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)



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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?! 