Trying to keep busy during the winter doldrums

[islandbass]

I must say that fishing hasn’t been easy this year and as a matter of fact for those shore bound like me. I’m batting 0 for 3 and I am trying to remove the funk of not catching a fish in winter. It’s perhaps my biggest fishing related peeve right now and it irks me that I hooked and lost what would have been:

1) The first fish caught in 2008
2) First bass caught in winter and
3) First fish caught on a jig.

Oooohh that gets me steaming like Yosemite Sam.

Fortunately, I have found comfort in making some lures that will be auctioned off at my daughter’s school auction. I made two sets of five inline spinners. Here is one set:



This set of 3 I made tonight:



I love my “Patriot” pattern of Red, White, and Blue bucktail.

Too bad they wouldn’t fare well as a Valentine’s gift!