Re: What is your most Fun fishing lure?

After this summer on Kelarnee in Northern Wisconsin, it has to be the Zara
Spook

Chris Rennert
"Bob Rickard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> 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.
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> I also love fishing soft plastics, because they usually provide me with
the
> most fish wherever I go.
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> 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.
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> 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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