duck feather jigs

[waterdog101]

I appreciate the kind words and John Meyers and the boys at Backwaters are a class act. The FNF is my FAVORITE way of fishing, probably because I have caught more Smallmouth over 4lb than any other technique or lure. Once you learn it, you will love it. Some people think it is basically bobber fishing but there is a lot more that goes into it than people think. good luck and hope you catch all that you want.

PS - Stop calling me MR. I am old enough as it is and will get older on Friday the 13th, Yes Friday November 13th I turn 1 year older, I think that will make me somewhere around 96 years old, at least that is how old I feel, but please stop calling me Mr. I have a current wife, an ex wife, a soon to be 21 yr old daughter and another daughter that will be 19 on November 17th, so between these 4 girls I have been called every name in the book, good bad and indifferent, so please pick another name besides Mr. elnut.

sorry, didn't mean to offend you. by calling you mr. i try to be nice to every one. if just plain elnut is good enough for you, it works for me. anyway happy birthday 5 days early. from what you said about the age of your children, I very well may be older than you. i have a daughter 29 years old. and growing old is kinda nice. I thank the good lord every morning of my life for letting me live another day. growing old is much better than dying young. some times when i'm fishing at night, and the water is like a sheet of glass. and it's really quiet, except for the night bugs singing, and i'm working my jig slowly back to the boat, while feeling every thing the jig touches, i'm looking up at the sky with all it's beauty. and thinking what it's all about. and i think, life don't get any better than this. and then that jerk on my line and the sound of the drag. then the glass top water is broken by a fighting smallmouth, trying to spit that jig out. then i know life does get a little better. and when i have my thumb in it's mouth holding her up, i say thank you lord.

[elnutsmalljaws]

sorry, didn't mean to offend you. by calling you mr. i try to be nice to every one. if just plain elnut is good enough for you, it works for me. anyway happy birthday 5 days early. from what you said about the age of your children, I very well may be older than you. i have a daughter 29 years old. and growing old is kinda nice. I thank the good lord every morning of my life for letting me live another day. growing old is much better than dying young. some times when i'm fishing at night, and the water is like a sheet of glass. and it's really quiet, except for the night bugs singing, and i'm working my jig slowly back to the boat, while feeling every thing the jig touches, i'm looking up at the sky with all it's beauty. and thinking what it's all about. and i think, life don't get any better than this. and then that jerk on my line and the sound of the drag. then the glass top water is broken by a fighting smallmouth, trying to spit that jig out. then i know life does get a little better. and when i have my thumb in it's mouth holding her up, i say thank you lord.

42 on Friday so unless you were 13 when your daughter was born, you have a few years on me. I do like your rendition of night fishing because we think a lot of like. Nothing like full moon, Dale Hollow lake, my favorite flat, big spinnerbait, slow rolling just off the bottom, looking and listening to all around me, thump-thump-thump-thump as the blade turns ever so slow and my G Loomis vibrates from the tip to my hands, the rod wedged in the crease between my upper thigh and stomache, just waiting for the MASSIVE strike that a not so happy smallmouth does to a big spinnerbait. Absolute most aggressive strike that you will ever feel in fishing, just hoping the strike is not violent enough to pull my rod overboard, where I have caught it in mid air 3 times as it was heading over. The other is as you describe, draggin my jig across the point or thru the deep grass bed feeling every little knock or tug of the grass for that split second waiting to determine if it pulls back or not. I don't use a blacklight so I am using all my senses and my flourocarbon line to let me know when I have a strike or not. Love it, just me, my rod and reel, my boat, the night and the anticipation of the smallmouth coming aboard to say hello.