BIG BAIT

High Power, how do you make this about your baits and Mike Bucca? Just remember, Mike Long has forgot about more big bass than you, I, and the top 20 posters on the site combined have caught. He has more bass over 18 pounds than anyone period. How many fish over 20 pounds do you have? You complain about baits, are you telling me one of your hand made baits has never broken, or swam incorrectly? That is just a fact of life when baits are handbuilt one at a time. What makes a great swimbait company is how the handle a broken bait or a shitty swimmer. You complain about a soft plastic bait ripping after a couple fish? I have had Ospreys, Hudds, and just about every other makers soft baits rip after one fish sometimes. Not all the time it is just a price to pay for the more sublte lifelike action of a soft bait. Let me call you a waaabulance. Maybe no one believes you caught those fish on your baits because they look like an eight year old knocked off a Triple Trout.

Spooky, not trying to jump into this, I do not know Mike personaly, have been facebook friends for awhile and try to soak up info when I see him at trade shows. I can say one thing, he sticks big fish and posts them every month of the year. To say he only catches fish in spring is incorrect.

Stick with the 8" in a couple key colors and stick with it. Bass eat 6" to 8" inch prey where ever they swim. My three favorites:

Back to the real issues, where are these sheep pictures.

Last time they lasted about four or five hours, but it was not pre announced.

Just got the email: Hello Huddslingers! We will be taking orders for the 68 Special Wednesday April 6th, 2011 at 7:00 pm pacific time. As we have stated before, the 68 Special is not a production bait, we cycle in the molding (prototype) for the 68 as we make our regular production baits. For those of you, who are currently using the 68, please give us feed back on your experience with the 68. For some reason everyone is tight lipped about this bait. God Bless, Ken

YOU GOT IT SLIMM.

If you want I will sign that pic for you. If anyone wants to make an offer on a used pair of Conquest 400's PM me. Mickey, hope you are done with this. This is a lot of sh!t talking over a reply that said "Me Too". But we can keep going, you haven't even started on my mom yet....

Can I get this worm in a Black Grape or Oxblood these would look great on the dropshot. That picture was taken right after I started working for Okuma. At that time they did not have a reel for swimbaiting. So I used Okuma rods and used my old Shimano Conquests. Since I have a couple 500 dollar reels I felt at the time I might as well use them. Now that Okuma came out with the Isis I use those and have retired the Conquests. Yeah I throw Scroungers and underspins for striper on light line during the Summer. But the drop shot does not work good for striper fishing so I will leave those tech pieces to someone else. So yeah I used to fish with Shimano reels, we all do things in our younger years, I mean you act like I used to run cocaine for a biker gang..... oh wait... Hey thats pretty cool you can post links to swimbaitnattion and no one else can. I guess thats a perk of owning the site. As for the catalog, I did not know they would run that pic in the catalog thats not my dept, but it will not run in next years.

Please post a link to that drop shot post, because that would be news to me. Or you just one of those guys that talk out their a$$ when they have nothing to really say. Don't have anything bad on me so make stuff up. I fish Shimano, I drop shot. I called you on the Shimano comment, show me my drop shot techinque piece.... Bassindon the exact quote that started all this was "Me too." Guess I shouldn't of ran my mouth and just put "+1"