The Spoonpluggers Forum

It is a lot to absorb but if a person wants it bad enough, they will find a way. Good things come to those who are willing to put forth the effort. Fishing is no different. You can actually become as good as you want to be. Every single day I am on the water, I learn more. Here is one from today. A ...

Thanks but I am still learning also. Never stops. John

One of the best ten minutes , 16 seconds of words ever spoken. Thank you Jim. John

Really good stuff. Intense!!!!!!!! Don finally said it, and it's hard to say what he said. The guys who question Bucks material just haven't done enough work to know how right he was. Have not fished enough, have not done enough to SEE!!!!!!!!!!!! If you come right out and tell someone that they are...

Real good one. When ever someone says that they have read the green book after they don't understand what you are trying to tell them, you know they haven't done much with it. They haven't been there, They haven't done enough, and they don't know that they don't know. They could have, they just didn...

Joe, You hit it on the head. When you are not catching fish,you are not fishing deep enough. But then you also have to ask yourself if your depth and speeds were correct as you went about your checking. It could be that the fish are there where you were checking but just not real active. Many times ...

One more.............. Every one of our big musky over 50 inches were caught in and around the deepest water in an area and none of them were even close to the base breakline which is at 28 feet. And all were caught bumping the bottom. Just another time we used depth as our guide out beyond the fina...

Here is one for you to think about. Page 131 in the green book. " The next situation shows a school of bass with their home area on a clean spot out in the middle of a channel, or a hole that is 40 feet deep. The clean spot is surrounded by quite a large area of 40 foot of water, giving it a sa...

I learned this from Frank Hamill. If you have covered all the breaklines and have not caught the fish and need to go out beyond that point(Buck says dont), let depth be your guide. I have caught many groups of adult fish out beyond the final identifiable breakline where not many ever venture. Think ...

Joe, I assume you are talking about the late fall but I can talk about both. At ice out, the only time we do all of our casting in the deepest section of the holes is when the holes are very small and can be covered with one or two anchoring positions. Everything is done by casting directly after ic...

Just a few thoughts. My green book has never been very far from my favorite chair. For over 45 years that book has been picked up and re-studied over and over. There is rarely a time where you do not take something in that is like a slap in the face. Mr. Perry always said that much of what is in the...

David, You just answered your own question. Your observations of what exists upstairs can tell you a lot of what you can expect. You can SEE what is happening as you start out, throughout the day and see exactly what took place when the fishing was at its best. You should observe upstairs every time...

Just got done tying about 50 deer tail jigs in 1/2 and 3/4 oz for St. Clair and niagra river. What are you looking for> John

Might as well keep going. Most of us live in a small fishing world. Let's face it, for some reason, most of the spoonpluggers live in the midwest where we fish mostly natural lakes. Back in the day, our national outings put us on Lake Chicamauga, Pickwick and a few other reservoirs. It is the reserv...

Found an old article dated June 23, 1991 titled Spoonpluggers Scoop Big Bass. Here is some of the scoop. Six and 8 lb fish were commonplace in the livewells of the small boats manned by a contingent from Chatt Tenn. I'll shorten it up. Frank and wife caught 15 bass one day 19 the second day and 22 o...