anyone seen the add old school secret?

[yourkiddin]

came across and add on craigslist. wanting to send you a free crappie fishing secret. sure wanting to just get your e-mail for spam. any one out there know what their scam is?

 

[Mark_VTfisherman]

Re: anyone seen the ad, "old school secret?"

Re: anyone seen the ad, "old school secret?"

came across and add on craigslist. wanting to send you a free crappie fishing secret. sure wanting to just get your e-mail for spam. any one out there know what their scam is?

If it is the same as the walleye one I looked into once, it is a light- and/or electric charge "generator" that attracts plankton and invertebrates, which attracts baitfish which are followed by game fish. In theory.

I signed up for the free "newsletter" and got a series of emails which said stuff about fishing but nothing of substance. After reading a few which had what seemed like cut-and-paste soundbites without any coherent flow I unsubscribed and dismissed the whole thing.

The theory works but you don't need to buy whatever they are selling. Maybe there is a legitimate vendor of plans or whatever for this device, but I never got to a place where I felt I had enough information to give them my credit card # nor did I ever come across an "offer" with a price- just endless links to 'testimonials' and more drivel.

My 2 cents

PS
I spent a lot of time chasing "rabbits" when I was trying to find schematics on ion-charge devices like the ProTroll. This was one of the rabbits but I never took it seriously- just was too curious. Skepticism of a New Englander and all...

 

[CATransplant]

Re: anyone seen the add old school secret?

Waste of time. The secret for catching crappies has always been the same:

Find the crappies, then drop something that looks like food to a crappie, then reel the crappies in.

I found the crappies on my favorite lake a couple of weeks ago. Caught one on every cast. I finally quit after I had caught and released about 50. Took me an hour.

They bit a pumpkin flash curly tail and a pumpkin flash grub like they were starving o death. Biggest one was 14".

 

[yourkiddin]

Re: anyone seen the add old school secret?

i done some more research on the net. sounds as if they are trying to sell you a standard neon green light for 200 dollars. i will eventually try one on these. i hear it does work.

 

[Dave Barnett]

Re: anyone seen the add old school secret?

Get ya some Wordens Roostertails. They work when not much else does.

 

[yourkiddin]

Re: anyone seen the add old school secret?

wish i would of bought stock in those rooster tails years ago. they just keep going up in price

 

[fireman57]

Re: anyone seen the add old school secret?

Wish I'd bought stock in everything a few years ago because it is all going up. CA good to see you are here. Kinda missed another "old engine" guru. Gonna try your suggestion this coming week as we are going crappie and bluegill fishing for three days.

 

[CATransplant]

Re: anyone seen the add old school secret?

Yah, I always show up at the start of the fishing and boating season to stick my nose in various places on iboats. During the winter, I'm not around much. I get too lonesome for my boat then, and just don't feel in the mood.

 

[xxlurchxx]

Re: anyone seen the add old school secret?

Saw a show on TV about using lightiung for crappy, I think it was Babe Winkelman, they had lights on floats and were loading the boat with crappy. I guess light attracts plankton, and the plankton attract bait fish which in turn attract crappy.