I recently took my box of swimbaits out to the pool to play with them considering I have never used most of them. I had one small 3.5" optimum swimbait that the tail right before it gets wide had a memory off to one side, and in the water would not swim perfect. I hit it with the hair dryer, which did help. I plan on trying to put it back in an origional package and sitting it on the dash of my truck to see if it will return to normal. All the other large 5-8" swimbaits were ok. Does anyone store swimbaits in orgional wrappers for this reason.

I also tried out my 11 or 12" basstrix, and how dissapointing. It hardly swims, the tail barely moves and it plows right. It not even worth fishing.

I also tried out a 9" Osprey, not what I expected. It had good head and tail action but does not go very deep at all. I slipped a nail shapped piece of lead in the belly to keep it straighter and get it deeper. Nice bait. It is not one of the pro rigged ones, but I don't know the differance.

I figured it is time to start thinning out the baits that don't have good action and don't work well to make room for the ones that do.

I went out fishing to a small lake yesterday at 1pm but it was windy as hell and cold, my 10 year old nephew was hiding under the rear deck of my boat as I fished. As I got to the good spot I had followers in the waves for 5 casts in a row then a 4-5 on the Castaic trout. The bass ate the main hook and did not even get the stinger.
We fished for about another 15min until our boat got blown off the lake. My nephew did do a great job netting the bass(not that she needed to be netted) but he was my net man. I told hin I'd pay him $2 per pound that he netted, so he made $9. To bad it wasn't a biggun. Nice fat little fish. By the way when we got back to shore I asked for the trophy munchies(apple newtons), there were non left but i'm shure there are plenty of crumbs under my rear deck, little sucker.