Thread: Summertime

You may could score extra points if you dresses as a cabana boy and served her cocktails as she soaked in her hot tub. Having been gone from the Coastal heat since 07 I have quite happily acclimated to the weather here in Tennessee. I very much miss the fresh seafood, but absolutely do not miss the hoards of bitting insects. Nothing like being bitten through a pair of jeans to inform you just where you are at in the pecking order of things. Not much better in this world than coming home to an excited to see you pup after a long day of work.

Separation anxiety in dogs can be cured by crate training them in the house. Dogs like small spaces that they can curl up in and feel secure. Put a bed or pad inside, with a toy or two and they will like their new cave.

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Originally Posted by slowhand

Separation anxiety in dogs can be cured by crate training them in the house. Dogs like small spaces that they can curl up in and feel secure. Put a bed or pad inside, with a toy or two and they will like their new cave.

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Agreed. Worked like a charm with my Labrador years ago.

I have two rescues and the first one is just as easy for the 14 years we’ve had her as anyone could hope for. A great dog all the way around. Now the recent one, found four years ago, she has her issues. Someone in her past had her crate trained as all we have to do is walk to it and call her and she hops in and gets comfy, so we do just that. Wouldn’t take millions for either of them. And about the bugs, with the state bird being the palmetto bug, what did you expect? Come about November is when we become the envy of most northern folks just for the temps. The area is changing into part of the Orlando sprawl and we don’t like it, but only so many options work for us. I fish twelve months a year and a lot of that is in a t shirt. That’s why we pay the big bucks and deal with the bugs.

Originally Posted by skeetbum

I have two rescues and the first one is just as easy for the 14 years we’ve had her as anyone could hope for. A great dog all the way around. Now the recent one, found four years ago, she has her issues. Someone in her past had her crate trained as all we have to do is walk to it and call her and she hops in and gets comfy, so we do just that. Wouldn’t take millions for either of them. And about the bugs, with the state bird being the palmetto bug, what did you expect? Come about November is when we become the envy of most northern folks just for the temps. The area is changing into part of the Orlando sprawl and we don’t like it, but only so many options work for us. I fish twelve months a year and a lot of that is in a t shirt. That’s why we pay the big bucks and deal with the bugs.

I fish 12 months a year also. I wear a t shirt also. But it is under some warm and waterproof outer layer

My father, resting his tired bones, used to say that ‘them up North…. stay up North …..cause they don’t know no better.’ He was right. We get four months of hot, and eight months of can’t ask for any better weather. We have swamps, creatures, fish, birds, furry things that creep on the ground. My area especially. Old Florida.

Micanopy is the Seminole Indian word for “Big Chief”, which he was and was so in my little area. Huge Grand Daddy Live Oaks are everywhere. Branches like arms extended wide and far, draped in Spanish Moss and tickled by squirrel. Shade exists as do screen porches. I work during the heat of the day, inside. I can leave the metropolis and within five minutes be so rural the zip codes are EIEIO.

I liked the mountains and I liked snow but really…..I’ll take this place.

Watched the video Mr. Baker posted on the site. Simplest Way To Longline. He seems to really enjoy taking us along for the trip. Any old ways he was using a bait that I had not seen before. Fin Spin Pro Series.

It is a Fin Spin design but with some flash tied on it and then a plastic bait slid on. He seemed to like them so I thought I would try my hand at fabricating my own.




and here is the Fin Spin Pro Series……what mine is supposed to look like.





I would say it needs some different materials. LOL


I was doing something similar inserting rubber legs thru the sides of plastic baits.










Maybe I need to revisit things. Many of the designs that work for slip bobber and casting and such might not be the best choice for trolling operations.

Still waiting on my mold from FatBoys Fishing- Big Eye Minnow. I always get antsy when I order something and it takes more than 2 days to get to me. Of course I will be pouring up a bunch and filing and painting and adding eyeballs. I seriously doubt that the new design will seriously increase my catches, but that is OK. I wanted a cleaner jig coming out of the mold and I like eyes, so…… it makes sense to get it. The Do-It molds leave a lot of slop.

I am hoping that the head will wobble some as it gets dragged through the murky depths. Who knows if it will ? I like to study my baits as they get trolled along behind the boat. Watch what they do. Not all of them behave as you imagine them to. Or rather as I imagine them to. That is how I learned about attitude of under spins when the head is too small and the blade too big. They assume a nose down attitude and you lose any semblance to a live minnow. Minnows will go nose down but not while swimming in a horizontal fashion. Only when diving.

I have looked at Chatter baits and wondered if there is something there for me to discover. Maybe a jig that swims upwards them downwards as it goes. Porpoising sort of. Crappie might see it and think it is trying to escape and give a reaction bite. Which is what I think they do with our brightly colored lures. They see it and figure to grab it and if it isn’t any good they can always spit it back out. We see this behavior in aquarium fish. They suck up the colorful pebbles on the bottom and spit them back out. Tasting them I imagine. Maybe the texture is all wrong. Maybe they are just bored to tears.

My local fish eat a lot of grass shrimp and bugs and such. Lake Fly Larvae make up a huge amount of their normal diet. We has shoals of shad cruising along filtering the algae, too. Then there are the Bull Headed Minnows, and the game fish fry. So they eat a lot of different shaped creatures. Maybe it is a complete waste of time to try to mimic anything. Just make something totally crazy and swim it by them.

Great looking baits