Grass Fishing!

[Catt]

Originally we used Uncle Josh's #11 Frog as a trailer in either green or yellow.

 

On the Snagless Sally I preferred the Swimming Chunk in white. 

 

[Captain Phil]

Nothing works all the time except dynamite.   There are many reasons why the Johnson spoon gained popularity.   It was one of the first truly weedless lures. Back when I was fishing the Everglades and Lake Okeechobee, there were good fisherman that never used anything else. Most of them used a pork rind trailer.  Everglades fisherman used a black spoon, sometimes with a black worm trailer.  It's also a relatively heavy lure, so you could cast it farther with the reels we had back then.   This lure works best in short grass.  It's hard to fish in tall reeds.  

[Catt]

The Johnson Silver Minnow generated a tremendous amount of strikes but had a less than stellar hookup ratio.

 

We carried em in silver, gold, & black; the most popular size was 1/2 oz but 1/4 oz had its place. We used them as a surface lure much like y'all do frogs.

 

Spoons taught us about follow up baits, when a bass blew up on a spoon & missed, we immediately dropped that rod on the deck & chunked a Texas Rig to the exact spot.