Avalonjohn44

If you write about politics as well as you write about fishing, it should be a great read! : Thank you! If you want to view my blog, PM me, I don't want to further violate any posting rules...

I'm really happy to hear that your wife is doing well. Prayers coming from NOVA that she stays well. Your post wasn't long... jeez, mine rambled on 10 times that length...

I'm touched and I appreciate the offer!

Zoom doesn't, but I use the 11 in netbait worm Cool, I'm gonna hunt them down. I did find that Zoom had a Magnum Trick Worm, but it is only an inch bigger, and a little thicker... Wish they would have used a different name...

LOL

Dang, I didn't know they made 10 inch trick worms. Gotta find some cash now...

They look cool. The colors are nice and sharp looking. The hook eye on the top of the bait towards the back intrigues me...

The baits work, Period. They are a little fragile, but I'm going to try picking up some of that worm glue everyone is talking about. I can usually get 2-4 fish on one beaver without the glue, so I think the price is fair. My favorite color is Roadkill.

I posted this on my blog, but wanted to share it with you guys, people that appreciate Bass Fishing the way I do... Here it is: So when I'm not alienating most of my friends and having family members de-friend me on Facebook for posting my anti-(name removed so as to not violate BR's politics rule) diatribes, I like to try and squeeze in some fishing time at least once a week. It doesn't always work out that way, and some weeks I'll be privileged enough to go two or three times, but I like to shoot for once a week... I had few passions growing up. Three to be exact. They all revolved around the water. I could never get enough swimming in it seemed. I was never very athletic or particularly graceful, but once I got into the water, that all changed. I was an otter. I was a fast swimmer, and nobody could dunk me. I stayed in longer, swam when it rained, and even swam when it was probably too cool to swim (this past summer the water temps were in the low fifties, but my cousin, my wife and I went swimming anyway it was painful) We dived off docks, scaled pilings like some Polynesian coconut hunter to do flips from, even jumped off bridges. It was a passion easy to fulfill. Jump in the water as much as possible, boom. Done. Another was crabbing. Summers spent on the Jersey shore gave me a love of crabs that still eats at me today. We still plan at least a partial week up in Avalon just so I can get up there an crab I disagree off for a couple of days. It started as catching crabs with my cousin and our mutual friends off the public dock, but also from our old boat the Scotty Good. We caught them for my grandfather, a crab aficionado. My cousin and I (who I fear I have embarrassed with this right wing extremism blog) would bring home hundreds of crabs a week for our Pop-Pop. They would last him through the winter. He's gone now, but every crab I catch and eat will forever be for him. But as I grew older, Fishing outpaced everything else. I fished with my cousin, I fished with my brother, my dad, and my friend Cat. I fished with my wife when we dated, and fish with her still. I fish with my kids now. Especially with Pop-Pop gone, and crabbing therefore losing some of its allure, fishing is where it's all at for me. I can't explain the allure of fishing to someone that did not catch the fishing bug. It might be unexplainable, perhaps. I could no more convey to you what I feel for the combination of dark water, the outdoors, and the tap-tug bite of a fish, than a Nascar fan could convey to me why he likes to stare at what amounts to me to a traffic jam in a hot, stinky, sweaty, cacophonic mess of a racetrack. I won't ever have the phrases or the words to tell you what clicks together' inside me the moment I see my lure arcing in the air, the spool of my reel shedding line with a whirrrr sound, and the lure plopping down into the lake. I don't know where to start telling you how a fish on the end of my line, fighting to throw my hook, is a mystery each and every time up until the moment I see it. I seriously get a little breathless, and my heart speeds up, just trying to capture the feeling on paper. Some people fish a couple of times, and can throw the twenty dollar rod and reel in the closet for a year before dusting it off for a yard sale. They weren't bitten. Some people buy twenty rods and reels, each many hundreds of dollars, and follow up with a boat, a house on the lake, entering tournaments and chasing dollars and trophies. I would like to compete, but not really for money (though I would love the money), I want to one day gauge my skills against those of these so called professional angler. I want to see how I measure up. I also would like to maybe write a local book about the fishing holes I haunt, some secret, some well known. And maybe even get my own boat and start a guide service one day. But most of all, I want to pass my love of fishing off to my kids. I think I've given it a good start. I take them with me often. The boy, at four, can cast like a fiend and he got his first bass (a chunky two pounder) last summer. He talked about it for hours. The girl made me about as proud as I can be, when she told her mother that night after she caught two bass that today was the best day of her life. I just posted on Facebook that I was daydreaming about fishing My wife wrote back from home: Soon babe... soon; weekend doth approach.' My heart beat a little bit fasterI'm holding her to itCan't wait.

All year around. I will cast a crank (lipless And lipped) from the time the ice melts until the time when it starts to ice up. I only go to soft plastics once it is obvious my cranks won't catch fish. I guess I'm backwards from most fishermen.

I rarely use it, I like more subtle colors. But in muddy water it will be one of my first choices... That said, Culprit makes a worm in a fire-tiger patter, it is not gaudy like you will see on a crankbait. It is a more subtle, creamy version of the classic firetiger pattern. It is very productive for me in stained water.

I looked on ebay at a pic of the Flick Shake. I have no problem paying $20 for a megabass crank, or 18 for a good LC... But to pay $16 for a normal looking jighead and what amounts to a slightly fatter zoom finesse worm is a little over the top. I'll be throwing it walmart-style this weekend. Bag a jigheads $1.19, bag of finesse worms $3.79, and $11 extra bucks in my pocket.

I stock up on Charlie's Worms every time I'm down in FL. I have not noticed that the scent hurts, certainly they smell great. Better than power bait. Charlies Worms com in some really neat colors. I've been using them for about 5 or 6 years now, and will continue to drop cash on them whenever I'm down there in FL.

Return it to the place you bought it, and get one that works.

LOL, me three.

I plan on using some this weekend. It's been too cold (for me) to try anything out very much yet...

^^ Just kidding btw.

I've always wondered, and never seen it posted before on this site, but are the Kinami Flash and the Senko the same baits? One is made by Derek Yamamoto, the other by some guy named Gary Yamamoto. I think they might be related, but I think that Gary stole the senko idea from Derek.

Cool, I'm gonna pick some of that stuff up, I go thru beavers like you wouldn't believe... Huh, that sounds funny...

I like a plain old SK Diamond Shad in chrome and blue. I also like the Lews Lipless Trap, but I change the soft hooks right away. For rattle trap style baits, I have found that cheaper works better. I have not gotten a single fish on the Lucky Craft one, the Yo Zuri one, Excalibur, and only a few on the Red Eye Shads...

Dinks will hit a 10 inch worm plenty... Trust me, I'm good at catching dinks. I use the 10 incher in the mid summer on, but I like them on really sunny days in the spring too.

Cool, thx. I have parasite clips and parasite weights, but I don't like to weigh my beavers or senkos down at all. I might splurge and try a pack anyway. If they suck I'll give them to my brother. Does the mend-it work well?

It's good to hear they fixed the design flaw by adding the metal pin. I was shying away from buying more than the one that I have for fear they would break... Glenn, you sold me... And handed Strike King even more of my $$$...

Does anyone use these? The package says they are great for skipping baits. I was wondering how they work with the fragile ultra salty baits like senkos and beavers which typically tear up after a few skips. http://www.gamakatsu.com/new_products/new_skipgap.htm

Mepps #3 or #4 Black Fury w/Red Dot. Although, as of last year I have to say that Sweet Beavers in Roadkill color are a very close second, if not in first by now.