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The Lucky Bug Lure Company, is hosting a booth at the 2011 PNE Fair in the Marketplace at the Forum building on the showgrounds. Come see the Lucky Bug Bingo Bug in action in the display tank. Also view some great Bingo Bug footage! The PNE Fair starts on Saturday, August 20 and runs daily until Monday, September 5, 2011. The Marketplace is open daily to the public from 10:30am to 10:30pm. Please visit us at our booth #619 for show specials and draw prizes.
Our Online Store is now live! Shop online for all our Lucky Bug lure patterns – we offer free shipping for orders of 12 or more bugs!
Be sure to also check the Where to Buy section for all the new stores that are carrying our lures! We’ve added retailers in Alberta, Ontario, Quebec and Yukon!
Clint Maundrell, age 16
Clint purchased one of our lures at Wildmans Outdoor Store on August 28, 2010 and caught a fish worthy of our challenge. The lure, a Lucky Bug Bingo Bug – Green with Yellow Stripe, caught this beautiful wild rainbow trout at French Lake and it weighed in at 7.1 pounds. The fishing technique used was trolling.
More photos from Clint can be found in the gallery here!
The Lucky Bug Lure Company hosted a booth at the 2010 PNE Fair in the Forum building’s Marketplace. We featured the Bingo Bug in action in the simulator tank and had some pretty amazing show specials and draw prizes!
Congratulations to both of our winners from the PNE prize draw! Maureen Roth, from Vancouver Island,
won a 4-night stay at Moon Shadows RV Park and Campground in Merritt, BC worth approximately $160. Scott Watson of Chilliwack, won a Lucky Bug lure set with 26 Bingo Bugs in a double-sided fly box, worth approximately $250.
This is about a 4lb sockeye salmon that I caught with a #8 pumpkin Bingo Bug/Lucky Bug lure. I was fishing in the Fraser river this morning just downstream from Peg-leg bar (Chilliwack) and this bright doe sockeye actually bit the lucky bug. The sockeye salmon is notorious as being a reluctant biter especially once the fish enters the fresh water. Most of us who fish for sockeye in the Fraser use a style of fishing called bottom-bouncing that involves a rubber-coated round weight of between 1 1/2 to 3 1/2 ozs, most common are the 2 1/2 and 3 oz size. We use extremely long leaders, sometimes in excess of 12 feet, and the fish are caught in the mouth but really don’t bite the corkie/wool combination but are ‘flossed’.
In all the years I have fished for sockeye, I can think of maybe 2 times the fish actually bit the hook. That is until this morning. I did use the normal style of bottom bouncing to get my first fish, we are allowed 2, then I thought I would try the Bingo bug that I purchased at the PNE on Friday. I could actually feel the Bug vibrating as it flowed through the water behind the bouncing weight. then I could feel nothing not even the weight! I started reeling like mad because I knew a fish had grabbed the bug and had taken off upstream. I thought for sure this was a spring salmon that had grabbed it, but was amazed when I finally caught up to the fish and struck to set the hook. A sockeye jumped right out of the water with my line in it’s mouth.
When we landed the pretty fish, we saw right away that the Bingo Bug was right in her mouth. This non-biting salmon had bit the Bingo Bug, and taken off just like a spring salmon. When a sockeye is flossed,
the hook is usually right in the corner of its mouth or even just on the outside of its jaw. The Bingo Bug was inside the fishes mouth, there is no way this fish could have been hooked this way unless it had bit the bait on purpose. You can bet the next time I go for sockeye I will be fishing Bingo Bugs!!!
Thanks,
Wayne
More photos from Wayne can be found in the gallery here!
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