06-30-06, 11:12 PM | #1 |
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Boo-yah!
Any Body Had Any Success With That Looong Arm Booyah Buzzbait?
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06-30-06, 11:40 PM | #2 |
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I thought about it couple time, And never figure out how to cast it. Also guys here didn't give it a positive credit. So I just gave up.
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07-01-06, 07:21 AM | #3 |
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I bought three of them a couple of years ago. With the right rod they cast quite well, BTW. I usually toss them with a Lowrider LFC-5-17 (Med/Heavy 7'), mated to a 'Rado 200BSF spooled with 30 lb. braid...no leader. I've had a hit or two on them and will use one now and then.
I believe there are (or were) two choices-"Long" and "OMG! That's LONG!"-and I bought the latter. Bear in mind that, with a little adroit effort with snippers, one could easily reconfigure these into more conventional models. I'm planning a bit of tinkering, to whit: Adding a soft plastic trailer WITH stinger hook, adding a med-small willow leaf blade as a trailer, or some other variation on the basic theme. The only complaint I have? They are a pain in the rear to transport, store, etc. Couldn't they have made a FOLDING model... Phligh Wrodd |
07-01-06, 09:28 AM | #4 |
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I have never tried them. They seemed to be a gimmick to me. Plus, how do you store and transport them without bending them in 10 different directions?
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07-01-06, 09:47 AM | #5 |
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I saw Bill Dance using one a week or two ago....of course it worked awesome for him lol
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07-01-06, 09:54 AM | #6 |
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of course they worked for him in his private ponds that only HE fishes..
imo it is a bull crap lure. i like a more compact style of buzz bait.. zooker
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07-01-06, 09:59 AM | #7 |
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[quote=everettvet...They seemed to be a gimmick to me... Plus, how do you store and transport them without bending them in 10 different directions?[/quote]
It ain't easy. I borrowed a violin case from Tony Soprano. But seriously folks... I can see how the time lag, brief though it is, between the passage overhead of the blade and the arrival of the body, may well afford a bass lurking in heavy weed cover a "second chance" to react. Example of concept: I'm perched in a deer blind. I'm watching a small "field of fire". Two shootable deer pass, nose to tail, through that "window", giving me eight seconds to raise the rifle, acquire the target, zero in, and fire a well-placed and quick-killing shot. I think my chances of a clean kill are better if the first deer passes, alerting me so that, even though I don't get a clean shot at him/her, I'm "on point" and ready when and if a second deer appears a few moments later. The delay built in to the lure under discussion may allow the bass to put down his coffee cup, hang up the phone, and be in attack mode when the hook-bearing component appears. It's kinda like the first time I saw the type of spinnerbait we all take for granted...many years ago, sad to say. I wasn't the only one who said "You gotta be kidding!" The same might be said of tubes, critter baits, and many other lures that have become "must haves". We mustn't, as fishermen or just plain folks, be unwilling to try new things. What if Dr. Jonas Salk had said to himself "This stuff I made might stop Polio, but...nahhhhhhhh. Too radical."? Worse yet, what if Pfizer Corp. execs had said "*Viagra(TM)? Who'd buy THAT?" F. Rod Sage-at-large *Don't need it yet, but darned glad it's there! |
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