Ben wrote:


Anyone care to challenge my memories?

I'll be 51 this month, and I still remember the first fish I ever
caught, it was a blue gill, caught on a cane poll, and a grass hopper, I
caught in the grass beside the pond, out of my great aunts farm pond, I
was three, the fish was 3 inches long.

This started my love for fishing, when I was 4, after a rain , I would
grab my little cane poll and try to fish in mud puddles, to the laughter
of all who came by,, but it was fun to me, pretending to catch fish at
every opportunity.

Since then I have caught I would bet over ten thousand blue gills and
shell crackers,, I still sometimes take fishing trips, with the only
fish targeted are blue gills, all the bass gear stays home so I won't
even be tempted to use it. I grew up in the south, where bream are
literally everywhere, any place that holds water all year, and there are
bream there

I have caught these fighting little beast on everything imaginable, from
bread balls, to raw bacon, any insect I could find, that I could get on
a hook, including even wasp larvae from those paper nest they build. Of
course crickets are the best bait for them, followed by worms, but one
that nobody thinks about that is awesome, is cut up pieces of shrimp,
you can get 20 baits out of a single shrimp, it makes it one of the
cheapest baits that will stay on the hook long enough to hook the fish.

My largest bream caught was a 3 Lb 9 OZ shell cracker, caught on a huge
glob of worms, when I was taking a lunch break,, Instead of casting to
the beds where I had been landing fish after fish,, I threw out on the
other side of the boat into deep water,, wanting to be undisturbed while
I ate my lunch,, but perhaps a catfish might get on it, two bites out of
my sandwich, and the rod nearly went over the side, man what a fight on
that ultra light rig and four pound test line. It was a female full of
eggs waiting her turn to visit a male on the beds. I caught 4 more over
a pound that day in that deeper water off the beds.

One of the problems in bream fishing is the fish swallowing the hook,, I
have fixed that problem with my new hook design, it will be on the
market real soon, it totally eliminates gut hooked fish, in any species

--
Rodney Long,
Inventor of the Long Shot "WIGGLE" rig, SpecTastic Thread
Boomerang Fishing Pro. ,Stand Out Hooks ,Stand Out Lures,
Mojo's Rock Hopper & Rig Saver weights, Decoy Activator
and the EZKnot http://www.ezknot.com