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Finally have all 3 of my favorite crappie imitators... Sly, Lil Piggy, UFO. Time to go fish them!

Here is my take on this. I could give 2 sh&ts what he did or other people do. I really never look up to people, don't get me wrong I know many great swimbaiters out there. To me this is not based on how many followers on social media. I think after a while you get to know these people. To be honest the only person I look up to is my wife. Not sure how she dose it, putting up with me, taking care of me, our daughter, the house hold stuff, and being the rock of this family. Bottom line is what was done was not cool, but iit really doesn't effect that many people. Not 100 percent on this but I am sure we all didn't send him money every time he caught a big fish. So fish and learn for yourself by yourself not by idolized people. On a side note....it would be 2 times harder for me to snag a fish then to actually catch one. If I throw out a snag hook I would get a gator or 100 pounds of weeds. Anyways best to everyone, Brian

From first hand experience. Narcsistic people like Mike Long and a bunch of others that have gained any fame use it to threaten the people they have used directly and indirectly. They retaliate by using their influence over people and media to make you look like the party at fault. They try to make you look like your the crazy one with mental issues that is jealous of their fame and success. Their defenders come one after another to attack thinking they are defending their "buddy". If Kerr would have came out earlier I can guarantee it would have been far worse for him. Mike Long at that time had the world convinced and some really nice freinds and people I know that he was the nicest guy on earth. As a few told me ,"humble and only wanting to help people". As I have warned people here in the past and one of the reasons I don't post much here anymore. This is same of all the people involved in all the fish beefs supporting and defending their hero's and freinds. Plenty more fraudulant people out their pretending to be something that are not. And plenty of people still out there telling us what great people they are. And if somebody tells the truth on their "buddy" or hero they are willing to attack, ridicule, and shame that person to no end although they are just being used same as the accuser.

Caught a bunch of whippersnapper fish from May through June! Probably 25+ fish a few weren’t pictured. Such an awesome bait!

Citizen 6” are up! Got me 3 packs— still a few colors left! Go get em!

Nothing better than ripping into a package with a few brand new Slammers. X2 7 inch, my confidence bait. Immediately ran to a local pond that has a pretty tough swimbait bite. 5 minutes in and this guy hammered it. Like full blow up out of the water type strike, and gave me a few nice jumps on the way in.

Congrats to @Aye Dat way for winning the June SUB Tournament by 3 oz! SU Prize pack is the prize Please contact @swimbaitundergroundto claim your prize

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Guess I got lucky on my first tournament!

Kinda going all out on this build. Most of my rods stay fairly simple as far as decoration goes. This one is getting some VERY nice components. Rainshadow Revelation 8' heavy crankbait blank REVCB80H-SB 14" Carbon fiber rear grip Alps adjustable weighted butt system Matagi crackle paited Fuji PTS reel seat Fuji titanium torzite guides, that will be acid wrapped. Daiwa Millionaire HLC on top

PayPal ready for long distance shoppers... just in case someone can help. Wish I could be there.

@bassbass I 100% agree with your response. To be honest I didn’t even know who mike long really was until the article was posted! It might be different for the Cali guys who tourney fish and have been on the scene for awhile. I’m an east coast guy at heart and grew up with Bill Dance on TV! As long as the people on this forum who chuck big baits aren’t out there snagging beasts, we are all good! There is always someone out there trying to cut corners. No joke I may have snagged a few sun fish growing up...but not really frowned upon when your 7 or 8!!!

Tomorrow morning’s line up! Banana Bomber going to get some bites!

@kahai808 gotta support the Koreans! But @Londonmitch did have one first haha

wonder who brought these on the scene

Got a few to epoxy tonight, did an albino one for myself. Tried to kept the wood grain showing thru and used my “web” spray paint method to add some extra texture, pics don’t really show it well. But it’s the same white technique used on this bait, which is done by modifying the spray nozzle and spraying in an odd pattern.

Was a good 3 hour, late afternoon session. Got 2 waking the little Johnny and later got one cranking down the micro mink, which I just epoxy the lip back on yesterday. Lost a 4th one that spit the mink but was a good afternoon.

Strictly swimbaits Hinkle

Hey, somebody pick me up one of everything.

I can’t put it down, Ive repainted twice and replaced 3 tails haha things getting thrashed

Thanks Scott. I've learned some new things from fishing these rats. Being able to see your bait gives a different perspective

Good ones

Awesome. Such a good little bait

Nice work @Aye Dat way

Planos and hook keepers work pretty well too.

Nice! Thanks man , no rust issue with the ventilation holes?

Do you always keep your baits in this bag, or just when you take them out fishing?

Dammmmmmmnnnn. I want it bad...

Damn, that thing is super sick! Wish I had those skills!

That HLC is going to look awesome on that rod! Can't wait to see pics of that... great work.

Thanks man!!!

Albino rat all assembled and epoxied did some feathered hooks to try. I’m still undecided if I like feathered hooks on my swimbaits. 2.75oz all rigged

3:16 Gill Glide working as a wake bait on the early morning bite. Moam Psycho 8'3" Hawgtech 110mm Handle and Grips 20lb P-Line Mono CXX

If you see the part of the video were he has the rod and reel combo laying inside the boat you can see exactly how we has the hook set up. Its a drop shot rig with a huge treble hook, and he probably put the grub just to disguise it a little bit from people. And at the beggining when he is fishing in front of a tree you can clearly see that he spots a fish and then tries to snag it. There is no defending him.

People who are innocent don't delete their IG. Looking back on it its kinda fishy that this swimbait veteran was using saltwater duolock clips on all of his baits. Ive fished alot of tournaments and I've never seen anyone bed fishing with a treble hook like was in the video.

Now I don't feel so bad about not catching fish every trip myself Still a sad thing to hear of any fisherman losing respect for these trophy fish just to gain a bit of attention. Fishing becomes less of a passion and more of a means to popularity. I was first inspired to pick up the big baits from reading a 2009 Bassmaster article featuring Long and his success with swimbaits. I'm still glad for that article, but this definitely puts new perspective on things. All these big guns catch huge fish all the time and act like it's nothing. Some are legit and put in tons of work and others maybe not so much. I just hope that when we all finally get that new pb the moment won't be spoiled by some internet battle of legitimacy. Respect the fish and catch them in an honest manner and the feeling of accomplishment should be reward enough

There is a seller on eBay "thetacklezone" out of the UK, they have a few different colors. The perch color looks like it will be money. Ordered one a few days ago so we'll see.

Was lucky and fortunate enough to get this bait for Joe @ realprey this bait will be tossed as soon as possible! Wood grain is amazing, stained green, epoxy top coat, pics definitely don’t do it justice!

I’ll be there, camping for a couple days. Looking forward to it.

So got the 3 I did finished up today, and a quick photo shoot in the yard. Interesting to see how much wood varies in weight. All these baits were from from the same batch of Spanish cedar. You can see the lightest one weighs 2.37oz, this piece in particular was incredibly light weight and had a strip of very soft wood, you can see the thick burnt line, that’s the soft wood. the skirted one weighed in at 2.45oz and super dense one weighs 3.35oz, almost a full oz over the lightest one. they are all weighed the same, and rigged the same as far as hook/rings/tails. Then some glamour shots before I fish the hell out of this week, got a 4 day trip on Thursday

We went out for a 4 hour night session and I let my brother in law use it. He ended up using it for all 4 hours. Countless fish and a lot of blowups. Lost a good one right on the bank. It was dark and all we heard was the mass of the fish's body throwing water around, then everything went silent. Still some good fish caught.

Gills awaiting clear.

Got a couple coming along.

Finish with the master. The width is just around 1in and still have to make up a tail for it. Coming along good so far.