Silly Creations

[BYRD]

Hey BOX,

Have you ever pulled one of them big ole spinner baits people use for Rockfish for a hoo?

When I was 14 I made a spinner bait. I raided the silverware drawer and got a spoon, then cut the handle off and drilled a hole in it. I then took a six ounce in line sinker notched the middle of it and tied pink hair around it. Attached a 8/0 Mustad hook via a spit ring and attached that to a stiff wire that I had gotten from a pre made fluke rig. Atached the spoon to the other end via a snap swivel and had me a big ass offshore spinner bait, or so I thought. My dad and his buddies laughed at me and my creation. Well I snuck it on the boat one day out of Hatteras and after not having caught anything all morning I said let me play with a rod. Dad said sure. Well I pulled out that monstrousity of a spinner bait rig a hoo to it and put it over board. That was the spinnest, jumpyest, dumbest looking thing in thte ocean. Tracked like crap. I was little disappointed in how it looked and "ran" while trolled. Well as luck would have it the spinnerbait broke and was no longer able to be used. Of course that was after 3 wahoos and a nice gaffer dolphin. Wondered if anybody else tried something crazy like that.

[WAHOONBOX]

BYRD I WROTE A BOOK ON CRAZY

I'VE ADDED COLORADO BLADES TO THE HOOK....ETC ETC....BUT THIS EXPERIMENTING YOU SPEAK OF IS WHAT MAKES THE GAME TICK! PRETTY WORK!

[Graceland]

Some one done stole your idea and marketed it.

[BYRD]

Nah! That is much better looking than the one I made.