A return to basics
23.02.21
Just so there’s no confusion, the purpose of this article is not to provide a general overview of soft-plastic fishing using lots of little words so even novices can understand the process.
Rather, it is about the need to constantly re-evaluate what you’re doing, because sometimes you end up meandering along the wrong path!
The first signs that things had gone awry for me came whilst fishing with Graeme Sinclair and the ‘Reels on Wheels Trust’ guys. The alarm bells didn’t ring too loudly initially, because the session was a mix of soft-plastic and bait fishing. So while I didn’t do that well using either method, I was more bemused than concerned.
Source: Stuff.co.nz
DABLEMONT: Back-water and green leaves
23.02.44
One morning in June, with mist rising from the water before sunrise, I made the mistake of a long cast with a topwater Rapala, letting it settle on the surface in the very tip of the cove, over submerged greenbrier bushes. I made it look like a crippled minnow and a huge bass was convinced that was exactly what it was. He apparently was hungry, or had something against crippled minnows. He took it with a great deal of aggressiveness, wallowing a bit on the surface, and I got a good look at him even at the distance I had cast. He was at least seven pounds in weight, maybe better, and I was using old tackle that couldn’t overcome his ambition to take that lure into the brambles. The struggle was great, but short, and I lost the lure. I could do without the bass, but it was a time of my life when topwater lures were treasures.
Source: Pittsburg Morning Sun
After decades of waiting, Duluth man fishes Lake Superior on his dream boat
05.06.11
ON LAKE SUPERIOR — Dale Krocak was just where he wanted to be on a Wednesday morning in late May. On Lake Superior. Trolling for trout and salmon. In his 22-foot C-Dory Cruiser.
Especially in his C-Dory Cruiser.
“I’d been waiting to buy this boat for 20 years,” Krocak said in a lull between fish.
For most of those years, he was too busy working as a foreman for Northland Constructors to justify owning a boat. But when he retired six years ago, he started looking.
Krocak regularly cruised a website of C-Dory owners and followers looking for a used C-Dory that wasn’t in Seattle or Baltimore or Atlanta. When he found one in Door County, Wis., this past August, he e-mailed the owner the same night. A few days later, he drove over to look at it — and trailered it home.
Source: Duluth News Tribune
For the best snapshot, a monthly winner will receive six Rapala lures and recognition in Bassmaster magazine. The photo must be of an angler with a bass caught on a Rapala lure. Fish size doesn't matter, but photo quality does, and the Rapala lure used
