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swimbaitFri Mar-04-05 05:29 PM
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#5883, "RE: under represented forage"
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Tim - the zippers with the sculpin type heads are cool, no doubt they get bit. But what I've always disliked about lizards and baits like that are the tendency for the lures to roll on their sides or sit funny on the bottom. They look great in your hand but when you put a hook in one and t-rig it and drag it along the bottom, what really usually happens is that the bait rolls on its side, or upside down or just does whatever based on how it landed on the cast. Again, I'm not saying that is bad, obviously fish are going to eat stuff like that anyway, but I believe that weighted and/or foam/air inserted lures will be the wave of the future, because if you weight one part of a lure and put foam or air pockets in the other part, it gives it consistent underwater action.

I have not chopped a huddleston deluxe in half but I believe they have lead on the bottom and foam on top. Great concept! Makes the lure stay always upright. The ROF5 huddleston is truly genius the way it falls and stays level at the same time. Check out the River2Sea yabbie crawdad lure, it has air pockets in the claws to keep it upright. Killer bait right there. I know this stuff isn't a new idea, I'm sure someone has done it 100 years ago but just within the past few years are we starting to see people making baits that not only look real, but also move and swim real. Props to castaic for their line of realistic baits. The castaic softbait trout swims awesome and looks a lot like a trout. But some of their other baits had only the realism part and didn't have consistent swimming actions.

I throw a post out like this sometimes as a discussion point but also in hopes that people reading it will be inspired to make some really awesome baits. It's hard for a garage guy to make baits with internal weighting, air pockets and foam, but that is where the future is IMO and I hope when the bait mfgr's pick up on this, that they make some baits to represent some of the less popular forage like crappie, bluegill, catfish, etc.

  

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under represented forage [View all] , swimbait, Fri Mar-04-05 01:16 PM
  RE: under represented forage, Sacto John, Mar 04th 2005, #1
RE: under represented forage, swimbait, Mar 04th 2005, #2
      RE: under represented forage, Tm Customs, Mar 04th 2005, #3
           RE: under represented forage, SJ, Mar 04th 2005, #4
           RE: under represented forage, swimbait, Mar 04th 2005, #5
                RE: under represented forage, woodsac, Mar 04th 2005, #6
                RE: under represented forage, FISH JC, Mar 04th 2005, #7
                     so this is ironic, swimbait, Mar 04th 2005, #8
                Insects, Urban, Mar 06th 2005, #19
                     RE: Insects, Sacto John, Mar 07th 2005, #24
           RE: under represented forage, swimbait, Mar 04th 2005 #9
                RE: under represented forage, bassnet, Mar 04th 2005, #10
                RE: under represented forage, swimbait, Mar 04th 2005, #11
                     RE: under represented forage, Chris, Mar 07th 2005, #21
                RE: under represented forage, BillH, Mar 23rd 2005, #30
RE: under represented forage, Nico, Mar 04th 2005, #12
RE: under represented forage, Mattlures, Mar 04th 2005, #13
RE: under represented forage, bassnet, Mar 04th 2005, #14
RE: under represented forage, socalfrogger, Mar 31st 2005, #34
RE: under represented forage, swimbait, Mar 04th 2005, #15
RE: under represented forage, bassinzink, Mar 05th 2005, #16
      RE: under represented forage, FISH JC, Mar 20th 2005, #29
RE: small birds?, wils, Mar 05th 2005, #17
RE: funny lures, bass to the end, Mar 05th 2005, #18
RE: under represented forage, salmonoid 1, Mar 06th 2005, #20
RE: under represented forage, Chris, Mar 07th 2005, #22
RE: under represented forage, Chris, Mar 07th 2005, #23
RE: under represented forage, Criley, Mar 07th 2005, #25
      RE: under represented forage, Lightninrod, Mar 08th 2005, #26
           RE: under represented forage, nathan, Mar 09th 2005, #27
                RE: under represented forage, Criley, Mar 09th 2005, #28
                     RE: under represented forage, magmaster, Mar 25th 2005, #31
                          RE: under represented forage, Samurai TI, Mar 27th 2005, #32
                               RE: under represented forage, Tim Gago, Mar 30th 2005, #33

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