Thread: The Trouble With the Bubble

Ha Ha Ha! Just joshing guys- I pretty much don’t care anymore

Aww sure you do

Ha ha You shoulda seen it today It was a googanplex of bubbles and gummos Jaws was the most fired up I’ve seen all year I got sharked on a sheepshead ! Water looks pretty good and there’s fish galore- but nothing wants to feed

A lot of folks don’t know but I talked John G into stocking the x rap at the store At first it was hard to get the olive green which is our local bait color but Terry called around until he found a distributor-true story!

There's 7(green back) in the picture , plus other colors ..... bubbles wear me out , unless that is all they want , then I'm in for a little bit..... these were in my price range , hope they work on PCB piers ..... hope there's something to eat them anyway

Yeah man ol Jarmo finally got it right! I bust the breams arse on the 4!

Nobody had ever seen a bubble rig around here until the late seventies when some friends of Grover Robinettes showed up fishing the float and fly- a smallmouth bass technique used in rivers and dams Back then it was an orange and white weighted styrofoam cork with a crappie jig The old farts loved it because they could cast a mile and keep the jig up on top Anglers like me and Tommy Nelson weren’t to excited about it

Yea bud, remember the broomstick lure Ed Zimmerman at EZ Tackle made back in the day? That was the first time I saw what became the bubble rig. Someone removed the trebel hooks from the eye screws, put on a couple feet of mono then a Mc Donalds straw on the end. Either Buddy Smith or David Mc Keithen wrote and article in the Mobile Press about it. Freddy was in 79, so I'm guessing around 77.

I remember about that time when McDonald's straws disappeared from the counters because people were taking so many of them to troll with. You got one straw with a drink and had to ask for it sometimes.

Yup Sounds about right I remember on one of the other forums the question was whether the straw jig originated in Panama City or Guff Shorz all I know is it worked like a charm with more of a side to side dart like a hex head I would gather up all the old hairless spearheads a bottle of hard as nails light mono for wrap and it was on Ha Ha David McKeithen was the man back in those days!