It was another great seminar at C & C Marine by School Of Bass. Andy discussed many techniques and lures when fishing the Delta. It is truly amazing the number of ways that one bait can be presented or altered in the same body of water and produce fish.
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Alex Fera, was presented the Dobyns Rod prize by Damen Witt.
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One of the the lures that Andy saved for last is a new bait he has been testing directly with the manufacture. The new bait is called "Flipping the Bird" Andy has been using it the past few weeks and states that it is the coolest bait to come down the pike in a long time.
Cooch say, "The Bird is the Word! The word on the Bird is, BIG SPLASHES!
Andy noted it looks just like a small bird floating on the surface and basically needs only a small twitch to come alive. With the live rubber type wings, I must say it looked really intriging. The new product should be available within the next several weeks. Stay tuned to Westernbass for updates from Andy.
Thanks to C & C and Staff for hosting this event.
Below are pictures of this new wonder bird !!! I mean Bait.
Wayneg
PS Tune into Westernbass for more info on the Bird!
Thanks Wayne and Cooch, WesternBass is where to find the latest updates and deliveries. Cooch will have a few and I will also for few weeks.
Here's a little backgraound on the bird,
About 10 years ago my buddy Sam calls me and tell me about a bird that came out of fish Booby Cobo caught. He said it was still alive. A couple weeks go buy and I head to Watsonville for some lake fishing and he hands me of the rats with a piece of living rubber glued to the top. I’m thinking, WTF… So he hammers them that day and I just laughed. A few years go by, he keeps on tweaking. The baits get better and we start using them at Clear Lake and the Delta. We quickly learned browns and whites get more bites and the black/red ones would get your picture taken.
Sam starts working with liquid plastics and various materials to make the wings; he would hold it up above his head and look at it while explaining the next variation. He kept on tweaking until the spring of 2010, when 9 years of bird talk finally came to fruition. He and the Watsonville rat boys were catching them like never before. My Aunt lives on Pinto Lake and so I was aware of the fish there, but not the amount of big splashes (3.5 lbs or better) they were getting. I had to go check it out and they weren’t kidding. The (show me two rule) lasted about 10 minutes and I was tying one on was blasting them shortly. They were throwing the birds into the deepest thickest trees and tulles with a pop, pop, pause and they just waited. Fish were blasting these baits and we couldn’t believe it.
Last summer Sam flies his plane in from Watsonville and we fish the Delta and we get big splashes and catch fish in just about everywhere we went. The rat boys were catching them everywhere also. That was it. Sam started Flip in the Bird Lure Company, did his trademarks and patents. During the winter, the bird went through a few body mold designs, wings variations, hook and recess considerations, tail options, etc. He always looked at it from the bottom side. There was a time about 2 months ago, on Rev 2 when we thought we messed it up. So Sam got input from all the testers, made the necessary changes and told me in 3 weeks he'll have it fixed. He delivered on what he said.
A few weeks ago, Sam Brought the Rev3 Birds to the Delta to test and we tested it for 4 days on two different weekends. We fished mornings and one evening. We had 100 deg. weather one weekend and the other was 75 deg with 10-20 MPH winds with a front moving through. A full moon figured to make things tougher. Sam was using the Purple Finch and the Red Winged Blackbird. I was using the White Chested Tree Swallow. Sam’s baits were barbless. We were very pleased with our testing totals. Sam went 10-14 on the Big Splash. We didn’t count two lbers. I managed 10 for 17 for Big Splashes. Three of the fish came back for a second pass after missing. The number we thought was interesting was, 70% of our bites came on a dead stick of 15 seconds. We had a few that sat for one minute before being blasted.
My bait after 4 days of fishing looks like the day it was purchased. Sam, having an Industrial Engineering Degree from SJ State, blended the right plastics to make a durable long lasting texture. He also engineered the body angle to keep the bird from being a sinker. No sinking problems experienced.
We fish the bird many different ways. The fish will tell you which way they like it and also where they are. Meaning, some days they eat it when it hits the water or when the bird is in its zone. Some days, the fish are neutral in mood a take a little longer to commit. Dead sticking up to one minute or longer has produced some of the most vicious big slashes. The design of the bird, keeps the bait in the zone longer (drag of wings and tail in water) and angle of bait. The underwater profile is what makes the bird different any other bait. If the fish is there, it will want it outa there.
The bird is "The Best Top Water Hollow Bodied Bait Ever Designed"
Bob Santora
ProStaffer, Bait Tester.
™ Flip in the Bird Lure Company
“The Bird is the Word”
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Dom, have you ever watched a bird that fell in the water..They don't do much dog walking..Of course that doesn't mean you can't get this lure to walk..I look forward to getting a couple when I find them..
mac
Take a kid fishing, and don't forget about us older kids either..
DOM, Yes, it walks and it walks easier than any other hollow bodied topwater bait I've ever used. You can also, with practice, learn to make it hop & scoot, where it will move just like a bird that has fallen in the water and is fluttering in distress accross the surface. The allure of this bait to the bass though, seems to be it's silohette and presence when sitting still and not moving at all, then the subtle little movements causing it to look like a real baby bird that has fallen in the water. At some point though, when bass become very active and are in a chasing mode, it will walk with the best of em fer sure!
There currently will be 3 colors available, Tree Swallow(Black White), Finch(Grey brown) and Red Winged blackbird, during the first run, which Sam is targetting the end of August for availability. We are working on a few other color patterns as well. Cost will be $10.95.
Dom wrote:Very cool and 3 questions
1. Will it walk the dog?
2 when can we buy em?
3. cost?
All the way to the eastcoast.
It must be migratory...Har, har, har !!
I too was given the opportunity to fish one of the proto-types a while back, and YUP, it looks like Sam's creation "FlippinTheBird" is gonna be making waves , and BIG SPLASHES as Bass come up to eat them !!!
Great NEW concept....not some knockoff of someone else's idea. Kudos for that, Sam !!
Looking forward to slinging the final version soon...
The BIRD is the Word !!
Yea I have seen a bass eat a red wing on the delta and seen bass up at clear lake leaping a foot out of the water to try and get a bird. But when bass are inactive I believe the walk is just more enticing on any top water bait.
Cooch Thanks for the info the price is right and the bait looks amazing , I hope he makes alot of the red wing up front thats gonna be a hot color on this River
Tight Lines yall I gotta a frog tourney to go fish , Hey I can see it now ,A flip the bird only tourney?
Thanks for all the feed back, we are Grateful for guys like Andy, and Bob S who have been fishing it on the Delta with great success , there opinion is Golden. We look forward to making sure every top water angler has at least one bird in his box! Look for our ad which will soon be in the New Western bass Magazine, if you have not looked at this magazine do so, its a really top notch mag! Regards from Sam and Dan at Flip In The Bird Lure Co.
ugly stick wrote:What in the world is Cooch doing with a low profile reel in his hand? thats not an abu!
Nice catch UG! That is actually a Shimano on loan from sTony. We were filming one day and I blew up my braided reel that day, so he gave me this one to complete the shoot. That was about 3 years ago and I've not given it back, comes in reel handy when I need that extra braid reel at seminars! HAR!
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