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Thats how we keep the world spinnin. Thanks man!

Thats what im talkin about! Beautiful...i took some screen shots so i have some reference. Is there anything I could help you out with or anything I could do for you taking the time to show me and teach me something new. I plan on smacking them off the ledges this bad boy

Thanks bud

All good... take your time

Roger that

Nice. You the man Hillbilly!

That is solid advise. To be able to hold and feel its sublime textures, really empowers the minds capability to grasp it in its entirety. But I'm not sure waiting another year it's going to be what's best.

Man yea! That would be great! I'm definitely looking forward to this. As always, your response and your expertise is much appreciated

Preciate it hillbilly

I started with a aluminum cylinder turkey baster. I just cut the probe off and smooth it off on my bench grinder. It works really well I still use it for small injections

I am a rookie fly tyer. Was wondering if anybody have a good demonstration on a big feather jigs on 3/4 and 1 oz jig heads..? I'm talking about from the tip of the weight to the tip of the last feather would be roughly 5 1/2 to 7 in. I predominantly want to Tie White feathers, what feathers would y'all suggest? Thanks for any feedback

I'll say one more thing then I'll put this thread to bed. With all these Newfound Bates with all these bells and whistles is like going to a fancy restaurant and leaving it still hungry. This company in particular had his day in the Sun, but was cut short by a thunderstorm being the fact that it wasn't that there failed to be a market for it, it wasn't the fact that it failed to have a demand oh, and it definitely wasn't for the fact that it didn't catch fish. This is a solid company what's solid patents and it's all meat and potatoes. As many of y'all know, fishing tends to go in Cycles just like everything else. Old Baites reintroduce and revamped are now new Baits to a whole generation of people, and a whole population of fish that is long forgotten that certain wobble or wiggle or vortex or slow fall or Dart or jiggle. I mean I love to try to innovate new designs would love to design the new earth shattering lure that everyone just has to have. But let's all face it, no new bait would ever be made without the Fingerprints of an old one. So for everyone who likes to go to that fancy dinner and leave hungry, I'll leave this final statement, sometimes meat and potatoes are good enough for dinner. And if they put jitterbugs back on the Shelf, I guarantee you they couldn't keep them on there

But I do agree with you and Cadman. It must be well marketed and a pro must get behind it. But I will take y'all's advice, and do much more research into it. I appreciate y'all's response

Bumble bee bait co was a successful company. The guy who started it went on to focus on his Marine company. T H Marine. And rightfully so since he invented everything from the trim handle to the hot foot to the Jack Plate and so on. The hardware with the bulged bumblebee eyes, it's quite unique. Introducing the old line with the short arm spinner and then revamping a new line doing swim jigs modern spinner designs all with the same Hardware, might make a unique lineup. Especially on The Jig side

Yeah Travis you're right about not only having any good personality but being a personality so to speak to entertain educate and inform.

This years ICAST is going to be a virtual event. I have 2 things i was wanting to showcase, but i know they would get a much better response in person ( the feel, the action, demo, and so on) what are yalls opinion and thoughts about the virtual icast this year?

I believe there is two locations one here in Decatur Alabama or around that area and another in Arkansas. As most of us know, Buddy, stopped bumble bee Bait Company and pursued his Marine Boat Part aspects which is now TH Marine. Th stands for trim handle which he designed as well as many other essential and groundbreaking attributes to the boat as we know it such as the hot foot the first Jack Plate I could go on and on. My question is I've got a couple of old bumblebee short-arm spinnerbaits. If he were to have decided to continue Bumblebee Bait Company how popular do you think it would have been? I for one love the hardware on it very unique. Y'all thoughts?

Basskat, that is my biggest concern. Is to take the enjoyment out of something i love. Im pumping out a sizable amount through my Wholesale Distributor. And online sales are coming in quick. Its just me and a buddy of mine pullin on a shooting star by ultramolds. Right now it's fun we drink some beer and shoot some molds. But I've recently committed to resurrecting and old fishing bait company in which we were given their copyright and patent. And that will take a lot of time because I'll have to build sales teams and marketing squads because the old timers we're going to love it. We're going to introduce the Old lineup and a new lineup using the same Hardware. I believe it will become a job then. I'm 36 years old I was fortunate enough to have our insurance brokerage which was family-owned bought out. But the main reason I'm doing tackle is I want to leave my imprint or something that I love doing. But I hear it all the time that once it gets going good the good gets going out of it. And it becomes work

Well, im a 100% custom design and color soft plastic Co. And was just trying to get some more of my own colors out there. This is a hard industry to infiltrate. Figuring out new ways to attract people. My baits catch fish, sometimes it's hard to catch fisherman

Yes I agree with what you said Travis. You know how ideas pop in and out of the head, I reckon that's what TU is for. The more I think about it the more cheesy it sounds. I appreciate y'all's input

Would like to know if, think consumer minded, would you like or dislike packs (for coloring purpose) in two different categories and multiple colors in each pack. Example: the two categories are: 1) day colors - watermelon, green pumpkin and pumpkinseed. 2) night colors - black, deep purples, and dark blues. * 6 baits per pack, containing 2 of each color mentioned above. Yalls thoughts would be appreciated.

I feel you there alsworms... just got to keep grinding like Its an 8th grade dance..

Like I said I don't believe one's better than the other if we can find a way to communicate from one another I think everybody could benefit from it. You said it perfectly at the end of the day we both have the same result usually.

Yeah it's inspired me to try to at least least learn some of the fundamentals in which I can at least understand and Converse a little more. Like I said before the more knowledge I get it, especially on the scientific side will help me greatly in all aspects of each goal I want to accomplish. I welcome the challenge even though I'm just a redneck from Alabama and I can only count to 20 if my shoes are off

I've noticed there are two types if people that make up the majority of members here. You got your 1) garage guys 2) scientific guys. That's what's cool about this site, you get Knowledge from people who are like-minded but their mind works in different ways. Garage guys, like myself, don't really know how to explain what we know that works. it's more like a gut feeling or intuition. Although we know what works is backed by science like water dispersion, vortices, drag and so on. It's just not in my vocabulary to describe, or it's hard to describe exactly why and what I did. For example give me an aluminum Coke can and I can make a functional lure out of it yet fail to explain why I bent a certain part at a certain angle .Scientific guys are very fascinating to me, they have what they do down to a mathematical equation or a rational reason backed by an algorithmic equation or some mathematical reason for something to do what it does, and they can lay it all out numbers. I guess what I'm trying to get at for me personally I'll tell you the truth, as a garage guy sometimes I feel intimidated trying to jump in with scientific guys conversation. Now I'll be clear no way shape or form am I saying one of the two or better or are they trying to speak above one or the other it's just how we all are made up. At the end of the day the two types of people end up with the same result no matter how they got there. I would like to be able to communicate a little more with the diversity this site has to offer. I think that would greatly increase my knowledge overall. Does anyone have any suggestions any way to better communicate? Or am I the only one that even feels this way?