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| Anyone used any of the new Chrome Depthraiders yet? How well does the finish hold up? Any differences on action/body holding up vs. the ROI ones? Thanks for any input. |
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Location: APPLETON, WI | A buddy of mine just bought one of the new Shallow Raiders. After a few hours of casting, the finish was already flaking / peeling off. Very disappointing. He bought the "crawdad" color and after seeing that, I definitely won't be purchasing one of those lures. |
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Location: Duluth MN | I bought 5 Shallow Invaders last year. They all ran nice and true. This year I picked up 3 show colors and I had to tune each one to get them to swim right. Not sure what changed but something did. I throw alot of them and I havent had one start peeling paint yet, just some teeth damage. 
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Location: Appleton,WI | I bought a few chrome shallow raiders paint held up where there isnt teeth marks Blue/silver one just catches northerns so far.
Edited by MuskieE 7/4/2009 10:47 PM
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Location: Grand Rapids, MI | Capt.Blaine - 7/4/2009 8:21 PM
I bought 5 Shallow Invaders last year. They all ran nice and true. This year I picked up 3 show colors and I had to tune each one to get them to swim right. Not sure what changed but something did. I throw alot of them and I havent had one start peeling paint yet, just some teeth damage. ;)
Shallow Invaders are made by Musky Innovations. They have a hard plastic head with a rubber tail. Do you mean Shallow Raiders? |
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Location: APPLETON, WI | +1
Big difference between the Shallow RAIDER and Shallow INVADER.
I'm thinking my buddy should write Joe Bucher about his Shallow Raider. Not sure what was up but we only fished that day from 6 a.m. - 12 p.m. and within those few hours.... the paint in the mid-section of the lure was gone. |
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| If you have any problems with Bucher Lures please contact me direct. My email address is [email protected] |
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Location: APPLETON, WI | Tilky - 7/5/2009 7:16 AM
If you have any problems with Bucher Lures please contact me direct. My email address is [email protected]
I'll shoot you an e-mail.
I'm not making any broad negative comments about Bucher Lures, in general. I own a Top Raider and Super Top Raider that I am quite happy with. I'm just not very impressed with the finish on the new "chrome series" shallow raiders and depth raiders. |
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Location: Racine, Wi | I have one of the green/silverish ones (forget the name of the color), and it has logged about 7 hours trolling, has 2 fish to its credit and is still in great condition. There is a little hook rub on it, but that's the case with all of my trolling baits. I'm loving them so far and will pick up a bunch more for sure. |
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Location: Duluth MN | JimtenHaaf - 7/4/2009 10:52 PM
Capt.Blaine - 7/4/2009 8:21 PM
I bought 5 Shallow Invaders last year. They all ran nice and true. This year I picked up 3 show colors and I had to tune each one to get them to swim right. Not sure what changed but something did. I throw alot of them and I havent had one start peeling paint yet, just some teeth damage. ;)
Shallow Invaders are made by Musky Innovations. They have a hard plastic head with a rubber tail. Do you mean Shallow Raiders?
Sorry I miss read his post. I was talking about MI SR.
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| I picked up the blue/silver and firetiger DRs and the orange tiger shallow raider. Firetiger DR has seen the most time on the water and finish is holding up very well. Although no fish on the chromes yet for me - I love the finish and other than a little hook rash, still look like new.
I've always been a fan of the Bucher line though. |
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Location: Waukesha, WI | will chrome be coming to the baby depth raiders? |
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| Yes we will have them in the baby depth raider for 2010, I also added a few new colors. Pearl chrome, black chrome, clown chrome |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Not Chrome, but a deal none the less. Take a look here:
http://www.overstockbait.com/Muskie_Pike_Fishing_Lures_s/18.htm |
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Location: Sw Pennsylvania | A big deal straight from bucher and roberts at the minute.
http://www.robertsoutdoors.com/Specials.asp |
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Location: APPLETON, WI | those are some good deals.  |
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| I tried to let people know about the deals on Roberts Outdoors Site 2 months ago and my thread was deleted. What's up with that - way better deals than overstock anyways! |
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