Columbia Craw

1 x 6s squared divided by Pi to the 8th power........... quite a few

So your favorite NFL Team must be the Bills ?

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My main line is #12 braid. It's sensitive and reduces line twist dramatically. I always run my braid through a wet Mr. Clean Magic Eraser so it's invisible.

A frequently used term in my "lingo" is SKUNKED.

Let me wrap my head around this concept. Tell my employer that I am too ill to meet my responsibilities when I am not ill at all. I just want to go fishing. I can minimize or rationalize that as something as petty as playing hookie which means skip school. Uhhhh no.

Lamiglas Skeet Reese Certified Pro 806 telescopic flip and punch= 11.89 ounces

The suspense is killing me.

Good pictures Tizi. This is a slick little bait. It has it's place. It reminds me of the Norman's Little N which his a minimalist bill also. The finishes are typical 6th Sense, nice. I have a bunch of Curve 55's thanks to A-Jay. When A-Jay speaks the mountains tremble.

You're already fishing it.

It's not a square bill. I bought two right off. It will have it's place but not like a deflecting square bill.

Shaking worms is also known as Doodling. It's a vertical presentation of a light jig head, many times an aspirin style head with a small finesse worm or baby fluke style lure. The goal is most often to catch suspended fish.

Seaguar Smackdown has grown on me. If you are more budget minded, the P-Line TCB is pretty darn good. Of course, Power Pro has a great track record. Noisy stuff though.

First of all AUman, welcome ! Great question for your third post. When I first starting fishing spider grubs or spider jigs, I put them on a jig head with a weed guard. I wanted them weedless so why not. The skirt adds fullness or the impression of bulk and mass. Sometimes ( smallmouth) fish prefer something smaller. Go for it. Grim: Compare a swimbait head with a brush guard and a swim jig head and you will note a strange similarity. I fish paddle tails, especially 4.0 Fats on a 3/8th Dobyns swimbait head with the brush guard around lay downs in sloughs. Great option.

I was on one of the Wide World Of Sports intro clips. Just some worthless trivia for you A-jay.

Nice and simple. I like it.

It's exactly like a Missle D Bomb only different.

Made in Jamaica ?

I throw hammered copper blades in the turtle back shape. This blade seems to work well in muddy water and tannin water. The matched skirts are bright chartreuse and or black/blue. In certain situations, copper finishes have a better reflective property than gold.

My first bait casting combo was a Fenwick 555 Lunker Stik. It was a pistol grip and the material was Fenglass. I found this rod at a shop in Oregon City which closed years ago. I picked up an Ambassaduer 5000, the red one. I don't recall it having bearings, just bushings. I had a trout spinning rod as my second rod. I bought two black Bomber Bushwacker spinnerbaits, a some Manns Jelly worms, added some Water Gremlin singers and Eagle Claw J95B worm hooks and away I went. I've watched everyone of those items evolve. The spinnerbait skirts were vinyl, the wire heavy, the swivel had no bearings and the blades were small and stamped out. The hook was small and you carried a file to sharpen it as you did with all your hooks. A short time later, spinnerbaits came with heavier blades and larger blades and rubber skirts. The hooks began to develop and were larger and I even started to ad a Rebel ring worm or Uncle Josh Pork bass strip as a trailer. Strike King and Stanleys had two of the premier spinnerbaits and Manns added their own designed by Hank Parker. Components by the mid 80's were so much improved. I think it was Strike king that came up with Silicone skirts and that was a game changer. Then some independent pro from Georgia modified his 1/2 spinnerbait and switched the real colorado to a #7 willow blade and the fought to get that model on the market first. I went out and bought some Hildebrandt dual blade trolling flashers and cut them up and used this willows. I thought I was hot now. The rest is history and I am a spinnerbait lover. The baits available now, albeit the same configuration are so much more refined. That was then and now.

This last year I was contacted by a cousin in Canada I had not spoken to in 56 years. She shared information about my Dad's genealogy I did not know existed. It helped me appreciate where I come from. I have shared it with my children. That made me think about the history or genealogy of the stuff we use every day bass fishing and I only go back 50 years. If you care to share some observations, go for it. If you have a question, ask it. A-jay's still iced in so what the heck.

Interesting stories. When I graduated from high school I wanted become a physical therapist. I worked retail to pay the bills and ended up being promoted pretty fast and was successful but still wanted to enter sports medicine. My retail career was pulled out from under me. I was in the position of choosing to pursue what ever career I wanted. It didn't happen fast but I was persistent. I was sworn in at age 39 as a police officer, made detective and then sergeant finishing a 25 year career with only eight trips to the ER and one surgery. I've been retired for over two years now. I'd still like to be a physical therapist.

3/4 ounce chatterbait on #10 Mono ? Did I get that right?

When I started bass fishing for real, my first three lures were a Bomber Bushwacker spinnerbait, Mann's black jelly worm and Cotton Cordell Big O crank bait. I remember when I purchased my first Strike King and Fleck Weed Wader spinnerbaits. Spinnerbaits have always been a staple. I even recall when the hot new mod for the bait was to change the back blade to a #7 willow. Wow, how I was in the big time when I bought a flasher set, took the blades off and set them up. Then came Lonnie Stanley adding spinnerbaits. I still have a couple of those OG baits. Has the spinnerbait lost it's allure? Not for me. But, I recognize there are situations when the flash is just too much for the fish so a swim jig and vibrating jig come into play.

Well I gave up on skin mounting a zebra mussel after I cut myself. Actually I might have a replica of my PB made of wood. A veneer mount.