09-18-2010, 09:09 AM
Been thinking about spoons the past few days and pondered just how to dock shoot one. Most spoons are heavy and sink very quickly. Not what I&#39;m looking for. I envision one being about 1/32 in weight with a slow drop. The treble hook trailing behind most spoons would also make for high risk shooting. A problem.<br />I decided to experiment and make my own.<br />Went to the garage and dug out some dusty tackle boxes to retrieved a spinner blade from my trout fishing rigs.<br />Picking out an appropriate sized hook, then soldered the hook to the blade and wah lah. One small dock shooting spoon that can be held by the bend of the hook and shot with no problem. Looks like on of them johnson spoons only much smaller and lighter. But will it catch fish is what I asked myself?<br />Actually, I took this thing to the water yesterday evening for a few hours. Horrible day of fishing. Switched back and forth from BG and spoon. Caught two crappie on the BG and two crappie plus a gill on the spoon. Called it quits just after dark.<br />Today I had a very small margin of time to fish in but just wanted to fish this little spoon. An hour and a half till dark and since dock shooting was so horrible down the lake yesterday, I chose to fish some placed structure. <br />Caught a crappie pretty quickly off this little spoon. This gave me high hopes for this lure, till I got it hung and lost the thing. 
Darn it.<br />I will have to make some more of these up later.<br />Switching over to the Cajun Cricket, I picked up twenty seven fish. Only five or six were over ten inches. The quality was poor but it was still a lot of fun catching them. All fish came on an eight count in ten feet of water.
Darn it.<br />I will have to make some more of these up later.<br />Switching over to the Cajun Cricket, I picked up twenty seven fish. Only five or six were over ten inches. The quality was poor but it was still a lot of fun catching them. All fish came on an eight count in ten feet of water.