Your Best Fishing Story

[Gerry Zagorski]

I'll get us started here...

For probably 15 years we'd get a big group of guys, rent four or five boats, get some groceries and drinks stay at a house on one of the 1000 Islands in upstate NY.

We knew the place really well and always had great trips casting Benos, Mister Twisters Spinners, Spoons and drifting live bait for huge Smallmouth and Pike.
This particular year was different. 2 days into our 5 day trip none of us had a single fish after throwing everything we had in our tackle boxes at them.

I got really frustrated and decided to take one of the boats to town, picked up my car and drove to the 1000 Islands bait store looking for some advise. I tell my story to the guy behind the counter and he walks me right over to the isle and says, try these Panther Martins, we usually do well with them. So I picked up a few and headed back to the Island but was not very confident.

The very next morning no one is catching anything again and I put on a clinic with these lures. The same day everyone goes to town and we wipe out their entire stock of Panther Martins and they drove to another store 10 miles away and wiped out their stock too. Now everyone was bailing the fish and it saved our trip.

Needless to say me and the guys never go anywhere without a supply of these particular Panther Martins.