The Little Varmint

[ColdWaterFshr]

Paul Dallas here spinnin the tunes for you on a Friday evening. A little bygone tune from yesteryear that brings us right back to the heart of the purple metal-flake plastic worm days, in electric Blue Bayou. Enjoy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvXPBC0t6Mk

[ness]

she was a folk singer from the Vietnam war period. She is dead

She ain't dead. You thinking of Joan Bayou-ez?

[Old plug]

your right ness although i never heard either of them sing.

[Gavin]

She sang pretty well in her day. Think Bill Dance won quite a few tournaments with a Thompson doll fly. It's a small polar bear hair jig. Similar to the Ned, but I think Ned & friends have refined it a lot.

[Guest]

No longer the "Ned Rig"

now is the "Stub Grub"

I've been guilty of stub grubbing some fish...

Its a numbers bait that will catch an occasional kicker fish

[Guest]

She sang pretty well in her day. Think Bill Dance won quite a few tournaments with a Thompson doll fly. It's a small polar bear hair jig. Similar to the Ned, but I think Ned & friends have refined it a lot.

I have good success on rabbit hair jigs in the dog days of summer.

Once they get on a good shiner/baitfish bite, you can swim a 1/8oz rabbit jig for good size bass.

I like the natural rabbit hair with a little bit of olive bucktail on top, so its a shiner pattern.

Usually 2/0 all the way down to #2 hooks

[Old plug]

Last singer I can ever remember hearing was Tina Turner. that was in the days just before her and Ike became famous.they used to play in a place in St louis I went in. I have to say you never have to hear her singing you can feel it.

[fishinwrench]

Ok well I finally warmed up to this thing and gave it a honest 1/2 day on LO.

Couldn't make anything happen with a 1/16 head but started getting consistent pickups with the 1/8 at about 6-8 ft.

Once I started getting bites I began alternating between the goose turd, a 5" hula grub on a 1/4 head (same style head), and a trick worm on a 1/4 Chomper Shakey head.

The goose turd got more bites overall and from 3 different species (LM, Spots, Drum) and I think I stuck every bite I got on it. The trick worm/Shakey got bit almost as much but I missed quite a few bites (following up on a missed bite with the goose turd didn't work).

The Hula grub did get bit when using it as a followup after a missed bite, and it caught the only two keepers along the bank I was testing them on.

After all that monkey business I went back to targeting 12-16' brush with a 8" Texas rig worm and stuck 3 keepers and a dozen or so shorts. I threw the goose turd around some deep brush but the wind was not being my friend so I couldn't stay in contact with it. I started to try it on a 1/4 head but I was too lazy to sit down and make one up.

[Old plug]

I am thinking they are going to go out wrench very shortly. I was fishing mine and the neighbors docks this morning while I was watering. the ones I was catching at mid depths have moved. those that were at mid depths have moved down to 20ft. around here.

The bottom line is it was certainly not the rave they are talking about right.

[Guest]

I am thinking they are going to go out wrench very shortly. I was fishing mine and the neighbors docks this morning while I was watering. the ones I was catching at mid depths have moved. those that were at mid depths have moved down to 20ft. around here.

The bottom line is it was certainly not the rave they are talking about right.

Plug, your the only one hating it. Why don't you move on.