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Either the little stretch of river I fish has no steelhead or salmon in it, or I suck at this kind of fishing. One thing I learned, the salmon egg leader loops worked okay but I think I will go with the netting bag. The fast current degrades exposed eggs.
I was thinking about going to the lake today but got a call from the wireless folks saying they would be here sometime today to install wireless internet. It takes me 10 minutes on dial-up to get onto this forum so for now the fish will have to wait till Monday since this weekend I am going shooting. I do love fishing and shooting.
Given the size of a fish's brain, I think it doesn't really matter to them. They don't seem to be fashion conscious (and neither am I). It sure is fun watching them chase after these things. When I first put in, I had just a hook with a worm. Got nibbles but not strikes. So I changed over to one of the beaded ones and actually got to watch fish chase after them. The spinning blade, the colors, and the worm just seems to be irresistible to them. As soon as I get to a bigger town, I will be setting up with smaller graduated sized beads so that I can reduce the overall size of the things. Interesting side note, my uncle bought a packet of hooks that were beaded above the hook with 8 small red seed beads (seed beads are smaller than what you see in the photo). Beading and spinning your leader just might turn out to be the easiest, cheapest, and most versatile lure yet. Wouldn't it be wild if we were to find out this is all there is to it? That the expensive fancy lure on the sports isle is no better than a child's bracelet?
By the way, I ran out of clevis hooks that worked with the smaller spinners I have so I just slid them on through the hole in the spinner. It sits on top of the last bead and seems to spin quite well. Maybe I don't need the clevis hooks for my spinners?