Ltrain

Sweet vid Evan!

I think we got a little sneak peak of Deps moving towards this idea of focusing the color patterns to be made on the inside of the bait as opposed to the outside skin with the new "Natural Saiko Trout" color. They put a lot of the detail on the inside core and foil with that color. The guys who fish this bait ALOT were having fading issues of the foil with the water getting in between the core and the skin. The new injection molded core will hopefully keep color from fading. I speculate they'll put a slim piece of foil inside the core for flash and scale effect and paint the outside much like the run of the mill Hard injected bait and they'll leave the skin transparent for the most part. I'm sure this will also help keep costs down and production will be easier and quicker. As for how it performs we'll just have to wait and see when it gets into the hands of the public.

No you were right for some reason I flip his name in my head two ways LOL. Yeah he said "clear" a few times. I get my Dad to translate it. He can read and understand Japanese. He's a trooper too! Just like Evan, WE DO IT FOR YOU GUYS! Oh ok! You posted the translation, not me. I just posted the cool story with the spring weight hookedup, my wife said he mentioned it. Not sure if Ltrain got it in his translation as well, wife said he mentioned it would help with demand. No dates mentioned and nothing said about the old slide swimmer other than that the mold for them is 10 years old. Yup! If anyone has any more specific questions please direct them to Evan. My dad has told me has officially retired from this thread.

No you were right for some reason I flip his name in my head two ways LOL. Yeah he said "clear" a few times. I get my Dad to translate it. He can read and understand Japanese. He's a trooper too! Just like Evan, WE DO IT FOR YOU GUYS!

A few main points that Mr. Okumura mentioned about the advantage of the clear plastic is that he can be more flexible with colors and patterns. He mentions that with the clear injected plastic, he can now do ghost colors (for you clear water guys) and also he can paint or insert foil inside the body mainly because of how the foil in the current models fades and gets dirty. He also mentions since you have a hollow interior plastic he can now do things like adding the spring weight ball. (This is a feature that is already being used in one of the Deps shallow crankbaits the "Bell knocker"). One thing to note. He never says if this is better than the old/current model. All he says is the benefits of new model. I guess the Fish will tell us what they like and don't like sooner or later. Hopefully these babies will get in the hands of all you people that fish (or have already been fishing them... ) and you can share us your findings. As for the new Bullshooter 160. Its a new "medium" size that he was asked to produce. One main that feature I was able to get out of his talk was the angle of the pectoral fins. The new 160 size have a sharper down angle vs the flat pectoral fins of the original Bullshooter and the Bull jr. Mr Okumura says this helps keep fish from gaining leverage of the hook on the fins and popping off. Bonus info.... For you Jointed Claw fans... Gancraft has a new version of its Jointed Claw called the "prospero"??? I couldn't sound out the translation right? Main feature here is they molded a little anal fin near the rear hook eye and also slightly changed the shape of the mouth. This helps it swim just subsurface better. (Just in the 20cm higher range of the water column) He mentions something else about the swimming pattern which the bass are able to attack it better but that was sorta lost in translation. not sure if that mean it swims tighter or wider. Hope this helps... I can already feel the dollar bills falling out of my pockets.

Don't forget about the new size Bullshooter.

I talked to a shimano rep and he strongly suggested that this could be a possibility. But definitely no 300 size Curado i this year and I didnt get the feeling that a 300 size "i" was a consideration for the future. But you never know.

Yea. I'd say it was worth the wait. Thats a hell of a way to break into the swimbait bite! Awesome fish! Congrats man!

Great communication and easy transaction. Don't hesitate to deal with him. Thanks!

Looks like unlike the Calcutta D, you will have easy access to the cast brake settings.

Dude! Looks like something that's spent many a day in the lagoon...

Bullshooters? What Bullshooters???

Way to spread some love chef. Aren't you allowed to order 5 of each color? If you can include an order of your special Lobster Mac and Cheese then I would order too!

Awesome.

If that's an invite I'm gonna have to find some good waders in portly dwarf size then!

It was probably from the chill I got from the ice in your veins.

Nice work DanFather! I hear great things about the Salmon River. I may have to try that some day! no kidding! if i were in those pics, the fish would be blurry from my hands shaking so much. altho, having lived on both coast, i gotta say 46° here feels a LOT colder than 46° in the northeast. 46 degrees is 46 degrees. Cali just made you soft.

Nice! Looks like Saiko Claus took it back to the workshop to save the bait from going to the island of misfit toys!

Usually the main bite period is April to June and starts back up again in the Fall end of September to November. Every year is different. The biggest contestant to the striped bass are blue fish which can be big, nasty, and tear your sh#t up! You make it to NYC, I'll take you to those spots and you can throw your Slide swimmer in there. I'll watch.

Yeah there are stripers for sure in the Hudson bay, Hudson River, and East river. In and around all the 5 boroughs of New York City and all the tributaries down to the New Jersey shore. In spring and fall the stripers make their runs and sometimes it shoulder to shoulder in the prime spots around the City. Haven't seen or heard much about plug fishing near the city. Most of it is various live and chunk baiting depending on time of year. A lot of the plug fisherman are surf guys near the beaches from what I know. I've wanted to throw big topwater swimbaits in the East River from Manhattan but I have no idea if I'd be wasting my time. I do know that if you're throwing artificial there, it's bucktail jigs. It's definitely the premiere species for the NYC urban anglers. I've been trying to get out on the river or bay so see if I can get a swimbait bite going but so far haven't had the opportunity. Jeremy Wade got some love in the East River as well. http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/river-m ... d=10681150 http://www.nycfishing.com/eastriver2.html (scroll to the bottom)

was busy searching topics and asking seasoned swimbaiters questions (offline) and going straight to the water to try to figure out the new baits and techniques Iearned here all while trying not to ask dumb questions so i didnt get flamed. Lol.

I just noticed that you already have a MB XR Destruction (I was skimming). If you like that, you should definitely look into the SRD if you haven't already.

Also, I'll throw out a question since you guys are talking blanks. Does phenix make a "K2" blank yet suitable for heavier swimbaits? Am I dumb for even asking that?