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p.s. What is your email address???? RichG TX/IL


"rich" wrote in message
. ..
Randy, I'd be glad to try a few out for you. Since I don't fish as often
as most of these guys, I probably wouldn't be of much help, though.

However.... you mentioned that you are attempting to ascertain the value
( or lack of value ) of the added amino acids. May I suggest that you do
some "blind" testing by sending some participants the "non-amino" lures,
and others the " amino-lures". You would then chart the results of your
blind test by their responses. Since the recipients have no way of
knowing which lure they received...we'd hope that they would fish them
hard and ...if the results differ markedly...you've got a good test for
the value of the addition. It isn't a prefect "blind test" but I think it
would help in your evaluation and decision making.

regards, RichG TX/IL
Manager, Carolina Skiff Owners Group on MSN-Groups
http://groups.msn.com/CarolinaSkiffOwners

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Joe Haubenreich wrote:


Just about the funniest thing I have read in a while. That should be
printed on a Tee shirt. Too funny Joe, you have a way with words my
friend.

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Joe, the branch technique actually works for catching fish. When I
first got married many years ago, I took my wife to a lake for some
bass fishing. A cast with a plastic worm got away from me and flew
over a branch about 10 feet off the water. Too embarrased to admit
that I couldn't cast well, I slowly fed line out of the reel and let
the worm drop into the water like I was actually trying to do this from
the start. To my surprise I felt a tap and set the hook. I started to
reel and up came a largemouth. I reeled it about 4 feet above the
water and gave the rod to my wife so she could keep reeling as I ran
the trolling motor over to it. I got uder it and she lowered it to me
and I unhooked it and threw it back pretending it was just another way
of catching them. It didn't turn out to be much of a pattern though as
I have never been able to duplicate it again.

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I've done that a time or two. One time was classic... I was teaching a
novice angler some different presentations, and the pond we were fishing was
lined with trees overhanging the water. Bass were enjoying the shade, and
when we threw back under the branches and swam our spinnerbaits out, if the
bass were there they nailed them just as the baits flashed into the
sunlight. I told Tom to watch this next trick, and I allowed my lure to
smack into a leafy bough and shook it enough so that it fell loose, the line
over the limb. Just at the waterline, I started jiggling the bait, making a
plopping commotion, and within five seconds the biggest bass of the
afternoon, easily three pounds, blew up on it. The weight of the bass and my
pressure pulled the limber branch down until the line slipped loose, and I
was able to lead it out to the boat. Like you, I pretended that it happened
that way all the time. Tommy was amazed I wasn't charging for the lessons on
sure-fire ways to catch bass. Little did he know....

Joe
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"gwilber" wrote in message
oups.com...

Joe, the branch technique actually works for catching fish. When I
first got married many years ago, I took my wife to a lake for some
bass fishing. A cast with a plastic worm got away from me and flew
over a branch about 10 feet off the water. Too embarrased to admit
that I couldn't cast well, I slowly fed line out of the reel and let
the worm drop into the water like I was actually trying to do this from
the start. To my surprise I felt a tap and set the hook. I started to
reel and up came a largemouth. I reeled it about 4 feet above the
water and gave the rod to my wife so she could keep reeling as I ran
the trolling motor over to it. I got uder it and she lowered it to me
and I unhooked it and threw it back pretending it was just another way
of catching them. It didn't turn out to be much of a pattern though as
I have never been able to duplicate it again.

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"Joe Haubenreich" wrote in
message . ..
I've done that a time or two. One time was classic... I was teaching a
novice angler some different presentations, and the pond we were fishing
was
lined with trees overhanging the water. Bass were enjoying the shade, and
when we threw back under the branches and swam our spinnerbaits out, if
the
bass were there they nailed them just as the baits flashed into the
sunlight. I told Tom to watch this next trick, and I allowed my lure to
smack into a leafy bough and shook it enough so that it fell loose, the
line
over the limb. Just at the waterline, I started jiggling the bait, making
a
plopping commotion, and within five seconds the biggest bass of the
afternoon, easily three pounds, blew up on it. The weight of the bass and
my
pressure pulled the limber branch down until the line slipped loose, and I
was able to lead it out to the boat. Like you, I pretended that it
happened
that way all the time. Tommy was amazed I wasn't charging for the lessons
on
sure-fire ways to catch bass. Little did he know....

Joe


When I first started trying to bass fish seriously a couple years ago I had
something like that happen, but I definitely duplicated it.

There I was with my fancy new hunert an seventy five doller flipping stick
and a fancy fliiping reel trying to learn what was so wonderful about stick
a perfectly good lure into the brush.

Weee.... crash. Hmmm.... Ain't no water up there. Wee.... Splash. Dang
I'm ten feet short of the bank again. (I had the boat about ten feet from
the bank. Weee... Clonk. No fish on the back deck either. Weee
cra-splish. Hey! It hit the water back in there. Too bad its over that
branch. Thunk. Wooo hooo! Fish on.

As I worked my way back and fdorth along those brush banks in Mittry Lake I
noticed something.

If I flipped to the edge of the brush I caught nothing.
If I flipped under the brush I caught nothing.
If I flipped in open water I caught nothing.
If I flipped up in the trees I caught nothing.
If I flipped on the back deck of the boat I occassionaly snagged the boat.

If I put the bait over a twig or branch so the line hung vertically over it
and then sawed it back and forth to make the bait go straight up and down I
would get clobbered almost everytime.

Don't dismiss that over a branch presentation.


--
Bob La Londe
Fishing Arizona & The Colorado River
Fishing Forums & Contests
http://www.YumaBassMan.com



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I did nearly the same one incredibly hot Sunday morning in central
Alabama many moons ago.....except that what bit my offering was a
sunfish, not a bass, and it jumped nearly a foot out the water to hit
my crank bait - of all things.

Doug, my co-worker and fishing mentor back then sat on the
deck of his boat and laughed.....

Jim

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Randy
What methods do you use to make the stick baits?

alwaysfishking wrote:
Ok as some of you know, I have been making my own stickbaits for a
while now. Some of you have fished them and one has even caught the
biggest bass of their lives on it. ( Sorry Jerry couldn't resist). Well
what I would like from the group is a few testers for the stickbaits
I'm making now. While I can surely test my own here on my lakes, I
would like to see what others think of color selection and if and how
they produce in different areas and on different lakes. Honest
criticism, too heavy, too soft, darker, lighter, prototype colors, that
kind of feedback will help me to make some good quality baits. If you
want send me an e-mail with your shipping address and just answer a few
questions.


1. How often do you fish for bass?
2.What is your confidence color in soft stickbaits? in Flukes?
3. How often do you use soft plastics when fishing for bass?
4. Do you have the ability to image fish caught and attach image to an
e-mail?.
5. Do you compete in bass fishing competitions, if so how often?


Now I'm sure in someones book this is spam, so to that person I
apologize. I already have Steve H ande Jerry B down, so drop me an
e-mail and I'll select a few more to add to the list. there is
absolutely no cost involved


Randy