Mattlures

I hunt in open dry deserty mountains. Its a lot of hiking and more glassing. Our hunter success rate is usualy between 3% and 7%. I get a buck every year because I work harder then the other 95% of the hunters. I dont have anything against blinds and feeders, it just doesnt seem like it would be fun. I want to get out and find them.

First let me say thank you to everybody who chose me. I am honored. Also be careful what you wish for ha ha. I just spent all day on a lake with Mike Long in 40 degree weather with a howling COLD wind and neither of us got a single bite. Hunting big ones is not always fun. I'd like to fish with a lot guys on here just for fun. I would have a blast catching bass in different locations weither they were 1lb or 15. But I would mostly want to catch some species that I dont have. I would like to hike the mountains with Fourbiz and learn how to fly fish. I would also like to catch a big smallie with RW, I have never caught a smalie and a big ol sturgeon with Fish Chris. OOO peacocks with Redline Robert would be fun too.

I think you all are being a little harsh. Of course she is anoying she is a 17 year old kid. They are all anoying at that age. She is pretty but she still looks like a kid to me.

Snook I agree that he did not brak a law because he did not have a trout in posession. However if your a game warden and you come up on a guy who does not have a trout stamp that IS targeting trout what do you think his excuse is going to be? Of course he is going to say he was fishing for a different type of fish. I am sure that warden has heard that before. It sounds like the warden didn't believe him and under the circumstances, I think that is reasonable. It doesnt seem like either side did anything wrong but If I was the warden I would certainly be suspicious and I would have been asking questions too. Then I would have went away and hid and wathced with binos just to make sure.

that was halarious thats for making me laugh!

Snook your saying that the warden was harrassing because he questioned him? I think he was very lucky not to get a ticket and I think the warden was very patient. I like talking to the F&G when they check me. They are a wealth of info and are hunters and fishers too. Once they see your all good and legal they are usualy very friendly. He was doing his job. Put your self in his shoes.

There is a little foul language and a little violence so I hope its not crossing the line. If so I apologize. It sure is funny though!

Your using a lure that is comonly known as a trout lure. Your fishing a lake with trout in it. You admitted that you hooked a trout but it got off. The trout bit on the lure that is comonly known as a trout lure. You did not have the required trout stamp. Hmmm How dare him !!! You should have thanked him for not writing you a ticket, escpecialy if you had any kind of attitude at all. Some people dont realize that fish and game have more athority then the police. They can actualy search your house without a warrent and they are equal otherwise. The simple solution is to get a trout stamp.

Right now this is my goto buzzer. It has a unique rivet and is the best designed buzzer I have seen. http://www.osp-lures.com/products/zeroone/index.html they are expensive though. color is irelevant at night, I ususaly fish black or chartruse or white but I havent noticed one color out fishing another after about 15 years of night time buzzing

Ha ha Babby I do the EXACT opposite. I absolutley do not want any variation in my retreive. I want the most fluid consistant slooow retreive. Over the years This is the technique that I have perfected and has produced more then anybody fishing around me with buzzers. I only fish buzzers at night.

NO beads bihind the blade!!! Rivets only! A ggod buzzbait should have a loud squuek almost like fingernails on a chalkboard.

I dont like clackers. I have seen many times where they wouldnt hit the clackerd bait but they would hit a non clacker. I have not seen it the other way around. Everytime one of my friends cought a fish on a clacker, I was able to get bit without one. IMO the most important feature of a buzzbait is the squeek. I will not fish a buzzer that does not squeek. If it has a bead behind the blade instead of a rivet then I wont use it.

Loved the seminar. Thanks Glenn

buy quality. Guys who start cheap ususly give up or end up upgrading baits. They would have been better of to buy a couple good baits then a bunch of cheap ones that will end up not getting used.

I completley agree with you.

K-mac thats not what I said. I said its worse when you sell it. It is larger crime. If you download a song or copy a lure for your own personal use you are only steeling 1 thing. If you mass produce that lure or song and sell them to thousands of people then you are steeling many times. I did not say one thing is ok and the other is not. I said one is worse then the other.

Pantera61 In the taxidermy market when a company makes a mold of a fish and sells the reproductions they can protect their castings. I believe with a copywrite. Bass-Brat thats what I said, but its a larger crime when you sell it. Personal use and selling for proffit are two different levels. BTW the last time I stole a song was over 3 years ago. Brent, it is not for any of us to judge. That is the job of the judge. Maybe you could contact some of the other companies named in the suit and go in with their lawyer at a fraction of the cost. As for the timing of the patent, You have 1 year after the product has been shown to aply for patent. then you have to show due dilligence while its pending to have your patent granted. This can take a while.

Osprey39 I am no saint and I am guilty of downloading music that I did not pay for. It is wrong and it is steeling. I am not going to justify it. But I think it is much worse when you steel intelectual property and then sell it. Now your steeling on a much larger scale.

Ok The "beaver" is not patented, just like the "paca" is not patented. AS A WHOLE BAIT. Certain aspects of the beaver which I believe are the unique ribs. Not the beaver itsself. Now for guys who think he paca claws are copying a crawfish or something"natural" REALY??????????. if you laid a paca craw claw next to an actualy claw from a real crawfish you would instantly know they are extremely different. like I said before there are several different forms of patents and there are copywrites and trademarks. These are all there to protect original ideas and designs. The claws on the paca are original and this is a fact. That fact is proven because they were issued a patent. Also the myth that you cant patent something from nature is just plain wrong period. You can not patent a real crawfish claw but if you carved out a crawfish claw you could copywrite your original artwork. If somebody made a mold of your carving then you could sue them. If somebody carved there own version of a crawfish claw then its theirs. This example is only referring to copywrites, not patents but copywrites are inforcable just as patents are. Just like 2 people could write very similar articles on the same subject but they have not copied each other. Now back to the claws. They have a very distinct action and by patenting the differnt qualities of those claws the owner is protecting them as best as he legaly could. The patent system is weak at best. It is easy to get around a patent by changing something 20%. When somebody knowingly copies a patented design they are steeling. They are diliberatly trying to cash in on the hard work of the guy who who designed the original. In the fishing industry this runs rampant and is so common that some consumers dont understand why sombody would sue over something as simple as a claw. The answer is easy. Because the owner designed them and marketed them and put his time and money into it and others come along and try to cash in on it. They are to lazy to do their own work. Their views are soo distorted that they think the guy that is getting ripped off is being greedy buy trying to recover what is rightfuly his. If sombody came into your yard and stole your truck that you worked hard for would you want it back? or would just let him have it? Intelectual property is property. Now before you all jump on me for defending this suit. That is not realy what I am doing. I am defending the process. I am not a patent atorny or judge. I do not know that any of the companies named have infringed. That is for the judge to decide. One more thing, and I could be wrong but I dont think so. I believe that before you can sue, you have to send a letter of cease and disist. In other words, they are given a warning. If they choose to ignore it AND THEY ARE INFRINGING then they absolutly desrve to get sued.

tyrius. ok for the hundredth time(ok maybe not a hundred but still), it is not about a beaver!!!!!! It apears that patent covers certain features of the pinchers of the paca craw. No beavers!! reaction inovations has their own patent in a completley different situation. I dont know if they are actualy suing anybody. This is about the patents pertaining to the paca craw and specific features of it. A judge will decide if the patents have been infringed upon and if so he will decide who pays. Not only is it ilegal to manufacture infringing prodcts it is also illegal to knowingly sell them. If the case all the way through without the sides settleing then the judge will decide who gets what from who.

if you bend the hook you will probably break it. You shouldnt need to alter the hook anyway. Lay the hook in the mold and see where you need to dremel to make the hook fit. Dremel a little at a time and keep checking. Dont try and do it in one pass becase you will ugly up the mold if your a little off. Even then its not a big deal, just more for you to trim off

It does not have to be a direct copy, it has to be infringing on his patent. Which could be a manufacturing process or a specific feature of a bait, not necaceraly the entire bait. If I designed a new tail and patented it, it doesnt matter if you put my tail on a worm or a crankbait. If you copied my patented tail then you are infringing. there are several different types of patents which cover different aspects of intelectual property.

I like these threads when there is an answer. Keep doing them.

s13iohn thanks bweave09, good point!

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