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FinsnFur · April 27, 2007, 06:55:49 PM

...and the spawn hasn't even hit here yet. This was the first day above 40 for close to a week. Water temps still in the low 50's in the shallows.

Hawks Feather · April 27, 2007, 07:32:30 PM

Jim,

Looks like you used that new "Copenhagen" lure to catch the biggest one.

Jerry

FinsnFur · April 27, 2007, 08:09:35 PM

LOL...scale reference Jerry

coyotehunter_1 · April 27, 2007, 08:32:26 PM

Good looking bass there, Jim.
Yep, biggest one looks to be about 6 & 1/2 Copens to me.

Bopeye · April 27, 2007, 10:31:28 PM

Just a few more and it's snack time.........

Brad H · April 27, 2007, 10:46:11 PM

Very nice, Jim. Lookin' good!

I like the basic "long cut" myself. Not so much a Straight fan.

Kinda fun splitting hairs.

Brad

FinsnFur · April 27, 2007, 11:22:39 PM

Ya know....

....I chewed the long cut for many years, told myself I was gonna quit last July.
I quit for 24 hours, thought I was doing real good. Then I got real desperate...ran up to the store to get a can and they were out.
I said what'ya got that's close for gods sake?

She sold me a can of the straight, and I gotta say...I dont know how I ever did the long cut. Where the heck was this stuff at all that time. I might not quit for another 40 years . The straight is just like candy.

I dont know why they call it straight, there's something in there that isnt in the long cut.

Bob D · April 28, 2007, 08:33:43 AM

Hey Jim you're doing better. Nice catch. What lure are you using?

FinsnFur · April 28, 2007, 09:43:25 AM

I buy those Mepps Comet lures in #3
It's got a small silver colorado blade near the front, a gold barrel about half an inch long under that, and then on the end is a 2 inch minnow with a treble hook burried inside of it.

I dont have any complete or I'd take a picture of one, but the barrel actually unscrews if you twist it up towards the top of the lure revealing a safety pin type hook inside.

I screw that barrel upward, and then you can take the treble hooked minnow off. I replace that with a #6 or #7 Mustad Hook, and then rig a Berkely Power bait night crawler on the new hook.

It's deadly

and weedless

Bob D · April 28, 2007, 11:33:51 AM

Jim do you have any trouble with line twist with the spinner bait or do you use a swivel?

FinsnFur · April 28, 2007, 01:43:25 PM

I dont use a swivel.....haven't for 5 or 6 years now. My theory was; the less hardware hanging around the artificial bait the better the odds of it appealing to a fish.
Did it make a difference...? I'd have to say I think it definitely did. Plus those swivels seem to catch every little piece of moss suspended in the water.

Line twist.....not really. There is some, but not enough to foul things up. Sudden and extreme instances of slack line, such as fighting a fish and then the lure flying up out of the water at you....reveals the amount of line twist in a hurry.

I use Spider Wire, I dont know if that makes the difference...and if I fish for 4 or 5 hours straight....I probably find myself unwrapping the line from the tip of the pole twice during that time. But in 4 or 5 hours, I'm making a couple hundred casts.