and giving them to his friend, Long Mike took the dentures and thanked and hugged his old buddy. He slipped the dentures in his mouth and immediately removes them and says disgustedly: “They’re not mine, they don’t fit!” and throws them back into the water.

thats pretty funny right there...LMAO...all that work and not one shirt will sell in New York even if the Pats do win!

I always use a snap and will change blades periodically. I don't have the problems as the other posters have mentioned, but I don't fish the same waters either.

You betchya, like papajoe mentions, real feathers and tied sparse, here's one I tied a couple of years ago and still going strong: Heddon was producing the Super Spook Jr with a dressed treble, but I haven't looked on Lurenet.com in a while.

I couldn't believe it, but I've been working in Boston off of Beacon Street along the Charles the last 2 weeks. The building was flooded due to the recent cold snap (Polar Vortex) and had some pipes crack and filled the basement where the boilers were located. Well anyway, the Charles was solid ice, but today I saw a lot of open water. Too bad we're in for another cold snap by mid-week.

A lot of walking type lures, Spook Jrs included, do have a fair amount of "roll" on the retrieve where the lure will "roll" on it's side during the walk and I think the fish do see that and it can make a difference. It depends if you put lure color in any importance. For me, it's all about what I feel confident in using.

I don't throw cranks on a straight braid, but I do use braid and a leader for cranks. I like braid because you can get thin diameters as flyfisher mentions and a leader of say 6-8'. The 6-8' leader won't impede the depth, it's the other 40' plus that will. Just my $0.02

Getting close to that time again, with the recent warming trend, I wonder if any of our water down the Cape or Plymouth had any soft water? I see some here and there, but still considerable amounts of ice. If any soft water is out there, it will be frozen by mid-next week when the next arctic blast comes in. Anyone get a license yet? I'm looking to do that soon. I haven't even looked to see if we had any increases yet.

My 13 y/o daughter just happened to come by and ended up watching the vid...well most of it, she got pretty tweaked from it...LMAO

Might be time to join the winning team and go across the bay...Niner Sr.?.?.? EDIT: Congrats!

Great to hear Nitro, that's a great step forward towards a long journey. All my best! John

Thankfully I haven't had to do that since '09...but, now I think I just jinxed myself...LOL

Awesome, glad all went well...speedy recovery my friend!

Could be the possum or souse meat...Either way, something crawled up his @$$ and wants to get out in a hurry... http://www.bassresource.com/bass-fishing-forums/topic/127114-foodcooking-forum/?p=1423042

Goose feathers so Raider can wipe his butt multiple times without having to go out to the golf course to chase one down every time he eats at Taco Bell!

Here's a Janns Netcraft spinnerbait I used to catch my PB on a week and a half after ice out a couple of years ago. It's a 1/2 oz single blade I used for slow rolling the bottom:

I never really thought about it until you mention it Raider, I'll have to sit down and really defecate on that...

Excellent read Tom. The way I read that section of the book and what I took away from it was that Denny believed all aspects were important and he didn't rate or stress one aspect over the other.

That size and style is finding it's way into the saltwater striper crowd here in New England. It will have some lift to it with the big blade, so switch to a smaller blade like A-Jay mentions to keep it down. You may have to retrieve a bit faster, but bang as many obstructions as you can and you'll have fun with that!

I often think about this subject and can not for the life of me figure out which are more important. I asked Larry Dahlberg the question about lure color and I thought his view on color was really interesting, especially his last statement: "My experience is that color is less important than what the lure actually does. On topwater lures I've been searching for a color they won't bite! I've seen times when they react to fluorescent colors like chartruese and orange better than any thing else. Most large predators fit into the match the hatch thing, but also remember they have a role in natural selection that means part of their job includes getting rid of things that don't belong or are out of place. best, L" I also thought Denny Brauer's take on it was quite interesting. I read it in his book and can't find the quote, so I'll have to paraphrase: He basically says that he has no idea what a bass thinks a lure is or perceives it to be, so he'll use a lure that appeals to most if not all of the bass senses. If he has all those tools at his disposal, than he'll certainly try to stack the odds in his favor. To me, if your fishing a lure, why not use Denny's logic?

Can't go wrong with those hooks. As far a sizes are concerned I typically have seen the following combinations on 1/2 oz lipless cranks: #6 both belly and rear #4 belly and #6 rear #4 both belly and rear #2 belly and #4 rear #2 both belly and rear (this combo works on most lipless cranks anyway) Hope this helps and good luck!

Man, that's just dirty pool!

That would be a Red Sox team prior to '04!...For 86 YEARS!

And a lot of upside for years to come! I wouldn't be p1$$ed for too long.