Ok I'm racking my brain for the answer, but maybe someone can pin this down. I'm looking for a year and reference on something else and I'm looking for the year the Sluggo was introduced. I think late 80's, maybe 1988 but I'm not sure, anyone know for sure?

1987 I think :confused:

Bernzy

this is straight from Lunker City's website...

History of Slug-Go®
As hard as it is to believe today, prior to the mid-1980s, there was no such thing as a 'soft stickbait' or 'soft jerkbait'. Back then, Lunker City Fishing Specialties occupied Herb Reed's garage, and supplied a small group of avid anglers with custom-built spinnerbaits (Thunder Blades), living rubber jigs (Jungle Jigs) and hand poured soft plastic lures in color patterns that at the time, were considered exotic. The soft-stickbait concept germinated when Reed connected a few common bass fishing observations...

... Slug-Go® actually won its first tournament in May of '87, at Lake Winnepesaukee, when Reed and partner Phil Hunt Slug-Goed a limit of smallies that averaged nearly 5 pounds apiece. By 1988, the lure had become the 'secret weapon' of a handful of avid northeastern bass anglers. In 1989/90 Slug-Go was the subject of feature articles in In-Fisherman and BASSMaster magazines. 5th and 2nd place finishes in B.A.S.S. Invitational tournaments in the '90-'91 season helped secure Slug-Go®'s place in history. Within a year, it had become the hottest selling new soft plastic lure introduction in bassing history...

Got a bunch I plan on offering up to the Ditch tonight.:D :D

Thanks JJ, that's about the time I thought as I bought my first bass boat in 1987 and I think the year after I heard about it and fished it hard in 1989. Needed to pin down the date for a reference thou, thanks and tight lines.

GS,
I think your just about right as to when they hit the market big but if my memory serves me correct. A friend and I cleaned up in some FW bass tourneys in '86 but we go them through a tackle shop that hadnt officially had them for sale!!!

They still work!! Its just that the Senko craze has taken over!
I wonder what a 10" senko would do for the linesided creature??



Russ

sluggo, a hunk of molded plastic with about as much action as i was getting back in the early days!! give me the mann's 10" jelly worm with the paddletail. purple and black: and i'll get those old bucketmouths out of any pond or lake!!!!!:happy:

G.S. must be writing his memoirs........................:D