The number of casts Ive taken since 1st week of Nov is unacceptable. I hope to wane that trend.
So, last week I took a rubber bass jig with a trashed skirt & gave it a hair-transplant.
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Seeing it sit on the coffee table for the last week, it just looked too sexy & I couldnt take it anymore, I had to get out & throw it around. Went to the nearest worthy canal & connected on 2nd cast with a hungry 14"ish bass. Started to swing the rod into mostly smaller beat-up males that seem to have just finished spawning. A couple might have pushed 17" but most were 13"-15". I expect the ladies to put the feedbags on right-quick, here, though.
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Eventually a big snakehead(not this little rat I got a pic of) destroyed the hook on my hair-transplant jig rendering it useless & steering me back to a rubber skirted swim jig. The snakehead population has definitely not shrank in my absence!
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To probably nobodies surprise, the action remained exactly the same! 8). Regardless of that reality, I will make more hair-transplant jigs. Much more durable skirt, & I think in extra-dirty water it may make a bigger, darker, more solid sillohuette than a silicon skirt does.
And lastly, to reinforce the words of wisdom : "believe half of what you see & none of what you hear", everything I have ever read or heard about catching clown knives is that its next to impossible without shiners. This is about the 5th or 6th Ive caught in the last year on lures. The others ate bucktail & this 1 made a wave-making sprint at my swim jig/ugly otter trailer just as I was about to lift it out of the water.
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Noticed a few peacocks bedded up, but left em alone. Ill mess with them soon enough.
So, last week I took a rubber bass jig with a trashed skirt & gave it a hair-transplant.
Seeing it sit on the coffee table for the last week, it just looked too sexy & I couldnt take it anymore, I had to get out & throw it around. Went to the nearest worthy canal & connected on 2nd cast with a hungry 14"ish bass. Started to swing the rod into mostly smaller beat-up males that seem to have just finished spawning. A couple might have pushed 17" but most were 13"-15". I expect the ladies to put the feedbags on right-quick, here, though.
Eventually a big snakehead(not this little rat I got a pic of) destroyed the hook on my hair-transplant jig rendering it useless & steering me back to a rubber skirted swim jig. The snakehead population has definitely not shrank in my absence!
To probably nobodies surprise, the action remained exactly the same! 8). Regardless of that reality, I will make more hair-transplant jigs. Much more durable skirt, & I think in extra-dirty water it may make a bigger, darker, more solid sillohuette than a silicon skirt does.
And lastly, to reinforce the words of wisdom : "believe half of what you see & none of what you hear", everything I have ever read or heard about catching clown knives is that its next to impossible without shiners. This is about the 5th or 6th Ive caught in the last year on lures. The others ate bucktail & this 1 made a wave-making sprint at my swim jig/ugly otter trailer just as I was about to lift it out of the water.
Noticed a few peacocks bedded up, but left em alone. Ill mess with them soon enough.
