If it moves, a bass will hit it!

[OrygunBasser]

I made that statement at a bass club meeting about 25 years ago and someone stood up and said, "Prove it"!!

So, this is what I did.

I took a small corn cob, about 4" long, dried it and split it down the middle with a modeling saw. I formed a piece of stainless wire to hold two hooks along the bottom and an eye to tie the line to. I then placed this into the cob and glued the two halves together. After drying over night, I put split rings and hooks on it. I did not carve on it or paint it. I took it out with him and caught three bass on it in about an hour one morning. It did have a very unusual swishing sound when pulled across the water because of the roughness of the cob!

I have said it before, and I will say it again, Bass are a lot like cats in that you can play with a cat without the thing on the string looking like a mouse. If it looks like something to eat and because they do not have arms they will try it and if it isn't they will spit it out! Tackle has been way over blown in trying to catch the fisherman. You can get by with only about three colors of anything, light meadium and dark. But, even I have 10 colors of everything!