Greg I wont tell you what baits not to buy, its not realy cool if I do that unless of course they are just junk. I would sugest if you like a particular style 95 times out of 100 the original is superior to the knock offs. There are a few exceptions but not many. I would also recomend baits made by guys on the west coast. If we can catch fish in our super clear high pressured lakes then they will work anywhere. Besides if you look at the most popular productive baits they all come from or originated on the left coast. Everybody has their favorites and most of them are not huge companies like Lucky craft and Storm (which make terible swimbaits). If you do your homework it makes choosing easyer. Consider this, if a $20-$100 didnt work they would go away and you wouldnt here about them anymore. But when you still hear about the same baits over and over there is a reason for it. I still sell a lot of my gills trouts and bass. Hudd still sells tons of his trout, MSSlammers,22nd,3:16,and recently Black dog seems to be holding their own(sorry if I left anybody out). Whith swimbaits becoming so popular you see EVERYBODY trying to cash in. Most have no idea how to design a bait that will actualy catch BIG fish. Any bait can catch small fish , they are stupid.
They just want to make a bait and call it a swimbait for thier little piece of the pie.
Am I making any money? yeah I am making some but I aint getting rich and I am working my ass off for it!
I have no idea what kind of wood was used in my Woodies. I had those made for me by another company and they use many diferent types. I personaly dont like wood. Its inferior to a well designed compsite bait. Which BTW I am testing prototypes now!

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