Re: Slop-froggin'
Caution,this is a ramble.<br /><br />Hey, there is a Cottage Grove here in Oregon also. Right on I 5 between Roseburg and Eugene.<br /><br />Muskyone, I like to do that also here on my home lake. <br /><br />After fishing for bass for about 35 years, I have come to the conclusion that they dont care particularly what it looks like (Most of the time), just that its moving and its of a size that they can eat it. I have heard people say that bass are the "smartest fish that swims", But I have another way of putting it. They are dumb as a rock and are a creature of habbit. Figure out there habbits and you can catch them. One habbit they have is just like one of mine, they like to eat. Find the fish, put anything you can in front of them and if they are in the mood they will hit it. Color rarely matters, (Sometimes). Now there is a "LOT" to understanding there habbits from winter to through the spawn to post spawn to the summer duldrums, but once you understand all that you can normally catch them.<br /><br />I took a small corn cob one time many years ago (Just to prove a point), and cut it about 5" long, cut it in half from front to back, and inserted a wire bent just right through the body to hold hooks and had a place to tie the line. I then glued it back together. I put on the hooks and went fishing. I caught several fish on it, one five pounder. It wasnt the color, I didnt paint it, it was the way I worked it and made it look like food. It was like a rough Zora spook.<br /><br />Now there are in fact times where color matters a great deal, but I believe that most of the time its what you have the most confidence in. Sometimes a certain lure will have just the right action to make them strike. Sometimes just the way you retrieve it makes all the difference.<br /><br />My wife has a way of reeling that drives me nuts, her retrieve is a bit jerky where mine is smooth as glass. There are times when her jerky retrieve catches more fish than I do so I start doing the same thing. You may have the right bait and not the right retrieve. Like with slop frogging, sometimes you need a steady retrieve, sometimes you need a jerky one. Sometimes you need to let it sit for what seems like forever before they will pick it up. So, if you go Bassin and dont try about fifty ways of getting the bait back to the boat, you aint gonna find the pattern.<br /><br />Wew, can ya all tell Im borred?
