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Sponsorship is strictly about marketing. The reason competitive anglers get sponsorship is, that is where the "crowd" is. I've even seen a small group of interested people gather around a club weigh in. These on-lookers invariably ask "what did ya use to catch all them fish?" I single angler targeting big fish, simply will not draw enough attention (crowd) to themselves to attract a sponsor.

The Dual Action is the way to go. The difference is, with a single action brush you need two hands to operate (one hand for the air, the other for paint flow) the dual action is a one handed operation. The S/A is good for large un-detailed areas, I was a commercial Fish Taxidermist for 5 years and quickly discarded my S/A airbrush. The D/A will allow you to do extremely detailed painting very quickly. I think the Paasche VL is the best brush for the money.

Anyone know of a good tool for cutting tails on a tube?

Great reply earthwom77 I'm in the same boat as you. I get 30-40 e-mails a day that say basicly the same thing " I fish tournament's give me some free product and I'll try to promote it for you" The first thing I do is check the name against my customer list, if their not a customer I delete the e-mail. I don't see how a person could do a good job promoting ANY product they have never used. I just read somewhere "a GOOD angler can win a tournament on a zara spook , a GREAT angler can SELL a zara spook". The simple fact is, you who fish tournaments are MY target market, if I gave away product to you just because you fished tournaments , WHO WOULD I HAVE TO SELL IT TO ? Think about that before you approach a company with a "GIMMIE" attitude. Joe

Hey Guys, ALL SOFT PLASTICS FLOAT what sinks them is excessive use of salt. The more salt a plastic bait contains, the faster it will sink. Then it will just lay flat on the bottom like a sunken brick. I pour custom baits and I use very little salt and my baits float great. On a shaky head my trick worm will out fish ZOOM 5 to 1 because the tail of my baits float. Lots of salt also makes that injection plastic even harder and kills what little action the bait has. Handpours are much softer and look more "Alive" in the water. All the big plastic manufactures have gone "SALT CRAZY" and killed the action of thier baits. I'm about to add a line of special "TAIL TIPPER" colors with a special additive to get the tail to stand up even higher.