I can remember being blown away by that new technique and is probably why that memory is seared into my brain. I was sitting in FLW Tour angler Vic Vatalaro’s family room watching the show on DVR while on assignment at Lake Erie. I can remember where I was when I first saw the big spoon. He dominated his competition with this crazy looking big spoon that looked more like a King Salmon trolling bait on the Great Lakes than a bass fishing casting tool. The beauty of his spoon was he could cast it a mile and keep off the spot to keep his competitor away from the fish. In that episode, he broke out this big spoon weighing 1.5 ounces. Most of us in the industry though really point to Kelly Jordon exposing its effectiveness on an episode of Ultimate Match Fishing on Kentucky Lake. The big spoon craze hit a bunch of lakes in Texas and the south about 5 years ago. My how things change … and don’t change for that matter in bass fishing. So the birth of spoons, if the legend is accurate, was a big flutter spoon worked vertically for big bass. Legend has it that he then went home and cut the handles off his wife’s collection of eating utensils and drilled holes in them to attach hooks.
As he watched it flutter away, a big bass swirled on it and ate the spoon. He leaned over the side to try to grab it. He reached to grab the rod to set the hook. As he was getting ready to take a bite, he saw his rod tip move. He reached into his lunch box and pulled out his metal spoon. This was long before the days of plastic spoons. The action was slow, so he popped open a small metal container of pudding. The stories of how the bass fishing spoon came into existence are many, but the one I like to believe is about an old timer fishing out of an old wooden boat dunking minnows and earthworms for bass or whatever would bite.
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