Home made lures etc

[DarkSkies]

jbarbosa getting married congrats and good luck! some helpful hints don't be late to the wedding because you were out fishing! and don't get your wife any vacuums or household stuff for your anniversary you will be in the doghouse! Don't ask me how I know that.

Lol so true. I found that out the hard way. Vacuums and automatic dishwashers are not cool anniversary presents. Congratulations on finding a good wife jb. Does your fiance fish? If so you are doubly lucky.

Very nice bass.
You getting married? Congrats!!

No, I am not getting married!!!!!!
See Dark's disclaimer:

** NOTE:
Some of the material in these posts....may have been embellished....and is for entertainment value only.....

This just goes to show ya.....
A. Most guys don't read thoroughly..
B Or....some of us just love bustin yer balls that much..


So.....this new girlfriend of yours........Do you have any pics to share?
Is she hot? Does she pass approval of your parents?
How does she feel about you fishing all the time?.....


Sorry...Pal.....had to jump in with the others here....couldn't help myself......

[Monty]

No, I am not getting married!!!!!!


See Dark's disclaimer:

** NOTE:
Some of the material in these posts....may have been embellished....and is for entertainment value only.....

This just goes to show ya.....
A. Most guys don't read thoroughly..
some of us just love bustin yer balls that much..

Sorry JB, miss read that, didn't think the disclaimer was for that.
Any way I should have known better, with Dark not fishing as much he cannot "embellish" on his fishing ventures enough, so I guess its carrying over to other stuff.
Right Dark?

[DarkSkies]

Whatever you say Pal....
It's hard to figure out...my arnchair keeps getting in the way....

[J Barbosa]

So I've been doing a bit more wreck/reef fishing the past two weeks and loosing a bunch of jigs every trip.

I tied up a dozen beautiful fluke jigs and I applied the final top coat last night. I set them to spin on my homemade drying wheel.

It looks like I did a poor job of balancing the weight because in the time it took for me to use the bathroom and come back one of the jigs came loose and was banging around on the others as the wheel spun. So I have chartreuse bucktails with white paint on them and white bucktails with chartreuse paint on them and bumpy uneven surfaces.

Its not like the fish care what they look like but this candy chartreuse paint job I've been playing with was pretty sick!

It will make donating them to the bottom that much easier ~.~

[buckethead]

Don't worry about ones that got a little color mixed in with the others. Or the finished product. Think of the lead part as a delivery system for a teaser above or a trailer or piece of rubber or gulp at the end. The fish are not that picky. If action is slow it is usually because less fish are in that area. Good luck.

[DarkSkies]

^ JB..... take what bucket says with a grain of salt. He's old, retired, and has time to fish almost every day. (Maybe I'm just jealous) You have to wonder a bit about those old farts.

Tell ya what....
I know what a perfectionist you are.....
Since those bucktails are no longer perfect....they are probably of no use to you....
Once the colors run together and the finish is no longer absolutely smooth....fish just won't want them anymore....
Send them to me, and I'll dispose of them properly for ya......in a safe and environmentally friendly manner...

If action is slow it is usually because less fish are in that area. Good luck.

Hogwash. Every day on the internet there is another know-it-all claiming striped bass numbers are not down, and there are more bass than ever. The problem is.....
1. we just don't know how to catch em.
2. Or they are just offshore, and therefore invisible to most of us now.
Yep...that must be the reason we are not seeing em like we used to.

[buckethead]

Dark i think you are always going to have the trolls. They have nothing better to do and are probably unhappy in their own sad lives. So they have to keep putting stuff online that is not true. If someone can't see that fishing is off, they would have to be blind. Just my .02.
Yes, I am retired and it's good to be able to get out there and fish for my morning exercise. Whether I catch or not it's still worth it to me. You are not too far from being old yourself. You are welcome to shoot the breeze any time.