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Location: West Bend, WI | Does anyone know a way to date a hughes River 8" Huey, that only Says HR on it with no year.The guy I got it from says he bought it off a guy about 3 years ago. Thx... |
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| I've seen older HR's that just said HR.
The oldest dated ones that I have are'00.
I also have brand new ones that just say HR.
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Location: oswego, il | I tried flowers and a little sweet talk. So far I have not had any luck either. Silly peices of wood they are. |
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Location: NeverNever Lake | The WRATH of TODD? |
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| Plitzzz, Jim's baits pre '00 are not labelled with a year as Beaver mentioned. And all the new ones made from the end of last year until now, do not have a year on them either. I believe yours is likely a '99 from the inagural HR year. |
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Location: West Bend, WI | Thx,Guys I finally bought one.Picked her up at the swap last night.It has never seen water.So I'll change that this spring.  |
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Location: Germantown, WI | I spoke with a guy at the chicago show that insisted on getting HR's with dates. Is there a noticable difference between those and the new undated baits? (just bought one from Pastika's Friday night  ) |
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Location: West Bend, WI | I'v heard that The new ones may not be quite as good as the old ones.I don't really know though as this is my first one. |
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| I have approx. 100 HR's ranging from '99 until last week ('05) Jim is only getting better in my opinion. |
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Location: Lincoln UK | I certainly don't have a hundred but my earlier ones seem to have a definate edge over the later models. The early ones are what his reputation were built on and I can only see that an effort to get baits out to meet orders later could have had a detrimental effect on the baits, maybe not mass production but he certainly put more baits out faster after say '02. What I have never come to terms with are the sink rates of the HR's,all seem to be totally different. That can be used to your advantage but I have never seen anything that states a sink rate or am I missing something. Picked up some clevis pin Hugheys last month and they made my other Hughey's ( screw-eye models) look bad. |
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Location: Washington, PA | Soooo many places to go with this one.
For starters, my family always says I have a fishing "problem"......but I have yet to date an HR. |
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Location: oswego, il | OK, I was not going to admit this as my first post was a lie. I did date an HR. Yes, I was a little over my skis on rum and cokes but I am man enough to admit it. Unfortunately, I also have the hook rash to show for it. |
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Dateing HR's