Lucky Craft pro anglers, Skeet Reese & Gerald Swindle talks about the new colors!

Pro angler, Skeet Reese introduces the newly released lure, the Smasher 125.

This week, I’m going to divide my report into 2 parts and talk about the world greatest fishing show, the 2011 ICAST Show held in Las Vegas. We loaded up our Lucky Craft booth in the truck and headed out on a 4 and a half hour drive to Vegas! Immediately after we arrived, we started on our preparation and construction of the booth!! I’m excited to see how great our booth will turn out to be this year! The booth looked like the following picture in the beginning.

The Lucky Craft booth construction was finally completed!! What do you think!? Isn’t it great!? This year’s new products are: for Bass, the Smasher 125, Fat Smasher, LC Crank, and 5 new colors also. And for Saltwater, the FM 120DD and PT 100DD. To help introduce these new products, some of our pro anglers had gathered here with us. I was able to introduce our new products to each vendor pretty well and I have a feeling the Saltwater lure sales will be highly listed. Especially to the Southern America vendors, the Flash Minnow & Pointer Series were pretty popular. Supposedly in Southern America, these products are still pretty unfamiliar and they were showing a lot of interest in them. I showed them some pictures of the fishes I caught for my blog reports and explained to them some features of the FM & PT. I think I captured the vendor’s interest!!

I went around looking at other company booths for future reference and for new ideas. It was impossible to look at all the booths there in one day!! I was excited for the announcement of tonight’s awards for each division (Hard lure division, soft lure, rod, real, and etc.). From Lucky Craft, developed by Skeet Reese, the Fat Smasher is nominated in the hard lure division. I’m really excited for the opening night ceremony.

On my next report, I want to talk about the 2011 ICAST Show #1 product presentation ceremony as well as how the 2nd day went. Please stay tuned!

Sandy

Put in 12 hours pounding the ledges on Pickwick today. Found several schools of fish. I think some of the key spots will get pretty crowded during the tournament. We have three more practice days. I’ll need all of them I’m sure!
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Since I only had a couple days home after UMF before heading to the FLW event on Pickwick Lake in Alabama, I hastily got some production work done for Stihl’s Reel in the Outdoors. I had five new episodes shot that needed what we call “sit down interviews”.
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James Hall, editor of Bassmaster Magazine, just posted an exclusive interview with Manabu Kurita. James is at Lake Biwa in Japan and interviews Kurita about his potential world record catch.

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Features Lucky Craft pro Brent Ehrler talking about a specific fish that cost him the 2004 US Open win. It was shot from the front deck of Brent’s boat at Lake Castaic, California.

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Well, we’re back at home after a week of houseboat camping at one of the nicest places I could ever even think about taking my family for a getaway. We went to Bullard’s Bar Reservoir, about an hour away from home and rented a houseboat and went camping with our family and friends.
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Red Fish, Sea Trout, and Snook are famous in saltwater fishing in the east coast, which is also known as Inshore Fishing. Our ISG pro staffs are thoroughly explaining their favorite LC lures!!

This time, I had gone to Alamitos Bay to catch some Halibut. It was at low tide in the early morning so I decided to use some surface lures such as the FM110 & PT100. I continued to cast going from the jetty to beachside, but got nothing. I then changed my lure to a gold color and kept casting again along the beachside, but didn’t get anything. The tide started to rise and thought my chance finally came!! I changed my lure to a DD to aim at a deeper range!! Unfortunately the wind started blowing pretty strong and created raging waves. The casting lure couldn’t go further than the aiming point so I had to end it there. I started heading back and on the way I stopped by an Anglers center tackle shop and coincidentally ran into some friends of mine, H & T! They were planning on going Bass fishing in the afternoon so I decided to join them. It was going to be at a man-made pond located at a park. This will be my very first experience Bass fishing at a man-made pond! And we are using a bicycle to travel along the pond!! This is definitely “Survival fishing”!!!

Once we arrived there, there were several people already having a good time Bass fishing. And they were using Topwater baits!! Also!! I found someone using our Lucky Craft Sammy! That made me pretty happy!

I started off using our new product, the Fat Smasher 55 to test it out as well… I was convinced that this product will no doubt be popular this year.

While we were moving with our bikes, T gets a bite!! He caught a 47cm Bass with a Spinnerbait!! And even after that, he caught another nice size Bass!! Later on, I finally got a bite… when I slowly retrieve the Spinnerbait (Redemption 3/8 in Chartreuse) parallel to the bottom part of the bushes surrounding the pond, I would get a slight bite… Trying to remain calm, I would go along with the bite and succeeded in catching a small size Bass!! I retrieved before it’d go into the bushes and at that moment!! The Bass jumped!!! It totally took me off guard… the Bass got away… Because I got so use to Saltwater fishing, I completely forgot most of the important basic techniques in fishing. What an unfortunate result.

We would talk over the phone telling each other our situation and which lures other people used to catch some fishes. I really felt like I got to experience a very valuable time Bass fishing and learned a lot. H got couple bites and caught 2 Bass that day. I think this pond has some high potential and I’m very excited to come back again.

Sandy
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