lure?

I was fishing along side a guy who was catching a lot of fish. He looked at my
lure and more or less said his lure is better. At least that is what i think he
said. He fished with a lot of confidence and i later heard others say that he
had done very well at other times too. I forgot to ask him the f%%%ing name of
the lure.
I saw him again and asked him what was the name of the lure. He changed the
subject and would only say it was made in America. The lad was also a little
hard to understand cause of his old country accent.
The lure was like a minnow plug. However it didn't exactly look like a minnow
plug or track like one either. It was long and cylindrical and somewhat in the
shape of a skitter pop. It definitely wasn't a topwater. It would retrieve at
about a 2 foot depth and has much of a wobble as a jointed lure. It definitely
wasn't a suspending bait either and it didn't appear to have a diving lip
either. The colour was fire tiger. Can anybody put a name to it?