Total Bust this Morning

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4 hours ago, Pepe said:

what is the wing ding little george thing? 

little george has a hook attached to the body.  wing ding has a body that slides up and down the line, and the line is ties to the hook.

bo

[196champ]

https://www.barlowstackle.com/Wahoo-Lures-Wing-Ding-Tail-Spinner-P1718.aspx

 

 

[dan hufferd]

6 hours ago, merc1997 said:

little george has a hook attached to the body.  wing ding has a body that slides up and down the line, and the line is ties to the hook.

bo

I think those lures are older than I and still working !

[Bill Babler]

They are still amazing.   I can remember in the late 70's fishing to schooling fish up the Kings River throwing one to schooling LM and they were big fish.  Lots of 3 to 5 pounders.  I believe he designed that bait in the early to mid 1960's

I still have that particular bait, but the chrome has worn off and it is rust speckled.  I of course changed the hooks on it but back then I just threw the packaged hooks.

Here is a tip, if your fishing a bait caster with a full spool of 10 pound line and a 7' rod and cannot throw that 1/2 oz. bait far enough to see the knot on your spool, you need a new rod and reel or you need to know how to adjust the one you have.

That thing is a rocket.  Only thing about throwing it to the horizon is that if they jump and sling that bait around it will come loose.  Who cares?  I just like to get one to bite it that is to far away to shoot with a rifle.

Bo was talking the other day about catching chasers on a marabou jig. when the shad are small,  the little George, the Roadrunner and a small inline spinner are also  good,

Nice remembering about vintage baits that still work.

Back then on lake O. the Mann's Little Pig and Fat Pig were also beyond great crank baits and everyone of us here that is 50 yrs. old fished the Jelly Worm.

[Bill Babler]

You got me going on the nostalgia deal this morning.  I can't remember if it was 77 or 78 it was before Truman Dam went in.  Lake of the Ozark's used to flood almost ever year  We had a very dry spring the lake was really low, and was hard to navigate up stream from the 60 mile mark to Warsaw.  Lots of mud flats on both sides of the lake most covered with stumps and stuff you just did not want to tangle with.  In the creeks mostly Lick Creek, Deer Creek and the Buffalos you had to be on plane just to get into the creeks, could not even troll in water at times was under a ft. deep.

V38 wiggle wart and the Mann's Little Pig in a Orange with black stripes were simply killers if you could find rock to bounce it off of in these creeks.  I mean huge fish.  Lots and lots of 6 plus pounders, just tanks.  There was no bite, your crank bait would just stop and then swim off.  This was March thru early May.  This bite was just surreal, for monster bass, just like at that time Mexico.  Were talking about a 20 yr. old lake that was producing like that.

Then it got GOOD.

Starting in early May it started to rain.  All the mud flats had vegetation from being exposed and there were 10's of thousands of acres of weeds, the lake looked like a muddy ocean of grass when the rains rose the lake level.  The fish and the bait went into this grass as it was simply full of everything bait fish want and of course the bass and catfish followed the bait into the grass.

At that time we were on the Lunker Lure and well into June it was simply magic to the point of I have never seen anything or never will that was like it.  The picture of the big catfish reminded me of it.  Here is the deal, we would catch catfish up to 10 pounds on the Lunker Lure.  Bass, let me tell you about the bass 100 topwater strikes a day were most days a pretty common deal.  We would look for any hole in the smart weeds any track you could run that buzz bait thru and it would just explode, at times there would be 1/2 dozen fish after your bait.  They destroyed the baits knocking the pinched on rivets off the blades, it was completely insane. 

So glad both Becky and I got to experience it as it really turned her into a fishing gal.  I can remember her screaming and jerking the bait over the top of the boat as they would explode on it and scare the bejeebers out of her.

If anyone here can remember what year that was I might be off, but it was I really believe 78.  Someone on the Lake O forum might remmeber

[fishinwrench]

1 hour ago, Bill Babler said:

 

At that time we were on the Lunker Lure and well into June it was simply magic to the point of I have never seen anything or never will that was like it.  The picture of the big catfish reminded me of it.  Here is the deal, we would catch catfish up to 10 pounds on the Lunker Lure.  Bass, let me tell you about the bass 100 topwater strikes a day were most days a pretty common deal.  We would look for any hole in the smart weeds any track you could run that buzz bait thru and it would just explode, at times there would be 1/2 dozen fish after your bait.  They destroyed the baits knocking the pinched on rivets off the blades, it was completely insane. 

So glad both Becky and I got to experience it as it really turned her into a fishing gal.  I can remember her screaming and jerking the bait over the top of the boat as they would explode on it and scare the bejeebers out of her.

If anyone here can remember what year that was I might be off, but it was I really believe 78.  Someone on the Lake O forum might remmeber

The great LO topwater bite that I remember from the '70's was the Moss Boss over the milfoil in the Glaize and on the lower end.  They'd raise the water level in June after the spawn and you'd have open water between the bank and the start of the milfoil beds.  On some days the fish would be on the inside edge, on other days they'd be on the outside edge, and occasionally one would blow up out of the middle of the bed.  In my recollection almost every fish was a 3+pounder...but I'm sure that's just my brain recalling the highlights.  Nevertheless it was a tremendously fun period.  I miss that beautiful turquoise water and the sound of that Moss Boss plopping through the matted milfoil.  The anticipation was off the charts.

I'll never forget how upset my dad was the first time we saw that barge going around spraying diesel fuel over the milfoil beds.  Man was he pissed!

[196champ]

The wing ding has a bobber stop and slides up the line when the fish jump, just leaving the hook in their mouth.  Dont loose as many fish and your right, i think that thing can be thrown to schoolers from the dam to shell knob bridge if you had enough line!

 

[Bill Babler]

We had a spay boat that sprayed a mixture of diesel fuel and bug killer docked right next to our Marina in Pine Cove.  It went out 5 days a week and sprayed thousands and thousands of gallons of this mixture on the water surface to kill mosquito's.  Did it from the late 1950's till I I believe early 70's  I can remember Guido Hibdon making jokes about it.  We would swim in the stuff, just crazy.

We did not have the milfoil up the river and we for sure did not have the green water.  Most often it was a beautiful Horse T---D brown.

Something like that happened today and it would be on national news.