That little band holding the hooks together!!!  Orthodontics bands?  Why didn't I think of that?  That may be the most valuable observation I've made this year.  Thanks!

On 10/25/2018 at 11:16 AM, whitwolf said:

@HeddonFrog,  go to facebook and look for the Norman group That's run by Bill Bailey. He knows his stuff about Normans.

@HeddonFrog,  go to facebook and look for the Norman group That's run by Bill Bailey. He knows his stuff about Normans.

Thank you for the info. I’ll check it out and thanks to all for your input and comments...those on topic, whoa that went sideways fast, lol. I took the DD14 out and fished it on Lake Michigan last Thursday. As I originally posted, this is where I had originally intended to use them way back in the 2000/01/02/03 seasons but never did tie one on to fish for smallies. I had caught several Largemouth on this bait but never a smallie. Well after tossing drop shots, neds, black hair jigs and Dark Sleepers for 3hrs without a bite I decided “wth” and tied the DD on and wouldn’t ya know it...It worked and tuned us in on the crank bite. It’s not big but it’s this baits first smallie. 

The Goby color #242, was available in most models up to about 11 years ago and then was dropped.  I know because I scrounged all I find and ended up with 17 of them in Deep Little N.  Then about seven years ago the pattern was put back into production, but not in all models.  J. Franco was right on, in  that PRADCO acquired Normans and the production went from made in USA to Guatemala.  So far the off shore baits have not appeared to suffer and work well. 

 

The 242 DLN is available from TW.  I've caught more smallmouth on the Deep Little N than all my other crankbaits combined. They work.

On 10/26/2018 at 2:48 PM, MickD said:

That little band holding the hooks together!!!  Orthodontics bands?  Why didn't I think of that?  That may be the most valuable observation I've made this year.  Thanks!

Yeah my daughter has braces I get a few extra bags when I take her to the dentist.