re: Live shrimp hooks for specks and reds

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Fairly certain capt fishes saltwater and LOTS of it.

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He's a friend of mine. Or I consider him a friend...

But I didn't know what a crankbait was until I was 12. That's why I referenced his freshwater experience.

My point was that while he was fishing freshwater I was in the salt. And while he was rigging spinner baits I was putting the same bait on the same hook under the same marine buoy corks and catching meat.

He knows what I mean.

Dad was friends with F Heroman, we stayed a week at his camp close to yours for years. I caught more flounder by the rocks at the marina behind the restaurant than I can count. But what I did to the green trout in same period is just ugly.

I still laugh when kids walk into camp at graveyard island and see us in speedos holding up a stringer with 150 10-12" specks and 20-30 rat reds. I got a few years on you poops, I remember when the sparkle beetle was the "new" bait. We were fishing quad rigs with Stu Scheer at the time running to lighthouse.

Stu has likely caught more specks than any human on rod and reel. When I was old enough to get bored of popping corks and moved to H&H cocahoes, my paw paw would sit in the back of the boat while we worked the trolling motor. With his cork and beetle dragging behind the boat. He out fished us pretty much every time.

I've seen and fishe those plenty. Just always called it a split tail grub.

Sparkle Beetles are so fricking Salt Life.

I've never fished with anyone who used treble for live bait, always kahle. That's GI and big lake mostly.