Stories About Fishin' The White And James Before Tr Dam...

[Chief Grey Bear]

Another thing on those Peck's, all the guides added a trailer hook. On the trailer the would add a flat strip of Uncle Josh pork rind that they sliced nearly in two to make a split tail.

[Mitch f]

Talked with "Lure Man" Steve White, who is an antique lure collector. He said there was a great lure back in the 40's was made in Springfield, Mo that was called the Clark Water Scout.

[Wayne SW/MO]

I remember a Water Scout, but I'm not sure it's the same one. I'll have to look and see if I can find more.

Update. They are the same. I don't know that I ever heard the Clark's however, if I did I've forgotten? I have a couple of them in an old tackle box that I've used. I like the action, but they never really produced for me for what ever reason.

[Mitch f]

Found a pic of the Clark Water Scout

[ColdWaterFshr]

hang some skirts on them trebles! not saying where I got that idea

[Chief Grey Bear]

I love using a Scout. Although I don't throw it near like I used to. My dad turned on to them when I was still tagging along with him.

These are still made today by Strike King. This is one plug I actually like to put the skirt on the rear treble. The wobble gives it a super action.

[wayne b]

thanks for the pics of the midget digit I have a couple of orenos and a midget digit. I knew what the orenos were but the digit was a mystery till now the they belonged to my great grandpa he was born at the turn of the century and grew up on little sugar creek. My grandma said he used the lures quite a bit and always caught fish with them. but that was in the late 40,searly 50's I think. Grandma also told me that most of the fish that she ate growing up were put on the table by gigging and noddeling. It did not make her dad much difference what it was he would gig it. But when you cut ties with a axe for a living you ate what you could catch. She also told me that people would free range hogs then and her dad always seemed to find a shoat that had not been ear marked or traded work for one in the fall. She told me that her brothers and one of her uncles used to hunt ground hogs for the table by chasing them into there hole then digging them out of the hole this way they did not have to shoot them. Her uncle lost his hand doing this by watching her brother while he was digging out a ground hog and leaning on his shot gun with his arm over the muzzle of the gun some how discharged and the local doctor amputated his right hand and about four inches of his right wrist . I think that times were pretty hard then. She said that she can remember eating green grapes that her mom picked because they did not have anything to eat.

[exiledguide]

I love using a Scout. Although I don't throw it near like I used to. My dad turned on to them when I was still tagging along with him.

These are still made today by Strike King. This is one plug I actually like to put the skirt on the rear treble. The wobble gives it a super action.

Chief I thought Strike King had stopped making the Spence Scout. I liked the two different line ties so you could fish the two different depths. Used to really produce around the weeds on Lake Catherine on the Ouchita chaini

[Wayne SW/MO]

These are still made today by Strike King.

I was set to post that someone has resurrected them, but couldn't remember who. The two I have are the late ones, but I don't know if they are still being made. They resembled the Crazy Crawler in action but more subtle and quiet.

I suspect a Jitterbug would still be deadly today if someone would just fish them.

[Al Agnew]

The Scout was pretty much one of the original "wake baits". You could make it run a couple feet deep depending upon how fast you reeled it, but if you reeled it fairly slow it stayed just under the surface. Didn't make noise like a Jitterbug or Crazy Crawler. Another wake bait back then was the Heddon Meadow Mouse, and an earlier one yet was the Heddon Crab Wiggler. I never used the Scout, but the Meadow Mouse and Crab Wiggler were both deadly for night fishing on moonlit nights in clear water when the Jitterbug made a little too much commotion. I still have several Meadow Mice, including some that have a suede finish to make them look more like mouse fur, and I still have a couple of Crab Wigglers. I'd probably still use the Mice, but I'd be afraid of losing the Crabs, even though they would surely catch fish at night and probably during the day as well. Hmm...I may have to try making a couple of Crabs.