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| Muskerboy |
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Posts: 4053 Location: Land of the Musky | I will have over 200 new SKUs in 2010 that I will be rolling out. That should put me a hair above 1000 SKUs total by mid 2010. My wife keeps telling me this is no longer a hobby. I keep telling her that when I stop enjoying it then its a job, not a hobby!  Coming soon for Tackle Industries: 1) New swimbaits 2) New spinnerbait (about 500 color/size combinations in each spinnerbait!) This one is 3 years in the making.... 10 double skirt color combinations with 5 blades per spinnerbait all interchangeable and variable depths and under $20! 3) Two new hybrid crankbaits. A hard/soft deep and shallow diving crank. 21 colors each and I will take this to over 40 colors soon after that. 4) New 10" jointed trolling lure in 42 colors. 5) 12 or 18 new rod colors combos in all 6 powers (with removable handles) I currently carry but I am still debating this one for how many to roll out. Rods take up WAY too much room!!! My last production took up an entire semi truck for delivery and took over 2 hours to hand unload for the wife and I. Not fun. 6) I may take all 6 lines of MiniDs, SuperDs, MegaDs to over 60 stock colors per size. Some possibilities in 2010 or they will come in 2011 7) May do a jointed Mag Shad 8) Tube bait(s) 9) A standard line of #10 and #12 or #13 spinnerbaits 10) May do a smaller double #8 bucktail or just a single #8 bucktail Honestly once I hit 1300-1500 SKUs I don't think I can handle anymore on my own or I will at least have to quit my full time job and accept this is my new career I can dream! James | ||
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| Here’s the new 6” Curly Spin, this is a standard color, I will also have some very cool (but very limited numbers) custom colors at the Chicago show. Attachments ----------------  curly_spinrs1.jpg (35KB - 173 downloads) | |||
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Posts: 285 Location: Price County WI | |||
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Posts: 676 Location: Wisconsin | I have two new lure types this year, along with many new color combos. Model 3 with rubber tail and Model 2 with a Magnum Willowleaf. Attachments ---------------- MM2BLLSM.jpg (45KB - 163 downloads) MM4FTGsm.jpg (70KB - 175 downloads) | ||
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| A little closer shot of the Hog Head tail bait! They work pretty well, we tossed them all last summer. Edited by DonSchwartz 12/29/2009 4:02 PM Attachments ---------------- Cat eyes.jpg (24KB - 163 downloads) Sucker.jpg (33KB - 168 downloads) Perch.jpg (29KB - 178 downloads) | |||
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Posts: 742 Location: Grand Rapids MN | |||
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Posts: 124 | Whoops, forgot to add the image of the new Water Chopper HD. Thanks, Lee Tauchen http://leetauchen.com Attachments ---------------- chopperHD_ad.gif (133KB - 236 downloads) | ||
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Posts: 4053 Location: Land of the Musky | Nice new baits Don! Hope you have some underwater footage (camera looking up and back) to go with them Will you be selling any DVDs with your underwater videos too? | ||
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Posts: 676 Location: Wisconsin | |||
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| Muskie Metal: Here are a couple more photos of Hog Heads. I have never seen one of your baits, however I think the idea of this ( leader type wire?) is outstanding. I tye my bucktails with the smallest wire I can get away with using #5 Clevis with double 10's 8's or whatever. From the eye of the tye to the first bead, i will leave a inch or more of wire showing. I believe this gives bigger blades more freedom to vibrate, your concept seems to me would do the same thing with more freedom of blade rotation and vibration. Personally, I like the thick wire baits as well for cooler water, Like Johnny's boo tail or Eagle tails. Everyone knows what they like, I guess. Topwaters are the same, my pretty colors don't mean much (most of the time), they look cool. The sound and vibration is the key, I have these tuned to make a higher pitch pop. They dont work all the time nothing does, I guess thats why we have a box full of baits, but I have done well with these. The first protos of the narrow cone tail I threw 3 years ago, they worked great but I could not consider selling them. I used the allumalite to make the tails and this stuff is impossible to paint, at least for me, I tried electroplating them but that didn't work either. So I waited until I had some money saved up and spent $4500.00 on tooling to injection mold the tail. I threw them last year and had good luck, for me last year was not my best topwater year with the crazy water temps and cold fronts etc.. I get the sound by using a .115 wire, this is thicker and the rotation around this thicker wire takes more energy than a thin wire, which will change sound depending on blade. When a Muskie eats these sometimes you have to tune the wire back to the original position.This is why this bait also is a screw in tail, I could not bend wire this thick, I used this concept on another bait as well. So, I may be opening can of worms here with my opinions, but my opinion and $1.15 cents will get you a cup of coffee at kwik Trip ! I wonder what others think about vibration and sounds, would like to hear what works for other guys. Attachments ---------------- IMG_0317.jpg (74KB - 166 downloads) IMG_0351.jpg (31KB - 165 downloads) IMG_0300.jpg (32KB - 187 downloads) IMG_0334.jpg (79KB - 167 downloads) IMG_0337.jpg (32KB - 155 downloads) | |||
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Posts: 676 Location: Wisconsin | |||
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Posts: 2068 Location: Appleton,WI | RubberHairy Tackle will be partnering up with Muskytales at the chicago show,but will be in milwaukee,ohio,rockford,minn..new london.We will have the Twisted tullibee which is new for 2010 it has a 5" body and 8" tails.Shane masons guide service did well with the twisted tullibee in 2009 and buckhorn guide service also.Here is a few colors and pictures of it.Also are a few show color 7" swim n spin lures. Ill also have shirts and hoodies maybe not for chicago but milwaukee for sure. Edited by MuskieE 12/30/2009 1:18 PM Attachments ---------------- zsaz.jpg (66KB - 157 downloads) zazas.jpg (65KB - 165 downloads) zxaza.jpg (64KB - 147 downloads) zsazaz.jpg (65KB - 137 downloads) ztaza.jpg (56KB - 185 downloads) zxzszi.jpg (22KB - 166 downloads) | ||
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Posts: 2068 Location: Appleton,WI | |||
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Posts: 1887 Location: syracuse indiana | |||
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Posts: 2427 Location: Ft. Wayne Indiana | I will have a limited supply of the Shadillac as well as my new topwater, the BT Boomer. Attachments ---------------- Shadillac-low[1].resolution.jpg (64KB - 172 downloads) | ||
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