Spoon Pluggin'

I have enjoyed his approach for years the set of nine you have those are
the ones that are set up like a course i believe
they were my first intro to him and his teachings
they changed the way i fish and have definatly made me a better fisherman
enjoy em
Wayne
"Bob La Londe" wrote in message
...
I just bought a set of old Buck Perry books. I had avoided his stuff in
the
past, because of the word "spoonpluggin." It sounded like a limited style
or type of fishing to me. After reading the intro and the first half of
book one (of nine) I see he has an approach to fishing that is much more
in
line with what I have tried to do.

That is, "figure out where the fish are now."

My first succesful experience with this was on Lynx Lake over 25 years
ago.
It rained, and everybody was claiming that the fishing was crummy after
the
rain because all kinds of food washed into the lake. The predominant and
most succesful method of taking those stocker trout was to cast out as far
as you could with whatever bait and drop it to the bottom. Seemed more
like
catfishing to me.

Anyway, it worked. It was a deep mountain lake, and on a hot day I can
see
where the fish would hang out near the bottom. I wasn't satisfied though.
After the rain I put on a bobber and tossed my line out to the far side of
the shore weedline. I had a couple hooks tied on using marshmallows for
bait. My thought was that if the fish weren't on the bottom feeding due
to
all the fresh food washed into the lake, then they must be up shallower
where the food was.

People up and down the bank were pretty tolerant (and quietly amused) at
the
kid who was tossing out a bobber, but they took notice when I caught my
first fish, and by the time I had my limit everybody in the area was
fishing
shallower with their bait suspended under a bobber.

Its not about what worked yesterday or where the fish "usually" are. Its
about where they are now and what you can do to get to them.

I think I am really going to enjoy this series of books.

Bob La Londe
www.YumaBassMan.com