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by Mike62 » Fri Apr 26, 2024 7:07 pm
Those lumo beads take me back in time. There used to be a handful of old French dudes up here who only ice fished. All they wanted was big cusk, nothing else. They'd fill an onion bag with a couple cans of cat and/or dog food with holes punched in the top and bottoms, and then in another onion bag, a couple of activated green glow sticks.
The pointy end of a second line held what appeared to be rotten chicken. Give the whole mess a couple of hours to gain traction down on the bottom and they'd haul in 10lb. cusk, one after the other. If they managed to hook a togue, they threw it back. The whole contraption was controlled by a length of mono, which could easily be cut should a game warden appear on the horizon. When asked if it was the chum or the glow stick that attracted the fish, the old French dudes would only shrug and say, "Who can say?" (I assume that was what they meant, since we couldn't understand a word they said).
My grandfather did much the same, but instead of store bought cat food, he'd use parts of whatever animal he'd just poached; moose, deer, bear...
*sigh* Now I want to tie up some bottom dwelling togue flies with lumo beads.
RIMG3788 by William Lovelace, on Flickr
RIMG3791 by William Lovelace, on Flickr
I like it so much I now have a lifetime supply of 7 colors of it on the way.