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After waking up around 4 am on a cold February morning I drove 3 hours to a well known fishing hole. My hands and fingers were half frozen while I spent the whole day freezing my butt off fishing without even a single bite. I also lost a couple of my favorite lures due to snags and broke my favorite 6 foot-1 piece rod while trying to "release" a snag.
After the fishing was over, I got in my truck and started on my 3 hour drive home. I should have been paying closer attention to how fast I was going because shortly after starting for home I was pulled over and received a ticket for going 19 miles over the speed limit!
I was really pissed off upset in how my day went. I kept asking myself, "What am I doing wrong?"
Have you ever had a day like this? I hope not...
My wife (the best wife in the world) is an accountant by trade. She was not at all "pleased" with my adventure misadventure so she decided to put all of my fishing expences of that day in her budgeting spread sheet and here is the result:
* Fuel: $50
* Meals and drinks: $30
* Broken rod: $40
* Lost lures: $15
* Speeding ticket: $149
*
* Making my wife feeling the way she felt that night: Priceless!!!
Just kidding; she went ballistic for half an hour, and I voluntarily slept the next couple of nights on the sofa in the family room. Each night on the sofa I watched the Outdoor Channel fishing studs pull monsters out of water.
Until this point I was always the first one in line to buy every new lure on the market because it was "the sure thing" or changing out my rods because IM 7 graphite is better than IM 6. I would blow the rest of my cash to replace my 4 ball-bearing spinning reels with 7, 8, or 10 ball-bearing reels because they would give me the edge. I don’t even want to mention terminal tackle...
Since I don’t have a boat, I carry all of my equipment: 3-4 rods, landing net, backpack with tackle, backpack with food and drink, sometimes even a small folding chair and the list goes on--I looked like a member of the Army’s Special Forces when I went fishing...I'm not kidding you!
Everything changed the day I saw a kid, about 14-15 years of age, fishing next to me on the local lake with one rod rigged with a jig-head and a box of plastic worms. I couldn’t see what kind of plastic worm he was using, but he was killing the fish (and killing me –softly). In about 2 hours he pulled in at least 20 fish. After seeing the expert in action, I decided to find out what brand of plastic worms would work like that.
The next day I went to our-super-sized-everything-for-fishing-store and purchased one box of almost every single plastic worm package. I had a single idea in my head--I’ll fish each worm with a jig-head on a private lake where I know the populations of young Large mouth bass are healthy and willing to attack.
I was there at 6:00 am sharp. There was a west wind at 4 miles per hour, sunny, and the temp was about 60 degrees. My weapon of choice for the crucial battle was 5’ 6" 1 piece medium action spinning rod and reel with 6# test line and ¼oz black round jig-head. All that I needed was the perfect plastic worm.
I had planned to cast each lure 20 times in approximately the same area, but with a different retrieval: 5 times fast bottom jigging, 5 times slow bottom jigging, 5 times jigging with the lure about 2 feet off of the bottom, and 5 times with the lure just beneath the surface. I cast and retrieved more then 500 times--my muscles were aching. I was tired, but I went home very satisfied because I had found my favorite lure (but that comes later).
Just to be fare, here are the results of 20 different plastic worms (all black):
* 8 lures had 0 strikes
* 7 lures had 1 strike
* 2 lures had 2 strikes
* 2 lures had 3 strikes
* 1 lure had 4 strikes
Since 3 worms scored so close, I decided to do a playoff:
* 1 lure had 1 strike
* 1 lure had 2 strikes
* 1 lure had 5 strikes
What was interesting was that the lure that had 5 strikes in the playoff was the same lure with 4 strikes in the previous round. What really surprised me was that it wasn’t the most expensive lure. Nor was it my favorite at the beginning.
The winner was Berkley’s Gulp 6" Black Nightcrawler. It smells bad to me, but most fish like it, especially if you fish slow enough to give the scent time to spread.
I went out on the Internet and Googled the Gulp. I know this may sound like an advertisement, but I am not sponsored or any way connected to Berkley. Here is what I discovered:
The 6" Gulp Nightcrawler works anywhere the traditional plastic worm is used and can be put on Lindy rigs and other live bait setups. Nine popular colors are available including green pumpkin, chartreuse, black, watermelon, watermelon with red glitter, natural, pumpkinseed, June Bug and black with red fleck. The suggested retail price for a package of 10 Gulp Nightcrawlers is $5.49.
Since then I’ve been applying the K.I.S.S. strategy--"Keep It Simple, Stupid".更多精彩文章及讨论，请光临枫下论坛 rolia.net
http://www.nebraskafishing.com/article.aspx?ID=382
After waking up around 4 am on a cold February morning I drove 3 hours to a well known fishing hole. My hands and fingers were half frozen while I spent the whole day freezing my butt off fishing without even a single bite. I also lost a couple of my favorite lures due to snags and broke my favorite 6 foot-1 piece rod while trying to "release" a snag.
After the fishing was over, I got in my truck and started on my 3 hour drive home. I should have been paying closer attention to how fast I was going because shortly after starting for home I was pulled over and received a ticket for going 19 miles over the speed limit!
I was really pissed off upset in how my day went. I kept asking myself, "What am I doing wrong?"
Have you ever had a day like this? I hope not...
My wife (the best wife in the world) is an accountant by trade. She was not at all "pleased" with my adventure misadventure so she decided to put all of my fishing expences of that day in her budgeting spread sheet and here is the result:
* Fuel: $50
* Meals and drinks: $30
* Broken rod: $40
* Lost lures: $15
* Speeding ticket: $149
*
* Making my wife feeling the way she felt that night: Priceless!!!
Just kidding; she went ballistic for half an hour, and I voluntarily slept the next couple of nights on the sofa in the family room. Each night on the sofa I watched the Outdoor Channel fishing studs pull monsters out of water.
Until this point I was always the first one in line to buy every new lure on the market because it was "the sure thing" or changing out my rods because IM 7 graphite is better than IM 6. I would blow the rest of my cash to replace my 4 ball-bearing spinning reels with 7, 8, or 10 ball-bearing reels because they would give me the edge. I don’t even want to mention terminal tackle...
Since I don’t have a boat, I carry all of my equipment: 3-4 rods, landing net, backpack with tackle, backpack with food and drink, sometimes even a small folding chair and the list goes on--I looked like a member of the Army’s Special Forces when I went fishing...I'm not kidding you!
Everything changed the day I saw a kid, about 14-15 years of age, fishing next to me on the local lake with one rod rigged with a jig-head and a box of plastic worms. I couldn’t see what kind of plastic worm he was using, but he was killing the fish (and killing me –softly). In about 2 hours he pulled in at least 20 fish. After seeing the expert in action, I decided to find out what brand of plastic worms would work like that.
The next day I went to our-super-sized-everything-for-fishing-store and purchased one box of almost every single plastic worm package. I had a single idea in my head--I’ll fish each worm with a jig-head on a private lake where I know the populations of young Large mouth bass are healthy and willing to attack.
I was there at 6:00 am sharp. There was a west wind at 4 miles per hour, sunny, and the temp was about 60 degrees. My weapon of choice for the crucial battle was 5’ 6" 1 piece medium action spinning rod and reel with 6# test line and ¼oz black round jig-head. All that I needed was the perfect plastic worm.
I had planned to cast each lure 20 times in approximately the same area, but with a different retrieval: 5 times fast bottom jigging, 5 times slow bottom jigging, 5 times jigging with the lure about 2 feet off of the bottom, and 5 times with the lure just beneath the surface. I cast and retrieved more then 500 times--my muscles were aching. I was tired, but I went home very satisfied because I had found my favorite lure (but that comes later).
Just to be fare, here are the results of 20 different plastic worms (all black):
* 8 lures had 0 strikes
* 7 lures had 1 strike
* 2 lures had 2 strikes
* 2 lures had 3 strikes
* 1 lure had 4 strikes
Since 3 worms scored so close, I decided to do a playoff:
* 1 lure had 1 strike
* 1 lure had 2 strikes
* 1 lure had 5 strikes
What was interesting was that the lure that had 5 strikes in the playoff was the same lure with 4 strikes in the previous round. What really surprised me was that it wasn’t the most expensive lure. Nor was it my favorite at the beginning.
The winner was Berkley’s Gulp 6" Black Nightcrawler. It smells bad to me, but most fish like it, especially if you fish slow enough to give the scent time to spread.
I went out on the Internet and Googled the Gulp. I know this may sound like an advertisement, but I am not sponsored or any way connected to Berkley. Here is what I discovered:
The 6" Gulp Nightcrawler works anywhere the traditional plastic worm is used and can be put on Lindy rigs and other live bait setups. Nine popular colors are available including green pumpkin, chartreuse, black, watermelon, watermelon with red glitter, natural, pumpkinseed, June Bug and black with red fleck. The suggested retail price for a package of 10 Gulp Nightcrawlers is $5.49.
Since then I’ve been applying the K.I.S.S. strategy--"Keep It Simple, Stupid".更多精彩文章及讨论，请光临枫下论坛 rolia.net