Hello,
 I have a tip  for you guys. Why should you keep a chain type stringer in your rig with a livewell and if you are a catch and release guy?
ANSWER: If you accidently drop,knock or somehow lose your rod and reel overboard,tale the clips ,(all of them) loose from their keepers, tie a large rock ( readily found around the lake ) to one end,then tie around 15-20 ft of rope to the other.Make a mental note of where you think the rod is lyingg on the bottom.Toss out the stringer,let it sink,then keeping contact with thee bottom SLOWLYdrag it back up to the boat.Losing a rig over the side has happened to me and a few fishermen I was angling with,3/4 times we caught the line between the guards or beyween the lure and rod.The only betterway to get a rig back is to hire a diver.Stringer is much cheaper by the hour.
Till next time,tight lines ,Tim.

Of Fishing,
"It is impossible to grow weary of a sport that is never the same on any two days of the year,"
                                                                                                            Theodore Gordon......

I wonder

       Hey out there guys,I was just sitting here thinking about next year's Bassmaster's classic.Will there be anybody with a lure and pattern to beat out the Alabama rig.Your comments are most welcome.

Good friends, a rig and a lure

      Hello from from Tim's Tackle Talk, this morning, May12, 2013.  I have a friend who has been, "slaying the bass" on Lake Guntersville, AL.  The fun part for me is that I can claim not only some kinship with the inventor of The Alabama Rig, Andy Poss  (Slick Lures, Mucle Shoals, Alabama), but that Danny was also throwing The Flirt made by Fliptail lures.The reason that is of any importance is that I love and promote Fliptail Lures and can help you find them if your interested. Danny also says that the Pearl is the best color of Flirt for catching bass right now.

Hello,
 Just a quick note to all my faithful readers and participants,I greatly appreciate your stories and reports,as well as photos.We now have Fliptail Lures in over90 percent of the BassPro Shops !
Go in and pick your favorite color.A close fishing partner of mine has been tearing um up on Neely Heenry on a Fliptail watermelon-red fleck lizard.Please post your pictures,I would greatly appreciate it,Tight Lines, everyone. Tim

Mr.Twister

    I was going through my tackle today and happened upon a utility box of three inch grubs.Those littlee lures got me thinking back to the early seventies.Now,I cut my angling teeth fishing with my Dad and his fishing buddies.I remember Dad's old car hood boat.Back in the mid -fifties,these litle boats were all the rage for bass anglers in the South.Guys would literally take the hoods off old cars and weld them together,( wide end to wide end ), with the hood ornament area being the bow or stern,depending only on
which way the angler is facing.
   Well, I guess about as big as the inovation of the hood boat,was in 1973,when The Mr.Twister original
three inch grub and 1/8 to 1/4 oz. jighead hit the tackle market.I well remember fishing the backwaters of Pickwick Lake in northwest Alabama with my Dad and Uncle.We were in a Cherrokee v-bottom 14ft( complete with seats ),trolling motor and five and one half horsepower Johnson outboard.
   The little Mr.Twister grubs came in chartreuse,white,smoke,orange,and blue,also black I think.Well,we would cast to boat rails from boathouses,piers,and laydown trees along the bank.It was a blast ,because you never really knew,( except sometimes by the way they fought ),what species of fish you had on.It often times would be a big 'ol black crappie,channel catfish,white bass,striped bass,blue catfish,a largemouth,spotted,or a smallmouth bass.
   With these memories jared fresh in mind,I think I will try and repeat the old way we used to fill the livewell,with the Mr.Twister.

            Hello fellow anglers,   
                     I am starting this blog in an effort to explore and share  techneques ,stories, and to talk about the basics of fishiing tackle and how it should be used.I would like to discuss knotts  and terminal tackle .I am talking about everythingg from crankbaits to the best weather conditions.                                                                                                                                                             To start things off I recently conducted a servey asking anglers on facebook what their favorite all time lure would be if they could pick only one .The results suprised me.I kind of was looking for the plastic worm to win out.It did score in the top five,along with the spinnerbait,buzzbait,Rapala Floating Minnow,(which was my personal choice).Get ready,,,,,,the number one favorite lure for American anglers turned out to be the venerable JAMES HEDDON ,ZARA SPOOK,this by a large percentage,Wow!