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[funny farm]

Nice trout bait . Very nice .

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[Nathan]

Nice looking Trout FF..Nathan

[woodsac]

Hey FF, how big is it? It looks good. I throw the 9" ms-slammer by Mike Shaw a lot. It's probably responsable for more bass over 10 lbs here in CA than any other swim bait. If you're not familiar with it take a look.

http://www.msslammer.com/

[funny farm]

I have seen and played with his lures . I get alot of pros that dont use him any more for many reasons . His lures are awesome . I use a metal lip , he uses the lexan lip .

This one is 6 inches . And heavy , almost have to put a reel on a 2X4 to cast it . But it swims nice . I am backed up close to 20 orders for these . That is what I am doing this weekend .

[Big Splash]

Neat lure FF, I fish for Lake Trout, or Char, as they are known localy. In the spring (now) they are up near the surface, and can be taken on plugs or spoons resembling Rainbow.
A friend of mine caught a small rainbow on a fly rod, only to have a huge laker swallow the fish whole before he could land it. He then carefully landed the large fish on the fly rod!

[finlander]

I just poured my first 'soft tail' for my LARGE muskie bait. I was wondering how you attached your tail to your trout. Is it easy to replace? Did you design it to replace the tail?? I poured several and probably will re-pour, since I want more detail in them. Thanks, B.

[Tm Customs]

Great way to give those swimbaits a run for the money. Nice lure.

[Tm Customs]

FF where can I get some of the great eyes you use I would like to try my luck at making a similar lure to this.
PS how my Chum(p) comming along, no great hurry
Thanks, Tm

[robbor]

You will find that you get alot more bites getting a trout bait down even a couple of feet. When I fish the biguns the slammer never came close to the castaic trout I used both sizes including the 12", that is one bad boy

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[WVaGitzit]

Robbor, how can you post such a nice fish without details?

[robbor]

Sorry but I could talk for hours on the 3 weeks that led up to that fish. I got one bigger all the way to the boat(no landing net) then lost another the next day. Then switched lakes and did real well to say the least. I switched up to the 12" castaic and the fish just kept getting bigger and bigger. I fished nothing but trout lures for about 3 months in persuit of big girls. This fish came from my lake X, (so dont ask) it was 12.5#'s on my scales and I trucked her to a friends house for pics then back to the lake to let go. I had 3 fish like that from there. and tons of fish in the 5-9lb range. We would catch fish 3-9# on the 9" castaic and way bigger on the 12". I could easily catch 6 times the fish using a castaic over the slammer. I had some fish on the slammer though. This lake was so hot i took my mom out fishing and have pics of her with an 8 and a 9 in each hand. I have not fished trout lures on a long time though. I will start back probably this winter when i move. Its not that hard to fish trout lures but you have to put in the time and practice and build up muscle and a strong back. I thought the 9" was work until i moved up. After you THROW a lure that weight well over 1# all day long then you know what pain is. The 9" is like childs play now. I cant tell you how many time i dropped to my knees on my boat and yelled when one of these fish got off. My fishing buddy came one time and i had one on about 16 and she came up and rolled and he never saw her. Its addicting. I had a shore fisherman take that pic and when I pulled her from the livewell he sh_t a brick and even worse, right there I walked inton the water and let her go, everybody was yelling at me,those crude meat fishermen.

[WVaGitzit]

She's a beauty. Can you tell me this much, what state? California I am guessing.

[robbor]

Yes Ca, and about every lake in the state has bass that big in it.

[WVaGitzit]

I am in WV, not one lake in the state has a fish that size. That fish would be easily a new state record.

[robbor]

For here it really not so much of a big deal now anything over about 15 is very nice. I will tell you what. trout lures make great search baits. On lakes that contain biger bass say(3-7#) and trout you can throuw the 9" castaic and when you get around them shey will follow it very often. Then you know to concentrate on that area. They dont all have to be giants, I have caught many 5+ the smallest was about 3# though, You can try the castaic bluegill also.

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[acklac7]

robbor said:

Yes Ca, and about every lake in the state has bass that big in it.

Check the spring issue of infisherman...All sorts of good info on why those Ca largemouth get so big!..One of the reasons is due to the fact that they are constantly in cooler water..Searching for those trout!...The cooler water triggers there pre-winter metabolism...Which means that all that fat gets stored up!..Picture yourself sitting at home on the couch eating wendy's triples (mmmm....fatning) for 12 winter months on end....Your gonna get FAT...lol