your dad was 80 when you were 4?

crownliner

"Bob Rickard" wrote in message
om...
Everybody who knows me at all knows that I am an absolute lover of
spinnerbaits. Spinnerbaits are fun and easy to fish, I seldom get hung
with
them, and I regularly catch good numbers of my biggest bass with them.

I also love fishing soft plastics, because they usually provide me with
the
most fish wherever I go.

But for pure, unadulterated fun, when conditions are right (morning or
evening, flat water) and the fish are cooperating, nothing produces more
shouts and grins from me than using light spinning tackle to twitch a #7
silver/black Rapala floating minnow next to a weedline, stump, stickup, or
other type of cover. A strike on almost every cast is not unusual, and you
are likely to catch many different species of fish if they are available.

My Dad first took me fishing when I was 4. We continued to fish together
until our last trip, a float on the beautiful Gasconade river in SW
Missouri. The water was perfect and the fish acted like they were starved.
Dad tied on that Rapala and landed & released a 2 lb. smallie on his first
cast, even before getting in the boat. We had to stop fishing a few times
to
give his 80 yr. old arms a rest after hooking and fighting so many mean
and
hungry Gasconade residents on that floater, including a few 4 lb. plus
bass
and a 9 lb. channel cat, among other things. That night he giggled and
grinned all the way back to St. Louis, and I swear that when they buried
him
2 years later, the smile was still on his face. Not meaning to be morbid,
I
made sure that he had all of his favorite lures with him (especially those
Rapala floaters) when he went into the ground.

#7 Rapala floating minnows; make sure you have a few!

--
Bob Rickard
www.secretweaponlures.com
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