Oh my god. Good morning guys, welcome to Retro Basin. Today we're going to be doing a lower view on one of my favorite baits of the 1980s. Herb breeds original sluggo. Developed in 1987 by Lunker City, this was really one of the first viral baits that I remember. But when this thing came out, it was like nothing I'd ever seen before. That jerkbait motion, that erratic action, it honestly had both the fish and the bass fishermen going nuts. Here's what I'm talking about. So here we go. Here's a pack from 1987. This thing is about 30 years old. But this bait holds up today. I know just about every other plastic lure company out there has a version of the sluggo. But the original still has a special place in my heart. I don't fish with a ton anymore, but today we're in Texas. It's springtime, the bass is shallow, and I think we're going to have a pretty good day with the sluggo. Bam! Bam! There we go. Nice little sluggo fish. Man, I like swung and missed on like three fish per eye. I got this little guy. We're fishing a grass flat and I am just popping this thing over some eel grass. He smoked it as soon as I threw it in there though, so I finally got him. Nice little large mouth on the original, the classic, six and a half inch sluggo. Let him go. I remember when this bait came out in 1987. It was a little tackle shop called the tackle box, about a 20 minute bike ride from my house. I'm going from Lucker City and I think it was like in a four or five pack that they had, which included five baits and one hook. I only had a couple colors. I had of course these chartreuse pepper that I'm fishing today. I've got silver shad, gold shad, a blue shad, which is sort of a really cool blue-bellied color. Red shad. Alright, I think that might have been it. Oh, that's a nice fish. Oh, that's a nice fish. Don't all don't get off. Oh, that's a nice fish. Oh, come on, but oh, that's a nice, oh, dude. Oh, that's a nice fish. Oh, man, come here. Come here, come here, come here, come here, come here, come here, come here, don't get off. Gotcha, gotcha. Gotcha. Haha. Wow. Yes, look at that. Oh, that's an awesome little fish. Let's check him out. So, he smoked it. As I said, when this lure came out, oh, man, it was awesome. You could not get these things fast enough. This is a nice little one to pounder. Oh, boy, he smoked it. Awesome fish. And then to make a already pretty ridiculous bait, even more ridiculous, a lincor city came out with the bubble gum sluggo. I mean, if there is ever a lure that does not immediately instill lack of confidence, boy, it was this thing. But I smoked a ton of little bass in my youth on the bubble gum sluggo. I'm spraying this thing down a little bit of a spiky anus oil. I feel like those fish are holding on a little bit longer when I do get a strike. All right, bubble gum. Let's see. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. First cast in the bubble gum. Oh, that's a nice fish. First cast in the bubble gum. Oh, nice fish. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. Oh, son. Oh, son, look at this guy. Look at this guy. Come here, buddy. Come here, buddy. If I can get you. Gotcha. Bubble gum bass. How silly. Look at that thing. I mean it really should not catch fish. In fact I think what this thing first came out they called it. Obviously it had the name jerkbait and the joke was you felt like a jerk for fishing with such a lure. Oh my god. I don't know if I lost that fish but I was about six inches from losing my camera. Wow. And now I've got a lunker. Holy smokes. That was crazy. That was crazy. Look at that fish. Awesome awesome fish on the slugger. Look at this guys. There's my camera. There's my tripod. I set the hook on this dude and this tracker is awesome but boy it moves around a lot. I set the hook on this dude and immediately I turn around and my camera is corining toward the lake. I towed back I grabbed it. It was about honestly 12 inches from the water. And there's a little fish. Alright buddy. Thanks again man. Wow. I'm gonna need a break after that. Get off the water. The good news is we survived today. Look I've done some goofy stuff on boats but that is by far the worst spill I think I've ever taken. I want to show you guys my tripod. So when that one fish hit I set the hook so hard that my S-Holo camera which I'm using now. I had that on this tripod. Bad idea. I know. I don't think YouTube reimburses for lost cameras but anyway I saw this thing go over as I set the hook into a little two pounder. I jump back and hit the deck grab this thing and saved it about 12 inches above before it got in. I saved my camera. Destroyed my tripod but an accident called the fish. That was pretty cool. But wow. I'm gonna go toss this thing right now. That was a wild day. Not just that too.