11-11-2011, 11:46 PM
I don't use spinners any more, but I used to fish exclusively with Panther Martins. I was sold on them the first time I ever saw them being used. A good friend was showing us how to fish them on the Little Walker River in California. As he pulled the Panther Martin out of the river to cast again a 14" Golden Trout (the most beautiful trout I have ever seen) followed it right out of the water and it landed on the bank. Needless to say we kept it. That was over 40 years ago. If I ever went back to using spinners the yellow one with red dots would be the first ones I would buy. Oh those were the days. I remember one time floating down from the train trestle below Big Springs to Mac's Inn. My brother, my cousin and I would pull into a hole and the fisherman below us would say that he had just finished fishing that hole and we wouldn't catch anything. On each fish we caught, which were many that day, we would yell out ( because we were obnoxious teenagers), " Darn it caught another one." We had everyone asking us that day what we were using. Once again it was a 1/4 oz. yellow with red dots Panther Martin. Sorry about reminiscing, but those were fun times..
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