A friend/customer of mine that I had painted some big M shallow divers for were fishing a local lake this past week. He makes a long cast to a point and hooked up with a BIG fish. I thought at first he had hooked a good smallmouth but, it turned out to be a 16lb rockfish. The fish made several good runs and stripped alot of drag from his Curado but we finally got him to the boat after 20 minutes. The fish pulled the front split ring/hook completely off the bait, and almost did the same to the rear hook. The bait was completely unharmed or altered. Hook hangers were still perfect.

Alot of your balsa baits are very fragile but, Marty's baits seem to be as durable as my plastic baits. Get a few of his baits and give them a try.

Quality American craftsmanship!

Yeah CCP. I have a few of Marty's baits also and they are definately top notch! Nice story.

First what is a rock fish?   Thanks for the cool story, 52" muskie, 48" pike, 22lb bull red, 25lb fresh water drum, and now a 16lb rock fish.   These are the biggest fish caught on my baits so far.   Balsa baits are not weak if you build them right.

Marty this is a generic pic of a rockfish....

Rockfish = striper, aka striped bass

Marty, Rockfish Is Chesapeake Bay lingo for striped bass. I need to get another order in to you soon, then try to add to your big fish list (quite a list of pigs).

I caught a 13 1/2" crappie on one of Big M's baits.