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- Posted-Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 15:58:06 -0600
- Received-Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 15:58:36 CST
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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 15:58:06 -0600
- From: Matt Rein #3 <mrein3@cfsmo.honeywell.com>
- To: rec.outdoors.fishing
- Subject: PowerBait Ramblings
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- > wesm@mbunix.mitre.org (Miller) writes:
- >
- > > I've noticed that a lot of people use Powerbait, either nuggets or the
- > > other stuff, and doing very well pulling trout out of some of the local lakes
- > > Being an artifical lure person myself, I was wondering..how exactly do you us
- > > the stuff. The directions on the jars is not very accurate. I probably won't
- > > use the stuff myself, but my 10 year old could sure enjoy catching something
- > > other than panfish. Any suggestions from those who have used the stuff? Thank
- >
- > I did some extensive (to me anyway) testing on Berkeley PowerGrub and PowerFrog
- > lures. I found them to be no more effective than regular twistertail jigs
- > (that's what the Grub is), and I found the frogs to be completely
- > ineffective. I normally fish for bass and pike.
- >
- > As a disclaimer, the PowerFrog doesn't have a lot of action by itself, so I
- > may not have been working the lure correctly. I did use it at least once
- > every trip, all summer - I fish every weekend from the opening of pike
- > season (early may) until mid-October. I never caught a fish with a PowerFrog.
- >
- > The PowerGrubs caught fish in numbers and sizes comparable to the normal, white
- > twister tails that I had (my PGs were white).
- >
- > A vibrax beat the powerwhatevers hands down every time, as did live worms, and
- > real frogs.
- >
- > Darin Cowan - cowan@cerianthus.pinetree.org
- >
-
- About 3 years ago I started to get serious about bass fishing. Don't ask me
- why, maybe because they are 15 times easier to catch than walleye, maybe
- because they like topwater baits, maybe because they don't care if a
- coldfront came through or not, I don't know. What I do know is that there
- is one bait I now use for bass, it is the 7" PowerWorm. For the right price
- I'll even tell you the color... ;-) I would be willing to go so far as
- to challenge anybody to try to outfish this bait but I wouldn't want to
- give away any of my favorite lakes/spots.
- Some proof of how PowerFul the PowerWorm really is:
- My tourney partner owns the rig we fish out of so he is always in the front
- and the bass get to see his bait first. Before I stumbled onto the PowerWorm
- I would normally get outfished 2-1, understandable given I'm in the back.
- Then I tied on a PowerWorm. I would catch a few more, no matter what my
- partner would throw (he didn't at the time fish the PowerWorm, only other
- scented or salted worms). Finally he got pissed off at me outfishing him
- every time (he is extremely competitive, even when we are fishing as a
- team) and he tied on a PowerWorm in my favorite color. Now that is all
- he uses and by the time I get my PowerWorm to a piece of cover, he caught
- all the fish there. It sucks, I can't buy a fish behind a PowerWorm!
-
- Last May I bought a lakehome so I could spend more time fishing. Between
- June and partridge season (mid-Sept) I caught more 4+ pound bass than I
- can count. I used the same color PowerWorm to catch 80 - 90% of the big
- fish. (A four pound bass in MN is very nice, 6-7 pounds here would be
- like catching a 10+ pounder down south.) One fish, again caught on the
- "magic" bait was 23 inches. I didn't weigh the fish but according to
- Ron Shara's 1993 Pocket Guide Tales of the Tape, a 23" bass in MN weighs
- 7.6 pounds. But the Tales of the Tape is kind of useless, I once weighed
- in a 19.5 inch fish in a contest, it weighed 6 pounds 9 ounces; that fish
- would have been 4.6 pounds according to Schara.
-
- Anyway, the point I'm trying to make is that PowerWorms are very good.
- I don't use any soft plastic bait that ain't PowerSomething. Especially
- PowerWorms and PowerCraws. Ok, maybe I still use some twister tails and
- fuzzy grubs for them damn walleye but for the most part all texas-rigged
- situations are handled by PowerSomething.
-
- About the PowerCraw, there is a dock on Lake Minnetonka where I can go on
- any day and catch two, only two, never more, never less than two one pound
- bass on a 4" June Bug PowerCraw. That damn color works noplace else for
- me other than that one stupid dock. My partner laughs every time I do it.
- He even tried to put my favorite PowerWorm in front of the Craw but it
- don't work, only June Bug Craws work.
-
- Sorry about all the bass talk, the fish house still ain't out and it already
- has been a long winter.
-
- --
- - Matt Rein
- - mrein3@CFSMO.Honeywell.COM
-