floridaswimb8er Posted November 25, 2015 Report Share Posted November 25, 2015 Castiac Boyd Duckett BDShad...they look like a Bull Shad, cost about 25.00 and they swim pretty nice in the video I saw. csparrow12 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoopdaloop Posted November 25, 2015 Report Share Posted November 25, 2015 I'm all for competition and a free market. However, I will never support a larger company(Castaic) that copies the design of a small company(Mike Bucca) and mass produces some piece of ish. Be a stand up person and support Mike Bucca, get a bull shad... its better anyways. luckycraft, marc626, Ball_08 and 6 others 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeremyW Posted November 25, 2015 Report Share Posted November 25, 2015 any thing boyd has to do with should go stright in the fire place (its cold at night) R8R 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Get_Biggens Posted November 25, 2015 Report Share Posted November 25, 2015 There was a thread on this alreafy at some point, most people seemed ok with the bullshad getting ripped off lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CTGalloway21 Posted November 25, 2015 Report Share Posted November 25, 2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqJvhVZZwbo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waynem Posted November 25, 2015 Report Share Posted November 25, 2015 One of the valuable things Tackle Warehouse brings to the table is the Customer Reviews section for the products they carry. Not every review is accurate, but read a bunch of them and you get a decent idea of the product or the company. Take a couple of minutes and check the reviews for the other Castaic products - there is a general theme of quality problems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
floridaswimb8er Posted November 25, 2015 Author Report Share Posted November 25, 2015 Well let me ask this, in this particular industry, which is a niche type industry where manufacturers strive to closely mimic baitfish and forage......is every shad or herring or trout or gill imitation a copy of the first guy's model? Not trying to be an a$$hole here, but where does one draw the line on that? I pour my own soft plastics......there are essentially a finite amount of different shapes and sizes one can use......I wouldn't consider any straight worm to necessarily be a rip off of the original Crème worm. I've read into this and I do know the allegations on Castiac copying baits in the past, but I wanted to get a little bit of feedback from the guys who buy baits. Wasn't the issue with the Bullshad similar to this......the bait was said to be copied from HPH? If more than one guy makes a segmented swimbait that is 5" or 6" long and resemble a shad, is he copying the original? fishaholic211, LUV-2-CATCH'EM and gcopple 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CTGalloway21 Posted November 25, 2015 Report Share Posted November 25, 2015 regardless of prior swimbait drama on who copied who on here, Castaic is a straight rip off job. They copied the Bull Shad, copied the Gunfish, copied their frog. The entire line of Boyd Duckett baits are copies. floridaswimb8er 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
floridaswimb8er Posted November 26, 2015 Author Report Share Posted November 26, 2015 while I totally agree with you, it doesn't make it acceptable for anyone to copy a bait either whether he is a small company or a larger one like Castiac. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CTGalloway21 Posted November 26, 2015 Report Share Posted November 26, 2015 I 100% agree with you. There is something to be said about being creative and unique. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
High Power Swimbaits Posted November 26, 2015 Report Share Posted November 26, 2015 Problem with everyones argument here is one very simple thing. Mike Bucca was on the prostaff of Reaction Strike. Reaction Strike is owned by the same guy. When the company scanned a Huddleston Body to 1mm tolerance guess who was the very first guy to jump at a chance to be on the Prostaff and defend the owner of the company and the bait. LOL. Mike "Knockoff" Bucca. You see hard baits swim with the vortex created off the joints which Castaic improved. They also improved the bait on the pause where it stays straight and doesn't fold up and sink. Mike Bucca defended the company changing the tail so if you use logic changing the joints on a scanned bait is the same thing it being a hard bait. I have about 20 screeenshots of Mike Bucca defending knockoffs and talking about knockoffs I saved from years ago incase I ever went to court. Throw in the shockboat fish and the history of his company and to say you want to buy something from a non knockoff company who is supposedly more honest. I am just sitting here shaking my head about some of the stuff you guys fall for. VolunteerSwimbaits and nrx 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
High Power Swimbaits Posted November 26, 2015 Report Share Posted November 26, 2015 And I am not saying what the company did was right either. But it is what it is and people supporting Bull Shad over Castaic need to see what Mike Bucca has always said about knockoffs and him defending them when it was to his benefit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
High Power Swimbaits Posted November 26, 2015 Report Share Posted November 26, 2015 One of my favorite Bucca quotes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
High Power Swimbaits Posted November 26, 2015 Report Share Posted November 26, 2015 One more. The last sentence explins it all. Lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeremyW Posted November 26, 2015 Report Share Posted November 26, 2015 I cant stand mike shads either,my personal opinion is that they are overrated and it just dont fit my style . But then again there are a lot of overated swimbaits out there Im not that guy thats gonna kiss a bait makers ass just to get me a bait(way to much of this these days) . But I do love seeing bait makers being called out like this Randall . fishaholic211, floridaswimb8er and High Power Swimbaits 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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