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See Poor Boy's Baits Flogger in action on Zona's Awesome Fishing Show
This may be the most exciting sight fishing show ever Friday, December 30 in the 2012 TV season opener of Zona's Awesome Fishing Show and it will feature a deadly sight-fishing tool - Poor Boy's Baits Flogger! If you don't already own a Flogger, you will after you see how Z and Byron Velvick slam a bunch of giant Northern Michigan smallmouth bass using it to spot the real deep beds where the big smallies hide!! The show airs on the Outdoor Channel on Friday at 11am and 9pm. You can watch a tease video for this episode on facebook.
Poor Boy's Baits NEW A-RIG, castable umbrella rig
Poor Boy's Baits introduces their new A-RIG - a castable umbrella rig like the Alabama Rig! The A-RIG comes in a 5-wire and 3-wire version at a great price!!
Poor Boy's Baits Flogger, Pro Staff, Featured in November Bassmaster Magazine
Poor Boy's Baits is excited to see two pro staffers featured in the November issue of Bassmaster magazine highlighting their success with the must-have sightfishing tool on the bass fishing market - the Flogger! Bassmaster magazine revealed that the very popular Zona's Awesome Fishing Show will demonstrate how the Flogger made it possible for host Mark Zona and guest professional bass angler Byron Velvick to catch a huge limit of smallmouth bass by spotting the deep bedding bass, and even calling the shot on bites the two excellent anglers were unable to detect but could see using the Flogger sight fishing tool!! Byron Velvick's impression after a day of using Poor Boy's Baits Flogger? "If Zona and I were fishing a team tournament that day, we would have beaten everyone who didn't have a Flogger. The thing made that much difference!" The exciting TV episode will air in January 2012.
The article was well written by Bassmaster Senior Writer Louie Stout. Poor Boy's Baits recently reduced the price of the Flogger thanks to customer demand. Get your Flogger while they are in stock, and start seeing and catching bigger bass!
Check out more info on Pro Staff members Ryan Said and Chad Pipkens.
Don Watts and Jeff Denny win Lake Drive Championship on Burt and Mullett Lakes
The team of Don Watts and Jeff Denny won the September 23-24, 2011 Lake Drive Marine championship on Burt and Mullett Lakes with 9 bass weighing 44.69 pounds to take the top prize of a new boat. A 6.27 pounds kicker smallmouth bass today sealed the victory caught on a Poor Boy's Dixie Darter. Watts reports that most of their smallmouth bass were caught on the larger Dixie Darter.
There was a definite difference in the catch rate using the large Dixie Darter versus the smaller Erie Darter. The team fished the Indian River to catch their winning bass starting out day one in 2nd place with 5 bass weighing 24 and a half pounds caught by 9am Friday morning. Watts says the decision to head towards Burt Lake was a last minute, split-second decision the team made solely based on seeing only 4 boats ahead of them head towards Burt with the majority turning towards Mullett Lake.
Read the complete news story here. Don tells the complete story on how they caught their giant, winning catch (with pictures) on Poor Boy's Dixie Darters on the GreatLakesBass.com forum.
Nate Wellman uses Poor Boys Erie Darters and a minnow bait on a drop shot rig to catch most of his bass during his August 25 - 27, 2011 Lake Erie Bassmaster Northern Open victory!
Deep water honey hole and Poor Boy's Baits Erie Darters delivers EverStart Northern win for New York's Lawrence Mazur on Lake Erie - Buffalo August 18-20, 2011. The winner caught all of his fish on dropshots baited with Poor Boys Erie Darters. He used green with purple flake in the morning and switched to a brown and white pattern by mid-morning, as the sunlight increased. “I just drove around and looked for them on my graph and when I’d see them, I’d drop my bait down there and pull up a (big fish),” Mazur said.
Poor Boy's Baits mentioned in Wired2Fish article: Fishing Diminutively Deep for Bass by Jason Sealock on Wed, Jun 22, 2011 @ 12:01. Helping FLW pro angler Rich Lowitzki place high in a recent FLW Tour event on Kentucky Lake using Poor Boy's Baits Jerk Worms on a shakey head jig! Click the article title to read the complete article!
TO ALL FRENCH CITIZENS WHO LIKE POOR BOY'S BAITS, PLEASE CONTACT MR. SAINT-POULOF WITH LIVE LURES AT livelure@hotmail.fr AND HE WILL DIRECT YOU TO A STORE LOCALLY WHO CARRIES OUR PRODUCT OR MAKE SURE YOU GET IT. LIVE LURE IS OUR FRENCH DISTRIBUTOR.
Due to the amount of calls we receive wanting to know where to purchase our products and the amount of products we have and knowing the stores cannot stock every item in every color, as of 12/25/2010 Poor Boy's is selling product from the web site. If you have any questions, feel free to contact Mitch Straley at 260-463-2687 or poorboysbaits@clickanerd.com.
Available January 2010 - Poor Boy's Lure Dye. Several local tournament guys asked if we could match the "Old Ranger Dye" they loved so well. I don't know about matching it, but we came up with a formula that works and the guys love. Look for it at your local bait store or you will see it soon on the LureCraft web site. This product is also helping raise funds for the Future Fisherman Foundation. $0.20 of every bottle we sell will go to support the foundation.
Available February 2010, we are introducing a line of injected baits. Made with the same quality as our hand poured baits, we have chosen a small line of products we feel the fishermen will love as much as our hand poured baits. We will be adding them to the web site soon. Look for them in stores near you. If you can't find them, feel free to contact us and we will be happy to help you. The baits will include a Wacky Worm, 2 creature baits, a craw and a trailer.
January 2010 - the introduction of the Dixie Darters w/2 Honey Hole hooks. Speically marked packages will include 2 Honey Hole hooks in a size 3/0. Available will also be three count packages in stores. Poor Boy's Baits and LureCraft will also be exclusive distributors of this hook so if you can't find them at you local store, call LureCraft or check on www.Lurecraft.com. A stock of these hooks will be available by 2/1/10. They will be available in 3 packs and also larger quantities.
You've been waiting for it and it is finally here. In June of 2009 Chad Pipkens weighed in a scale-smashing 28lb bag of smallmouth bass at the Michigan Division BFL tournament on Burt & Mullet Lakes. What was the secret to his success? This tool right here. Affectionately, it is called "The Flogger" because by using it, you can put a flogging on the fish. Drop it in the water and get a clear picture of the bottom of the lake.
And it's not just for sight fishing. This tool is extremely valuable anytime you are interested in seeing more detail under the water. In our clear northern waters it can be used to help you understand the bottom content, rocks, weeds types, etc. You can know exactly what is down there and not just guess.
Of course, the Flogger comes into prime use during the spawn. Instead of guessing whether or not that "dark spot" is a bed, you can drive right over to it, drop down the flogger, and know for sure. Sometimes you can even see fish on the bed if they do not spook off. It saves time and gives you increased confidence in bed fishing.
This tool will revolutionize sight fishing. Seldom do new tools like this come along that become "must-have" items. Usually when they do come along, they are outrageously priced. For $110 you can understand exactly what is going on beneath the water. This tool will improve your knowledge of bass habitat and give you a competitive edge.
Call up Poor Boy's Baits at . Ask specifically for Kim Straley. She will set you up and take care of you. Tell her you want a flogger.
Good luck!
DOUG HANNON ENDORSES POOR BOY'S ERIE DARTER AND POOR BOY'S SILLY RABBIT. HE SAYS "I CATCH THE BIG ONES BY STAYING CLOSE TO NATURE. WITH POOR BOY'S, NATURE IS IN THE BAG."
TWO TOP 10 FINISHES FOR MEMBERS OF TEAM SILVER STRIKE
Jeff and his partern take first place using Poor Boy's Copper Candy tubes and Ryan Said and his partner take 8th place with the help of Poor Boys Green Pumpkin Erie Darter. Congrats guys!!!
BJ BAXTER WINS BFL ON GRAND LAKE, OHIO
May 2009 - BJ Baxter finally gets a long deserved win on Grand Lake using Poor Boy's new color tube - Road Kill Blue. CONGRAT BJ!!!
NEW 3/4 OUNCE FLIP'N JIG
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Chip Harrison of Bremen, Indiana, recently won his first FLW Outdoors national victory on Lake Champlain and gives much of the credit to Poor Boy's Baits.
"I used Poor Boy's tubes in the colors watermelon, copper and purple as well as the Poor Boy's D.S. Darter in a color called mango magic," Harrison says. "When the people at Poor Boy's make a bait, they make it right. They use ideal colors and the perfect amount of flakes so that the baits look natural and not too gaudy."
From day one of the Wal-Mart FLW series, which began Sept. 3, 2008, Harrison exclusively targeted smallmouths, which sent the Indiana angler to the top 10 in the BP Eastern Division event. With a three-day total of 52 pounds, 7 ounces, the Iams pro entered day four approximately 4 pounds behind the leaders who were targeting largemouths.
After catching numbers of smallies early in the day with the tubes, Harrison made a move to one of his favorite smallmouth holes in 17 feet of water. He picked up one of his preferred smallmouth lures - a drop-shot rig loaded with a Poor Boy's D.S. Darter in mango magic - and cast into the flat. Within minutes he reeled in two sizeable largemouths, which culled Harrison up to a final-day weight of 21 pounds, 6 ounces - one of the biggest limits of the tournament. He leaped over the rest of the contestants to take his first FLW Series victory with a four-day total of 73 pounds, 13 ounces.
"I've used the darter religiously since June and believe that it's the best drop-shot bait that I've found," Harrison says. "The tubes greatly helped my success as well because they closely matched the color of the perch in the lake making them irresistible to the smallmouths. I relied most heavily on the 3 ½-inch and 4-inch tubes that I helped design with Poor Boy's owner Shawn Straley. Poor Boy's has a variety of great-working, unique baits. Best of all, when I ask Shawn to make a specific bait for me, he makes it just right."
Poor Boy's Baits are hand-poured and salt impregnated, which allow the utilization of colors that injection molding companies cannot use. Thanks to this process, Poor Boy's also creates multi-colored baits with a defined line between the colors.
Poor Boy's Baits are made out of some of the most expensive, high-quality, low-odor plastic chemicals on the market.
"We do not use scents at all because our baits have very little odor," Straley says. "The tournament fishermen tell us that there's something about the type plastic we use that catches fish. We listen to these anglers and provide them with the design and color of baits they request."
For more information on Poor Boy's Baits, call 260-463-2687, or check out www.poorboysbaits.com.