TR: Some days everything falls into place

Mu Young Lee wrote:

Have you considered throwing a 3" pumpkin or watermelon or crawdad Berkley
power worm on your fly rod?

Unethical. :-) Seriously, I was thinking that very thing when I
was on the water. But there was one advantage to the spinning rig, and
that was that the weight of the jig was helpful in getting it down fast.
I had a very small window to aim for; I had to get my cast right at
the base of the rock (almost bouncing it off) or it would get swept away
before it got deep enough to give the fish a good look.

One other thing I noticed when I was watching the action of the jig
was that it actually had a bit of a baitfish wiggle to it when it was
retrieved a bit faster, and I think the jighead was partially
responsible for that. (It gave it a more pronounced side-to-side
action.) I even played around with casting it across or across and down
and letting it swing just like I would a streamer. (In fact, that
technique got me one of the Guadalupe bass.)

Thanks for the tip on using crazy glue to hold it to the hook.
Seems like I could "tie" a bunch of these before heading out.


Chuck Vance