Stan Fagerstrom
05-05-2004, 07:22 AM
Now You Can
“Take The Problems Out Of Pork”
The string of cuss words coming from my partner in the back of the boat had been turning the morning air blue for at least five minutes.
I was tired of listening to it. I swung around in my boat seat to see if I could help. “Charlie,” I said, “you’ve been practicing your profanity long enough. What’s the problem? Can I help?”
“It’s this damn pork chunk,” he snorted. “I’ve been trying to get the bleeping thing off of my jig hook for what seems like an hour. I just can’t get it over the barb.”
I asked my companion to let me have his jig and chunk. I’d been throwing lures with pork trailers a lot longer than he had. I was able to remove the pork chunk from Charlie’s hook without undue difficulty. He grunted a barely audible “thanks” and went back to fishing.
No lure remains on a tackle dealer’s shelf very long unless it catches fish. Few lures or baits of any kind have done a better job of doing exactly that over the past half century than pork baits of one kind or another. I hung a homemade piece of pork behind a lure to put the first bass I ever caught on the bank. That was more than 60 years ago. I’ve been using pork chunks and rinds in concert with lures of one kind or another ever since.
No American bait company has been more closely associated with the success of lures carved from the hide of a hog than Uncle Josh. I mention all this because the Uncle Josh folks recently began marketing a jig with a brand new feature designed to eliminate the problems like those my friend Charlie was having. It’s called the Uncle Josh Pork Jig. If there’s ever been anything just like it available before I’ve not seen it.
http://www.ifish.net/stanfjig1.jpg
This close up shows the new Uncle Josh jig with a Fastclip for attaching a pork chunk. The user unpins the wire to attach the pork chunk, then snaps it back into position. It takes away the misery some anglers have of getting a pork chunk off from a hook.
This new Pork Jig is much like other jigs, but there’s one big difference. This one has a stainless steel wire attached to it that’s called a Fastclip Pork System. This wire lies along the shank of the hook. The end of the wire can be pushed away from the bend. All you need do is slide the end of this wire up through the pre-cut hole at the head end of your pork chunk, clip the wire back onto the bend of the hook, and you’re in business.
This new jig has several things going for it that bass fishermen are going to like. One is that the jig hook itself is a 5/0, wide gap Gamakatsu. As far as I’m concerned, that’s as good as you can get in a jig hook. Something else is this: The stainless steel wire to which the pork chunk is attached extends back a bit behind the bend of the hook. Your chunk’s not going to ride up and hang up on the hook point as they sometimes do when attached in the usual fashion.
What bass anglers are a cinch to like, of course, is the ease with which you can remove your chunks. Over the years I’ve had more than one fishing partner waste pork chunks by setting them aside and letting them shrivel in a warm sun instead of removing them from the lure and putting them back in a container. They did so because they simply hadn’t mastered the knack of getting their chunks off without experiencing the same kind of problems my pal Charlie had with his. They’d rather risk letting them dry out in a summer sun that waste fishing time getting them off a hook.
The new Uncle Josh Jig with the Fastclip wire takes all the misery out of things. There’s no barb of any kind on the stainless steel wire. All you do is push the wire away from where the end is snugged up against the bend of the hook and slide your chunk off. It’s as easy to remove as it is to put on.
http://www.ifish.net/stanfpork2.jpg
Few lures have stood the time tests puts on everything anglers use for bass longer than a jig and pork chunk. This new Uncle Josh Jig makes using a jig and chunk easier than ever.
As I’ve already mentioned, no bass baits hang around as long as pork baits have unless they’re putting fish in the boat. Uncle Josh chunks have done more than their share of that. My guess is anglers all over the place will want to give their new jig hooks a try.
If you’re a jig fisherman, and let’s face it, few lures catch big bass more consistently than jigs and rind, you’d be wise to do the same.
Because these jigs are brand new, you may not find them on display at your favorite sporting goods store. Your dealer can order them for you. If that doesn’t work, contact the Uncle Josh folks yourself. The toll-free number is 1 866-BIG BASS. You can also find additional details at the company’s Web site. The address is www.unclejosh.com. (http://www.unclejosh.com.)
I gave old Charlie a couple of those new Uncle Josh Pork jigs last Christmas. I gave them to him because I think they’ll catch fish, but I also had a selfish purpose in mind. The way I see it, Charlie’s having those new Pork Jigs with the Fastclip Pork System should improve things for a couple of reasons. One is that he’ll no longer have the misery he has experienced in the past in getting a chunk off his jig. A second is that in the process it should definitely give him less need to exercise the more dubious portions of his vocabulary.
And that, friends, will make it a whole lot easier to concentrate on my own fishing!
“Take The Problems Out Of Pork”
The string of cuss words coming from my partner in the back of the boat had been turning the morning air blue for at least five minutes.
I was tired of listening to it. I swung around in my boat seat to see if I could help. “Charlie,” I said, “you’ve been practicing your profanity long enough. What’s the problem? Can I help?”
“It’s this damn pork chunk,” he snorted. “I’ve been trying to get the bleeping thing off of my jig hook for what seems like an hour. I just can’t get it over the barb.”
I asked my companion to let me have his jig and chunk. I’d been throwing lures with pork trailers a lot longer than he had. I was able to remove the pork chunk from Charlie’s hook without undue difficulty. He grunted a barely audible “thanks” and went back to fishing.
No lure remains on a tackle dealer’s shelf very long unless it catches fish. Few lures or baits of any kind have done a better job of doing exactly that over the past half century than pork baits of one kind or another. I hung a homemade piece of pork behind a lure to put the first bass I ever caught on the bank. That was more than 60 years ago. I’ve been using pork chunks and rinds in concert with lures of one kind or another ever since.
No American bait company has been more closely associated with the success of lures carved from the hide of a hog than Uncle Josh. I mention all this because the Uncle Josh folks recently began marketing a jig with a brand new feature designed to eliminate the problems like those my friend Charlie was having. It’s called the Uncle Josh Pork Jig. If there’s ever been anything just like it available before I’ve not seen it.
http://www.ifish.net/stanfjig1.jpg
This close up shows the new Uncle Josh jig with a Fastclip for attaching a pork chunk. The user unpins the wire to attach the pork chunk, then snaps it back into position. It takes away the misery some anglers have of getting a pork chunk off from a hook.
This new Pork Jig is much like other jigs, but there’s one big difference. This one has a stainless steel wire attached to it that’s called a Fastclip Pork System. This wire lies along the shank of the hook. The end of the wire can be pushed away from the bend. All you need do is slide the end of this wire up through the pre-cut hole at the head end of your pork chunk, clip the wire back onto the bend of the hook, and you’re in business.
This new jig has several things going for it that bass fishermen are going to like. One is that the jig hook itself is a 5/0, wide gap Gamakatsu. As far as I’m concerned, that’s as good as you can get in a jig hook. Something else is this: The stainless steel wire to which the pork chunk is attached extends back a bit behind the bend of the hook. Your chunk’s not going to ride up and hang up on the hook point as they sometimes do when attached in the usual fashion.
What bass anglers are a cinch to like, of course, is the ease with which you can remove your chunks. Over the years I’ve had more than one fishing partner waste pork chunks by setting them aside and letting them shrivel in a warm sun instead of removing them from the lure and putting them back in a container. They did so because they simply hadn’t mastered the knack of getting their chunks off without experiencing the same kind of problems my pal Charlie had with his. They’d rather risk letting them dry out in a summer sun that waste fishing time getting them off a hook.
The new Uncle Josh Jig with the Fastclip wire takes all the misery out of things. There’s no barb of any kind on the stainless steel wire. All you do is push the wire away from where the end is snugged up against the bend of the hook and slide your chunk off. It’s as easy to remove as it is to put on.
http://www.ifish.net/stanfpork2.jpg
Few lures have stood the time tests puts on everything anglers use for bass longer than a jig and pork chunk. This new Uncle Josh Jig makes using a jig and chunk easier than ever.
As I’ve already mentioned, no bass baits hang around as long as pork baits have unless they’re putting fish in the boat. Uncle Josh chunks have done more than their share of that. My guess is anglers all over the place will want to give their new jig hooks a try.
If you’re a jig fisherman, and let’s face it, few lures catch big bass more consistently than jigs and rind, you’d be wise to do the same.
Because these jigs are brand new, you may not find them on display at your favorite sporting goods store. Your dealer can order them for you. If that doesn’t work, contact the Uncle Josh folks yourself. The toll-free number is 1 866-BIG BASS. You can also find additional details at the company’s Web site. The address is www.unclejosh.com. (http://www.unclejosh.com.)
I gave old Charlie a couple of those new Uncle Josh Pork jigs last Christmas. I gave them to him because I think they’ll catch fish, but I also had a selfish purpose in mind. The way I see it, Charlie’s having those new Pork Jigs with the Fastclip Pork System should improve things for a couple of reasons. One is that he’ll no longer have the misery he has experienced in the past in getting a chunk off his jig. A second is that in the process it should definitely give him less need to exercise the more dubious portions of his vocabulary.
And that, friends, will make it a whole lot easier to concentrate on my own fishing!