Hundreds upon hundreds were produced and sold in the $30 range as fast as he could pump them out.Īnother company that started production the same year was the Castaic Bait Company. He also incorporated a more natural-shaped tail, similar to that of a real rainbow trout, on all three sizes that he made. This bait differed from the original AC Plug in that it had a diving lip that allowed the angler to fish slightly deeper. Slammer, which is still being made today, is a wooden lure that is turned on a lathe and also jointed in the middle.
In 1993, he started producing a lure called the M.S. One of the first people to get into the game was a man named Mike Shaw.
The swimbait craze had officially begun.Īs the craze began to run full-swing, a number of garage companies sprouted up and started making these hardbaits, softbaits and hybrid baits. It didn’t take long before word got out that these rogue anglers were catching giant largemouths. The target, however, wasn’t the striped bass like those at Lake Pyramid, but rather the largemouth bass that inhabited the rich waters of Lake Casitas and Lake Castaic. Some of these anglers ventured out into new waters that were also regularly stocked with rainbow trout. They too were rewarded with sizable catches. This lure, which became known as the AC Plug, not only caught many of the huge striped bass in that particular lake, it also caught the anglers that had been unsuccessful in catching the same fish with traditional lures.Ĭole soon found himself selling these AC Plugs to anglers that were willing to pay $20 to $40 per lure. The lure swam with an erratic action that was caused by the eye screws that connected the two pieces of wood. While it didn’t swim like a real trout, which were stocked in various lakes by the California Department of Fish and Game, it was similar in size and shape. It had a rubber paddle tail attached to the back that flickered around as it came through the water. It was a hand-carved wooden lure of around 9 inches in length that was jointed in the middle. In the late 1980s, a man named Allan Cole was walking the marina area of Lake Pyramid, near Los Angeles, with a lure that crudely resembled a rainbow trout.
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