As I've maintained before: variety is the spice of fishing and today was no exception, the satisfaction of catching fish on no-lure-bought.
Speaking of fused lures, a week ago it occurred to me to make use of small Slugo collecting dust for over a decade and since the French Fry worm segment has proven amazing with its ribbed all-flat sides, I melted the two together:


It must be something about the flat-sided body and the triangular shape of the Slugo stick. Lure variety is one thing/ variety of fish species another and today was no exception: crappie, perch, sunfish, bass and a 2.5 # catfish (what a bitch using a light action rod and 8# test braid!). Total: over 45 fish in water 2'-8'. I don't catch monster bass or pike, but I'll settle for 12" yellow perch. 9" sunfish and 14" crappie any day!


Speaking of thin tails, I'm glad I bought the Mojo Grub mold and a few others like it a few years ago.



Thin-tail grub (from mold)




same grub minutes later from the above small lure (what a fight !):



This 4" full round slug did good too (as did the wire weed/stump guard):


French Fry segment body/ Crappie Magnet tail:


All of these were caught Aug. 17.