Wednesday, July 13, 2005

What triggers that strike ? ? ?

,What triggers that strike? I’ve been trying to figure that out for the past 15 years. I was at Bass Pro shops a couple of months ago and watched as they were feeding the fish in the large aquarium with hands full of stunned threadfin shad. The bass and other fish would rush in and pick off the shad with a rush but not the Gar they would slowly ease up in to where the action was come up beside a minnow and with one traffic fast side motion grab it and slowly move off. I saw one large catfish come up and bite off part of the shad that was sticking out of a gars mouth. I think you have to put your lure in just the right place to get that strike. So presentation is important. I’ve tried lots of things like sent spray even WD40, chumming, different colors on my lures fast and slow retrieves. Last year while sitting at the controls and blind casting my line on my open faced spinning rod and reel was touching the railing that goes around the side of my pontoon boat The tip of my rod was jumping up and down as I brought the lure in it had a very sharp wiggle and shimmy to it That’s when a gar shot out from nowhere and nailed the wiggling thing. That’s when it hit me, like a light bulb turning on. Fix something on to the rod that would make this happen. So now I have a gadget that really works. It will put a wiggle and shimmy to that nylon lure that’s impossible to get any other way. I’ve been using this for a long time and I believe it has improved my ratio of hits at least 50 % It’s easy to snap it on your open face spinning rod (that’s the only place it will work) I call it my (Automatic Rod Tip Vibrator) Automatic because all you have to do is reel in The Gadget does all the work. If you don’t want to use it simply move the pick up arm up and out of the way. Or remove the whole thing. And that’s not all. The thing also works on any other lure you use It puts that extra action on any lure. I catch a lot of fish off of my dock under a light at night, mostly in the winter time using a crank bait like the deep diving rattle trap, and the “gadget” puts that extra wiggle, and it will dart from side to side. I’ve caught a lot of stripers, bass and crappie with it. This thing was made to put that extra wiggle and shimmy to the nylon lures I use them on all my Gar fishing rods now. I’m sure if you try it you will like it. And I’ll send you your money back if you don’t. I’m going to put some kits together and on my web site, just fill out the order blank and send it to me. There will be introductions price through July 2005 of $2.00 a kit plus $1.00 S & H. After that I’ll have to charge more. There is a picture of the kit (3 pieces) on my blog site. It comes with complete instructions, easy to install fits all sizes of open faced spinning rods.

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