You are right, I misspelt it :) Maybe it's just more fun to write booger than bugger. har.

If I could ever get a lure like I am picturing in my mind, I can guarantee that I would slaughter the fish. You have to figure ... you can go down to the cell phone place and get a camera phone for $80. It has a battery that last up to 3 days and all sorts of features packed into it. The companies that make things like this, could easily make robotic fishing lures, they just never will because to pay back their manufacturing costs they need to sell tens of thousands of units. At some point though, the components to make a robotic lure will become available, maybe in some other unrelated area, and someone thinking outside the box will make a crawdad that hops, a bluegill that swims, a trout that kicks, a shad that darts around in a circle, and who knows what else. If I can toss a shad bait out that swims in a circle in one spot and looks exactly like a shad ... I hate to even think what would happen. It'd be all over.

Hey think about this also. You know that obnoxious big mouth billy bass thing that you hit the button and it sings to you? Think about how that thing moves internally. It has no visibile hinge, it's just loose rubber over some kind of frame or internal body. Why do fishing lures that have flex to them have to have a hinge in the body? Real fish don't have hinges in the body. Someone needs to make a lure with an internal body and a skin over the top of that. How many times have I watched a big bass look at a trout lure and not eat it and you just sit there and wonder what the heck could be different to get it to bite it. Getting rid of the hinges would be a big first step. Then get rid of the bill. Then hide the hooks inside the body. Not the same old type of hooks we use now. Custom hooks, manufactured to fit the body of specific baits and be hidden along features of the bait. It's all possible, it's just that the average fishing lure mfgr doesn't have the resources to do it, and the big fishing tackle mfgrs don't want to take the risk of making things that don't look NORMAL.