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[GreenPig]

Fished this morning from 7a - 1:30p. Threw big swimbaits and Jerkbaits. Caught one Spot on a MB 110 +1. Air 35  Water 58

[TnRiver46]

7 minutes ago, GreenPig said:

Fished this morning from 7a - 1:30p. Threw big swimbaits and Jerkbaits. Caught one Spot on a MB 110 +1. Air 35  Water 58

One?? What gives? 

[GreenPig]

51 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

One?? What gives? 

Severe lack of skill at locating fish. They've been zigging while I'm zagging here lately. 

[TnRiver46]

12 minutes ago, GreenPig said:

Severe lack of skill at locating fish. They've been zigging while I'm zagging here lately. 

That don’t sound like you! 
 
you could always just catch a 9 lber in your beaver swamp 

[AlabamaSpothunter]

1 hour ago, TnRiver46 said:

One?? What gives? 

1 Spot = 5 LGM/SMB ?

[GreenPig]

31 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

That don’t sound like you! 
 
you could always just catch a 9 lber in your beaver swamp 

The lure of the beaver pond is getting hard to resist. But it's kinda like cheating. I'm not above it though. 

[Team9nine]

Possibly the best trip of the whole year today!! ...but not for any of the obvious reasons. A slight warm front pushed us over the 50 degree mark, but brought steady 20-25 mph winds with gusts to 35+ along with clouds and some scattered sprinkles. Fished a small lake that just a week or so ago was frozen over solid. Pulled out a special lure just for this trip that I had recently obtained, hoping to catch just a single bass on it. As it turns out, I did that on the very first cast! That alone made the trip a success, but I continued to throw it to see its potential, and ended up catching 12 bass total, missing a few others on it before retiring it back to its display case (before I ruined it or lost it). Managed 4 others on a suspending jerkbait before calling it a day. This nearly 4 pound 'chunk' was the last one I caught on it.

 

Any guesses on what the 'secret' lure is/was (see pic below)?

 

 

[A-Jay]

18 minutes ago, Team9nine said:

Possibly the best trip of the whole year today!! 

 

Any guesses on what the 'secret' lure is/was (see pic below)?

 

 

 

Congrats on the killer day ~

And I hate to admit it but I am totally stumped.

Looking forward the the 'reveal'.

A-Jay

[Eric 26]

26 minutes ago, A-Jay said:

Congrats on the killer day ~

And I hate to admit it but I am totally stumped.

Looking forward the the 'reveal'.

A-Jay

What he said x 2?

[Swamp Girl]

1 hour ago, Eric 26 said:

What he said x 2?

 

What Eric said x3.

 

Is it an in-line spinner with a mirror blade?

[Team9nine]

2 hours ago, A-Jay said:

Congrats on the killer day ~

And I hate to admit it but I am totally stumped.

Looking forward the the 'reveal'.

A-Jay

 

1 hour ago, Eric 26 said:

What he said x 2?

 

41 minutes ago, ol'crickety said:

 

What Eric said x3.

 

Is it an in-line spinner with a mirror blade?

 

In  1966, Buck's Baits (Buck Perry/Spoonplug) introduced the "SJ Series," sometimes referred to as the 'Action Jig.' It was a combination spoon/jig/fly meant to be used as a 'jump lure,' though it could also be trolled. If you can picture a modern day belly weighted hook like is commonly used for swimbaits, but centered and encapsulated into a jigging spoon body, with a Johnson Spoon like hook built in, and little wing tabs on the tail end. It could be had plain, or dressed with either bucktail, marabou or nylon. It came in 7 sizes from 1/8 oz. up to nearly 2 ounces. I'm not sure it was around for more than a half dozen years or so, as you won't find a single mention of the lure in his 1973 book, "Spoonplugging."

 

The bait was designed for fishing poor/cold/slow/windy conditions. It casts like a traditional jigging spoon, and sinks fairly quickly to the bottom. When you pop it off the bottom like a spoon, the belly weight feature immediately flips the lure right side up at the top of the hop (think of a "Weeble"), and then the little wing tabs glide it back to the bottom like the Space Shuttle, hook up every time. Dressing is just for added attraction, but plain ones could be tipped with the item of your choice (pork, plastic, live bait, etc.). It has a subtle shimmy/wiggle to it on the fall/glide, and looks mighty attractive in the water. Apparently the bass thought so, too.

 

A few guys have taken older ones and repainted and retied new material onto them. I was fishing with a "new" original one that featured a purple and white body with silver flake and a white marabou tail dressing. The pic below is of some "refurbished" ones a friend has, but shows the features of the bait pretty good. They are very hard to come by though, and I paid a pretty penny for a set of 5 "new" ones in original box with the original instruction booklet included.

 

Debated whether to fish with one or not, but really wanted to catch a bass on something that old and unique - and then just said a little prayer and hoped I didn't snag it up or break it off - lol. I cleaned it up, dried the hair back to original condition, and have put it back in it's original box, now sitting in my Spoonplugging display in the office. If I can ever get my hands on a couple more though, they're definitely going to be put to work again 

 

 

[A-Jay]

8 minutes ago, Team9nine said:

 

 

 

In  1966, Buck's Baits (Buck Perry/Spoonplug) introduced the "SJ Series," sometimes referred to as the 'Action Jig.' It was a combination spoon/jig/fly meant to be used as a 'jump lure,' though it could also be trolled. If you can picture a modern day belly weighted hook like is commonly used for swimbaits, but centered and encapsulated into a jigging spoon body, with a Johnson Spoon like hook built in, and little wing tabs on the tail end. It could be had plain, or dressed with either bucktail, marabou or nylon. It came in 7 sizes from 1/8 oz. up to nearly 2 ounces. I'm not sure it was around for more than a half dozen years or so, as you won't find a single mention of the lure in his 1973 book, "Spoonplugging."

 

The bait was designed for fishing poor/cold/slow/windy conditions. It casts like a traditional jigging spoon, and sinks fairly quickly to the bottom. When you pop it off the bottom like a spoon, the belly weight feature immediately flips the lure right side up at the top of the hop (think of a "Weeble"), and then the little wing tabs glide it back to the bottom, hook up every time. Dressing is just for added attraction, but plain ones could be tipped with the item of your choice (pork, plastic, live bait, etc.). It has a subtle shimmy/wiggle to it on the fall/glide, and looks mighty attractive in the water. Apparently the bass thought so, too.

 

A few guys have taken older ones and repainted and retied new material onto them. I was fishing with a "new" original one that featured a purple and white body with silver flake and a white marabou tail dressing. The pic below is of some "refurbished" ones a friend has, but shows the features of the bait pretty good. They are very hard to come by though, and I paid a pretty penny for a set of 5 "new" ones in original box with the original instruction booklet included.

 

Debated whether to fish with one or not, but really wanted to catch a bass on something that old and unique - and then just said a little prayer and hoped I didn't snag it up or break it off - lol. I cleaned it up, dried the hair back to original condition, and have put it back in it's original box, now sitting in my Spoonplugging display in the office. If I can ever get my hands on a couple more though, they're definitely going to be put to work again 

 

 

Cool Bait ~

Thanks so much for taking the time.

Means a lot.

A-Jay

[Eric 26]

You could have given me a hundred guesses and I would have never gotten it. Really cool of you to share and provide the history lesson behind the lure. 

[Swamp Girl]

Awesome. It sure puts the thunder in your quote: "All of the 'hot new' baits and colors are just playing on the gullibility of anglers that think there is some magic lure that will overcome their lack of fishing ability." -Wayne P

[T-Billy]

On 11/30/2022 at 2:48 PM, AlabamaSpothunter said:

This is the stuff of nightmares for me.  I would be eaten alive in those type of elements.   That type of cold makes you tough as nails.  

When it gets cold, I think about what Washington's men endured a Valley Forge and realize, we're ALL a bunch of pampered sissies these days.

[T-Billy]

8 hours ago, Team9nine said:

 

 

 

In  1966, Buck's Baits (Buck Perry/Spoonplug) introduced the "SJ Series," sometimes referred to as the 'Action Jig.' It was a combination spoon/jig/fly meant to be used as a 'jump lure,' though it could also be trolled. If you can picture a modern day belly weighted hook like is commonly used for swimbaits, but centered and encapsulated into a jigging spoon body, with a Johnson Spoon like hook built in, and little wing tabs on the tail end. It could be had plain, or dressed with either bucktail, marabou or nylon. It came in 7 sizes from 1/8 oz. up to nearly 2 ounces. I'm not sure it was around for more than a half dozen years or so, as you won't find a single mention of the lure in his 1973 book, "Spoonplugging."

 

The bait was designed for fishing poor/cold/slow/windy conditions. It casts like a traditional jigging spoon, and sinks fairly quickly to the bottom. When you pop it off the bottom like a spoon, the belly weight feature immediately flips the lure right side up at the top of the hop (think of a "Weeble"), and then the little wing tabs glide it back to the bottom like the Space Shuttle, hook up every time. Dressing is just for added attraction, but plain ones could be tipped with the item of your choice (pork, plastic, live bait, etc.). It has a subtle shimmy/wiggle to it on the fall/glide, and looks mighty attractive in the water. Apparently the bass thought so, too.

 

A few guys have taken older ones and repainted and retied new material onto them. I was fishing with a "new" original one that featured a purple and white body with silver flake and a white marabou tail dressing. The pic below is of some "refurbished" ones a friend has, but shows the features of the bait pretty good. They are very hard to come by though, and I paid a pretty penny for a set of 5 "new" ones in original box with the original instruction booklet included.

 

Debated whether to fish with one or not, but really wanted to catch a bass on something that old and unique - and then just said a little prayer and hoped I didn't snag it up or break it off - lol. I cleaned it up, dried the hair back to original condition, and have put it back in it's original box, now sitting in my Spoonplugging display in the office. If I can ever get my hands on a couple more though, they're definitely going to be put to work again 

 

 

Those things are sweet looking. Never seen or heard of them before. Thank you for the history lesson. Someone should make a modern version. Based on your description, I bet they'd be killer for snap jigging eyes. They seem to me as though they were ahead of their time.

[TnRiver46]

Got 2 smallies and a meanmouth. The bigs should have been biting but nobody told them 

[AlabamaSpothunter]

Nice, you can really see both sides of the DNA spectrum on that meanmouth.   His body looks far more Spot like, while his mouth region and markings look SMB.

 

Do you find they fight like a Spot?

[TnRiver46]

23 minutes ago, AlabamaSpothunter said:

Nice, you can really see both sides of the DNA spectrum on that meanmouth.   His body looks far more Spot like, while his mouth region and markings look SMB.

 

Do you find they fight like a Spot?

Eh, heck I can’t tell haha. They all fight hard when they are bigger, that one not so much 

[roadwarrior]

The meanmouth I have caught (3) were nothing special. The fight was about the same

as other fish of comparable size.

[Woody B]

I had an interesting day today.  I caught a 16 incher on my 2nd cast.  Within 15 minutes I had caught a dink and a 15 incher as well.    Rest of the day.........nothing.   It's like the bass went to sleep.  I could find them on sonar.  Most of them just flat out ignored....my entire tackle box.  Occasionally 1 would follow my lure but wouldn't offer to bite.   I thought I was going to have a super day after the first 3.   1st one at 8:07,  3rd and last one at 8:22.   I fished until 12.   We've had a bunch of rain, especially up river.  There was all kinds of BIG stuff floating.   I never got over 15 mph due to all the debris.   

Added: none of the bass touched my boat.  The debris stuck to the first one came from the water.   

 

 

[LrgmouthShad]

Caught my first bass ever today. 
 

I think he’s about 8lbs???

[GreenPig]

29 minutes ago, LrgmouthShad said:

Caught my first bass ever today. 
 

I think he’s about 8lbs???

Solid 8 for sure.

[Eric 26]

12 hours ago, GreenPig said:

Solid 8 for sure.

Regardless of weight that is a beautiful fish ??

[roadwarrior]

13 hours ago, LrgmouthShad said:

Caught my first bass ever today. 
 

I think he’s about 8lbs???

On my boat we call them "Just under five".

13 hours ago, LrgmouthShad said: