02-26-2022, 11:25 PM
Interesting subject. When I first started fishing I always fished with night crawlers. Someone said if we added a mini marshmallow that we would catch even more fish. Tried that method and found that it marginally helped on some bodies of water. We also would occasionally use salmon eggs and we discovered that Pautzke Balls of Fire salmon eggs were the most expensive and the best.
Then someone discovered that Velveeta cheese, on a treble hook, caught fish. We discovered that Teton cheese worked even better (stayed on the hook better than Velveeta did) when we could find it in the stores. They also started selling treble hooks that had a coil of wire wrapped around the shank and they kept the cheese on a little better, but not much better.
As I got exposed to other anglers I started casting Dare Devils. The one that I used almost exclusively was fluorescent red on a silver lure. I also learned to cast a almost-full clear bubble with a fly. At first I exclusively used a mosquito fly. I caught lots of Yellowstone Cutthroat on the Yellowstone River. My brother in law found some flies sold at a war surplus store, in Tooele, for $.04 each! We bought a generous supply and I discovered that fish would bite a variety of different flies. The only problem is that the steel that they used to make the hooks was extremely brittle and the hooks would often break off when one released a fish.
I grew up fishing with Zebco closed face reels. We could buy them for about $4.00 each and they worked, must of the time. When I was a teenager my parents bought me a Garcia Mitchell 300 reel, which was a top-of-the-line reel at the time. I used that reel for more years that I can remember.
Then someone discovered that Velveeta cheese, on a treble hook, caught fish. We discovered that Teton cheese worked even better (stayed on the hook better than Velveeta did) when we could find it in the stores. They also started selling treble hooks that had a coil of wire wrapped around the shank and they kept the cheese on a little better, but not much better.
As I got exposed to other anglers I started casting Dare Devils. The one that I used almost exclusively was fluorescent red on a silver lure. I also learned to cast a almost-full clear bubble with a fly. At first I exclusively used a mosquito fly. I caught lots of Yellowstone Cutthroat on the Yellowstone River. My brother in law found some flies sold at a war surplus store, in Tooele, for $.04 each! We bought a generous supply and I discovered that fish would bite a variety of different flies. The only problem is that the steel that they used to make the hooks was extremely brittle and the hooks would often break off when one released a fish.
I grew up fishing with Zebco closed face reels. We could buy them for about $4.00 each and they worked, must of the time. When I was a teenager my parents bought me a Garcia Mitchell 300 reel, which was a top-of-the-line reel at the time. I used that reel for more years that I can remember.