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[Guest]

14 minutes ago, abkeenan said:

That's fine. I am sure their baits work at times but they just aren't going to get my money with the quality, or lack there of, that they put out. They are a cheaply made bait, with crap paint, hooks and I wouldn't trust them to have the eyelets to be ripped from the plastic. A lipless crank isn't exactly a hard bait to get to run right since it is as basic as it comes and they are typically sinkers anyhow. I would rather pay a couple more bucks for a Rattle Trap or Red Eye Shad but to each their own.

I use red eye shads for slightly deeper water & really windy days since its designed to get deep. I've caught many a bass on the rattle trap, but I've landed bigger ones on the super spot. It just runs better in super shallow water (knee deep)

[Flysmallie]

Me and a friend of my dad's bought some $1 bin CC crankbaits late one Friday night at Walmart in Bolivar. I spent a couple hours in our room that night painting them up to match the one we already had with nail polish. They looked like crap. The next day we took 1st place and big bass fishing those stupid crankbaits. 2nd place wasn't even close.

 

[dtrs5kprs]

Baits that bass eat don't have to be pretty. Especially the ones that move right along. A chrome Pop-R isn't pretty either, but it works.

PRADCO kills the quality of everything they touch and purchase, Bomber to Bandit. Cordell was not immune to that. Nothing wrong with the baits structurally though. 

[dtrs5kprs]

And as far as the Redfin issue goes...it isn't so much that the bait doesn't run right. It's that it doesn't run right for what we are trying to force it to do. It isn't built to fish the way we want to fish it. That is kind of an accident.

[Champ188]

8 hours ago, dtrs5kprs said:

And as far as the Redfin issue goes...it isn't so much that the bait doesn't run right. It's that it doesn't run right for what we are trying to force it to do. It isn't built to fish the way we want to fish it. That is kind of an accident.

Yup, but the effort it takes is well worth the trouble. Once you figure out the specifics of the modifications, it's pretty easy to tune one up to do what we want it to do.

[Fly_Guy]

These cheap little things have caught walleye for me - though I'd still prefer the flicker shad

[dtrs5kprs]

The old Cordell Wally Diver is a good bait too. Not just for eyes.

[Champ188]

18 hours ago, dtrs5kprs said:

The old Cordell Wally Diver is a good bait too. Not just for eyes.

Mark Davis has made a lotta money on that Wally Diver over the years.

[Mitch f]

I talked with the engineering manager at Pradco and was surprised what a thin margin fishing lure manufacturers operate on. Another thing he told me was that Bill Norman used to work for them and opened up a shop down the street.

[dtrs5kprs]

20 minutes ago, Mitch f said:

I talked with the engineering manager at Pradco and was surprised what a thin margin fishing lure manufacturers operate on. Another thing he told me was that Bill Norman used to work for them and opened up a shop down the street.

There is a good article about Norman and Pradco at Bass Fishing Archives. Will try to get the link up. There was some bad blood for sure. Norman had his own biz, then went to Pradco, then it went bad and he left. 

And you are spot on about margins. The better money is in reels, rods, and accessories.