Soon to be banned from all tour.

Senior Director, BASS Publications

Lucky Craft: Real Skin Pointer
For ages, lure tinkerers have tried to add the lifelike taste, appearance and feel of real fish to lures. Some have even glued baitfish skins to plugs. Finally, those attempts have succeeded with Lucky Craft's Real Skin line of hard baits. If you're a fan of the Lucky Craft Pointer jerkbaits, you'll love the way Real Skin pointers look and feel.

I haven't had a chance to fish the lure, but Gerald Swindle has. He demonstrated it in a fish tank at a boat show recently — after numerous other Elite Anglers had worried the fish with their baits and presentations. Swindle claims he proceeded to catch every fish in the tank — twice — with the Real Skin Pointer. The baits are painted, then covered in squid skin (leavings from last night's calamari) and epoxied. The appearance is impressive, but fish won't get the feel and taste of fish skin until a little of the epoxy is worn off. Still, these should be bass killers. Real Skin is available in Pointers, Staysees, Flash Minnows and a few other baits. It adds about $5 to the cost of each bait, but anybody used to paying $15 for a jerkbait won't mind shelling out another 5-skin. (www.luckycraft.com)

That's funny....this reminds of the ad they used to have for the "Walking Worm"...you guys remeber that one??? I remember that it was also "Soon to be banned from all tournaments" :) I think I've seen the ad for this "Real Skin" deal before in the back of a Bassmaster magazine that looked like a newspaper article or something like that, but if you look really close you'll see that it says "this is a paid advertisement." The funniest part about it are the pictures! How can a guy pictured in the 80's have caught fish on a new wonder bait?! I mean seriously?!

What's even funnier, instead of using Roland Martin this time, they enlisted Gerald Swindle...now that's funny right there!!! Do you think Gerald will also be selling those rocket rods or whatever they are?! Those rocket rods are probably "soon to be banned from all tournaments." :)

These baits have out classed me for sure. Sometimes marketing strategy for fishing lures totally leaves me in amazement.

[quote=Bonefish;299979]These baits have out classed me for sure. Sometimes marketing strategy for fishing lures totally leaves me in amazement.[/quote]
I'll stick with the Bandits and Rapalas...

As long as they stay away from my Flying Lure, Banjo minnow and Helicopter lure. Oh yea the SLUGO. I'll be fine. Lucky means your lucky if you can catch one on the darn things. Not Impressed, Bandits and Bombers..... :D

My take on this subject is if i can,t work it through those Tree tops at Cedar Creek it won,t be tied on the end of my rod lol ;)

i'll save my 5-skins,that's a good right there,oh wait a minute i'll actually have 20-skins cause i don't buy lucky crafts,so i can get more gas for my boat. :)

Another "just throw it in the water, and get the net ready" lure. Got a box of em, just added the clatter baits to that box, andmaybe even the giz 4s, but I'll hold off on the later till next summer, they worked this spring.