Friday November 18, 2022; 10:57 AM EST
- In the early 1970s, there was a long weekend on a lake in Kentucky when the flash of a simple spoon lure was all the medium-sized pan fish wanted to see before they'd bite. This is a fish story but I think it's true that the family pulled about 5 dozen fish into the metal boat in about three days. If you had a saw and a grinder, you could make the body of a spoon lure out of most any hefty teaspoon. If you could drill a hole at one end for the fishing line and attach a wicked treble hook to dangle at the other, you would have been set.#
- In the midterm elections, fresh predictive polling and the slogans supplied by the parties themselves were like spoon lures to many journalists. Journalists, like pan fish, travel in schools, twitching left and right almost in unison.#