One of the bonuses of getting away from the crowds is the quiet time that one can have to himself. At the cabin one night, I sat up with some loose leaf paper and a pen and started brainstorming up new ideas that I could apply to trolling for walleye and giving some old ideas or concepts a new twist. I had the Precision Trolling Guide out and was just flipping through the pages and came to the section that listed the many baits produced by Storm (before Rapala purchase). If there was one bait that Storm ever produced that was a dud in my book, it was the Lightnin’ Shad. I realize that some folks have probably caught fish on these, but I am just not one of them. I had sevaral of the largest baits produced, some I picked up when they first came out, some when I found them for two bucks at Big Lots a couple of years back.
It was at that point my little light bulb popped on, and I came up with a new application for these baits. I wanted a diver, that could get down deeper with less line let out that a disc or jet. Yet, I wanted to be able to long line them back behind the boat as another trolling option. So I get home, start removing treble and split ring from the belly, kept the split ring on the tail and removed the treble back there. Now all I have to do is find some good ball bearing snap n swivels for the tail split ring. Then its simple, run my leader back for a spoon or attach a harness.
Take a look at the samples that I took pics of earlier. Big deep diving bill, large rattles and a prism flash with its’ tight wobble in the water. The qualities are deep diving, its’ got flash, wide body profile and makes a lot of noise. Its got everything and more than any diver available on the market has today. AND, you may have some already in your tackle box ready for some tweaking, and trolling behind your boat.
