Ok, thanks to our friends at Okuma I have a few goodies to give away and what I think will be a pretty fun way to do it. Here's the deal...

You post a picture of your most beat up swimbait or trout plug. I'm going to rate the pics based on the most horridly chewed up lures. Points will be given for teeth marks and fishing wear and tear. Points won't be given if it looks like you left the bait on your deck in the sun for too long. I'll pick the winners and the best pics in each category will win an Okuma sweatshirt and hat, as modeled here (girls not included).

http://www.calfishing.com/files/Images/ultimate_weight_guess/sweatshirts.jpg

The contest runs until Sunday August 5, 2007 at noon Pacific Time.

Whether it's a swimbait or a trout plug is determined by the review pages. Meaning that these are trout plugs:

http://www.calfishing.com/reviews/trout_plugs.html

and these are swimbaits:

http://www.calfishing.com/reviews/swimbaits.html

7 Inch baits or larger only. If your bait isn't in the review pages, I'll assign a category to it as soon as you post.

Calfishing moderators and admins are not eligible but can post their pics if they like. I hope we'll get a shot of Nico's retired 9" Slammer!

When the contest is done, I'm going to make a new photo gallery for chewed up baits. Maybe we'll call it the sand lot :)

Here's a pic of my first Hudd to get it rolling:

http://www.calfishing.com/dc/user_files/6069-first_hudd.jpg

Let's see those teeth marks.

Here is one of my first hudds. I limped her along for a LONG time as it was during that phase where you just couldn't get any more. I'm proud to say the last fish to take a swipe at her before retirement was a rancho double.

http://www.calfishing.com/dc/user_files/6070-DSCN0632.JPG


http://www.calfishing.com/dc/user_files/6071-DSCN0633.JPG


http://www.calfishing.com/dc/user_files/6072-DSCN0634.JPG

I don't think I have a bait that will take this contest but I thought I'd throw one in the mix..

Not the greatest pic but you get the idea...BBZ-1, right down the forehead x(

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v644/PHISHnutS/scratchedbait.jpg

Thats not fair Matt! That bait should have been thrown away a long time ago. I was thinking of showing the Hudd I used for skipping under docks at Clear Lake, the one where the internal lead got bent and made the Hudd look like an S curve, but I gave it away because some dumb ass needed a tail to melt on.

Maybe tomorrow Ill take a pic of my wake bait jr, after 4 months that thing is beat to heck, but still catching!

Heres a one fish huddy. Got blasted like no other right after I ripped it out of tree, right on top of the water. Crystal Huddleston sent me a replacement, so it was sooo worth it!
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b304/lobsteeze/IMG_3320-1.jpg

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b222/bigreenjobass/IMG_3692.jpg

Teeth marks right? Pickeral got hold of these two. The hook is bent on the ROF 12 because a 9 lb largemouth had it so deep that it was lodged in the throat and it bent that huge hook! Tons of pickeral and bass teeth mark all over it.

I'm bummed because I've abused the heck out of some huddlestons but I dont have them anymore. I got so mad after losing a 10 lber recently I smacked the water with the hudd, managing to snap the hudd off in the process as it went flying about 40 feet in the air. That one would have been good.

Those are some sweet looking knots you have tied on your trailer hooks there Jeremy

It's my secret trailer hook knot. I call it "granny knot cluster"

sfrcvhwr lmaolmaolmao
I remember when we made that up last summer! that was sweet! lmao

My favorite MS Slammer (now retired) is hanging from my cube wall at work and since I'm fishing tomorrow it will have to wait until next week.

However, this one isn't so bad. I re-used the head on this old Castaic Trout so all I have is the body. I caught several dozen fish on this tail, with maybe 4-5 double digits. The belly section slowly wore away after sticking trailer hooks in there, but the lure was still catching fish in the pictured state.


http://www.calfishing.com/dc/user_files/6075-chew_toy.jpg

Nico,
That's unreal! *shaking head* Even if yours don't count that just moved the bar up about 10 notches!

Maybe you should make a mold of that :)

whoa!!! That thing looks like a dog chew toy...awesome!

Umm, ok, Nico wins hands down. Thats unbelievable, it looks like one of those vaccum packed herrings at the grocery store.

It looks like its been laying in the bottom of the boat for a few years soaking up with water.

Well.. I have a BBZ that looks like hell that I would send but Nico's bait takes the cake.

Don.

Please post it, there are two prizes, one for hardbaits and one for softbaits. And Nico is not eligible, he's an admin for the site.

-Rob

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y81/ryeguy03/berryessa047.jpg

It wasn't too beat up, until an 8lber thrashed off the second half!

new custom gills and the 4th new tail....

http://www.calfishing.com/dc/user_files/6077-fish_298.jpg



dang sorry about the picture size its a big lure

Rob, this is bad. You are going to make me keep my old baits LOL!! My friends can win this with the ones I gave away to them LOL!!!
This is as bad a plug I have now.
Good luck everyone.
Don.

http://www.calfishing.com/dc/user_files/6079-bbz.jpg

These are all about the same shape. My worst ones are gone :(

http://www.calfishing.com/dc/user_files/6080-used_hudds.jpg

Matt and swimbait.com Nice sweatshirts and hats guys LOL!!

Apologies that it's taken me a while to post the winners. The winner in the trout plug category is swim-bait.com. The winner in the swimbait category is supermat. Guys - please contact me using the contact form on the web site and I will get your sweatshirts and hats on their way. Thanks everyone for playing :) and thanks Okuma for another round of goodies for the site :)

i had some smaller hard baits in worse shape :-)
Bassindon that brown bait(hudd hitch?) reminds me of a slee stack from the land of the lost
thanks again Rob and Okuma!

Great contest and pics from everyone. Thanks Okuma for once again for the goodies. Congrats to the winners

LOL!! I did the color on that bait Swimbait.com. Congrats guys. You only won because I am not a pack rat LOL!!!!

I still want one of those sweatshirts LOL!

Don,

That was a great contest idea...congrats to the winners :)

I know how much Rob loves it when old posts get bumped to the top so here's one for him...

When Rob put up the contest... he asked me to put up a picture of frankie. In my recent move, I lost track of my good buddie but found him today goiong through the garage. Below are a couple pictures of Frankie. Frankie was born early in 2004 and saw his maiden voyage with none other than Rob himself. Here's a picture of frankies first victim...



http://www.calfishing.com/dc/user_files/6182-1_27_04_mark_8-9.jpg

After that fish... Frankie lived a good life with multiple 10 pound fish along with many others until he looked like this...




http://www.calfishing.com/dc/user_files/6183-IMG_0233.JPG





http://www.calfishing.com/dc/user_files/6184-IMG_0241.JPG

Frankie was only used at Casitas other than the trip with Rob up north.

The back half of Frankie now resides on a point I named "The Graveyard".

May you rest in peace frankie 1/2003 - 2/2006
:-( :P

its hard to type and wipe tears at the same time........im going to send my hoodie back in the name of the back half of frankie.

More old lures from the war chest...

This was one of the first Slammers I ever bought, and by far my most productive. It produced quite a few fish over 10 lbs including what was my pb of 14.6 for several years. There's some debate to how many fish exactly fell to this lure, but I'd guess at least 300, probably many more. (ok, so most of those were <2lbs :))

I broke the bill off after about a year, and had it replaced by MS. Both eyes are cracked from hitting rocks, all the hardware is rusted, and the wood has been slowly stripped off the sides of the bait in deep grooves.

I don't think I'd ever forgive myself if I lost this bait, so it's now permanently retired :-)


http://www.calfishing.com/dc/user_files/6191-chewy.jpg

So when someone asks what color Slammer you are throwing, do you say 'plywood' or '2x4' :9

The Frankie story made me sad.

so i just ordered 4 ST's from TW :7