Saturday 8-2-03

My boat is still in the shop so I hitched a ride with friend and PWT Pro Todd Robinson. We decided to fish the area N/NE of Ashtabula Ohio. We met up in the morning and launched his Yamaha powered Lund Pro-V out of Lakeview Park.

The lake had a nice 1-2′ chop and sky was overcast, perfect day for walleye fishing.

We ran 12 Miles N/NE to 74′ of water and setup.

We were running old and new style thundersticks on 12# single strand wireline behind offshore inline boards.

Here was our basic setup

Left side

black/silver Thunderstick Jr (new style) 200′ behind the board

162 Thunderstick Jr (old style) 200′, then 1 1/2 oz snap weight, then 25′, then the board

Right side

162 Thunderstick Jr (old style) 200′ behind the board

blue/silver Thunderstick Jr (new style) 200′, then 1 1/2 oz snap weight, then 25′, then the board

We had a great day on the lake, we ended up with 11 eyes, 6 or 7 big perch (10-13″), and about 30 farm animals (sheephead).

The picture below is one of the eyes that we caught, it came up from the deep water so fast that his air bladder came out of his mouth… It almost looks like he is sticking his tongue out at us!

Jason

How do you like the new style t-sticks compared to the oringinals?

I am starting to come around but its tough when the old style out perform the new 2-3 to 1. The biggest thing I miss is the colors that storm used to have. To compensate, I started doing a lot of custom paint jobs on the new ones. I use nail polish, paint pens, and magic markers. Pretty much anything I can find that has the color I want.

Rumor has it that Dave at Kaboom lures is bringing back the old style thundestick next spring. All I can say is that I sure hope so, I’m getting tired of paying $10 a lure off of ebay..