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Fellow here uses a pearl-ish clear, dark fleck curly tail with good success. We always had the best success with just a jig and a night crawler. That’s #1 than the curly grubs. I haven’t been fishing for so dang long don’t know if I remember how.

Very tasty, just like perch, lighter flavor than bass. The slot sizes are the best to me. The bigger one like 23-25 aren’t as good, not bad just not as good.

I’ll add to your findings that some species seem to have a gang mentality while others are more like loners and like humans that seems to change with age. Kinda like teenagers and old men. Teens, “we’re gonna take on the world”. Old men, “get off my lawn”. One fall my wife and I once ran across...

Pretty little, with the distortion of the water they looked about the size of your palm. I don’t think they could have gotten hooked very easily and that’s why I chose the size I did and that’s all I had with me at the time. I didn’t really want to catch any, just checking the response.

Great write up. We have a fellow here that has a pond that has bass, crappy and a few sunfish. He lets kids and retired people fish there and that’s where I test lures because of the dock and clear water. What’s funny is he would feed the crappy by hand so anytime you walked to the edge of the...

Wow those are some mighty fine fish and nice sized smallies. They should have put up a good fight.

I don’t tie very much lately but would like to purchase a small piece from you to try.

Sorry to hear about your dad.

I ran across that with some of those original Matzu’s. Some would bend like butter and others would snap like glass. I don’t know how those companies temper hooks but it appears that with some it’s not an even process.

Very nice and a nice smallie

Tin will actually fill cavities better. It’s usually added to lead to improve pour ability and it has a slight hardening effect. Pretty spendy to fill a #20 pot with tin. Linotype has high tin as well as lead and antimony. Is lighter than straight lead but much harder. If you drop your jugs out...

Glad to see many of the same tribe still here. I don’t get here as much as I’d like to either. My boats getting cobwebs on it from sitting so long. Just seems like something is always getting in the way.

Thoughts and prayers go out to his family. He will be missed around here.

Kinda the same thing JJ1 said. I also had some white that was a pain. It seemed thicker and wouldn’t flow like the other colors of the same brand. I also use a heat gun with no problems, only takes about 3-5 seconds to heat up enough. If you preheat too hot it’ll melt and apply too much on the...

My condolences, thoughts and prayers go out to you and his family. He’ll be missed around here.