Re: catfish or bass tricks???
OK, I'll give ya one. It may be an original to, since I thought of it on my own and haven't heard of anyone else doing it since.<br /><br />As a kid growing up on a lake in West Central Florida, I'd use a half a slice of raw bacon for catfish and softshelled turtle. I caught plenty of both. It stays on the hook well and doesn't smell dead.<br /><br />Bass? My two largest is a 12.5lb, I caught when I was 11. The 9.5 was at 16years. Both were caught on Dalton Specials, a top water lure made not far from home. The key was to cast right on top of bass that just broke water. Cast on top of him, and rip the lure hard a foot or so.......wham!<br /><br />BTW, I still have that poor, tiered, wore out, all the paint gone, Mitchel 300 that must have caught hundreds of fish as a kid.