Hughesy

He's selling golf carts next to Copes Marine.

Mark is out of business.

Yep! Hope they get it right

They didn't ask for my help on the Rock Stars but I do have 8 new colors coming out on wiggle warts soon.

Great report Dave as always. It was great running into you at Rich's. Thanks again for everything. Have a safe trip home. Be talkin' at ya soon.

He has risen! Happy Easter everybody!

This is why I came up with the blue belly craw for Storm and BPS. This is the long pinchered crawfish. The most populated craw in our Southwest Missouri lakes. See any blue?

Kbillb, Have him send me a couple and I'll take care of it.

courtesy docks pulled up now. Water turning green brown.

Aunts is muddy and both courtesy dock walkways are under water.

Can't make the derby but I'll kick in 2 free paint jobs. You guys can pick what place gets them.

Greg, That's the right email address. Don't think I got it, or someone mistakenly deleted it. Shoot me another.

Predator baits makes a WW knock off that are great in my opinion. His mold was made from an old style WW. He uses the lead balls and also offers a silent model. Check him out. http://www.predatorbassbaits.com/id69.html Scroll down the page about half way. These are unpainted.

Hey Dave, great to have you back and thanks for taking the time to mentor our youth. This country could use more men like you.

I agree Jerry has the right to voice his opinion. I am not offended at all. God bless America for that. This also means we all have this right. Soooo, I respectfully disagree that color doesn't matter. When I came out with the purple and chartreuse rouge over 30 years ago, it would out fish any color on the market on Table Rock at the time. I guided for 17 years on Table Rock and there were many times my clients wanted to throw their favorite colors instead of the pc rogue. The pc rogue would out fish their colors every time and they would switch. The first year I came out with it, it won tens of thousands of dollars in tournament winnings with many bags over 20lbs. Now, just about every manufacturer has that color or some variation of it. How many times have you been fishing with a buddy and your both throwing the same style lure in different colors and one of you was catching all of the fish until the other guy switched colors. Try catching them on a shad colored wiggle wart when they are eating green crawdads and see how you do. Jerry won two boats throwing a white spinnerbait. Would he have won them on a chartreuse or black spinnerbait. Probably not. White was the right color at the time.Then, you get people that say these pretty custom painted baits are for catching fisherman. This is true. Fisherman like Larry Nixson, George Cochran, Stacy King, Randy Blaukat, Tommy Martin, Gary Klien, John Sappington, Brent Chapman, Robbie Dodson, Bill Beck, KVD, Mike McClelland, Buster Loving, and of course our own Bill Babler plus many, many more. Thanks to everyone who has purchased my lures over the past 30 years. Color does matter!

A lot of guys don't have the good old colors but have some old warts in ugly colors that can be painted into good colors.

The phantom green blue craw, phantom PB&J, phantom brown orange craw, and the peanut butter and jelly craw are BPS exclusives. The other colors where BPS exclusives last year but can be purchased other places this year.

The red craw, mossback craw, creek craw, orange brown craw, phantom green blue craw, phantom PB&J, phantom brown orange craw, and the peanut butter and jelly craw are all colors that I designed for BPS and Storm. If you want these colors painted on a old style ww they are on my website. BPS should have them shortly. The will be in the new BPS catalog. The green blue belly is killer on Table Rock. Have caught lots of fish on that color. By the way Quillback, I'm shipping your order out tomorrow. www.hughescustombaits.com

I'm sure I speak for Dwain, Roy, me or who ever you pick. Let the painter remove the paint. Sometimes we have to spend more time fixing pocket knife scrapes, sanding marks or other damage caused by the client trying to remove the paint for us. We remove the paint by soda blasting which causes no harm to the plastic. I'm sure Dwain and Roy (who are both great painters) have their own methods of paint removal. Just remove all of the hardware (hooks and split rings) and send the to the painter of your choice. Chrome is no problem at all to remove.

Here a little lure that I have had great success with. It wakes like a redfin but if you get a blow up just push your arms out and give it some slack line. The back bait falls down in a zig zag motion and usually gets ate. Its like the old drop spook pradco use to make. The little plastic piece between the front and back lure usually breaks off but it works fine with out it. I also trim the tubing on the nose flush with the lure also. Its called the double take. $7 a BPS

Saw some guys pouring concrete for a set of gates at the entrance of Aunts Creek public use. I asked one of the guys what was going on and he informed me that they are going to close it up in the off season. I asked why and he stated that last winter they had someone steal all of the copper pipe plumbing out of the showers and restrooms. He said they even stole the wheels and winches off of the courtesy dock. He said it totaled around $20,000. So it looks like no launching in the off season at Aunts Creek which really sucks when you live two blocks from the place. Its just not right that we get punished for a crime we didn't even commit. You would think that they could patrol it a little better or figure out a better way than just locking it up. Like that's going to keep the the bad guys out.

I use a blast cabinet a lot. I use baking soda as it is non toxic and does not remove any details in the lure such as scale patterns. Any of the cabinets will work, but i like the ones where the lid opens straight up as opposed to the ones that have side doors. All of your soda falls out the sides on those models. You can buy the soda in bulk at harbor freight.

I think this is a link to the study. http://web.missouri....JasonHarris.pdf

Now I know how well you paint. Please, no sharpies. You are way beyond that. If anyone can spruce them up it would be you. I would like the brown copper color (top left) on the back of the lower left one. They really do look great.

Hey Dave how ya been? Been a while since we have spoke. Your right on the BPS brand. Its really a nice little crankbait that I've caught lots of fish on. Don't have much to lose at $4.29. I loved the old days at TU. Looks like the student has become the teacher. Take care Buddy and God Bless. Tim