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Posts: 532 | Myself and Todd Young of Muddy Creek Fishing Guides and PMTT Top Gun Award Winner spent most of the this year designing and testing this new bait. The bait is called the "The Raptor" it is named after the bird not dinosaur. The bait was a joint effort between the two of us, and getting the bait to perform the way we wanted it to took alot time. After many failures, prototypes, tweeks and adjustments we got finally got the bait to run consistantly when we pull a new bait from the mold. So after months of playing around we got the bait where we want it, all summer we were fishing the "newest" version of the bait (there was several similar versions), and every version was catching fish from late spring up to today. But it wasnt until about a month ago we found the sweet spot just in time for fall. Last week I got a text midday, that read "We just netted a giant on a Raptor" A little later I got a picture message on my phone of the fish he was not kidding it was a very big musky. Talking to Todd on the phone we decieded it would be best to wait for the digital camera photo not a cell phone pic before sharing the fish and the story of the bait that caught it. As a bait builder this is the first fish that i know about that was caught a over 50+ using somthing I build under my name. I am pumped that Todd got this fish, he spent alot of time helping make this bait what it is. This journey has been alot of fun and very rewarding, it is a great feeling when i look back and see the progess and what the results have been.  The bait he caught this fish on already had over 10 muskies caught so it is starting to show a little experience   A few used Raptors from my tackle box   | ||
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| Thanks for sharing, kind of hard to see the action in the video. The fish at the end liked it though!! Jed  | |||
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Posts: 532 | I recently got another photo from a friend getting a real nice fall musky, figured I would share this fish as well.  | ||
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Posts: 532 | I have been painting alot the past 6 weeks to get a few Raptors ready for some small local shows. Its all coming together, got many baits baited. They are all running good. Its is really good feeling to have all the pieces fix together as a result of hard work and planning. We worked hard to get the bait to be very neutral buoyant. I included a video at the very end of this post, I think we hit the mark. The pool temp was easily in the mid to upper 70's. I would like to introduce everyone to the "Perch" family patterns painted on 8 inch Raptors.      | ||
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