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I have never seen a wood swimbait cost more than about 150. The 12" Huddleston soft baits are going for between 100 and 200 depending upon condition and number.

The 3:16 Armageddon is $250 and the Rago Trout TOOL is $300.

Don't you mean LONG Mike? : uuuuhhhhhh........no.

the non mushy answer for me would be Mike Long. Because he is the best bass fisherman to ever touch a rod. the mushy version, would be my dad, my girl, or my best friend. The 3 best people in my life.

not real tough at all, also depends on how you rig them. haven't fished them much, but obviously don't plan too. In that size and action there are other baits that I prefer.

I know they work well, but they don't really get alot of big bites.

Okay, I blow ALOT of money on swimbaits. But people who pay that kind of money for those stupid little baits deserve to get ripped off. I love watching people chase those dumb little things just cause Kennedy whacked SOME of his fish on them. But the big ones came on the Hudd, so I don't understand?!

Well, dude, sorry you had a bunk trip, about like ours a couple of weeks ago. Although a smokin DFG girl sounds pretty good! Sure am glad I cancelled for up there this weekend :-/

Well!?!?!?!?!?! I don't understand dude? i can't handle the suspense?! my trip there this weekend has been cancelled and I want to know if that was a really bad choice! ;D

Well, I took it out today to do a little punching/frogging it held up GREAT! I am so stoked!

I watched my buddy whack an 11lb 8oz'r on it last september

I only really throw finesse jigs at one lake, that has alot of little fish, clear water, and alot of downed timber. My choice is a 1/4 oz Assalt King Kobra Arkie head in brown/orange. Trim the skirt all the way to the bend of the hook and dress it with either a 4" GYCB twin tail grub in rootbeer, or a paca tiny chunk in crawfish. They are now discontinued but I bought about 300 of them in bulk for $0.33 a piece! What a score!

It's interesting you say this. I find that guys tend to exaggerate quite a bit in both. It's amazing how many "2lber's" people catch when they don't have a scale or choose not to use it. I'd say my average is closer to 1 1/4 pound when you figure all the 10-13 inchers I bring in for every keeper. My question is: How do you know guys exaggerate in BOTH?!?! ;D jk jk jk I really do think that my average is around two pounds though RW, I'm not like FC, I don't go out and chuck big baits all day every day, in fact, I would say that throughout the course of the whole year, I probably throw conventional baits 75% of the time. So if I catch 100 fish and 90 of them are around 1.75 and catch 10 between 5 and 10 for a 7.5lb average there, I come up with an average of 2.32 pounds. Ceph, I'm not gonna tell how I get the "other" average, LOL!

6 inches is average right?....... :-/ ;D probably about 2 pounds

watch out for all the stick ups good bunch of fish dude, how big was the night fish?

it will hold up better than when it was new, i have no doubt. i thought that the carnage was cool too, but it just gets depressing after awhile.

i was there a week and a half ago with "supermat" and we fished hard for two days. I caught a 15 incher and lost a leviathan, and he caught a 20 incher. good god was that a lame trip!

because he fishes with me, so he has a good mentor/bad influence depending on how you look at it

Some of you guys might remember a few months ago I broke a rod when setting the hook on the 11lb 4oz fish in my avatar. It broke off right above the handle and I was left with this, and the full blank from there up. It is not under warranty and I planned to keep it as a memento of that very cool experience. But everytime I would walk into my tackle room, i would see the two pieces and be kind of bummed. That rod had been in my hands when I caught my two biggest fish ever, and it layed in ruins. Last night I decided to resurrect the old Lamiglas. I have some 2ton epoxy that I use for coating hard baits. This is what the rod should look like: After about an hour of brainstorming, I came up with a plan. I got her all finished up today and the epoxy is drying as I type this. I have never built a rod, or even modified one, and I think it came out pretty good considering I used 0 resources and the very rudimentary tools and materials I had at hand. Final Product:

again, football jig/no weedguard. cylindrical drop shot weights typically work best.

at home where she belongs....kidding!just kidding! Shes not really a fan of the 20 hour fishing day

Pretty long Saturday of fishing. Asleep Friday night at midnight, alarm goes off at 2:45AM, baits in the water in the California Delta by 6 am. Left delta at 3pm, drove to another lake, off that lake at 9pm, home by 11p.m. LONG DAY!!! Fishing was pretty tough all around, I only had about 6 fish, 4 of which were complete rats, 1 2pounder, and this Delta fish that went 6-3 on the 3:16 Wake Jr. Good times, but I'm whupped.

Huddleston Deluxe. Worst bait ever. No one should throw it. Ever. jk

the oldest one of those is april 2006! but youre right i was like 500 days older back then LOL!!!

I created a little slideshow and linked to it on my "WWW" button below. You guys have probably seen most of the pictures already though