02-23-2003, 03:25 PM
my favorits lure, though I havent seen it in any store for at least 25 years is a 4 inch, beer collored thin diving repalla. (it floated but when reeled or trolled it would dive)
I used it so much that the diving fin fell off one day in the lake. broken hearted, I was realy bummed, fortunatly for me at that time we had a product on the market called beer cans, unlike the beer cans of today these cans had a thing called a pull tab that pulled off the can,
I proke the thab off the pull ring and epoxied the tab wher the diving used to be. with a little bending and I had the lure dansing in the watter doing barrol rolls, diving or skimming just under the top of the water's edge.
It had become my favorite lure when I hooked in to a 17 inch crappie on the 3rd of july 1977. this lure was always a hot lure for bass.
I eventualy lost that lure to the fish gods of the deep,
the moral of the story is if you find a lure that works buy a dozen of them. (life time supply) ten years down the road you may not find the same lure on the market ever again.
[signature]
I used it so much that the diving fin fell off one day in the lake. broken hearted, I was realy bummed, fortunatly for me at that time we had a product on the market called beer cans, unlike the beer cans of today these cans had a thing called a pull tab that pulled off the can,
I proke the thab off the pull ring and epoxied the tab wher the diving used to be. with a little bending and I had the lure dansing in the watter doing barrol rolls, diving or skimming just under the top of the water's edge.
It had become my favorite lure when I hooked in to a 17 inch crappie on the 3rd of july 1977. this lure was always a hot lure for bass.
I eventualy lost that lure to the fish gods of the deep,
the moral of the story is if you find a lure that works buy a dozen of them. (life time supply) ten years down the road you may not find the same lure on the market ever again.
[signature]