Why the Negativity?

[KYbass1276]

I have caught fish with them.  I'm thinking just because there not the california high standards  dosen't mean they won't catch a fish   I guess I'm cheap buying a bait that catches fish.  Not saying there the best but I have caught fish with them.

[SPEEDBEAD.]

the only time when the storms are the proper bait for largemouth are when you are too cheap/broke.

I'm broke as a joke, but you won't find me throwing those turds.

I am pretty sure Randall and Senko77 throw them.

Ask LBH, just cuz you throw "value priced" baits doesnt make you an idiot.....acting like an idiot makes you one. :

Randall throws the kicktail, that is a different bait. I don't care what senko throws.

I don't have to ask LBH, he posts something along those lines twice a day.

I didn't call anyone an idiot. But you did. Way to go big guy.

You're funny.  Big guy?  Come on now, you are better than that....  :

Anyway, the point of the post was not to call you an idiot, but to point out that if you are "broke as a joke" and still buying $75-$300 swimbaits, then somewhere along the line your priorities are mixed up.  

I picked a poor word in "idiot" and I apologize.  

These baits, for a young guy just getting into throwing something other than a senko, might be just what they need.  

[fourbizz]

Just because they are cheap isn't why I'm saying not to throw them. As a matter of fact, nowhere did I say that you shoulf be throwing the real expensive baits.  Like I mentioned, I will throw the River2Sea Bottomwalker, LA Slider, and Fish traps. Those are all very inexpensive baits.

Storms are just crappy baits.

I don't have to buy any new baits, I already have a couple hundred sitting around.

I am pretty d* sure I do not need someone like you telling me about my priorities.

[Matt Fly]

Ya'll can say what you want about Storm Swimbaits.

I have caught enough to know that they work as good as most expensive baits, thus i dont' have to pay for what people call craftsmanship. I don't have to worry about trying to get that bait back either. So time isn't spent worring about a 40.00 bait, and you don't have to feel bad for throwing that kind of money away.

As for them not working in Cali, maybe true, clearer waters for the most part, but to claim they dont work because they are cheaply made. Poor answer.

I have a girlfriend entering her second year of bassing. Over 50 strom swimbait fish in 2007.

Call them crap if ya'll wish, I saw enough pros throwing them, and they make a living fishing.

     So who are you gonna believe, guys who use to them to cash checks or............................

     

I said that there are enough pros throwing what ya'll call cheap. And I didn't say they don't throw other brands either.

Seen too many shown on all the shows to say they are crap.

Proof is in the pudding, and Storms may be cheap but i'll place this wager.

For all of ya'll who say they just fall on their side.

Come on down, 2 to 1 odds per bait, 10 dollars a bait to test.

I'm gonna clean your pockets, Storms work as well as most other swims with swimming action. I'll even buy them straight off the shelf to test.

      I'm gonna clean your pockets with remarks like that. Again proof is in the pudding. I have never taken one bait tossed it out and have it swim back on its side unless you work the bait too fast.

Operator error!!!       I have never judged a bait in the box, I at least get them wet.....

if you can afford to spend that kind of money on the crafted ones, you can't go wrong there either. I have seen some pretty baits, Mattslook very nice.

STorms i can fish at any depth out of the package, and you can't say that about all swims or half. No special rigging techniques.

The Storm wildeyes also don't have that treble hook, which is good when you fish TExas timber filled lakes or lakes that have lots of vegitation which most Cali lakes don't have to contend with.

Hookem

[roadwarrior]

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[.dsaavedra.]

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lol thats what i was thinking!

[Bassackward]

Sounds like it getting pretty serious around here! Anyways, figured I throw my piece in here.  The three times I have used the storm wildeye swimbaits, I got bit on the first casts.  They may be cheap, but they have caught me some big fish!  Thats the beauty of fishing.....never know exactly what they want.  Gotta love it either way

[Redlinerobert]

I don't know, 'cause they suck.

;D ;D

[Matt Fly]

Theres a difference in what a Susan B Anthony looks like and and old Paper one dollar. Funny thing about the two, they have similar things in common but arent close to the same thing except in value.

Kinda like the waters that are located throughout the US.

Some waters don't require all that craftsmanship, thus you don't need to spend a bundle on a bait that isn't pretty. Smells bad, well what baits smells good? LOL Bait sniffing experts!!!!

Afterall, when the water is stained and Bass aren't feeding primarilly on sight, who cares if a bait don't have scratches or does.

In Cali, most of those lakes are deep and clear, gin clear. Common sense tells us that Premium baits are needed to better your odds.

Common sense also tells me in Texas, that I don't need 40.oo baits or 300.oo baits to get the job done when bass don't see the bait.

Thats not saying that in Spring, that Matts bait isn't the better choice in clear shallow waters. Not that I'd use a swim bait on a bed when a bass will hit almost anything at that time of the year any way.

      California fishermen are lucky, ya'll don't have alot of lakes that are filled with the timber and other obsticles that make landing double digits more difficult. Yall have deep swimming pools with open water, no hardly any obstacles to land a fish from.

Most swimbaits in Cali have belly treble hooks. Those are nice, but hang up  alot in our waters, and well, some of us don't like to ruin our fishing hole by dropping a lure retreiver down there. Kinda ruins the big bass theories of being stealthy. If you are rich, which I guess you guys are, ya'll can loose quit a few of those baits fightig fish in our waters and not feel it in the pocket.

CAll us cheap and brokebacks if you like, but at least we know why its not a big deal to throw lesser baits.

I have no doubts that a Storms Wildeye Swimbait wouldn't be a wise choice in the majority of waters in Cali.

Elite Pro goes out on Fork one after noon, Kelly Jordan, Puts 9 STorm Wildeye Swimbait fish in the boat totalling over 100 pounds on 9 fish.      4 day total for BASS is 122 on 20 bass.

If there was no slot on Fork, that record could easily go down on Fork and turn around, be broken again in Cali or Florida, who knows.

Theres a ton of pros who have had success with them.      

I guess that makes them cheap and broke also. LOL and they are the ones on tour. LOL!!!

That just like you don't need to spend 500.oo on a rod to catch a trophy bass either.      Seen plenty caught of zebcos growing up. I guess nobody but us cheap and broke people ever used a Zebco either.

Just my opinion

[Tokyo Tony]

I've caught stripers on the Storm swimbaits - they seem to work fine, except they do roll over a bit when you reel them fast.  They do smell like plastic, but that's nothing a little MegaStrike can't fix.  

I'm not a big swimbait guy, partially because I live in the Northeast, but I have had some success with the regular Storm swimbaits.  A LOT of their baits really really suck though, like the "slab" baits or whatever.  I bought a crappie imitation, and "crappy" doesn't even begin to describe it  

[fish-fighting-illini]

 Storms swimshads work for me period. I've seen tons of occasions where they seem to work for Doug Stange of In-fisherman as well. He has shown these on numerous occasions in print and media. We know the media has the ablility to make any bait "seem" like it works though.

  At roughly 50cents ea for the 3" they are a great bargain. Probably 98% of them work just fine for me. Once in a while one will run a little off but I just give them a slight adjustment and good as new.

[HOIST-N-HAWGS]

Hudd x Matt Lures= FISH!

[fish-fighting-illini]

 Can we all agree on this... Swimbaits or whatever someone wants to call them ( Storms in particular it seems ) seem to be a very passoionate topic. It seems like plenty of diverse information has been posted on this thread. How about we just post and let the readers do what they want with the information rather than bicker with each other about which information is right. Otherwise we sound like a bunch of office women and their petty arguements.

 Sound like a plan?

[.dsaavedra.]

Can we all agree on this... Swimbaits or whatever someone wants to call them ( Storms in particular it seems ) seem to be a very passoionate topic. It seems like plenty of diverse information has been posted on this thread. How about we just post and let the readers do what they want with the information rather than bicker with each other about which information is right. Otherwise we sound like a bunch of office women and their petty arguements.

Sound like a plan?

i was suprised to see this thread at the top. i thought it died a while ago.

[pondhopper]

Around here, during the early pe-spawn, the wild eye kicks ***, especially if fished like a jig. The rest of the season ... leave it at home. To me it is a very strange bait.