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- From: dsmith@hplabsz.hpl.hp.com (David R. Smith)
- Subject: Re: 'The Flying Lure'
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.002956.27145@hplabsz.hpl.hp.com>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 00:29:56 GMT
- References: <1jhcqdINN39u@grapevine.EBay.Sun.COM> <1993Jan20.190012.16635@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan20.190012.16635@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu> kkc@stat.nursing.arizona.edu writes:
- >The commercial shows that the fishes in the tank keep hitting the flying
- >lure. However, who knows how many days those fishes have been starved
- >before filming the commercial.
-
- Last spring, I saw a (mostly bass) fishing presentation which involved
- tossing various lures to fish in a tank about 30' long by 3' wide by 6'
- deep. The expert wasn't pushing any particular lure, but mostly used
- spinner "baits" with and without trailers, and tube jigs. The hooks were
- cut off. Bass and trout hit pretty much everything. He cast a spinnerbait
- down onto the asphalt parking lot and had a kid stomp all over it. Then he
- proceeded to get two or three strikes with it on his next cast into the
- tank. The fish in the flying lure ad don't look any hungrier than the fish
- I saw in the tank that day.
-
- The flying lure's supposed advantage is not that the fish like it any
- better, but that you can better work it in to where they are.
-
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