The Spoonpluggers Forum

We all live in our own little fishing world. Reservoirs, natural lakes and all those inbetween. Dark water colors, gin clear waters, lakes with no weeds, lakes full of deep weeds. Lakes with the dragon (pike and musky), lakes with stripers, wipers and other species that might dominate where the bass...

DSCF9616.jpg This is the area I used my new Garmin to do the mapping. The red shaded is the shallow part of a large wide bar extending out into the lake. The deepest water is off the end but is part of a saddle to a sunken island but you would say that the end of the bar has the best access to the ...

The funny thing is this. This area is on my lake that I have fished for 49 years and lived on for 33 of those years. Why don't I know this area by now? Because for years I used Mr. Perry's guidelines that kept me in the areas with the biggest and most bass. But now the place is chuck full of norther...

Phil, I still say that if you use Don Dixons method of locating breaklines and follow each breakline around the feature, that is all you need and it is truly faster in my opinion. In my case, a heavy tall weedline and such a flat structure made it more time consuming. I turned towards the mapping st...

Well, When I first use this mapping process for the first time, I did it on a real flat structure. Made about 15 passes trying to over lap so as to not miss anything. Let me back up a little. I have always said that I could map a structure faster and come to the fishing SPOTS a lot faster than this ...

Phil, I was not done with the night fishing just yet. Having such a blast with 17 fish between 3 and 4 1/2 lbs had me wanting more so I went out two more times, back to back 8 hour nights. I am always getting phone calls from spoonpluggers. Some conversations the fishermen have the crying towel in o...

Walt, Come over some day and I will show you how it works. Then you will have something to look forward to. John

I live in my own little fishing world. When I speak of what I do, it is in my lakes(natural), and anyone who's lakes are not like mine, I would understand how they may not get to see what I see or have a chance to understand our fishing conditions and how the fish relate to them. Any smart spoonplug...

When there is something I do not know, or want to learn about anything, there is no limit on the amount of time I will spend on it. I want to know the answers to the questions. Some have too many variables to set things in stone but most anything can be learned with some effort. Effort will get you ...

Hal, You have success, no drugs needed. Those success highs are better than drugs and longer lasting. Go back to portage in late October and some of those smallies that are in the river now will head out into the lake to winter. Just like where Chuck and I fished with you . You could have some fun w...

"Let us imagine what would happen if a volume of water did not stop getting heavier as it cooled below 40 degrees F (approx). If water continued to get heavier and sink below this temp, then the coldest water would go the bottom and the freezing process would start at the bottom. Pretty soon ou...

Everyone that does this had (has) a learning curve. The time it might take a person to start catching fish depends on how much time you can spend on the water(provided this person follows the guidelines). You must have a burning desire to learn. One thing the book didn't say is how much effort it ta...

They are all trolling rods. John

Just a note. I rarely use no bo in 17 or 20 with the exception of the Florida lakes . 12lb has worked on the lakes around here for all the years I have been doing this. They call it 12 but its diameter is similar to 20 and you can pull a car down the road with it. John