"Craig" wrote in message
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Bob,

I am confused. Your title indicated a review of Mesa Tackle products.
What
I read was story of an outing you had where you use one of Mesa Tackles
lures, for one cast, and caught a fish. Hell you didn't even credit the
lure with the catch, indicating you felt any plastic lure would have done
the trick. Go use those puppies on a few more outings where they are your
primary lures, then come back and tell us what you liked and disliked
about
them. Tell me why I should or should not buy them. Score them on a scale
of 1 to 10 on Quality, effectiveness, price, etc. I would love to hear an
unbiased opinion.

Craig Baugher


Well, it was the first time I used them, and you are probably right. Any
jerk bait would probably have caught that fish. I guess my only comment on
the whole thing was if anything the Mesa Tackle stuff did not catch fish
when nothing else would either.

They may be great plastics, but they didn't draw fish out of the brush on a
tough day. I threw craws, jig trailers, and worms by Mesa Tackle. One of
the two fish I caught was on a Mesa Tackle plastic.

I didn't try the drop shot stuff though. I just have a hard time throwing
a rig like that in weeds and grass.

As to what kind of review I "have to" give... nobody pays me for my opinion
and I will always have my own bias. I did use the stick worm as my primary
worm most of the day. I tried it wacky rigged. I tried it texas rigged
weighted and weightless. I spent eight hours on the water and switched up
between topwater and stick worms most of the day. I only changed up my
approach to try and pull a big fish out of heavy cover after a fulld ay of
pounding the water.

I was kind of happy that a follow up techinque produced a fish for me. I
asked about follow up tactics here a while back, but didn't get much
feedback.

Yeah it wasn't much of a review. More of a rant about a day of pounding the
water for little return.


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