When did manns go out of business? Pretty sad to see OG bait companies go under but if you don’t keep up with the others you kinda get left behind. Now just gotta find some of there 5 inch and 7inch dragon swim worm
When did manns go out of business? Pretty sad to see OG bait companies go under but if you don’t keep up with the others you kinda get left behind. Now just gotta find some of there 5 inch and 7inch dragon swim worm
Their website is up and running. Are you sure they’re out of business?
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The website is still up but they are no longer in business.Originally Posted by Jeff Hahn
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2007 Mercury Pro XS 250
I really liked their hard nosed lizards still have a few packs I like to use when fun fishing they last forever.
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Since the passing of Toby Keith I wonder what will become of Luck E Strike
I have two packs of the hard nosed toads. Great concept that never seemed to take off.
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Used them years ago but nothing recently.
News for me. Manns had the saving grace of obtaining the rights to the arig. I don't know how they could drop the ball from that but apparently they did. That alone could've reinvigorated the brand but was mismanaged.
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I still have bulk bags that my dad would pick up from the store in Eufaula. I still love fishing a jelly worm during the summer. The little George is killer on schooling fish also!
Caught my fist 8 pounder on a blue Manns Jellyworm in 1973!
I also am wondering if it will survive. I used to buy Luck E Strike worms in bulk at a bait store near Toledo Bend in the late 1970's. I think it was in Yellowpine.
That's probably one of the things that actually hurt them. Why pay for rights to a NAME, others continued making them and just called it an umbrella rig. Whatever they paid, they overpaid.
I have some hardnose toads too. I was very surprised they didn’t catch on with other companies. Lasts a lot longer than any Ribbit or horny toad
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1995 Johnson Fast Strike 175hp
Got some hardnose toads,lizard and I think it’s a creature/craw. I also thought they would do better than they did.
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I have won a bunch of tournaments with those hardnose creature baits many years ago.
I still have several packs. I thought it was a good concept. Now baits are soft either for a valid reason or just so they last for only several fish.
I seemed to have replaced them with the baby brush hogs now.
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I just spoke with an insider who would know and it was confirmed that they are out of business. Apparently things have been going downhill for a long time, but around Christmas it got really bad. No word on what the future holds.
"The man of system is apt to be very wise in his own conceit; and is often so enamored with the supposed beauty of his own ideal plan of government that he cannot suffer the smallest deviation from any part of it…He seems to imagine that he can arrange the different members of a great society with as much ease as the hand arranges the different pieces upon a chessboard.” Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments
Caught my second 8 pounder on a Mann’s Auger tail 6” two-tone (blue/silver) plastic worm in 1984. Largest bass I had ever caught at the time on a plastic worm. Was my favorite plastic worm.
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Maybe they should have stuck with this ? ....
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The original Mann’s Baby 1-Minus is probably my favorite crankbait. The newer models just don’t seem to run the same.
I have a few of the topwater and diving in the hard worms. Chrome ones and some natural with maroon.
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