Great info will give it a shot

Here is a great story and boy does it work. My first Bass fishing trip in Texas was 35 years ago on Lake Brady. I met a gentleman there that was about 80 years young. I was pre fishing for a club tournament and thought I knew how to fish being from Tenn. and on Ky. Lake my whole life. He took me under his wing and we went out together the next morning.

He only had three rods and the lines were hanging out of a minnow bucket. In the bucket was 2 doz. minnows, a Spook, Spinnerbait and a jig with the biggest eyes on it I have ever seen. We pull up to the first spot and he pulls the spook out of the minnow bucket and catches 3 Bass on 3 cast. This went on all morning. Next came the spinner bait which he caught about 5 on. Then the jig pulls out of that minnow bucket and puts two 7's in the boat back to back.

After we tie up and have lunch; he pulls a wooden cigar box with the sliding lid from under the console and guess what. The box is full of worm dirt and night crawlers. Buried in the dirt are a couple of blue flake worms and lizards. He continued to put a woopen on me all day long.

At the end of the day we pull up on a old road bed and he hands me his spook. At that time I did not even own one. I had watched him all morning use the same technique as I posted above. I threw the spook down the road bed and that is the last we saw of that spook. A huge Bass took it and before we could get back in those Salt Seeders she broke me off.

It was the greatest learning experience of my life. I have thrown a spook ever sense and used minnow scent on all my lures.
I even used a blender for a long time before they started making minnow oil.

Great info. Ive never used a spook always used poppers or floating worms for topwaters. Maybe I was lazy and didn't want to learn how to actually impart the action in the lure. But you have motivated me by your story to go buy a couple of spooks or sammys and actually fish them.

good post

Great post about improving technique. We could use more like this.

This guy made by powerpak?

Yes. That is it. You didn't catch a Bass on Ivie over 10 lbs. with that in it's mouth did you?

Donald,
Aint it fun to share ?
Outstanding.....

Thanks for the informative article Mr. Harper!

Thanks for sharing the stories/techniques.

THE SPOOK CONTRIBUTED GREATLY TO ALL FOUR OF THESE WINS!!

Had a wonderful fishing and hunting partner in Kentucky 35 years ago. We would sit and talk around the fire about what-if's and etc.. We won several big tournaments on Ky. Lake and discussed going to the next level. Both of us were too poor to ever get started on the circuit.

Jack and I talked about if something happened to one of us the other would fish 5 of the biggest tournaments that he could get in. If you win all 5 then turn pro because we would know that the one that passed away was linding a helping hand from up above.

Well, Jack had to have heart surgery and didn't make it. I carried through with our discussion. The first 4 tournaments went really well. I won by a land slide, thousands of dollars, Ranger boat, and sponsorships coming out of the wood work.

The FIFTH torunament is where it all fell apart. I had 5 fish for 35 lbs. and some change and thought I was on my way to the Pros. The last guy to weigh-in that day beat me by .02.

So I never gave up my day job. It was like Jack was having a good old laugh at the whole situation. I truly believe Jack had something to do with those 4 wins and helped me put some money in the bank to fish anywhere, and anytime I wanted to go.

Thanks!

Any advice on the Zara puppies? I just picked up few and tied up some feathered trebles to increase the profile a touch but still haven't thrown em!

Thanks for sharing the info and stories

Recipe:
Two dozens Minnows/ Half cup of water, blend for 15 seconds, dip worms in sauce for 10 minutes or as long as necessary for proper minner juice absorbation

Just picked that out because of the vision I got with a blender full of minnows swimming around then bam the switch is hit. in All seriouness though, Very good information, it is always good to read the information you share, you can tell you know what you are talking about for sure.

GOOD READ!!