“What’cha doing?” I asked my fishing buddy.  It seemed a little early to be downsizing to a finesse lure.  We had just launched the boat and idled over to one of our honey holes.  The sun was just coming over the horizon; I had decided to cast a big topwater hoping a big bucket mouth would eat it.  “Just rigging up for the day, it looks like there was a shad spawn recently,” he continued, “so, I am going to match the hatch with these new Lake Fork Trophy Live Baby Shad lures I just got; they look like little swimbaits shaped like shad.”  “Go ahead and match the hatch.  All you are going to catch is little baby fish; you have to use big baits for big fish!” I replied.  With that said, I started casting my big topwater towards shore.  The topwater shimmies back and forth, tempting a large bass to strike it.  Meanwhile, my buddy was finally rigged up with his match the hatch lure.  His first cast landed quietly and within two turns of his reel handle he had one.  “Little one,” he continued, “Well, it’s a start; how many have you caught?”  “None yet, but I am only trying to catch a big one,” I responded.  In the next 20 casts, he caught 10 bass; all small, but at least they were fish.  “Hey, do you want one of these Live Baby Shad lures,” he asked.  “No, you catch the little ones; I am only trying to catch a big one,” I said.  Then it happens, the next cast my buddy lays into a big one on his little swimbait.  “Man, it’s a big one,” he roars, “get the net, I have got to show this one off at the next bass club meeting.”  Reluctantly, I grab the net and slide it up under the big bass.  Lifting up the bass for the photos, he looks at me and says, “Would you like a Live Baby Shad now?” 

Yo, what’s up Fat John?” Little John squeaked.  “Nothin’ Little John, but I got to tell you and all your little homies; I am not just a bigger Little John!” replied Fat John.  “Hey, I did; I mean you the man when it comes to square bills,” counters Little John.  “Keep up those smart aleck remarks and I will give you a fat lip like me!” insisted Fat John.  “Hey, you the man when it comes to shallow water cranking, really bro!” replies Little John.  Can you feel the love?  Well, it’s not your typical family for sure.  You see it’s, SPRO’s Little John family of crankbaits.  They have a tendency to be a little cranky.  Who wouldn’t, I mean being run into rocks, brush, retaining walls, ledges, stumps, humps, creek channels, mussel shoals, and other hard objects tends to make a lure cranky.

Who let the frogs out?  Rib-it, rib-it, rib-it.  Who let the frogs out?  Rib-it, rib-it, rib-it.  Who let the hard body frog lures out?  They have started jumping up all over the place.  I first started seeing them at ICAST and now it seems like every angler wants one.  These ultra-realistic, frogs look and sound like the real thing.  Revere Maxx-Fishing original hard body frog was introduced in 2007.  Today, Revere Maxx-Fishing has nine models of hard bodied frogs anglers can pick from.

It’s absolutely chaotic.  One turn of your reel handle and you begin to feel a thumping sensation.  A thump, a thump, a thump…you feel as the lure speeds through the grass.  You are anticipating a bone crushing strike.  No bass can resist that enticing thump and flash the Potomac Punisher is putting off.  It’s going to surely be Kaotik when that bass tries to destroy it.