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> 
> wesm@mbunix.mitre.org (Miller) writes:
> 
> > 	I've noticed that a lot of people use Powerbait, either nuggets or the
> > other stuff, and doing very well pulling trout out of some of the local lakes
> > Being an artifical lure person myself, I was wondering..how exactly do you us
> > the stuff. The directions on the jars is not very accurate. I probably won't
> > use the stuff myself, but my 10 year old could sure enjoy catching something
> > other than panfish. Any suggestions from those who have used the stuff? Thank
> 
> I did some extensive (to me anyway) testing on Berkeley PowerGrub and PowerFrog
> lures.  I found them to be no more effective than regular twistertail jigs
> (that's what the Grub is), and I found the frogs to be completely 
> ineffective.  I normally fish for bass and pike.  
> 
> As a disclaimer, the PowerFrog doesn't have a lot of action by itself, so I 
> may not have been working the lure correctly.  I did use it at least once 
> every trip, all summer - I fish every weekend from the opening of pike 
> season (early may) until mid-October.  I never caught a fish with a PowerFrog.
> 
> The PowerGrubs caught fish in numbers and sizes comparable to the normal, white
> twister tails that I had (my PGs were white).
> 
> A vibrax beat the powerwhatevers hands down every time, as did live worms, and
> real frogs.
> 
> Darin Cowan - cowan@cerianthus.pinetree.org 
>

About 3 years ago I started to get serious about bass fishing.  Don't ask me
why, maybe because they are 15 times easier to catch than walleye, maybe
because they like topwater baits, maybe because they don't care if a
coldfront came through or not, I don't know.  What I do know is that there
is one bait I now use for bass, it is the 7" PowerWorm.  For the right price
I'll even tell you the color... ;-)  I would be willing to go so far as
to challenge anybody to try to outfish this bait but I wouldn't want to
give away any of my favorite lakes/spots.
Some proof of how PowerFul the PowerWorm really is:
 My tourney partner owns the rig we fish out of so he is always in the front
 and the bass get to see his bait first.  Before I stumbled onto the PowerWorm
 I would normally get outfished 2-1, understandable given I'm in the back.
 Then I tied on a PowerWorm.  I would catch a few more, no matter what my
 partner would throw (he didn't at the time fish the PowerWorm, only other
 scented or salted worms).  Finally he got pissed off at me outfishing him
 every time (he is extremely competitive, even when we are fishing as a
 team) and he tied on a PowerWorm in my favorite color.  Now that is all
 he uses and by the time I get my PowerWorm to a piece of cover, he caught
 all the fish there.  It sucks, I can't buy a fish behind a PowerWorm!
 
 Last May I bought a lakehome so I could spend more time fishing.  Between
 June and partridge season (mid-Sept) I caught more 4+ pound bass than I
 can count.  I used the same color PowerWorm to catch 80 - 90% of the big
 fish.  (A four pound bass in MN is very nice, 6-7 pounds here would be
 like catching a 10+ pounder down south.)  One fish, again caught on the
 "magic" bait was 23 inches.  I didn't weigh the fish but according to
 Ron Shara's 1993 Pocket Guide Tales of the Tape, a 23" bass in MN weighs
 7.6 pounds.  But the Tales of the Tape is kind of useless, I once weighed
 in a 19.5 inch fish in a contest, it weighed 6 pounds 9 ounces; that fish
 would have been 4.6 pounds according to Schara.

Anyway, the point I'm trying to make is that PowerWorms are very good.
I don't use any soft plastic bait that ain't PowerSomething.  Especially
PowerWorms and PowerCraws.  Ok, maybe I still use some twister tails and
fuzzy grubs for them damn walleye but for the most part all texas-rigged
situations are handled by PowerSomething.

About the PowerCraw, there is a dock on Lake Minnetonka where I can go on
any day and catch two, only two, never more, never less than two one pound
bass on a 4" June Bug PowerCraw.  That damn color works noplace else for
me other than that one stupid dock.  My partner laughs every time I do it.
He even tried to put my favorite PowerWorm in front of the Craw but it
don't work, only June Bug Craws work.

Sorry about all the bass talk, the fish house still ain't out and it already
has been a long winter.

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- Matt Rein
- mrein3@CFSMO.Honeywell.COM