High Power Swimbaits

It's not my competitiors. I buy baits from a lot of my "competitors". I just don't buy from companies and or that are into misleading people and full of BS. I remember a fishing report from Mike once said the day was full of action and we caught some fish up the river and some on the lake. Guy who went fishing with Mike who was one of mikes buddies posted on another page that the trip was slow and they caught two or three fish. One was real small and not a keeper. It's that kind of stuff Mike is known for. Same misleading, embellishing and half truths over and over with all he does. Mike fishing at the Trophy lake has been a local joke all this year with so many seeing him there but people not knowing might not know that long armed fat fish like that are common there. I am bitter toward lies and halftruths that is all.

No I have caught 100s of fish the size of Mikes and probably 50 30lb plus sacks from there. Never took one photo except a 12lber from there and I can't tell you if I even have it anymore. It's fun fishing but just not that big of an accomplishment on a heavily managed trophy lake. Even the lakes below are so easy to catch 30 pound sacks it's no big deal.

Let me see one refund out of hundreds of people. Nobody is taking my business. I still have hundreds waiting and can't fill those orders. I am just one guy and can't make all the baits. Maybe you should help your buddy Ryan at fish30acre produce the same demand just letting the bait do it so you don't have to talk so much BS and run contests for giveaway baits and need friends and prostaffers to do all your shady marketing.

Hey Corey tell Mike his trophy lake fish look nice in his new photos with his "Not a Bull Shad" but he should be a little more honest when he is fishing managed Trophy waters where that is the norm for most good crankbait and topwater fishermen. Might be a little misleading and lead people to believe he caught them out of a normal public lake when he just says "public water" and he is in his regular Bass Boat. I posted on it again who would have figured but I will not post fish from managed trophy lakes and just tell people it's "public water" in my promo photos.

Just for the record since I have already had a couple people ask me about it this morning. I talked to Matt and others after this thread and apologized for some of my comments on this thread and for listening and associating with some of the people in it. I still don't know what happened with all of this but learned right after this there are crazy people in this swimbait world with very serious mental problems etc. putting on an act for the world. Learn from my mistake. There is a good lesson to learn here.

This is a big one a member here sent to me. You can see a color difference in the large ones and I assume this one is a spawner which gives most baitfish darker colors. On many of the larger ones I have seen here which are 9-10 inches there is more of a pearl white vs silver color and more purple on the back vs. blue. My thinking is it's a difference in the large ones not being in large schools in open water as much as their diet has to change some to support a larger body mass. You see the same thing in gizzards to some extent as past 6 inches they have to move shallow in most lakes to survive and move out of large open water schools and instead form small groups in shallow water.

Here is another one shot from above.

I kept herring at my house for a while to study the colors and how they react to different water colors temps etc. Also how they swim and change direction. Also did a lot of study of the biology of fish pigments to try to match them when I paint. The biggest thing from the ones I had at home is I could stress it and watch the color change. Also could separate one from the group and it would get darker. This is one I caught midchange and it shows both the normal color (clear water white tank walls) from being in the school and the stressed green color. Led me to believe that you probably have herring of all colors you see in most lakes depending on condition water color and time of year etc.

Bsss are sunfish and don't seek shade or cover most of the time when active and feeding. Morning bites like you described are usually the result of baitfish movement linked to the light level. Baitfish like shad have poor eyesight and break out of the tight balls that are common in bright light that penetrates deeper and scatter in low light and often move shallower. As the light level increases at day break they start to see each other and start the process of forming tighter larger schools and move deeper. Bass are conditioned to take advantage or the short window of time where there is still low enough light levels to give them an advantage as a predator who doesn't seek shade and cover to feed as a true ambush predator but an advantage over prey during the "active hunt" where they have good enough visability to see prey but the prey has a harder time seeing them. There is also an advantage to the bass that the prey species is more concentrated but not in large tight schools which make it harder for the bass to pick off small groups of smaller prey or individuals of larger prey. Just from my experience this window is good for larger than average fish but not for the true giant fish which feed more efficiently and effectively midday most of the time.

Or just regurgitation of something they have heard or been told with no real world experience to back it up.

Go out and catch some shad. Take away all the damage done from the cast net and you soon realize a huge majority of shad aren't the beat up sick injured etc. BS people use to market baits. It's just a Bull Crap excuse. Talk to striper guides and find out which baits they prefer. They want the healthiest liveliest baits to catch fish. Some of the best guides will take a shad of the line the second it starts to look injured or weak. Why because they are the least effective baits. The whole injured thing is just marketing BS and making an excuse or ignorance of what is the truth.

I can't remember the weight I want to say it was 11.9 lbs but cant really remember. I do remember it's head being 20 inches around we measured for length and girth and it was biggest at it's head.

This is my good friend Joseph from back when I was a guide and he was one of my regular clients. Skinny just under 30 incher. Whatever problem you have in life I can guarantee there is someone with a bigger problem with a better way of looking at it. When Joseph caught this one he said "Praise God". It had been a long time with no bites for us that day and when he got bit he was talking about what a blessing it was to go fishing on a beautiful day. No wind and water was slick and high bluebird sky and bright sun. Joseph is a magnet for big fish of every species and seems to catch them wherever he goes and whoever he goes with. He seems real lucky at times. I attribute a lot of his "luck" to just his attitude toward what most would call bad luck and being a very thankful person.

Here is the thing though. the swimbait market is still small with a lot of smaller companies. Many of us don't charge what we could get for our baits trying to be fair to the customer. Now what if I had a bait that is real innovative or an idea better than this ABT bait that makes a simaler bait that is twice as good. I now have to worry about ABT stealing the design because of the way they have shown they do business. Guess what just happened to my prices with every ABT bait sold. I see that the customers will support them and buy their baits even after being caught with the Hinkle stuff so the price of my baits have to go up to pay for patents, attorneys and/or ensuring I make a profit from any new design. That is if I were to ever make the bait. I may decide it's not just worth the effort, risk or cost and no one will ever see it.

Just from looking at the photo looks like they made their own tail and they did have the first hardbait I can remember having a swimming tail even though the tail on that one was pretty much a knockoff hudd tail. I will give credit where it's due but I will not buy one no matter how it swims or catches fish. Company showed it's true character and how it operates with the Hinkle thing and trying to spin it after being caught.

Too many variables and situations that have to come from experience to really answer. But I am either moving fast making a few key casts at the best angles to specific spots or I am anchored on a spot or area working it. No in between for me I am at one of the two extremes. Drawing power at times depends on the mood of the fish. Sometimes they move for it at other times they don't but can still be caught if the bait is close enough or hits the spot just right.

The whole thing involved a lot of messages between parties involved and others who were also offered the baits. But the basics are early in the month Conway claimed to only have one bait left and wanted any more baits I had that were blemished baits. Around the middle of the month he sold two that were later confirmed to be the same as the last two blemished baits I had sold him . Right after the sale was made he sent me another message, because I had stopped answering his messages, saying he had some extra money and wanted to buy baits new or used. I confronted him with his stories not matching up and he posted this story about the stolen box and told me the same story. I don't think he knew I had seen the post asking for a text or even if he had seen it so this seemed like a cover story incase the two baits showed up somewhere he could say they were stolen. I got the baits in hand about two weeks ago and confirmed it was the same baits I had sent him unfished and that he had sold them for a big profit while asking for more saying he only had one left.

Sometimes I can tell and even know who I sold the bait to as in this case. Others maybe not. One of the big things is there are several versions out there. The first and second versions were $100 baits and were not the baits that caused the demand to skyrocket. The latest version I just shipped a few weeks ago is a much better bait as far as durability and performance. It's twice as good as the earlier versions from a year or more ago in my opinion. People are paying $300 to $600 dollars for some of the baits. For the early versions that's nuts to me. For the later versions it would be a better deal.

Here is the post that I saw after Conway had just asked me for more baits with the storys of lost and stolen baits. http://swimbaitunderground.com/forums/index.php?/topic/21563-wtb-high-powered-gizzard-shad-will-pay-good-money-thanks/?hl=%2Bgizzard+%2Bshad+%2Bwill+%2Bgood+%2Bmoney

This is a copy and paste from my facebook page that may shed some light on this. Just a warning to anyone buying used baits on ebay and Swimbait Underground etc.. I have had several customers in the past who were regular long time customers I would sell blemished/defective but fishable baits to in the past. A couple weeks ago I got a PM from one of them (Conway aka Reynold Hysell) saying he had baits that were lost and or stolen. This was not the first time I had heard this story from him and had sold him some blemished baits a couple of times when had as...ked in the past. At the same time he asked me for more baits, a member of Swimbait Underground who had posted he was looking for Gliding gizzards but couldn't PM yet asked Conway to text him about the Gliding gizzards that Conway had for sale. I didn't reply to "Conway" asking me for more baits but waited to see what would happen with the sale and contacted the buyer to warn him. After the sale took place I had the baits shipped to me to verify it was the same blemished/repaired etc. baits I had sold "Conway" at a discount. He had flipped the two blemished baits for a profit of around $450 while telling me he lost them and needed more.He also made a post on Swimbait Underground about stolen baits but I think it was just a cover story after I confronted him. He didn't know I had been in contact with the buyer and was having the baits sent to me. There are more baits of different types out there. Some are just prototypes etc and some may be baits that aren't first quality etc. I have seen one more case in the past week where baits were sold for a huge profit but weren't as advertised after passing through a few hands so be careful and if at all possible know the buyer and what you are buying.

From the video the bait has a nice motion on a straight swim at slow to medium speed and will continue to glide on a pause. The market has filled up with glide baits and most can make a bait with a decent mostly forward moving glide. Yours excels where it's smoother than most with the swim motion on a medium retrieve. On a big bait that's a plus. I am sure it would catch fish fished that way. Where glides start to separate themselves from the rest in catching fish is when the bait can do more than just glide with a mostly forward motion. Moving out wide after a sharp turn and / or being able to make quick erratic movements and speed changes while looking somewhat natural. There is a reason the Deps works. It's because is has a fluid swim on the retrieve but by changing the retrieve you can do so many different things with it. It will turn in place, it will glide out wide, it will burn back as fast as you can reel it etc. That's more of what I am looking for when I buy baits. I look for baits with unique actions that aren't just like something already made where I can mix up the retrieve more. As far as appearance type of joint etc. it's all secondary to the swim motion, how the bait casts etc.

Sure every company has issues. Not every company is dishonest about issues , trys to hide the issues or has biased people/ freinds post reviews. I usually just say whats on my mind without worry of how my company looks. That way you know at least you are getting the truth from me whether it makes the company look bad or not. Not so much with other companies who act one way when people are looking in public and another in secret or when they think nobody knows what they are doing. The issues with this company and the reviewers are mostly based on hypocritical actions and behavior or just general dishonesty. I always say," Hold me to the same standards I hold others to". I have had issues myself like the ones you decribed, which are very different than the ones here, mostly because of a combination of very sick and or family members that passed away in the past year and me trying to keep up with demand while taking care of them. I have made adjustments, changed the baits when the problems or even the chance of a problem came up and stopped taking orders and worrying about the demand being more than I can make with more important things to take care of. But these things are very different than what's going on here with the hypocritical reviews from Ryan's buddy first "reviewing" my bait in this forum then reviewing a these baits being a friend of Ryan without making that known. Same with the other misleading reviews here.

No I was talking about parallel system with jumper wires + to+ and -to -. Charger wires should go to a positive on one end and negative on the other end of the set of batteries.

Bass eggs start to develop in the fall. Winter comes and with lower temps egg production slows because of low temps and the fact that bass are cold blooded. As spring comes the egg production speeds up and eggs become ready to drop as fish instinctively move to spawning areas where there is warmer shallow water. Smallmouth spawn first, largemouth second, and spotted bass are usually last although there will be overlap between the species. If for some reason there is a forage problem and the bass doesn't get the right nutrition and calorie intake then the fish will absorb the eggs. The spawn for females happens over a season not just once during a season so a healthy female bass will spawn multiple times and eat throughout the spawn. The male doesn't eat until it is done building a bed, spawning, and guarding eggs and fry.Once it has gone through the process it is done until the next year. Once temps become too warm females just dump the remaining eggs being produced and into an adjustment period to get back to their normal behaviors outside the spawn season.Just from my observation the best spawns happen with good years for forage species, quick rise in temps early in the spawn and a slow steady increase thoughout the season with milder temps toward the end of the season. Bigger males often spawn first and more smaller males spawn more later. Some of this may be due to some small males not being mature enough to spawn early in the season. Females continue to spawn throughout the season. Most of the big females spawn first myth can be blamed on the first beds being shallower where the larger females are easy to see. As the spawn continues and the water warms deeper more big females spawn deeper out of sight from most who believe the big females are already finished or the spawn is almost or already over. First beds are usually shallower in the first part of the spawn then the beds move deeper as the water warms deeper. One would think that spots would spawn before largemouth but spotted bass in most lakes spawn later because they prefer deeper bedding sights that take longer for warm water to reach in most cases.

I did it for years. 200+ times a year. No problems. Just hook charger to one positive on one end of the set of batteries and the negative to a battery on the other end of the set.