-=> Quoting Tim Morgan to All <=-
 TM> Why is it that you can never loose your crappy lures. I can take lures
 TM> that  never catch fish, and pull up sunken Tug Boats from the bottom of
 TM> the lake  without the lure breaking off. Heck my favorite lures usually
 TM> break off  when I'm tying the knot. Another thing, why is is that some
 TM> lures will get  hung up and refuse to come free or break off. I mean
 TM> there are times when  Godzilla couldn't rip this lure from the bottom
 TM> of the lake. And how about  bullet weights? It's like bullet weights
 TM> and plastic worms want to see how  many times they can hang up in a 5
 TM> minute period. And it's always some tiny  little twig poking out. Oh
 TM> and bullet weights are really fun to try and  unsnag. At first you try
 TM> and be gentle and quiet. Then you resort to sheer  brute force. Then
 TM> you end up apologizing to your buddy with the weight  embedded in his
 TM> back, "Ummm...sorry my fault. Can I have my weight  back...ohhhh never
 TM> mind you just keep it?" Then you spend the rest of the  day more
 TM> worried about what's going to happen every time he draws back to  cast.
 Thanks for confirming something I always suspected. No matter how 
 unsnaggable a lure is, a fisherman will find ways to get it stuck.
 Actually I have good luck with soft plastic lures rigged weedless.
 I cast soft plastic grubs into weeds and branches - really
 tangled, inpenetrable places - and they just pull out, no snags, no
 lost lures. That's why I love soft plastics. They are cheap and
 dont get snagged like things with treble hooks. I call treble hooks 
 "trouble hooks" now. Tackle shops sell soft plastic minnows - fin-s fish 
 or something like that - I bury the hook in them and in the water 
 they look a lot like minnows. They are weedless if I bury the hook.
 I cut a slit in the bottom of the lure and use a smaller hook, maybe size 
 6 or 8. The point of the hook is buried in plastic at the top of the lure
 but the shank of the hook rests in the slit. The eye of the hook sticks
 out the front of the plastic lure. That way, when I set the hook
 the point only has to penetrate a millimeter or so of plastic. It's
 weedless, but the hook point is there when I need it. With 4 pound test
 I find I dont need a sinker when casting the average plastic grub. 
 I like soft plastics in the middle of Summer when weeds are
 thick.
... my bluegill can beat up your perch..    
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