My neighbor Mike hasn’t fished for several years and I asked him if he would like to go out with me as a guest on the show. Sure thing he says, can I bring a fly rod? We haven’t filmed anyone doing that yet so into the boat it went.
As luck would have it we were faced with sustained 20 to 40 k winds that day and despite his best efforts he couldn’t get a decent presentation with the fly. In the meantime I had put four fat Smallies in the boat on a Jackall 3/8 ounce Super Eruption spinnerbait. I had rigged at home on a 2500 Stradic with 8 lb Seige Green mono and a Crucial 6’6″ M rod and a #1 trailer hook. Being a nice guy I said Mike would you like me to tie one of these on for you. I took a new one out of the package and tied it on for him. His setup was a Crucial 6’6″ M with a 2500 Stradic with 15 lb Power Pro and no trailer hook. Over the next fifteen minutes I put four more in the boat and he missed four. One minute the rod was bent and the fight was on, next minute gone. Being a nice guy I said Mike why don’t we trade rods thinking that the trailer hook might be making a difference. We switch and Mike promptly put a few in the boat and I miss four. Please bear in mind that we are taping a show. Mike has a fish on and the camera is pointed his way and I started to laugh. Mike’s fish is back in the water and he and Shawn want to know what’s so funny and I hold up my {previously Mike’s} spinnerbait and you can clearly see the little red hook guard still on the point of the hook. These things are so sticky that Jackall has put a little point cover on them in the packaging and in my hurry to get Mike into a fish I never noticed. OOPS! Somedays you just have to laugh at yourself. The good thing is that these spinnerbaits flat out catch fish if you are sharp enough to take the little hook protector off.
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