Hey! I hear AARP may be starting up a tournament circuit soon! Some of you guys sound ready for it. Get those trailer hitches on your wheelchairs buffed up!!!
The thing about the Canadian medical bill - it probably was $4,000... Canadian! Luckily, you had Greenbacks. (A meaner part of me wants to say something about who really could be taken EASY by Martha! but I won't... I'm not bitter)
Now, back to the original subject of this post - I've been using War Eagles for a while now and I like them... a lot. A killer sometimes on St. Clair for me on bright days when the water is clear is the Blue Herring. It's a great bluegill imitator on inland lakes too (at least the bass seem to think so). Last year, it wasn't as hot on St. Clair for me, but it's still working great on inland lakes.
If the water is stirred up a bit, I do white on white, all chartreuse and chartreuse/white and let the bass talk to me. They know what they like. I don't argue with them.
I've done really well the past two years on the chartreuse skirt with gold blades for some reason (again, who am I to argue). I've been starting with that one and switching to white skirt, gold blades. This is when the water is fairly clear for these two. I use 1/2 in all the above when I'm still working up a decent limit or if I don't seem to be around semi-lazy toads.
When I need the kicker fish, I usually just go to the 3/4 oz white on white and keep tossing. I've caught some tanks (for you Canadians

on that one, so no matter what, I'll always have some of those ready.