Rediscovering old baits, Mann´s Augertail

[Raul]

Well, the wife :, got married to an "organization" advocate that likes to see her house "organized" and imaculate clean, nothing bad about it, I just let her do her things as she likes them as long as she don 't interfere with my stuff, me being a tackle junky finds it hard to keep up with the bait inventory packed in boxes some of them who haven 't been opened in several years, as new stuff gets in old stuff gets forgotten.

So last Saturday SHE WHO MUST BE OBEYED AT ALL COST came from the service/laundry/dog/warehouse room gave me THE LOOK ( ya 'll know what look : ) and asked me what I had in an old carboard box : ---->

- What box ? I asked :-?

Took me to the service/laundry/dog/warehouse room and pointing at it

- THAT BOX RIGHT THERE ! >

- ( Uh oh, should have kept my mouth shut :-/ ) I have no idea what 's inside.

- There 's no label indicating the contents so I must assume it is yours ( her crap in her boxes has labels indicating the contents ) and I WANT you to check what 's inside because I need the room to store other things ( should have seen that one coming, why is it that they always catch you with your guard low and your pants down ? :-[ )

- Ok, let me see what 's inside

So I opened the box and ....... most definately it was mine , inside I found several packs of brand new Mann 's 6" Augertail worms in colors they don 't make anymore, several packs of Mann 's Mannipulator worms, Culprit Jerkworms, Mann 's Lizards, Mann 's craws, more Culprit ribbontail worms and stuff like that ( I remember that I had those but since we have moved twice they got "lost" : )

Not bad ! , a good couple hundred dollars in baits I 've forgotten about for years ;D, it really looked like if you were looking at an early 90 's BPS catalog when they carried lots of Mann 's and Culprit products.

- I WANT you to organize your fishing stuff ! you 've got boxes and packs of all that stuff all over the house > ( yeah, right :, "all over" ---> a pack of worms on the dinning room table )

- What you suggest ?

- Remember last week when we were at Walmart that I showed you those clear storage boxes ? ( Should have seen that one coming too : ), those are a neat way to have all your excess stuff stored and "organized" where you can quickly identify the contents, specially "those things" ( "those things" = fishing tackle ), go and get some ! ( now she didn 't catch me with the guard down, I saw that one coming )

So I went and purchased several of those 6 quart Sterilite boxes and proceeded to "organize" my stuff during the afternoon, haven 't finished yet but at least I took away the "corpse delicti" out of her eyesight.

Which made me think, well, they are brand new, fresh as the day I bought them so why not fish with some of those ? I grabbed a few of those Augertails and went fishing Sunday morning. Man I have really forgotten how effective those things were when I fished with them before they got "lost", really kool those 6" Augertails on a shakey head, at the slightest twitch of the rod the tail wiggles like crazy. Don 't know if it was the way the worm worked but one thing is for shure I caught more fish with them when other baits didn 't work as well.

[Uncle Leo]

This is why I hide in the basement with my tackle. That look sends shivers up my spine. I feel for you.

[avid]

One of the benefits of being disorganized is the joy of discovery.  I find cool stuff that I totally forgot I owned.  

I can't wait to go senile  

[Raul]

One of the benefits of being disorganized is the joy of discovery. I find cool stuff that I totally forgot I owned.

I can't wait to go senile

Yeah, being "organized" isn 't fun at all.

[Sam]

I get organized during the winter months.

Right now everything is a disaster, which can be frustrating when you know you have a specific item but can't find it.

I now use a seven (7) draw pine chest and am looking for another smalle one to compliment it.  I can then put most of my baits out of site.

But like Avid said, it is fun being senile and trying to find something that I know I have somwhere.  ;D

[Raul]

I get organized during the winter months.

It comes with the territory, we us guyz here down south don 't got much time to "organize" nuthin ', we 's too busy feeshin.  

[Joshawa]

Thats sweet. I used to use Mann's grape Jellyworms all the time.

[catchnm]

I've got about 500 of the Auertail worms in all kinds of colors that I accumulated back in the late 80's. Caught a BUNCH of fish on them and they were the worms I learned to texas rig with. Used a 2/0 Tru_Turn hook back then and a 1/16 - 1/4 oz. bullet weight unpegged. Man those were the days! I still carry a few in a few colors with me today. Caught my first drop-shot fish on a purple one this year.

[Crowcommander]

Been there,done that  and I've got the T-shirt on the wifey and storage problems. I know just how you feel on finding some good worms that you've cached away. I found some old Riverside 8" black neon worms which have a strange resemblance to the new Strike King Anaconda worm soon to be out.If the Bait Monkey would leave me alone and the Sporting good stores (mainly Gander Mountain) would quit discounting baits,I wouldn't have this storage problem! Crowcommander