My daddy never taught me much.  Indeed when I reached the age that my parents should have gotten smarter, my daddy just stayed the same.

Daddy did take me fishin' though.  We or I should say daddy never got skunked.  We may not have brought home a 'stringerfull,' but, we always caught a mess of fish.   That was a good thing.  You ever tried to tote a 'stringerfull' of sunbreast, warmouth and bluegill out of the swamp? 

As time went by I lost my interest.    Until this year.

Maybe it was the joy of getting back home after my ten month sentence in NC.  I have always carried my gear with me.   This year I have actually been using it.

I was fishing the Amicolola River in North Central Georgia and there was no one catching anything except this one guy.   So I asked him the timeless question, "whatcha usin'?"  'Trout Magnet' came the reply. 

Trout Magnet is a cheapy fishing lure.  You can buy  enough of them to last years and years for under $15.00.  I had one pack in my tackle box.  But, I also had almost a full box of worms so the Trout Magnet stayed in there.

This past weekend needing to get out of the house and away from that wasp's nest, I went to my local Wally World, stocked up, and headed up to Settle's Bridge. 

As they say back home 'sumbitch was right'  Here I was with less than $30 worth of gear and I was catching them left and right.  All around me were fly fisherman any one of which spent at least $300 on his fishing gear getting zip.