Back in the early days of SP's, we got into them courtesy of Duncan at Fishead when his shop was down at Redland Bay near the pub. But the SP range here was petty poor and they were really expensive, as were jig heads, so a few of us got together and we were ordering them in from Basspro in the States in $200 batches.
Anyway I was on the computer one night selecting colours when the Minister for War and Finance, also known as the Admiral of the Fleet, springs me! Then she is looking at the different colour Zooms and Bass Assassins, which were our go-to lures at the time, and she says, oooh that one is a nice colour, get some of them.
The colour was "electric chicken", in the Zoom that was chautrose pink, flouro yellow and the last 3/4 inch of the tail was crimson red. I said nah, that will be useless, she said order a few packets. I conceded defeat and ordered a few packets.
They sat in my tackle bag for about a year until one day we were heading over to Peel just on lunchtime for a beach barbie, meeting some friends there.
I threw the Sp rods into the boat and on the way, stopped at SW Rocks and I said to the Admiral, righto, have a go at this SP caper we have been doing. She rarely if ever fishes, but anyway I think she agreed just to humour me.
I go to put on a zoom in Arkansas Shiner colour, we had been smashing the snaps on that colour, but she says put one of those electric chicken ones on. I try to convince her it will be no good, but she insists. Anyway I cast out for her and hand her the rod, and am about to say, hang on, when the rod bucks over and line screams off.
A bit bit of coaching results in success, a 45cm model in the net! The electric chicken's head is a bit mauled, so I snip the head off and shove the now shortened model back on, thinking to myself that one stupid snapper hit it, complete arse, nothing else will touch that silly colour. Cast out again. Turned to cast my own line and bang! She is on again, this time it's taken a big run, clearly a better fish, and it takes a bit of time to get the fish in the net - 55cm. The boys are both into them as well on other colours but soon change to the chooks as well.
Well, we we end up missing the BBQ as we are having so much fun on the SPs, and by the time we have had enough, the Admiral and both boys have bagged out - 15 nice ones up to 60cm in the esky, with the chooks doing the main damage.
Dont you think she gave me some grief about dissing her choice of colours!
You can't get them in that exact colour any more, I still have half a packet, but use them very sparingly.
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Originally Posted by BeastMaster
