poke some fun at Scott and I....
This is from the Maryland Gazette and Chris Dollar's column this week...
Oh and by the way, he is wrong these do not work, do not try them, they do not catch anything but a cold...Stay away from them....Complete waste of money....
"My friend Pete sent me a photo of a nice 30-inch rockfish he caught in shallow water near one of my favorite spots in Eastern Bay. The lure used to fool the fish was a 3/4-ounce chrome, blue-backed Rat-L-Trap by Bill Lewis.
I’d forgotten how effective these kind of lures can be. In the early years after the striper moratorium was lifted, it was my money lure to catch rockfish holding on the eastern stone pile of the Bay Bridge. I neglected this reliable friend over the seasons, however, as improvements to soft plastic jerk baits and swimbaits lured me in. Rattling lures were regulated to the bench, and that’s probably a mistake. The other day I hustled to my tackle shed, looked in my bag — and sure enough, I had a few still in the packaging, eager and shiny.
Some tie their line right to the lure. With most jigs and lures I do, too. But for hard, subsurface baits, I often attach a ball-bearing snap swivel (#2 30-pound test or #10,
40-pound coastlock snap swivel) directly to the lure’s eyelet, with a 30-inch, 20-pound fluorocarbon leader attached to the running line by a surgeon’s knot or ball-barrel swivel (#10 or #12). Sometimes it’s nice, and productive, to renew an old friendship."