JerryL

My fishing greatly improved when I learned the REAL definition of '' structure '' -- not perry's. It's more than a hassle. It doesn't work because it's a scam. So, how do YOU locate schools of fish ? Fishing tournaments were around when perry was young so he had ample chance to prove how good he was. Did he ? Not that I can find.

It's about time someone took a real stand against the scam, the cult of '' spoonplugging ''. I was a victim of it for 6 yrs.-- a complete waste of my fishing... but at least I had the ability to get out. When did you see buck catch a lot of fish ? Where did you see him make '' lunker catches '' from the casting position like he claimed he could -- video not fish pictures ? Perry was wrong on practically everything, and was not original in any way as to the very few things ( if any ) he was right on.

I studied perry extensively and never read or heard him say some fish seek security of shallow cover while most go deep to escape the effects of a front -- if that's what you're saying. In his '' green book '', ''spoonplugging - your guide to lunker catches '' he said fronts drive them deep. The main thing perry was wrong on was that fish make these drastic depth changes in a matter of minutes in their '' migrations '' to and fro shallow to deep. Modern tracking methods show they stay very much along a stratified plane in all their movements... and he said when they move from their '' sanctuaries '', they first come to their '' contact point '' on '' structure '' then proceed along deep '' breaks and breaklines '' towards the shallows eventually to a '' scatter point '' where, if conditions allow, they spread out somewhat. These movements only last for 10 to 15 minutes at a time and the'' spoonplugger ''has to be waiting for them in a casting position to cast bottom-bumping lures to rake them in by '' keeping them in a frenzy '' before they scoot back down. Perry nor any other spoonplugger, to my knowledge, ever demonstrated such claims with actual video proof ( they just show fish pictures )... and that's the main reason I completely regard perry and his '' instructors '' nothing more than hustlers out to sell fishing equipment and tons of '' teaching material ''.

I was a religious '' spoonplugger '' from 1974 - 80 It's nothing more than a scam with a very small cult following, designed to sell spoonplugs and tons of '' instructional '' material. Its theories have been disproved by modern tracking technology and modern fishing techniques, primarily by the '' flipping '' method that proves fish do not go deep after cold fronts as buck perry claimed -- to just cite one example. I won't say any more, serious anglers can and will disprove the rest of perry's bogus claims.

I've been there, the whole '' spoonplugging '' experience, hook, line and sinker. I was a complete devotee to buck perry's '' teachings '' ( 1974 --80 ) until I woke up to the scam it is. Buck nor any other spoonplugger ever proved with irrefutable evidence ( videos, not pictures ) that fish spend 95 % of their time in deep water '' sanctuaries '' ( 35 ft. or so ) and for 10 to 15 minutes or so move up to '' contact points '', along deep water '' structure '' ( '' breaks and breaklines '' ) to '' scatterpoints '' and then into the shallows. Modern technology has verified that bass, and all other game fish, do not make drastic depth changes ( it would kill them ) and are not bottom fish, for the very most part, feed up rather than down ( look at the position of their eyes ( top of their head )... in fact, perry was wrong on everything -- even his definiton of '' structure '' was wrong. Structure is anything different from the surrounding area and is not always deep -- a tilted stump in a bunch of upright stumps in 1 ft. of water is structure. Gamefish will gravitate to that stump because it is DIFFERENT from the others. Cold fronts do NOT drive them deep ( proven by the ' flipping '' technique ) that catches big fish holding tight to cover after frontal passages. '' Speed and depth control '' ? Old timers figured out before perry that the speed and depth of your lures have to be controlled according to the moods of the fish... and perry left out the third part of that equation, '' strike zone '', how far they will move to take a lure. Just remember, perry claimed spoonpluggers could make '' lunker catches '' from the casting position after all the work was done ( trolling, mapping and interpretation, evaluation of current weather and water conditions, etc. ) but he nor any other spoonplugger ever demonstrated proving such extraordinary claims.