[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsygKdiPAac] The Grass Minnow has proven itself to me in the grass. Shallow grass lakes of the South East. As I spend more time in the Arkansas Ozarks, I am broadening my application of the Grass Minnow. The warm and cold water creeks and rivers that feed the…
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwLQGri_yvY] Wacky Rigging. One of my favorite things to do in a small bait, finesse, tough bite, you just need to catch 5 fish and haven’t had a bite in a while style of fishing is wacky rigging. Wacky rigging is the canary in the coal mine to me at…
"Simplification is the Ultimate Sophistication" (Da Vinci) After reading the Steve Jobs Biography, I realized something basic about simplification in bigbait fishing. Softbaits get the most bites (and tend to catch the biggest fish, ala 8" Huddleston). So when in Rome, throw a softbait! Okeechobee validated what I already…
The House of the Rising Son: Okeechobee. Line thru, ball knobber boot tails, braided line and a trap hook rigging that brought me back to my days on San Vicente in the early 2000s. The 3:16 Rising Son, excellence is buoyancy and a thing I call, Rate of Stall—which…
Boot&Vortex Tails, weedless and not, braided line and 5 good bites a day, is that too much to ask for? This is my 4th year on Okeechobee. The lake is fishing WAY differently than in years past. The lake is choked out. The vegetation so thick in most areas,…
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfBLj-5r8kE] Mickey sent me a couple prototypes of his new Mission Fish, the v2.0 Mission Fish. This is just a prototype, and I haven’t had near the time or experience with the bait to come up with any final conclusions. Mickey let me know…