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Originally Posted by Flaptail
Okay, here are he answers
6. Frank Machado took that fish on a Stan Gibbs blue and white Castalure Popper 4 oz.
8. He was known as The Mad Russian and used lobsters as bait and made small stubby needlefish like plugs in black and in white to fish on dark or moonlit nights.
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This was a great, great posting. Just a couple notes. When poppers first came out, they were absolutely deadly on big bass. Big bass would rise from deep water on a calm, flat day to slam them.
As far as the Mad Russian, I would be curious about the source of this information. He was fanatically secretive; I used to fish with another fanatically secretive fisherman and he used to emulate the Russian in many ways. One thing we did was spread false rumors about where we fished and what we used. When we came into port for lunch, we would hide all the good lures and clip on some that were so-so. There were wild rumors about the "secret" stuff we used.
I can believe the needfish, but I have to wonder about the lobster. Did someone see The Mad Russian use lobsters, or were they snookered?
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