Jumpin Minnow

[Sneekypete]

Dang Rick........That was a few years ago! You wee a youngster!

Yipper... been catching them 30 inch specks for 20 plus years...in the 1st picture you can see the boat ramp in the background thats the one off 8 mile road...i'm standing on confederate reef right on the cut...i used to slay the trout there.

[lurefisher]

Yipper... been catching them 30 inch specks for 20 plus years...in the 1st picture you can see the boat ramp in the background thats the one off 8 mile road...i'm standing on confederate reef right on the cut...i used to slay the trout there.

I think that was way back when you took me under your wing,i must have been 15 then.Dang i remember them trips like it was yesterday.Thanks Rick!

[corndog]

Here's a couple using the jumping minnow...
the second picture was using the old strawberry ghost....30 incher and a 29 incher....

Thats the pic I was talking about!! that was back when we were room mates!!! If I remember right yall took the canoe to the spot using the electric trolling motor!!! We sure ate good back then. I think i have some pics of a couploe of stringers we took in Chocalate!!! If I cant find them I'll just post for mexico pics!!!

[Sneekypete]

heck yea corndog...remember me caring that plastic boat inside that van for over a year...loaded on the couch and cooking inside the van on my ole smokey cause it would be raining outside...i had all the smoked piped out the front...sure must have been a sight to see all that coming down the beach....

[Robalo]

I always liked the jumpin minnow-was neat starting out with blue/chrome or black/chrome and by end of day, it was bone colored with all the paint gone-then I would just paint em with some pink nail polish and seemed to not matter-it was pretty much 99% action, not color. I liked working them but shoulder/elbow would wear out after all day throwing them. In those back lagoons in WMB and the reefs of Chocolate, we'd do pretty darn good.

I have thrown the she dogs and they just don't work as well for me and my biggest trout was caught on a broken back in East bay in the late 80s. I still have quite a few of them (broken backs and jumpin minnows), but need to replace the hooks since they're all rusty. I never have thrown or bought a Brown lure and look forward to trying one, but I will get frustrated quick if I don't catch with it and I understand there is a special way to work them-I hope Chip or Sneeky or someone can explain and maybe show me what the trick is-until I know how to work it, I aint spending $10 on a lure. Yep, I'm a cheapazz.

[GHSmacker]

I enjoyed reading this thread...and i like seeing those old fishing pics too.

Hell i'm still young and i've caught fish on those silver/black broken backs y'all talk of. We use to switch to em when the fish were short striking topwaters. I haven't thrown one in a while.