I just wanted you guys to know that Mike was getting emergency surgery for a ruptured appendix when I first posted this thread that day. Well he recovered fine and his mom showed him the thread when he came home the next week, and he said to her"now I'm famous".
Well, actually he was over my house the day of the plug party and if I had known, I would have brought him out to introduce him to all the other striper nuts that were there. He's a good kid and I will make a lure for him so my son can give it to him for Christmas.