BASS OPEN

[crazy4fishin]

On 3/16/2017 at 9:48 PM, mixermarkb said:

You guys are gonna call total BS on this, but I promise it is a true story.

My wife, is from the bootheel, and grew up fishing with her dad. Fishing for her, is sitting on the bank, dunking something stinky for catfish, and maybe cracking open a cold adult beverage or two. 

I don't remember if we were married or still dating, but on one of her first trips to Bull Shoals with me, she was getting pretty frustrated. I had her throwing a shakyhead, and she wasn't getting any bites. I wasn't getting many either, and was running around, trying different things, trying to get a pattern going. She was getting aggravated because I kept moving the boat, and she just wanted to sit somewhere, relax, and let the fish come to her. I was trying to explain to her, that wasn't how bass fishing worked, that part of the fun was the mental challenge of finding the fish, etc etc. 

She, being a southern redhead of Irish lineage, wasn't buying what I was selling. In her mind, I was using the wrong bait, Fish only bite something stinky or alive, and I was moving around way too much, and I was a city boy who couldn't catch fish. 

Soo- she set out to prove me wrong. She dug out a hotdog out of the cooler, bit a chunk off, and proceeded to thread that chunk of mixed meat onto the hook, ending up with it in the bend of the hook and then putting the point back in her shakyhead worm. 

I then, proceeded to tell her how that was all wrong, it was gonna mess up the balance of the bait, and that she wouldn't get any bites, or be able to hook a bite if she got one because the hotdog was filling up the hook gap. She just said she's gonna show her city boy what really catches fish, and chunked that hotdog shakyhead out there.

As God is my witness, on the first cast with that darn hotdog worm, she caught a 16" spotted bass. 

Then a couple casts later, still with the hotdog worm, she caught another fat K, maybe 13".

I did get on a pattern, and ended the day somewhat convincing her that I did in fact know how to fish, but for a few minutes at least, she wore my posterior out with that hotdog shakyhead. 

And I am sure that yours is like mine....when the story is told she makes it sounds like it happened yesterday - even though it was years ago!

Like yours mine was a worm / minnow / stink bait / bobber fisherperson....I would be on the TM and I would look back and I would be dragging her rig around...heck it was making wakes at times  

Finally got her on jigs while fishing Taney and the NED for Bass....after she caught a few she hasn't mentioned live bait since.

C4F