My bud Brett M and his buds were on Mille Lacs, MN fishing some shrooms/TRDs on a gravel/sand transition in 10-11′ just outside a spawning flat when they caught this choco-loco:

YUM Baits’ exec-type Mark Cowan was on Broken Bow, OK and got him this average-sized dipper on a YUM Christie Craw:

For all I know someone’s already doin’ this, but if not, I gotta say that I and I’m sure lots of you would drop some coin at the ramp if we could:

Shoot, I might even do it….

– Deion Sanders (with Randy Moss) talkin’ in this pretty dang funny bassin’ vid:

Prime asks if anyone wants to play a little 2 on 2 with ’em — I can think of a few pairs of bassin’ dudes they might not want to go up against….

This vid’s gotten quite a run already on the wide world of interwebbin’….

…why aren’t they in all baits? For ex:

Soft-plastic colors that I guess should be jig, spinnerbait and crankbait colors: Aaron’s magic, margarita mutilator, morning dawn, California 420, junebug (not pictured), oxblood (not pictured), gp/purple flake (not pictured), blue fleck, sprayed grass and one of my personal faves, blue/black/chart flake:

Props to YUM for the shad-like “tin foil” color in some of hits soft-plastics including the YUM Dinger but also flipping baits like the Christie Critter:

Hard-bait colors that should be soft-plastic colors (not including swimbaits): sexy shad, chart/blue back, citrus shad, Rayburn red, gold/black back:

Shoutin’ out the Lucky Craft 1.5 in “pink dragon gill,” a soft-plastic-like color I wanna fish sooooooo bad…you hear that Erhler and Tak??

Jig/wire-bait colors that should be soft-plastics: PB&J and cole slaw:

…accordin’ to Elitist Hank Cherry:

[Oops sorry, that’s chili — was hungry….]

Good hints, but it ain’t always that tough! Here’s 1 other possibility (from the TXFF):

Here’s another, from noted bassin’ scribbler George Kramer:

If you see a guy like this, then you know:

One mo thang: Not sure, but I believe when shad spawn they are all “sexy shad”….