Outsmarting the bass boats
Don't get me wrong....I love to fish. Wireline deep for lakers, salmon in the spring, brookies and love a nice mess of yellow perch in cornmeal. Hornpout too.
But for some reason, I've always had a case of the a$$ for bass boaters that come up on the tournaments from out of state and yank bass right off the spawning beds to get their "weight up" It's like shooting fish in a barrel.
Here's my story.....I have two big bass spawning next to my dock. Momma probably goes 4lbs and the dad is a little smaller. Every day, I throw them a few night crawlers or some raw chicken and it's fun to watch them go nuts over it. On weekends, as many as a dozen bass boats cruize the shore right in front of my place but they don't get my little pets........because I've trained them. I cut the hooks off a goldfish and a warbler and cast them right by the spawning bed. At first, they both hit them because that is their nature. Now, they ignore them, both surface lures or spinners. Now they act like dogs ....when they hear me walk out on the dock they start begging for a treat, but won't touch a lure. Ha Ha....sorry, boys.
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