mjh1986

I was into the tournament game for quite a while. I was gone almost every weekend pre-fishing and doing tourneys for long time. In April of last year my wife and I had a baby girl. Easily the best thing that's ever happened to me, it's so much fun being a dad. My priorities changed and I wanted to stay home...most of the time. Trying to fish tournaments with no pre fishing wasn't working for me, so I quit. I decided I was only gonna chase big fish from then on. The only swimbaits I had at the time were a 6" BBZ and an 8" Hudd. Caught lots of stripers on the BBZ but never anything on the hudd. I was at home one night and YouTube'd Huddleston swimbaits...my perception of fishing that bait completely changed after watching all of Butch's videos haha. Everything was a downward spiral from there. From a ridiculous collection to making my own soft and hard baits, swimbait fishing consumes my life. I guess I have my daughter to thank for that...and to blame if my wife sees how much I spend on swimbaits haha.

Great pic Tim! Nice fish.

Thanks Tim and Don

Thank you Wayne

Thanks for the feedback guys.

Hello everyone, I just sold a hinkle shad in the black market. I sold it to the first guy who Pm'd me. However another member posted to the thread first and his pm was just behind the first pm. Feel pretty crappy about the situation, as I sold it to the first pm and didn't even look at the thread. My question is, moving forward who becomes first in line? The first pm? Or the first post to the thread? All of your input is greatly appreciated and apologies to Ryan. Thanks SU

Good one!

El Raton is my favorite. Lots of success on that bait including some donkey smallmouth.

So rad!!!! Congrats man.