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Now i understand the Wobble
« Thread Started on Feb 6, 2010, 9:47pm »

A couple of weeks ago, the minnows in my aquarium started to pick at the live plants that they live with. well, one of the largest minnows was always first in line, picking at dislodged leaves and stem pieces. i noticed a large leaf piece floating in the tank, and that the larger minnow was just giving it hell, a few hours later, the minnow was sitting still at the top of the tank and the leaf piece was gone. i watched him close for about a day, he was still alive, but not right. then the dark spot showed up. i think what happened is that he bit off more then he could chew, at a left too large, and ruptured his insides in the process. you can see the blood pooled up deep under his skin right behind the gills. he hasnt ate since that day, and for the last week, he has really gone down hill. some times laying vertically, tail up, in the water. mostly he is still, he was once the most active fish in the tank, but no longer. but since this has happened, the wife and i have given him a new name... Twitchy. we named him knowing that we would soon be flushing him, but have yet to do it. twitchy, does just that, twitchs. he'll stay still until the twiches start, propelling him wildly around the tank, until he suddenly stops. everytime i watch him do that, i think "well, thats it" but nope, hes still twitching. but it shows me something about a wounded minnow wobble. take a original floater, and the make several quick snaps with your pole, you will see it kind of kicking and wiggling at the surface, making a small short wake. i have watch the lures swim and wobble, and never quite understood how it really mimiced a wounded minnow, until now. Twitchy will soon be gone, if there was a presence of a predator, to be sure he would be gone already. next time a drag a thug though a stony patch and pick up a smallie or a walleye, i will be thanking Twitchy, and they way he will blindly twitch into the bottom and 'bounces' up at odd angles. guess it was just something i took for granted, but now i can see a little deeper into what Lauri Rapala was watching when he started to make his lures, why the wobble was so important, why they are still the best lures in the world today.

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Re: Now i understand the Wobble
« Reply #1 on Feb 6, 2010, 10:57pm »

Feb 6, 2010, 9:47pm, bacon wrote:

A couple of weeks ago, the minnows in my aquarium started to pick at the live plants that they live with. well, one of the largest minnows was always first in line, picking at dislodged leaves and stem pieces. i noticed a large leaf piece floating in the tank, and that the larger minnow was just giving it hell, a few hours later, the minnow was sitting still at the top of the tank and the leaf piece was gone. i watched him close for about a day, he was still alive, but not right. then the dark spot showed up. i think what happened is that he bit off more then he could chew, at a left too large, and ruptured his insides in the process. you can see the blood pooled up deep under his skin right behind the gills. he hasnt ate since that day, and for the last week, he has really gone down hill. some times laying vertically, tail up, in the water. mostly he is still, he was once the most active fish in the tank, but no longer. but since this has happened, the wife and i have given him a new name... Twitchy. we named him knowing that we would soon be flushing him, but have yet to do it. twitchy, does just that, twitchs. he'll stay still until the twiches start, propelling him wildly around the tank, until he suddenly stops. everytime i watch him do that, i think "well, thats it" but nope, hes still twitching. but it shows me something about a wounded minnow wobble. take a original floater, and the make several quick snaps with your pole, you will see it kind of kicking and wiggling at the surface, making a small short wake. i have watch the lures swim and wobble, and never quite understood how it really mimiced a wounded minnow, until now. Twitchy will soon be gone, if there was a presence of a predator, to be sure he would be gone already. next time a drag a thug though a stony patch and pick up a smallie or a walleye, i will be thanking Twitchy, and they way he will blindly twitch into the bottom and 'bounces' up at odd angles. guess it was just something i took for granted, but now i can see a little deeper into what Lauri Rapala was watching when he started to make his lures, why the wobble was so important, why they are still the best lures in the world today.

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