[QUOTE=Micanopy;4170815]I remember when I was surf fishing and people would see me fishing six rods, all spiked up and down the beach. Man that was funny. You would see a rod bend over and I was off running to it, and look- there goes another. Certainly much easier to get to the rods in the boat. LOL




I decided to make up some more Herring Head jigs- minus the stupid little wire under spin deal that does not work because the Do-It molds design is plain dumb. I made some with no wires and some with my new wire design, which looks very nice. The head is 1/4 ounce and skinny, so a different profile than the others.

I plan to paint them much the same as last batch, white then GLOW chartreuse yellow. This is a color that goes well with all my plastic baits, as most all of them have it anyways. These might get eyes, depends on how I feel about that. I am clipping away the collar on these as it has the lead barb thingie which I don’t care for. Rips the baits. I have been having good luck with my baits staying in place fish after fish by wrapping the hook shank with thread and gluing, but every so often I catch one that will rip the bait a little. I take them off and then mend them with glue at home. I want to learn how to mend them by melding them back together. They make a liquid called Mend It or something like that, but people will also heat up metallic objects and melt the two together. There is a thread somewhere here that the guy takes two lures, purposefully cuts them, and then fuses them together to create new colors and shapes. Although with as many baits as I have it is probably a waste of time.

An old friend came to visit us yesterday and is spending the night so my plans to put boat in water first thing this morning have been scratched. Them girls watched a lot of TV. I just don’t get it. Why you would want to visit and then sit and watch TV together. Seems silly to me but they were mesmerized and I would bring snacks and drinks and such. Made them cheese burgers and mac and cheese for dinner. They had gone to the pizza dump for lunch. This morning I am going to make bacon and eggs and pancakes for breakfast. Mmmmm…..pancakes. She is a food oriented individual and always has snacks and such with her no matter where she goes. Had a hard life growing up as her mom was divorced and living the wild and crazy gay life style. So the family lived in rented old trailers with roaches and such and not much in the way of regular meals. Her kid sister is mentally challenged and so she was the one that took care of her while mom chased girls. Catching only the meanest of them, too.

She is 29 years old now and works in a body factory embalming people. The company she works for is a huge corporation that buys funeral homes and turns them into cash generating machines. They combine forces when they have multiple funeral homes in a town, and have done just that in the nearby city. She described seeing the covid victims lined up inside industrial sized coolers. She has been embalming many of them as well. Tough tough tough baby and apparently she is pretty good at it, too. That is a job best done by rough men and really rough gals, and she isn’t rough but is fairly strong. To meet her you would never guess.

Anyways, the virus is running wild around here and many of the people who did not get sick previously, or refused the vaccine, are catching the Delta variant and dying from it. The vaccine does not prevent you from catching it. It prevents you from dying from it. Sure some still do, but the vast majority of deaths seem to be those who thought the vaccine was the mark of the beast or something. It is amazing to know that so many have died so quickly, simply because they refused a free vaccine. Young folks to the old and decrepid, corpulent and portly down to the skinny and underfed, all manner of folks. Far far worse than what went on last year.

If you go to an event, try to stay away from folks. People who are sick are wondering the halls pretending that they are cured and unable to spread it. I have talked to several people who know several people that they cannot believe are out and about. One went to the grocery store and ran errands like dry cleaning and such during the time they were running a fever and coughing. Infecting others along the way no doubt. So they are out there and they do not mind it a bit if they get you sick. If people would just stop and consider that it is the same thing as running people over with your car.

Labor Day Weekend is always a big deal for the families. Take the kids for one last hoorah somewhere, like the lake or the beach. The bride wants…..wait for it….wait….to take the boat out on Monday, late morning early afternoon, busiest lake in the area. Well of course she does. That is what normal people are supposed to do. I want to go to a different lake and be gone before the onslaught approacheth from Whoville. I already have boat ramp issues when there is no holiday mixture of drunks and idiots too stupid to simply get out of other people’s way. Hopefully I will emerge victorious and we will be set on the water to see that old fireball arise and shine. Love the early mornings during the Summer. Even the birds seems happiest at that time of day. Fish are biting, gators bobbing about, it is cool and pleasant and no one around to annoy me. “Get off my Lake !”, just doesn’t deter people like it

Take her night fishing. Throw some jugs out for catfish. Put a spotlight in her hands and let the fun begin. Most all of them are home sunburned by time it is dark.