The Spoonpluggers Forum

Glad you are back on here too, Steve!
Thanks for your kind words as well.
Looking forward to seeing and hearing more out of you.
How's the dance lessons go?!!!!

Geez Fran, Poor Kenny hasnt posted here for months, and when he comes back(at my urging too), you rip him a new one! FWIW, I feel he is a very good writer and poster here. We need more Kenny Hyde's, Jim Duplex's, and Jim Shells posting on this board! Kenny thanks for reposting your very good post. I...

John,
Got tired of that happening and now I type all long posts on Word and then just copy and paste it here. No more lost posts that way.

Bill, Thanks for posting the map and welcome to the site. One of the things a structure must do is to go all the way from the deep to the swallows, to be considered a potential structure. If they dont, then the fish will not use them. For example.....in Maple Cove on the west side of that 45 foot ho...

Mr. Hogue, Welcome to the board. Mr. Perry always said there is no such thing as a dumb question. Please ask your questions. Iron sharpens iron. Mr Perry knew this. We all learn from someone else asking questions. It helps to keep us on our toes, so to speak. One of the things we all want new potent...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MY FRIEND!

John,
Very sorry to hear of the loss of your Mom. My condolences to you and your family.
I will keep you in my prayers.
Steve

I agree with Bill! Fran that was an excellent post! " The trigger for the marker wasn't the change in depth, but the change in direction. Remember in the exercise he was determining the shape of the structure." In my eyes, it is both. The reason Don, (and John too), changed direction was b...

Kevin,
They can be just about anything. A pile of Christmas trees, brush piled up, out here they actually make trees, brush, and other stuff like this out of plastic that doesnt deteriorate.
I hate them!

Thanks Bill for putting these on here. If we follow Mr. Perry's guidelines, we are not to go any farther up stream than the winter draw down point, or, any farther than where we have less than 20 feet of water in the channel. This will eliminate the upper half of this lake. I would start at the bar ...

Good points Fran. However, I have seen many bars end in a 100 feet or more of water and the main channel is hundreds of yards away. Yet, the bars still produced. I am assuming that the fish crossed those depths via small breaks and breaklines. The depths are great enough that they never have to go b...

Kevin,
Chase Klinesteker once told me this:
It is no different than having a 30 foot hole on one side of a bar and a 32 foot hole on the other side.
You could have fish using both holes, but your biggest fish will come from the 32 foot hole.

So the best advice is to "check them both out".

I use whatever they have on sale. Usually the clear.
On my casting rod, I use the light green in 15 pound test.
It doesnt seem to get brittle as fast as some of the premium lines out here in our dry heat.

Personally, I have not lost as many lures with wire. One of the problems new Spoonpluggers run into when using wire is they tend to "throw back" their line, like they do when using NOBO. Similar to trying to remove debree from a fouled lure. This will put kinks in your wire. The kink then ...

Welcome Kevin, and it is good to know a new Spoonplugger is at least somewhat near to me.
Read the Green Book, get the Home Study Course and devourer them.

If you ever get to the Phoenix area, let me know and we can wet a line together.
Steve