-=> Quoting Tim Morgan to Dave Hazelman <=-
 DH> See, I dont have a lot of room in the boat so I have to keep my tackle
 DH> box small. I use a half liter plastic butter bowl with a plastic lid. 
 DH> I just put about 5 lures in there and maybe 5 soft plastics and some
 DH> worms from my garden and I'm ready. In the pocket of my floatation
 DH> vest there are pliers and knife, hooks, sinkers, floats and polaroid 
 DH> sunglasses. 
 
 DH> It isnt a good system but since I'm very restricted on space it works 
 DH> for me. 
 TM> Well you know what they say about necessity being the mother of
 TM> invention.  You probably catch more fish than most people. I think I
 TM> spend most of my  time looking through the lures, trying to find just
 TM> the right one. :) 
 Oh I do a lot of looking / trying different lures also. I suspect that
 I like fishing tackle as much as fishing! When the weather is bad I 
 take my lures out and play with them. Change the hooks around, sharpen
 the hooks, play with the soft plastic lures. Maybe I'm trying to 
 picture how they behave in the water, or how to fish them so they will 
 appeal to fish. 
 
 A lot of times when I'm out on the water I'm just fooling around. Sometimes 
 I do weird things just to experiment and try to find fish. That's what 
 happened one day last Summer. I tried all kinds of lures - spinnerbaits,
 spoons, worms, surface lures and nothing happened. Then I made a mistake. 
 I cast my worm onto shore. As I reeled in, I thought I felt something.
 So I threw up on shore again. Reeled in. Nothing. Again. Nothing.
 Again. Nibble. That's when I figured it out. The fish are real close 
 to the shoreline. Within inches. Fish in the middle of the river and 
 nothing happens. Fish right at the shoreline and catch fish after 
 fish after fish. I think fish might be living in the undercut river banks. 
 From the boat I cant see that there are holes just under the waterline
 where fish hide. 
 Bill Dance said that bass like edges, and I think he is right. Whenever I 
 caught a bass, there was some kind of edge very close by.
... WoRMs RuLE! Minnows too
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