First, when I was a youngster fishing the Santa Anna River (south fork) on the back side of Big Bear. The river was freshly stocked with trout. We found a honney hole and 10 anglers proceeded to land 51 legal stockers (sombody had trouble counting their limit)in under an hour. I got one to bite on a bare #14 gold trebble hook. The other time was on a wide open calico bite at the oil platform "EVA" off Bolsa Chica State Beach. I got every color in the box to work and proceeded to go through about half my stock in swimbaits. So, I started throwing a shiny new bare lead-head. I got bit about every other cast and landed a few calicos. It was just plain W-F-O. I pray for days like that now!

Tight Lines,
Terry G.