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Post by Bro. Freddie on Mar 18, 2006 11:40:46 GMT 12.75
Sounds good to me! I'm trying to remember how long my favorite pop=R was. I bought all Wal-Mart had the last time I saw them which was 5 years ago. In 2 or 3 trips I had the paint all wore off them. Now that they are no longer made I'm trying to find a good replacement ;D
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Post by Paws on Mar 18, 2006 16:22:25 GMT 12.75
First you get a stick and a real sharp knife. Then you whack it down to size. Then you smooth it off!
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Post by Brikatw on Mar 19, 2006 5:05:27 GMT 12.75
There you go Freddie!!! That there is one of your lures in the picture. Got it all sanded now and the white and red paint put on last night about 330 am. Storms came through and I couldn't get to sleep..... ;D The knife on the right is the one I was telling you about Paws. It'll shave the hair off a gnats butt. The other knife is a "Hide Knife" or old style utility knife. The end is squared off and thedge is dead straight. A real handy knife for lots of stuff,, but don't slip and cut yourself, stitches are garrenteed with that one.
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Post by Paws on Mar 19, 2006 20:08:58 GMT 12.75
Brian I have two knives like that. They belonged to my Great Grandma Foreman and to her mother as well. (Great Great?) One was once a store bought butcher knife and the other was a home made butcher made from a Studebaker leaf spring, yes Studebaker Wagon . They have both been ground ddown to where they look just like your whittler or a reasonable facsimile of a skinning or boning knife. Mine both go to reenactments. by the way:
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Post by Brikatw on Mar 23, 2006 6:52:29 GMT 12.75
Freddie, Believe it or not I actually have your lures completed. I should get them out to you this week. I hope you like them ;D
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Post by Bro. Freddie on Mar 23, 2006 7:24:37 GMT 12.75
Brian,
I'm sure I will. I look forward to seeing if I can catch that 10 lb bass on one ;D
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Post by othmar on Mar 25, 2006 8:24:37 GMT 12.75
Wow, Wow Brian. Is all I can say. It's the first time I look more closely at your handmade lures and read the thread from front to back.
Say, up here in British Columbia we are into trout and salmon but we cannot fish them with treble hooks, only single hooks and on rives only with barbless hooks too. Do you make trout and salmon lures?
There are one or two manmade lakes in my area that stock bigmouth bass, up here they are considered a nuisance fish, and I would like to maybe try some of your lures. Just being different and use what nobody else uses can work very well. Up here nobody uses bass lures and thus I think one or two would work very good.
Any advice? But go easy on me, I am a casual fisher and still learning. ;D
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Post by Brikatw on Mar 25, 2006 19:16:21 GMT 12.75
HI OTHMAR!!!! Missed you friend. In the very first post in this thread, the third picture down, the whole bottom row are trout lures. The others in that picture are mostly bass type lures. Some of the ones with real long carved lower lips will work for trout too but hey can be tricky. They behave alot like what is refered to as a flat fish. If you go too fast with them they will "barrel roll" like an airpalne. They are really good for a real slow retrieve. I can knock the barbs off the hooks for you and even put son=me single hooks on them for you. No problem. If you have any ideas of what you think would be nice, let me know too. We can try and chop one out for you, paint it up and see how it works. Only way to tell for sure is to try it out... I had a guy at the UPS Store ask me today for a lure that would commemorate duck hunting. A wood ducks head comes to mind for me. or maybe a mallard ;D ;D ;D By the way buddy, take a look at the knife on the right in the pictures above. It should look real familiar to you. Just real worn out compared to what your used to using I'm sure....
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Post by Brikatw on Mar 31, 2006 15:43:15 GMT 12.75
Freddie should have gotten his lures today or tomorrow at the latest. I hope he finds the special "goto" lure in there.
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Post by othmar on Mar 31, 2006 18:32:36 GMT 12.75
Brian - I just discovered a fishing hole in the middle of a town close to mien, and it's loaded with monster large mouth bass. There are, I am told, a few more small lakes full of bass.
I think I will give bass fishing a try. That may sound funny to you Americans and bass fanatics. But here in B.C. bass are hated as a trash fish. This is "noble" trout and salmon country, don't ya know. Of course with an attitude like that you are hard pressed to find any bass lures here. When I went to the local tack shop and asked for bass lures, the guy first had a disgusted look on his face and then he laughed saying. "Who in the hell wants to catch this stinking fish they are only good for fertilizer."
So I am asking you if you could recommend me a few lures for bass. Please bear in mind that I do not know the first thing about bass. What would you recommend as a good all around assortment of bass lures?
Thanks for any advice you can give me.
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Post by Paws on Apr 1, 2006 2:13:59 GMT 12.75
Boy Othmar is that the question of the ages! ;D Bass will strike at anything that moves when they are in the mood. Every bass fisherman I know has numerous tackle boxes outfitted with top lures, diving lures, minnows, shad, eels, frogs, pork rind, purple worms, spinners of various sizes, hula poppers, rattelers, and in every color of the rainbow. The thing is I'm convinced that at least as far as bass are concerned the lures are made to catch fishermen not fish. What you need to do is locate the bass and then irritate them. They'll strike immediately, if they are in the mood, when your bait hits within range and they feel safe in attacking or are hungry. Use something that emulates the bait fish they are feeding on where they live or something reflective or something that makes a bit of noise when it hits the water. I hate bass! Too many bones and I don't care for theikr flavor all that much. One bait that seems to work fairly well univedrsally is a lifelike rubber worm scented. A big one now the size of a whole night crawler. Depending on the color of the water and amount of light you might want to try several colors but include chartruse, white, yellow, natural, and purple in your kit. One of these will produce results. When I'm fishing for perch or crappie I get a lot of bass hits with red worm, meal worm, and live minnows. The biggest ever was by accident, around 8 pounds. Was snagging for frog with a little red piece of cloth on a fish hook walking around the edges of a farm pond. A frog grabbed but was a small one of about four inches total. I snapped the rod back and forth to dislodge it and it stayed on and carried the liine out to the middle of the pond. Just as the frog hit the water this bad boy blasted out by three feet hooking himself solidly with a lip lock around that frog.
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Post by Brikatw on Apr 1, 2006 9:00:48 GMT 12.75
Man, What a day. I took a couple lure packages to UPS this morning to send them out. One was for Chris. Anyways, the guy at the UPS store had asked earlier if I could make a lure resmbling a duck or duck hunting theme. Imagine that, "Theme Lures". Well, I got one pretty well carved out after about 2 days of carving. Came out real nice too. I hadn't painted opr finished it yet but took it to show him what I came up with. After showing him and him offering me a good price ($35) I told him it was his when it was done. We decided on how to finish it and off I went. Across the parking lot to the crafts store where I get things like paint, gold leaf, silver leaf,, brushes, and all kinds of neat stuff that I use. I got my stuff and headed home, only to discover that somewhere between the register and the house I had LOST THE DANG LURE. I drove all the way back and sure enough, it WAS NOT there. The girl at the register, who had commented on it the first trip had No idea what I was talking about. "What did it look like??" "It looked exactly like the little piece of wood you were asking me about 20 minutes ago", I said. " I don't remember you haveing a little piece of wood, are you sure???" I was time to leave then because it became perfectly clear to me that the lure was gone. I have a good idea of where it went too. OK, a few deep breaths and I'll start fresh tomorrow.
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Post by Toby Benoit on Apr 1, 2006 11:52:06 GMT 12.75
Wow!!! Sorry to hear about that. That's my kind of luck though; as soon as i get something right, I'll do something to screw it up so I have to start over again. Bummer! This ought to cheer you up. Fred and his sister Melissa tried out two of the topwater lures you sent Fred and caught a pair of bass. I'll e-mail the pictures of them to you 'cause I'm not smart enough to post them here. Fred's was a half pound, but Melissa's was seven and a half pounds. Talk about a pair of excited youngun's!!! When you get the picture, just look how big Fred's grinning. That says a bunch right there! ;D
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Post by Bro. Freddie on Apr 1, 2006 11:56:42 GMT 12.75
I recieved my Brian Warner lures this week. I meant to post earlier but have been very busy. I am impressed with the craftsmanship and the overall beauty of these lures. I got 2 top water poppers ( my favorite type of lure) and 1 "Preacher Freddie special". That lure will probaly never hit the water ;D. I even recieved a little wooden box that was lined with red felt. I never expected that. As soon as Brian will send me his mailing address I will send him some cash for his efforts. If anyone is thinking of ordering some, I can highly recommend them.
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Post by Brikatw on Apr 1, 2006 17:39:44 GMT 12.75
I'll get that address to you right away Freddie. I'm really glad you like your "Preacher Freddie Special" it definately a goto kind of lure, at least in my opinion... Toby, I'm thrilled that the kids caught those fish. 7 1/2 lbs??? WOW, now THAT is truely what makes this fun and REWARDING. Whemn you send me the picture, I'm going to print it and put it out for all to see. Tell Fred, I'm proud of him and to keep on fishing. You can't have a bad day if your out fishing..... ;D
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Post by othmar on Apr 1, 2006 19:00:02 GMT 12.75
Boy Othmar is that the question of the ages! ;D Well that's what you get with fishing greenhorns. I looked at some websites and you are right, it is mind boggling what there is for bass. As you know with trout you have to present the lure very delicately otherwise they crap their pants full and run for parts unknown. So I am a little surprised to hear that I should "piss off" the bass in order to make it run after my lure. Here in our lakes I have noticed that bass like to hang out in shallow water and around structure, such as woodenlogs, water wed and under the bridge. Just to make sure Paw is not pulling a greenhorns leg. ;D I would like to hear Brian's opinion too. Right now I am a bit short on money, investments and so, but I would like to order some bass lures from you the moment my bank manager greets me with a smile again.
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Post by Paws on Apr 2, 2006 2:54:14 GMT 12.75
That lure look something like this?
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Post by Brikatw on Apr 2, 2006 5:10:43 GMT 12.75
Othmar, Send me your address on my e-mail and I'll send you a lure to try out. It'll cost you a picture of you and the fish you cacth with it. Paws is right about making the Bass angry to make them bite. They are a real predator. If a bait is just sitting there they may swim up and look at it for 3 or 4 minutes at times. But as soon as you give it a little twitch, or jerk, they will attack it and try to swallow it. Your right also, as the days get longer in the spring, they will move towards the shallower water, when the sun is high, you can find them at the edge or just inside the shade line of trees and logs. Also, flat under the log. One of my favorite games is to take a palstic worm, and ease through the lilly pads. Then I just drop the bait down into the little holes in the pads and bounce it around a bit. This is where the heavy line comes in. You almost have to winch them in. I'll also throw the plastic worms over a downed log and work it upto the log then gently drag it over the top to let it drop as it clears the log. They'll hit it as it drops over the log. As you fish them more and more, you'll discover that alot of the tricks you use for trout will also work on Bass. They like spinners, flies, big baits and small. Gaudy colors too,, bright and bold. Email me your address and I'll send you a little sumpthin' sumpthin' to get you started. It'll be real easy to use. Just toss it out there and give it a little twitch so it makes a "blurp" on the surface. as soon as the ripples settle down a bit, twitch it again. When the bass comes up and grabs it let him go for a full second and set the hook. Just like fishing top water for pike or musky. Oh yeah, you have to have fun if your useing one of these lures. They don't work right if your not having fun. ;D
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Post by Toby Benoit on Apr 2, 2006 5:49:31 GMT 12.75
Ya'll ever do any "skin-bobbing" or "flutter-jigging" for bass? I bet Brian has!
It's so effective for bass that it is outlawed in all proffessional tournaments! It's the best way I know of loading the boat with bass!
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Post by Paws on Apr 2, 2006 7:25:13 GMT 12.75
Yep! Learned by accident when I had a night crawler on a heavy line bottom fishing for cats. Got my sinker hung up and could not get ikt loose. Pulled over and over again until I caught a bass. He got the sinker loose. So I did the pump N jig thing again and caught another bass. Did that until I got bored and set out two cane poles with bobbers and no sinkers. That got some cats! ;D
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