Have I been abusing my Ned?

[crazy4fishin]

This post has nothing to do with Table Rock but I consider you my internet friends...kind of a sad statement now that I read it back...anyway here is my confession.

I have not been able to get out in my boat locally or regionally for about a month plus...work, family, heat, washing my hair...what ever the reason. So I have been hitting our local no wake lakes and fishing from the bank in the evening.

So I don't have to carry a bunch of tackle I take a spinning rig spooled w/6lb line and a professionally Kansas manufactured Ned head with some kind of cut down Z Man. The first time out I walk to where there were a couple of guys fishing...I move 10 yards or so down the bank...BAM... first cast nail a small one...I proceeded to catch 6 fish for 6 casts!

In that time these 2 hadn't caught a single one...as I pull each one out I don't make eye contact but I know they are watching....and I can feel it growing within me....you all know the feeling....the "I am catching and you aren't" monster - don't deny it....you all have had it when you are on them and those around you are not. SO I proceeded to hammer them for an hour or so....then i hook my Ned on the eyelet and walk off.

It would have been fine if that was the only time...but I could feel it nagging at me to go back out - so a few days later, same lake different spot and same results....this time there was a guy and what appeared to be his GF....I could hear her comment to him asking why they went catching them like I was....there was that feeling again. Yes GF real men use small baits....

I almost felt guilty...no....not really...A few days later I went to a different lake....a few yards from a Dad and his young son....smoked them again...as the monster reared it's ugly head....I thought no problem I could stop if I wanted to, but I don't want to - this is not a good thing to have happen right?

In the last 30 days I have repeated this over and over....I think that I have a Ned problem. I have come to the conclusion that the new big bait is small and size does not matter.

Well I feel better now that I have that off my chest.......thanks internet friends!

C4F

p.s. no fish were harmed in the writing of this article and were all released for another time.

[MOPanfisher]

Other than not hooking up the kid/dad with a Ned rig? With great power comes great responsibility. There have been times when I was a kid and someone was doing that I would ask what they were using many times they handed me one of whatever it was. Result = happy kid.

[Champ188]

I'm afraid you may be headed down a stony path, my friend. Gotta say, though, this is one of the best posts I've read here in a while. Right up there with 5bites' recent report from the upper end.

[crazy4fishin]

Other than not hooking up the kid/dad with a Ned rig? With great power comes great responsibility. There have been times when I was a kid and someone was doing that I would ask what they were using many times they handed me one of whatever it was. Result = happy kid.

MO - full disclosure.....During this time I have given out about a dozen or so Neds with the associated Z-Man's to all of those that I have fished around and they struck up a conversation....it is interesting some ask and most don't. If they ask I would give them all of the info that I have...I had to do something to tame the monster :]

[MOPanfisher]

Good man.

[Champ188]

Donna and I pulled up to Old 86 ramp one day last spring and there were two kids fishing off the dock. I took a minute before launching the boat to rig up a couple of Neds for them, then went on to have a great day on the lake.

So yes, I can be nice. Sometimes.

Shut up, denjac. You too, abkeenan. And dtrs5kprs. And Babler ...

[rps]

Donna and I pulled up to Old 86 ramp one day last spring and there were two kids fishing off the dock. I took a minute before launching the boat to rig up a couple of Neds for them, then went on to have a great day on the lake.

So yes, I can be nice. Sometimes.

Shut up, denjac. You too, abkeenan. And dtrs5kprs. And Babler ...

Next thing you know, he'll tell us he was once good looking.

[Skeeter ZX190]

[quote name="crazy4fishin" post="412236"

In the last 30 days I have repeated this over and over....I think that I have a Ned problem. I have come to the conclusion that the new big bait is small and size does not matter.

As a leading expert in this field, I believe you would be diagnosed with NHFD (Ned Head Fishing Disorder). I suggest you find a local chapter of NHA (Ned Heads Anonymous) and seek help.

[dtrs5kprs]

NFHD...it's catching.

The amazing thing is how often you leave baits with someone and they tell you it won't work...after watching you crush them. Oh well.

[MOPanfisher]

That is the part that gets me at times, you can show them what and how you are doing it, give them a lure and some will still claim "Ah Hell, I aint fishing that thing/color/style/location". Fortunately most kids don't have a problem with following your instructions after watching you catch a bunch of fish, and would cast a wooden clothes pin if that was what you gave them.