Thread: Nice catch on Gnats

Does anyone know exactly when and where gnats got started?Never heard em called gnats until i joined CDC in 2005,i met Randall Bloodworth from Grenada he kept mentioning gnats well we finally met at spring camp and he had some, well i had some and i had been useing and tying for the last 20yrs but i called mine streamers.We became good friends and would exchange ideas.Randall passed last yr. But i am glad to see Donald take them to the next level Good going.

Fished was something very similar in the green carp days 30 years ago, used he as a trailer on a 1 foot leader behind a big bait when fishing schooling fish in the summer.

Donnie,

Do you still have your facebook page? I want to send you a big fish picture of a 3lb+ that my wife caught two weeks ago on one of your gnats.

CrappieLogic all the way!

Originally Posted by jimfish

Does anyone know exactly when and where gnats got started?Never heard em called gnats until i joined CDC in 2005,i met Randall Bloodworth from Grenada he kept mentioning gnats well we finally met at spring camp and he had some, well i had some and i had been useing and tying for the last 20yrs but i called mine streamers.We became good friends and would exchange ideas.Randall passed last yr. But i am glad to see Donald take them to the next level Good going.

well my wife named them gnat's cause they look like a gnat she said. the only thing I ever done different is the name and tying them on a jighook with a 90 on it. thats it, the tippets,teasers and streamers have been around all my life

Anyone that has experience tying jigs can tye a equally efficient gnat. Donnie is a great guy, and really takes good care of you guys. He's doing a great job of trying to support a family. If I didn't tye my own I would deffintiely be buying from him.

I would like to add this as well. confidence in your lures and presentation is 98% of crappie fishing. Capps and Coleman use straight abardeen gold minner hooks and they have won the crappie masters 7 times so i would imagine they have a lot of confidence in there set up and im sure they have never used a gnat.
also I would like to add I googled the word gnat the day I tied the first one and a teaser,streamer,or tippet never popped up so I decided to call my little hand tied sickle hook a gnat ...thats it ..big woop