Dardanelle Pre-Fishing

[Dando]

I goof around at the house and get to the ramp at 9:00 Sunday morning.
Parking lot is full. Full of color
(that dabm pink camo sticks out like a sore thumb).

I park in the ditch and run part way up the chanell to fish a bluff wall drop that usually SMOKIN HOT this time of year.
Dropshot for about 20min and nothing.

I then run over to Panther with intentions of finding those fish that HAVE NOT been there in two years.
I decide I need more color in my jerrkbait, so, I grab a bright one. Here's KEY:
1) Not caught any fish in Panther in two years.
2) Never caught a fish on this particular jerkbaits.
3) I'm sticking with it and gonna CHANGE THAT TODAY!!

I catch snot grass, sticks, stobs, leaves, crap. EVERY CAST. Half of me is wondering why this jerkbait is running so deep. The other half is PLEASED that the planets have aligned, and, I've obtained the skill to make a pointer dive to 12ft.
4hrs later, I'm back at the bridges, and for some reason, I just drop that jerkbait over the side of the boat. It disapears FASTER than an anchor. Upon closer inspection. It's full of water.

It takes me about half a second to get pissed enough to go home right then. I been draggin a defective jerkbait with trebble hooks on it, across the bottom of the lake, for FOUR DABM HOURS!!

I decide. I'm an idiot and I go home.

[wildkat7]

that's awesome....

[turkdaddy]

What took you so long to figure that out ?

[Dando]

I knew I should check it, but, just boneheaded and didn't.
I thought I was draggin it over the edge of drops and it was getting stinky grass on it and messing up the bait.

Afterthought? It sure was casting a long ways.

[Skeeter Jay]

Sounds like one of my days on the lake!!

[wildkat7]

That's almost as bad as my boater on Degray this year during the BFL.

He had more than a limit of bites on a football head jig that he "missed". Towards the end of the day (he was letting me fish b/c I needed one more fish for check range), he went to put up his jig rod/reel and the jig didn't have a shank on the hook. Just enough of the hook was left that held the trailer in place. He didn't check it after multiple bites. No telling how long it was like that.

[Dando]

When I figured it out, I felt just like a Cotton-Headed Ninnymuggins!

[Dando]

I'm gonna give that lure to Mr. Short next Sat morning.

[turkdaddy]

All I have to say about all this is that if you buy a buzzbait or spinnerbait off the bulk rack at walmart or academy. They ship those with tubing covering the hook point and barb, make sure that you remove that before fishing it.

I was throwing one and kept getting bit, but could not hook up with them. After about the 5th or 6th miss I was looking at the bait and saw that tubing and, started calling myself a bunch of funny names.

[Dando]

Sam, you ever made any bonehead "lure" moves?

[wildkat7]

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by turkdaddy &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">All I have to say about all this is that if you buy a buzzbait or spinnerbait off the bulk rack at walmart or academy. They ship those with tubing covering the hook point and barb, make sure that you remove that before fishing it.

I was throwing one and kept getting bit, but could not hook up with them. After about the 5th or 6th miss I was looking at the bait and saw that tubing and, started calling myself a bunch of funny names. </TD></TR></TABLE>

LOL....that's some funny stuff. Friend of mine I go to church with took a guy with him out pre-fishing. Said not to worry about bringing any gear and that he could use his. After about the 5th missed fish, he noticed that his spinnerbait he was given to throw had the hook closed up shut so not to sorelip the fish...

[AfterLife]

[wildkat7]

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by SkeeterDD22 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Sam, you ever made any bonehead "lure" moves?</TD></TR></TABLE>

The only thing that comes to mind is:

1.) I was highly disappointed with the action when I bought my first pack of Berkley Crazy Legged Chigger Craws......that is until I figured out I had to tear the legs apart to get right action....

2.) Did the same with the Rage Tail Toads when they came out.

[turkdaddy]

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by wildkat7 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">

The only thing that comes to mind is:

1.) I was highly disappointed with the action when I bought my first pack of Berkley Crazy Legged Chigger Craws......that is until I figured out I had to tear the legs apart to get right action....

2.) Did the same with the Rage Tail Toads when they came out. </TD></TR></TABLE>

That looks like 2 things to me

[Dando]

I drug a jerkbait across the bottom of the lake for FOUR hrs straight, AND didn't loose it.
But, Thanks to ya'll, I feel much better now.
NOT

[wildkat7]

Things...sorry....but they were the same in a way....Mr English teacher....

[wildkat7]

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by SkeeterDD22 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">I drug a jerkbait across the bottom of the lake for FOUR hrs straight, AND didn't loose it.
But, Thanks to ya'll, I feel much better now.
NOT</TD></TR></TABLE>

Might want to check those hooks....

[Dando]

What I did was worse than getting out my LAST good jig. Carefully Trimming the weedguard, Getting the trailer on just perfect, Trimming the skirt just right, Dipping the trailers legs in a bit of Chartruse Dye, and tossing it over the side as not to get dye on the boat carpet.

And THEN realizing what I forgot to do.....

Mentally cussing myself for being such a bonehead while rigging up another one and then DOING THE SAME DABM THING!!!

I just grabbed my crankbait rod and threw a cranker for the next hour.

[Dando]

One time, While pre-fishing for a tournament, I lost a Jerkbait in 4ft of water at Greers and went back and looked for several times. Over the course of several weeks.
Once during a Tournmant.

[wildkat7]

Luckily, I have yet to chunk a bait over the side of the boat untied. I leave it laying on the floor of the boat. I've watched my partner lose too many jigs for that very reason. He still, ever after losing multiple baits, cuts the line and chunks the bait over the side. Splash. Then I hear cussing b/c he cut the wrong line.