Joe, under no. 14 (doodle) you mention a baby bottle nipple and a treble
hook. As all my granddaughters are now in sippy cups we have a number of
bottles sitting in the back of the cabinet. How is the nipple rigged? I"d
like to play mind games with my fellow bass clubbers.

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"Joe Haubenreich" wrote in
message . ..
John, I'm up to fourteen retrieves now
(http://secretweaponlures.com/retrieves.htm), but I don't use all of them
in really cold water. For that, I sometimes drag a short-arm spinnerbait
along the bottom like a jig, or I move it just fast enough for a big
Colorado blade to revolve around the blade shaft.

A man I met on the bank of Hickahala Creek gave me a 1/2-ounce,
red-headed, chartreuse & white short-arm spinnerbait and told me to toss
it out past a cypress tree. As he coached me, I let it settle to the
bottom and then pulled it through the knees, too slowly for the blade to
swivel, until a three-pound bass slurped it up. No strike... just squishy
weight on the line. A few weeks later the events I recounted in
http://secretweaponlures.com/swe03.htm occurred. That story was written
about a frigid winter day -- January, I think.

Joe
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"John B" wrote in message
...

My pattern for winter bass fishing:

Don't get more than 10 minutes from the warmth of the cabin!

First session...take my spinner bait rod and try all of Joe's spinner
bait tips. About twenty minutes to see if that is producing.

Second session (after a hot cup of coffee)...take my worm rod, cover the
same water using all my worm tricks.

Third session (after I put on another layer of clothes)....take the rod
that produced something from the first two sessions...skip third session
if the first two sessions didn't produce anything!

I accept the fact that winter fishing isn't like spring fishing.

My winter bass fishing motto...."If at first you don't succeed, try one
more time, if that don't work, quit.....no use making a damn fool of
yourself!".

John