Weird bait

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[#0000FF]I never got the exact recipe, but it was probably similar to the old "Pokee Bait" made and sold in Utah back "in the day". As much as I can remember it had cheese, flour, Pautzke's red nectar, and some anise (licorice) oil in it. Whatever it was, the planted rainbows in Irvine lake sure liked it.[/#0000FF]
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[#0000FF]They also liked plain Velveeta cheese...or a cheese sundae. That was a small gob of Velveeta with a red Pautzke's salmon egg on the hook point...for extra color and flavor. Also had good results on the red Pautzkes eggs with some garlic powder sprinkled in the bottle.[/#0000FF]
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[#0000FF]Probably one of the wildest and craziest things I ever used was a "waxed paper buzz bait". Two pieces of waxed paper about two inches wide and two inches long were rolled into tight 2" tubes. These tubes were bent in the middle and hooked together with a small 1/2" rubber band. Then they were twisted and twisted...and secured in place with a small piece of Scotch tape.
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[#0000FF]We would make up a dozen or so of these things and then go to a small lake that had some cagy largemouths. They liked to hang at the edge of the shoreline weed bed and ambush grasshoppers or other bugs that flew out off the bank. We put a hook through a loop in the twisted rubber band and made short lob casts out to the "zone". Then we waited for the water to loosen the tape and the freed rubber band would make the two pieces of rolled wax paper splash and buzz as they spun in the water. If a bass was nearby they went nuts. Memorable strikes.[/#0000FF]
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[#0000FF]I was thinking about that recently and wondered why I haven't ever used it since. Might be that pond was a special situation. But I can't help believe that it might work in some place like Mantua.
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