hoo boy! what a loaded question! I am further "inland" than most of you so I fish both fresh and salt with inthusiasm for both. Certainly I would rather fish the surf but I know I cant do that 5 times a week so if I need to fish I will gladly hit the freshwater instead. I think most "innovation" comes from fresh just because its far more mainstream and far more available to the majority. I bet if there were a way to compare the amount of fresh and salt water innovation to the amount of corresponding anglers in
percentages, your numbers would be about the same!
....oh and for what its worth you can bet your tooshie I stock my F.W. box with the some smaller S.W. lures and the S.W. box with larger F.W. stuff because you just never know.....
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