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Ok, I've made my peace with the events of the weekend. Well, I guess I should back up a little.
Was fishing Jordan and not getting much action as I worked along the shore. The first cove was nothing but tiny little guys pulling the tail of the trickworm so I moved over to try the point some. Still nothing. Well, let's see if I can hook one of those little guys. I've been having lots of fun lately with panfish on ultralight gear, even found some ponds where they were fairly big too. So I threw out the little crappie magnet with a plastic grub. 6' from shore I thought it snagged the bottom, pull a little harder and, pop, it shoots out of the water and over my head. Was that a tail? Let's try that again but with a different color plastic, maybe I can fool him into biting twice. Two more casts and bam, thing takes off, drag screamin' but it turns back and I see a giant swirl and good size tail. Nice. This is great, I love fightin big fish on light... pop, empty jighead flys out of the water followed by another monster swirl. Dangit! Look at the hook, it's almost completely straightened. Dangit! It was still a good day. Saw eagles, osprey, hummingbird, and a black snake doing his best rattlesnake impersonation. I'm ok, it was a nice day.
Does anyone have a brand of tiny jighead with better hooks? I'm going to try hardening a few of the ones I have. Or go back to roostertails, never lost a fish on a bad hook with those.
Or maybe I'll just keep doing what I've been doing. Those slab bluegill haven't given me any trouble and I catch most of my bass when actually targeting bass with appropriate gear. It was only one fish. But I really wanted to land that fish, sigh.
Was fishing Jordan and not getting much action as I worked along the shore. The first cove was nothing but tiny little guys pulling the tail of the trickworm so I moved over to try the point some. Still nothing. Well, let's see if I can hook one of those little guys. I've been having lots of fun lately with panfish on ultralight gear, even found some ponds where they were fairly big too. So I threw out the little crappie magnet with a plastic grub. 6' from shore I thought it snagged the bottom, pull a little harder and, pop, it shoots out of the water and over my head. Was that a tail? Let's try that again but with a different color plastic, maybe I can fool him into biting twice. Two more casts and bam, thing takes off, drag screamin' but it turns back and I see a giant swirl and good size tail. Nice. This is great, I love fightin big fish on light... pop, empty jighead flys out of the water followed by another monster swirl. Dangit! Look at the hook, it's almost completely straightened. Dangit! It was still a good day. Saw eagles, osprey, hummingbird, and a black snake doing his best rattlesnake impersonation. I'm ok, it was a nice day.
Does anyone have a brand of tiny jighead with better hooks? I'm going to try hardening a few of the ones I have. Or go back to roostertails, never lost a fish on a bad hook with those.
Or maybe I'll just keep doing what I've been doing. Those slab bluegill haven't given me any trouble and I catch most of my bass when actually targeting bass with appropriate gear. It was only one fish. But I really wanted to land that fish, sigh.