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08-30-2003, 11:13 AM
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Ledge Runner Baits
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: I live in a house, but my soul is at sea.
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When was it invented
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?
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08-30-2003, 12:15 PM
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Location: Indianapolis, IN
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1987 I think 
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08-30-2003, 03:11 PM
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Ban Sluggos
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: east taunton, ma
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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...
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08-30-2003, 03:19 PM
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Hi..I'm Bob and I have an addiction
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Mass
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Got a bunch I plan on offering up to the Ditch tonight.  |
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08-30-2003, 08:16 PM
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Ledge Runner Baits
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: I live in a house, but my soul is at sea.
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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.
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08-30-2003, 10:21 PM
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Guest
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: RI
Posts: 815
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Sluggo's
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
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08-31-2003, 05:48 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: plymouth soon to be SO. DAYTONA
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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!!!!!  |
my best days are in, on, or at the waters edge...... (We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.) Ernest Hemingway
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08-31-2003, 05:54 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2002
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G.S. must be writing his memoirs........................ |
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