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Primer Plus Spinner bait

My favorite spinnerbait for the last few years has been the strike king premier plus spinnerbait. I like the design of the head because it has a flat keel type design. It also appears in the water to look a lot like a bait fish head because of the red gill accents and the eyes, two things bass focus on when they are attacking a lure. The skirt is also longer and covers the trailer hook that comes already on the spinnerbait. Anyway, it’s one of the best and I recommended it to everyone. For the next month I will put one in every order, free when you order. It is a special bonus that will be sure to help you catch more fish on a spinnerbait.

I do not really like fishing in cold weather but if I have to I can still catch them on this pattern

Good Fishing

 John Torsch

What My Dad Taught Me About Bass Fishing

When I was young I had one small orange tackle box full of lures and a spin cast Zebco rod and reel. All the lures I had in my little orange box I had bought myself. I treasured each and every lure and never wanted to lose any of them. However, because I fished from the shore all of the time I would always end up getting snagged and losing my some of my lures. Whenever I did this I would always get very upset.

One day I was fishing on the Thunder Bay River in Alpena Michigan off the island and I lost my orange floating rapalla and two of my casting spoons. I was very very upset. I had not caught anything at all and losing those favorite lures meant that I was having a horrible day! I went inside and decided to quit fishing. I decided to re-access my game plan. I told my dad what had happened (keep in mind that my dad was not a fisherman or a hunter or an outdoor person in general). This is what my dad told me….

“When a good General goes into battle he already knows that there will be losses and already has that calculated into their battle plan. He does not want the losses… but he knows that there is simply no way around it. Every engagement will produce acceptable losses. That is just the way it goes. You do not dwell on it… you move on. Fishing is no different. You are going to get snagged and lose lures. That is just what you have to accept if you are going to be a fisherman”. At the time it did not really make me feel any better, but it did make sense.

How I look at this is very important. If you want to be a serious bass tournament angler you need to learn how to accept losses. When you fish a lot your going to have more losses. You are going to break rods, lose lures, damage your boat, crack your lower unit, blow up your engine and break stuff on your trailer. That is just the way it goes.

You don’t complain you deal with it and move on.

This is very important.. years after my dad told me about this I wrote my book “101 Ways To Win Bass Tournaments”.

81. Remember your job is to deal with problems

Your job is not to win bass tournaments and to win money. Your job is to deal with problems and overcome them to win. Winning is the end result of overcoming every problem that got in your way. Your boat breaking down, other people fishing your spot, fish not bitting and any other problem you can think of. If you fish long enough it will happen. Take the things that are not were going well and use them. You do it because you did not let the things that should get in your way. Overcome them and get winning results.

Dad’s words are as true now as ever. If you are serious about doing whatever it takes to win more bass tournaments checkout my book “101 Ways To Win Bass Tournaments” at the link below.

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Bass Fishing is full of Crap, Junk, Con Men and Thieves.

Yesterday I saw a commercial for the instant fisherman. A little fishing rod that is made out of plastic. It folds out and is an absolute piece of junk. The guy on the infomercial talked about how great the rod was, how you could adjust it in length for different action and the fact that the reel had these great gears inside that would help you land the fish. Total piece of crap. The people who sell this stuff should be ashamed of themselves. I would rather fish with a willow tree branch line and hook before I ever used a instant fisherman. Again, these people should be ashamed of themselves. You can not manufacture something for 30 dollars with a rod, reel, line and tackle pack and have it be anything but junk. Can you tell I am a bit upset? It makes me upset that so few fisherman know so little about fishing that they would spend their money on such things. The Zebco 202 fishing combo is a state of the art piece of fine engineering compared to the instant fisherman. It makes me mad because I know that the majority of fishermen just want to go out and catch some fish and have no idea how to do it. Instead of getting the information they need to be successful by spending a few bucks to get one of my dvd’s they buy a instant fisherman. What is worst of all is that the infomercial actually claims 1 million plus instant fisherman have already been sold. It amazes me how such a sham product has not been laughed out of the market place. Can you imagine if someone tried to sell a plastic golf club that you could extend and use any where you needed it? That product would be laughed off of the golf course and out of the market place. But I guess for fishing the same rules don’t apply. The absolute worst thing was this commercial claimed that the rod was even good enough to qualify to be used in bass tournaments. I thought this was misleading since basically any rod 8 foot or shorter qualifies I have seen people fish in bass tournaments using a regular Zebco 202 spin caster (I don’t recommend this myself) but I have never seen a instant fisherman anywhere used in any bass tournament. I put together solid information products that show specific techniques and lures and exactly how to fish them to catch more bass. I hear from people all over the U.S. and the world that are just starting out bass fishing about how my products have helped them catch more bass. I also have people who are already experts and have been fishing 20 years or more tell me that my dvd’s help them catch even more fish and adds a new dimension to there arsenal.

So check out my selection of products and spend your money on them to get real results.

O yea , throw that instant fisherman in the trash!

Good Fishing,

 John W Torsch

Grace bags a bass

From the time my daughter could first stand she would grab one of my fishing rods and hold it over the side of the boat. She has always been a natural… yesterday we took her out and I hooked this fish on a jig and let her reel it in. She was about as excited as she could be to get that bass in her hands. After that fish she picked up the net and dragged it through the water while me and the wife fished. She was pretty intent on netting a fish and dragged the net as deep as she could. A lot of times we were worried she would drop the net in the water or fall out of the boat, but she never did. While she was dragging the net through the water I hooked a fish and I dragged it into the net. Grace could not even pick up the net so I helped her pick it in the boat . She was really excited to catch 2 fish in under 5 minutes. Grace is a natural. When I asked here what kind of fish she wanted to catch she shouted “ A BIG ONE “!
Take your kids fishing as soon as you can, they will be old before you know it.

I got this great Email from Kurt yesterday and just wanted to share it with everyone

Just a note to thank you for you valuable information in both your frog report and you frog fishing video.

First some information about me. I am 55 years old and live in the Chicago suburbs. In the summer I try to get out to a local club pond (a private lake from gravel mining – rocky bottom – a fair amounts of wood, and many, many islands and finger channels lots of weeds but no pads) out of a small plastic boat powered by a trolling motor. Being near the metro area here in the north, a 5 pounder is a very big bass, and in early June I won the big fish in a tournament by a half a pound with a 3 lb 12 oz fish (caught on a Senko before I had confidence in the frog). My goal this year was to lean to catch fish on a hollow plastic frog. I got enough information on the web to get the right equipment together -  7′ heavy rod, braid and a bait one of my medium speed casting reels. Not having found any of your information early on, I started fishing with a Spro Bronzeye popper. I really liked the way I could give it a quick pop and them walk it in place really slow, giving a full profile while almost not moving forward at all (I started out fishing much slower than you tend to in your video). I got hits right away, and on my first day landed a two and three pounder caught only 5 minutes apart in very open water where I new that there was bottom structure in late May. These tow fish took it down deep, and the next day I caught a three and a half pounder out of a fallen tree with some scum. My problem was that I was loosing any fish under 15 inches on the way back to the boat. It seemed that the 3/0 hooks on the bronzeye popper, were almost never hooking in the lips – big fish (by my location standards) blasted the bait were no problem, but it seemed to be luck to land a small keeper. Of my first 20 landed fish, only two were lip hooked – all the rest were hooked deep in the top of the mouth, and I lost about 10 fish on the way back to the boat. Now, early on, I’m sure that I lost some hooked fish because of poor hook sets while watching the strike or other mistakes, but as I gained experience, it became clear that there were real problems landing smaller fish on this bait, but I hesitated to put it down because I knew that I could get fish to hit it.

Then I got your video and report, and gave the Snag Proof Bleeding Frog a shot. I have to say that I would probably have never tried it without your recommendation because it almost looks like a happy cartoon frog compared to the fierce looking Spro or Mad Max frogs, but I am getting the same hits on the frog and those 5/0 hooks work great. I have landed 14 of 15 hooked fish so far, and the one that came off was kind of a fluke as it got down into some junk on the way back to the boat. While I still catch some big ones that take it all the way down, I also have no problem catching even 12″ bass in the lip.  I can’t see putting these frogs down any time soon.

Here are the most critical things I have learned from your report and video. Big hooks are key, and those 5/0 red Owner hooks in the bleeding frog are great. Do not finesse the fish – pull it to the boat and flip it in – a hard lesson since I consider myself a finesse fisherman most of the time, but I am learning. As different as frogs can look from the side and top, they look pretty much the same from the bottom angle that the fish sees. And, finally, I can fish the frog a bit faster than I tend to in open water.

Thanks for the tips! I have enclosed 3 photos (JPG) from my cheap digital phone. There is a 3 pounder on the popper that has it with the deep hook that seems to work for the popper, a three pounder that took a black bleeding frog deep, and a 15 inch two pounder that is lip hooked and would have probably been missed on the popper. As you can see, I altered the bottom pattern of the white bleeding frog to match the “leopard frog” Spro pattern with a marker. It seems to work fine, and I thank your video for giving me the confidence to play with the color. (By the way, I have caught some fish on the regular Spro frog, but I like the way that the bleeding frog walks much better.)

One question – I really like to cut my legs down to about 2.5 inches. I think they walk better and I like a bid swing in my slow walk. Do you have any thoughts on cutting the legs down from your years of experience.

Anyway, thanks again. Frog fishing has video game excitement every time a fish explodes on one, and I have been consistently catching fish all summer on the frog. Now with your help, I am landing what I hook. Thanks!

Kurt Kalas

Oak Forest, Illinois

here is a video of Jeremy VandenBosch who I fished with Monday up by Grand Rapids.  Here He catches a few nice fish on a jig.