Mattlures

Ok The "beaver" is not patented, just like the "paca" is not patented. AS A WHOLE BAIT. Certain aspects of the beaver which I believe are the unique ribs. Not the beaver itsself. Now for guys who think he paca claws are copying a crawfish or something"natural" REALY??????????. if you laid a paca craw claw next to an actualy claw from a real crawfish you would instantly know they are extremely different. like I said before there are several different forms of patents and there are copywrites and trademarks. These are all there to protect original ideas and designs. The claws on the paca are original and this is a fact. That fact is proven because they were issued a patent. Also the myth that you cant patent something from nature is just plain wrong period. You can not patent a real crawfish claw but if you carved out a crawfish claw you could copywrite your original artwork. If somebody made a mold of your carving then you could sue them. If somebody carved there own version of a crawfish claw then its theirs. This example is only referring to copywrites, not patents but copywrites are inforcable just as patents are. Just like 2 people could write very similar articles on the same subject but they have not copied each other. Now back to the claws. They have a very distinct action and by patenting the differnt qualities of those claws the owner is protecting them as best as he legaly could. The patent system is weak at best. It is easy to get around a patent by changing something 20%. When somebody knowingly copies a patented design they are steeling. They are diliberatly trying to cash in on the hard work of the guy who who designed the original. In the fishing industry this runs rampant and is so common that some consumers dont understand why sombody would sue over something as simple as a claw. The answer is easy. Because the owner designed them and marketed them and put his time and money into it and others come along and try to cash in on it. They are to lazy to do their own work. Their views are soo distorted that they think the guy that is getting ripped off is being greedy buy trying to recover what is rightfuly his. If sombody came into your yard and stole your truck that you worked hard for would you want it back? or would just let him have it? Intelectual property is property. Now before you all jump on me for defending this suit. That is not realy what I am doing. I am defending the process. I am not a patent atorny or judge. I do not know that any of the companies named have infringed. That is for the judge to decide. One more thing, and I could be wrong but I dont think so. I believe that before you can sue, you have to send a letter of cease and disist. In other words, they are given a warning. If they choose to ignore it AND THEY ARE INFRINGING then they absolutly desrve to get sued.

tyrius. ok for the hundredth time(ok maybe not a hundred but still), it is not about a beaver!!!!!! It apears that patent covers certain features of the pinchers of the paca craw. No beavers!! reaction inovations has their own patent in a completley different situation. I dont know if they are actualy suing anybody. This is about the patents pertaining to the paca craw and specific features of it. A judge will decide if the patents have been infringed upon and if so he will decide who pays. Not only is it ilegal to manufacture infringing prodcts it is also illegal to knowingly sell them. If the case all the way through without the sides settleing then the judge will decide who gets what from who.

if you bend the hook you will probably break it. You shouldnt need to alter the hook anyway. Lay the hook in the mold and see where you need to dremel to make the hook fit. Dremel a little at a time and keep checking. Dont try and do it in one pass becase you will ugly up the mold if your a little off. Even then its not a big deal, just more for you to trim off

It does not have to be a direct copy, it has to be infringing on his patent. Which could be a manufacturing process or a specific feature of a bait, not necaceraly the entire bait. If I designed a new tail and patented it, it doesnt matter if you put my tail on a worm or a crankbait. If you copied my patented tail then you are infringing. there are several different types of patents which cover different aspects of intelectual property.

I like these threads when there is an answer. Keep doing them.

s13iohn thanks bweave09, good point!

1.5 lbs and 4.5lbs

Use them for their strenght. When rigged properly they are EXTREMLY weedless. look for areas that have weeds that are holding fish and swim them through it.

I wonder how you guys would feel if you spent thousands of hours and dollars inventing, developing, promoting, and getting a a pattent. Then finaly all your hard work starts to pay off. Then before you can make the proffit you deserve you get ripped off by a bunch of companies who did zero work. All they did was steel your work and now because they didnt have hardley anything invested into it they are under cutting your prices. Of course its rediculous for this guy to want compensation Man what a jerk Also these companies are given fair warning to stop or they will be sued but they ignore the ceice and disist letter and keep on taking money away from the guy who did the work. Oh and one more thing just because a company is big like Berkley doesnt mean they will win a court case. Big companies loose more then you know. When they have blatantly infringed on a patent they can loose a lot of money because they sold a lot of that product. Their game plan is to try and make the court costs too high for the plantif to see the case through.

Nope I didnt even call the local paper. Its cool but not much af an acomplishment.

KVD is the best there is at catching small bass. If the weights are up he is mortal. If its a swimbait bite he does poorly. He needs a realy tough lake with a bunch of 2lb fish and he will be very hard to beat.

I remember them contacting me a while back and asking for a bait so they could take pictures but that was along time ago. They didnt tell me when tey would use it. My plan was to contact them if I needed to but I figured somebody here probably had one laying around and I would make them happy with a trade. Kent thank you I am sending you a PM

I caught the world record goldfish and I drove it to the fish and game biologist and let certify it. I also had him fill out my IGFA aplication. I had no problems with that. If I ever caught the WR bass I would call the DFG and have them come out and certify it. If I catch a lake record and I decide to report it, I will bring it into the ranger and let them verify it. I dont think it is that hard to certify a fish if you have nothing to hide. WRB case is a different story though. Trying to certify a fish that was caught 20 years ago could not be easy. However I would still try and jump through the hoops because I think it would be awsome to have a top 25 bass. That is my lifetime bass goal. Get it done Tom

I had a customer send my a photo copied page out of the March 2010 magazine. There is a swimbait article with a pic of my bait but I only got page 20. I would like that magazine. If anybody has it and they are done with it I would like to offer a swimbait(ultimate gill) for their copy in decent condition. I only need 1 so if anybody is interested please send me a PM thanks

Thanks Raul. I figured he was just asking about the paddle tail tubes

Basstrix are the best followed by Kamkazee treats then Berkley.

depending on how intricate the pours are a quart should last you more then a nights worth of pouring. I recomend a gallon though insted of a quart. also be careful. The plastic is HOT and it burns you right now

Very nice fish, looks like a spawned out female to me.

No problem Tom. Manabu seems like a regular guy. Not cocky and not over the top actualy seemed very grounded. He was excited to meet us. Their culture is a little different. When he went fishing he was wearing a pink shirt and a cap with rinestones on it. Mike kept teasing about that. He wasnt wearing the hat at Mike's house and he had a jacket on ;D ;D. He was like a little kid, how excited he got when we gave him baits and he was looking at the millions of swimbaits Mike had. I have said for a long time that I hoped who ever broke the record, worked for it. I can tell you, he worked for it. It was no fluke and luck played no part. I am glad it happened that way. Of course I would rather it happen in the USA but I am genuinly happy for him. He earned it. One interesting note, Michi said he paid $1500 a month for his apartment which he said was the size of Mikes dining room. On top of that he has to pay $500 a month for parking, OUCH!

I just got back from Mike's house. He invited a bunch of guys including myself, Jerry Rago, John Kerr and few others. We hung out in his garage and Mike was showing us boxes of baits. He has more swimbaits then I do! Manabu had a couple of his own boxes loaded with very interesting huge swimbaits. Poor guy couldnt speek english so as we were busting jokes he had to here them from his interpretor Michi Oba who is an Editorial writer for THE Japanese magazine. Both were very polite and humble. Ok so I wrote down the questions you guys asked. #1 He is a self taught fisherman #2 He says he believes he has seen a 30lber. It came up and looked at his mother swimbait but did not hit it. He says the fish was 4 times the size of his bait and he guestimated it at 36inches #3 His favorite depth is 16ft #4 Yes Biwa has crawdads. Yes he fishes jigs but not hair jigs, his biggest jig fish is 12lbs #5 I asked him about the 2 oz rule. I also told him I felt he should have the record outright. He said it didnt bother him as he is going to catch a bigger one. #6 He could not answer what his favorite artificails were, or what his favorite live bait is. He said with artificails he has too many to pick a favorite. With live bait he says he uses several different types depending on the season #7 How has catching the WR changed his life? He said he is in Amerca meating his hero(Mike Long) because of that fish. He also said financialy his life has not changed. He hasent even been given free line from the company he used. Shimano has also given him nothing for using their reel. I am going to try and help him with having his fish molded by a big american taxidermy Co to see if he can make a little royalty money. One thing I can tell you is this guy is a huge bass catching machine. He pulled out a bunch of pics and WOW he has caught many BIG bass. The record was definatley no accident.

Thats a great looking fish. I actualy had my first guess at 6 3/4 then I edited my post. That one was tough. Because it was fat like that it made it look shorter then it was which made me second guess the weight. Actualy I changed my guess 3 times :-[

If Texas were to grow a record then I would consider it legit. As long as it came from a public lake. What they are doing in TX is actualy hurting their chances now. They remove most of the bass that have the potential to get there. If they stopped the SAL then their top end weights would go up. CA, especialy so Cal still has the potential but Japan currently has several giant bass swimming around right now with guys targeting them. Japan will have more in the top 20 in the next couple years. We just need another freak like Dottie to come around. We have 18's and 19's but thats still a ways away from a 22. and it could get much harder if Japan kicks out a 25+

The fish looks to be an overachiever. It doesnt look long but very fat and healthy, tough call hmmmm 5 1/2

Tomorrow night I am having diner with Manabu Kurita. He is fishing with Mike Long in the morning throwing swimbaits and we are having a get together in the evening . Do you guys have any questions you would like me to ask him. He doesnt speak english so he has an interpreter with him. I am sure if you read the articles you can find most of your answers but there are always a few things missed so let me know

Cool post Paul. I have owned small ponds, managed big ponds and had bass in aqaruims. Most times I didnt do experiments on purpose but I learned things from just watching them. I feel big bass are soo much smarter then people give them credt for. I have seen way too many things to think otherwise. As for tadpoles, when I was a kid in elementry school I had a little pond abouth half the size of a small swimming pool. I always had some pet fish. I would fish almost every day and alot of times I would bring a net and catch food for my pets. It doesnt take a sceintist or a "natural setting" to see the bass dont like eating certain things. They would eat juvinile bullfrogs as long as they were fully developed. They would not eat the tadpoles.They wouldnt even bite a toad unless you tricked them but they would quickly spit it out. I am sure tadpols come equiped with some kind of defence mechanism. the first time the bass encountered tadpoles they would usualy eat one and then spit it out after 10 seconds or so, after that they wouldnt eat one again. Of course there are those that feel bass cant learn :