OG Stocker Trout
I know most of the "kids" on here are going "WTF is that thing"???
Well I guess I'm just old skool and been doing it since the early 2000s before your beloved Huddy was around this was the end all be all in BIG baits especially soft plastic ones. Thing has accounted for numerous DD toads all over SoCal, especially Casitas where it was designed and made by a local guy Rod Thigpen. Now looking at it, it's almost like a soft glide bait in a way.
I'll never forget the day that I caught my very first swimmer fish EVER on the Stocker Trout.
I was winding in like my 10th swimbait cast to date when I noticed a big shadow right behind the bait which was probably 6 feet from the boat at that time. I was literally about to pop the bait out of the water and she just straight pounced on it. Went just a hair under 8Lbs....Like 7-13 or something.
She came out of the Pudd.....Here she is.....
I wonder how big she is today....if shes even still swimming?