Spring Trout Fishing & Spring FIshing Update!
Jul 21, 2026
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AI GeneratedThe podcast features a discussion with Jared Higginbotham on the transition from the grueling Columbia River Springer season to the adventurous nature of summer trout fishing. The conversation covers the versatility of trout fishing techniques, the rigorous research and development process behind Yakima Bait's product line, and a commitment to quality and mentorship in gear manufacturing.
Hey, everyone out there.
Welcome to another addicted fishing podcast.
We're sitting here on another beautiful spring day where we should be out
doing a live feed on the water.
Might be the first one.
It should have been the first one.
We kind of get breezy out there though.
I feel kind of denied a privilege.
Yeah, it's well, guess what?
There's a lot of your left chair.
There is an excuse to get you back.
Live feeds on the water.
We'll catch you.
That'd be great.
Shad.
I'm all for it.
Yeah.
It's a lot of fun.
You need to bring your super tanker down here.
Yeah, bro.
I'm bringing it down.
We can put like a ton of people.
And I just told Jordan, I was going to add two more rods to the
bow so I can fish nine.
Well, yeah, he's going into the commercial zone.
Yeah.
I'm going right to the Harbor zone.
And we'll land it.
They say three hooks per rod.
That's 27.
My, my math, you're just, you're just, you're just snagging him at that point,
baby, paddle fishing, paddle fishing.
Well, everybody, if you didn't already notice the voice, we have Jared Higginbotham
from Yakima Baits in here, an awesome partner of ours and it's a party.
Yeah.
It's a party.
There's always some, a couple of beers and, and some dinner before we showed up
here, showed up late, Cameron was waiting for us.
And now we're here to talk all kinds of fishing.
It's going to be a fun afternoon.
How, how was your day, Cameron?
Fantastic.
Cause it was the last day of Columbia River Springer fishing and I'm happy.
I heard you hooked four in one pass.
Rumor on the street.
Yeah, no, we killed four in one pass.
We hooked a few more.
It was, that does not surprise me.
It was savage.
It was a good day.
We, we, it was a good day.
We, yeah.
But half the time I look at your boat, I see like gone cat king.
And it's just because there's usually a net in front of the part.
Yeah.
Okay.
So the reason why I'm happy that Columbia season's over is because
don't, don't, don't fall for it.
Folks.
It was, it was a grinder of a year.
It was a tough season out there.
I mean, there was a lot of fish, but some days they'd go and then you'd
have a really good day, you'd kill five and you'd be thinking the next
day you were going to do it again.
And then, you know, back to two, back to reality, but springers are humblers.
Yeah.
They grind, bro.
I mean, I'm, I fished the lower river dude, and I made a 22 mile run one day
from Kathleen to tongue point.
And, uh, dude, I marked so many, cause the tides did just look right.
Right.
Just like fall fish.
I thought I got to look right.
And so I put the hammer down and got down there and I marked fish everywhere.
And he'd like, I mean, they were all over, but they would not chew.
They would not bro.
Seven baits running.
Perfect.
Dude.
Spinning.
Perfect.
Sitting.
Perfect.
Looking perfect.
Flash of the whole deal.
They just wouldn't chew, bro.
But the ones we did catch, man, they'd have, you know, 10, 12 smelt
and two camel fish in the belly.
So they were full, but I eat when I'm full.
So I don't know what was wrong with the springer.
I'm just like, that's not cool.
But that's springer fish.
That is springer fish.
And they'll sit there and look at you and laugh and whatever, some idle
afternoon during the max ebb, they'll just snap like crazy.
Yeah.
But I guess that's why there's also the most sought after fish in the Columbia
river.
Yeah.
It's a challenge, bro.
You know what I mean?
And I think that the people that you go through it with on that daily, that are
willing to get out there at, you know, 6 a.m.
And sit in the rain while we rig gear.
And then, you know, the same people are getting off the docks at 6 p.m.
They're just happy to be there, bro.
Yeah.
That's what springers are.
The ones that are calling you like, Oh, I want to go springer fishing.
It's like, it's March 8th.
Like, I don't want to take, let's just go give it.
No, no.
You don't understand.
It's March 8th.
Like, yeah, you saw like three Facebook posts like last month.
Cool.
Like I don't want to go.
There was 6,429 rods and three fish got, but yeah.
So you're saying there's a chance, there's a chance, there's a chance.
It's coming.
Yeah.
But I think that's part of the fun too.
Like I said, man, when you get that, the difference that I find between
fall fish and springers for sure is that.
Um, fall fish, as soon as that fish hits the deck, people are like, get
them back out and springers everybody's like, yeah, high five for nine minutes.
And you take a photo and everybody's like, this is the awesomest thing ever.
And you check Mason, you put them back in.
Oh, so cautiously, right.
You're just meat fishing at that point.
We're going for a hundred pounds today, boys.
But I think that's where it's like I said, we'll work for the whole boat.
That's the funnest part.
You know what I mean?
Everybody's happy because everybody puts in the work, you know, especially
my, like my little guy, I mean, he's decking in for free 24 hours a day.
And so he does all this work and you know, he hasn't, he hasn't caught one
year either, but he's seen a few caught and I know it irritates him, but he's
still happy because he knows he was part of it.
It's a team effort out there for sure.
Yeah.
My first and last on the last day.
How it goes.
That's how it goes, bro.
So you can be happy.
The best day of the season.
Smarter, you're probably smart enough to weigh plenty of steelhead
and trout beforehand.
Yes.
Yeah.
But now that that's over, a lot of this stuff to do.
And that's why we brought Jared in.
We enjoyed our, our winner.
I think we can all say that, but I have not been quite this excited for
summertime in quite a long time.
And I do really no reason, but I think it's just for the love of trout fishing.
For the love of trout fishing.
For the love of trout.
To get on a mountain.
For the love of trout.
I'd like to catch them by the dolphins.
I love trout fishing, man.
It's, it's fun.
I mean, it's where everybody kind of started.
Right.
And then the thing, cool trout fishing is pretty much everybody in every state in
the country and out of the country can relate.
Yeah.
I mean, they can't relate to like a spring Chinook or a winter steelhead
or a summer steelhead.
They don't want to A run or B run is, but they know what a rainbow is.
Yeah.
And it brings the environment of what trout fishing means and what it, what it
involves.
And, and it's part of, I think what we really like about Chinook salmon fishing
or, or steelhead fishing in certain aspects is what time of year you're out
there, who you're around, what you're doing, what kind of craft you're in.
And that's, I think the biggest part of why I love the trout fishing is just
where it takes you.
You go to places that you're not used to going.
You're usually adventuring.
You're usually just kind of dinking around and looking for fish.
You're not going to a spot, you know, you're going to, you have the best
chance of getting them.
It's more in the sense of adventure and camping and, and again, high mountain
lakes and good weather and cool nights around the campfire.
And just the essence of what trout fishing is, you know, as compared to most
salmon and steelhead, which is so, so serious, it's a better way to just not
take it so seriously.
There's a lot less pressure, right?
A lot less pressure.
And, uh, and you know, the cool thing about trout fishing versus salmon and
steelhead fishing is like, if all of us are going springer fishing tomorrow and
say, we're all fishing seven rods, I can guarantee you that like five out of our
seven rods are going to have a triangle flash for the herring, but we can choose
what method we want to really catch the trout in, right?
Like, can we catch them on a rooster tail?
Sure.
Can you catch them on a super cup plug or a coconut plug?
Sure.
Can you catch them on a Dodger with a Hoogie?
Sure.
Can you catch my plugs?
Sure.
Power bait and the corky.
Sure.
Right.
Like, how are you want to fish them?
Right?
Like there's not this dedicated method that you have to stick to this plan to get
bit, you know?
Well, that could be irritating.
I it's convenient, but it's irritating to me.
Sometimes even a fishing guide, when you're like only getting them on one color
bead and you keep switching, this guy might catch a fish or this guy, but when you can
go out and you have those days where you get them on a jig, get them on the worm, you
get them on the, on a bead, you know, you get them on everything.
That's satisfying in my opinion.
You know, I get them on a spinner and that is the beauty of the trout fishing where
it's like, wow, we caught a couple.
Let's switch it up.
I want to catch them a different way.
Yeah.
You know, henceforth the dry fly too.
I mean, you're talking about like technique specific fisheries where people get real
nerdy about that and where they can catch them, you know, like you said, but then the
dry fly comes out or then the rooster.
Yeah.
And who doesn't want to catch, I mean, who doesn't want to fish, watch a fish
explode on a bait that you've got presented at the end of a line, get on the dry fly,
right?
Like, and watch it, eat it, right?
Like watch it, eat it.
You know what I mean?
I mean, that side fishing thing is pretty cool.
And so whatever method, you know, tickles your fancy.
Like I just tell them, Jordan, the way here is like, you know, when people ask me all
the time what I do for a living, I'm like, I sell fun.
Yeah.
I sell fun, dude.
I mean, I sell lures for every species of fish pretty much on the planet.
And I sell fun to everybody.
Everybody that buys my stuff, it's fun, right?
Like I'm not coming to your house trying to sell you a vacuum.
It's like you want to buy a fishing lure and go fishing.
It's fun, you know, and the trout fishing thing is fun.
That's where a lot of it started.
And, and, um, you know, it's still so rewarding, especially like when you're pulling
plugs in a drift boat.
We've done that a bunch of times this year, man.
And, uh, pulling plugs in a drift boat on light rods and watching that rod just smash
the water, knowing in your mind, you know, you know, it's a 12 to an 18 inch trout, but
like in your soul, you're like, oh, it's a giant, you know, that's the, it hit my plug.
It's a takedown, right?
And the plug takedown just gets your blood boiling.
And so, you know, whatever, whatever it is, it makes you happy.
That's the cool part about trout fishing.
It just makes it fun.
And the pressure's off, right?
Like it's just so much less maintenance.
And when we live on the West coast too, it is iconic to just be interested in trout as
it is in the world.
But, you know, and I think that's probably what I had the most fun, especially with like
our coastal cutthroat that we have on where we live.
It's just, again, going away from the boat ramps and, and, and the crowds and everything
and just going out with the dog and a backpack with some food and some gear and just
having fun, you know, and, and not taking it so serious, not having to be a competition
with yourself more so than just every angler out there.
You know what I mean?
I think that all of us are like, I mean, I know Cam's intense.
I know you're intense when you're like fishing salmon, cause we see each other, you
know, in the rivers all the time.
Right.
And so, um, I think that's that time where you can like step away from being, you know,
in the fishing industry necessarily.
Right.
Like whether you're a guy or a manufacturer or a factory representative or like YouTube,
whatever, right.
Like where you can just step away and you can fish like you were, like you were seven
years old on a bank with, you know, sitting on your butt in the dirt with ants crawling
across you and, you know, eating a half bag of Cheetos that have ants in it.
Right.
You know what I mean?
But you know what I mean though?
I think that's, that's what it brings to me, right?
That's where that joy, it's more of a joy thing that comes back.
No, I'm looking forward to it.
Actually.
We're going to go out tomorrow.
Everybody should be on the lookout for an upcoming YouTube video where we're going to
go out and we're going to try to pull the bucket list tomorrow.
We're going to do our best to try to catch a salmon trout and a steelhead on the same
day.
And who knows if it's going to happen, but it's the time of year that there's pretty
good odds.
That's, I love spring and going, you know, hinting backwards to trout fishing.
This time of year is my favorite to go hit.
And a lot of times I go to like private lakes or different areas, any reservoir that
stocks fish and has holdover fish.
And a lot of these fish start going on and spawn in this time of year, everybody.
And a lot of times you'll find them in those freshwater inlets and some of those areas
that have that big, those big spawning flats and going through and, and spending the day
out on the lake, throwing rooster tails and flies.
And like we said, switching to power bait and jigs and finding fish that you don't
commonly, you know, a lot of us, when we go fishing, like you said, you expect to see
that 12 to 18 inch fish.
Um, but the opportunity that the spring offers to go out and catch brood stock and
those really big brooder fish and basically any reservoir lake or pond that's around,
um, is a unique experience and listening to the, to the blackbirds and the, and the
meadowlarks and stuff out there.
It's, it's a pretty cool experience.
Yeah.
And they stock them for put and take man.
I mean, for the most part, and you can go to your, you know, WWF, WODFW, whatever
websites, and you can find out where they put these trout and when they're putting in
how many planted and so on and so forth.
Right.
Like, I mean, so, you know, it's a, it's an opportunity that they want you to take
advantage of.
And I think that the more people that take advantage of it, especially, you know, in
the Northwest, the more voices we're going to have and the more they see these people
going out and fishing.
Right.
And so the more they're going to want to do that type of stuff, right?
Like it's gotta, we gotta start revolving, having a revolving door of good at some
point, right?
Like in these fisheries and the trout was a great one to take advantage of.
Cause it's a start for a lot of people to get out.
You know what I mean?
And it's as simple as, I mean, looking in online and you know, you guys have addicted
video or addicted fishing has so many videos out there to teach you how to trout fish.
Right.
Like if you're like, Oh, I didn't know what to do.
It's like, no, that's, that's lazy trap.
You have a phone, right?
Like there's, they've got, you know, what thousand, 2000 videos, right?
Like, and probably at least 200 of them dedicated to trout fishing.
So it's like, there's information out there, not just from everybody else.
So it's like, take your kids or take your uncle or take your grandma or take your
cousin or take your whoever and go fish.
It's simple.
Enjoy your sunny day.
Go fish, go eat some fish.
It's fun.
Yep.
Yeah.
They're there for you to take and they're there for you to enjoy.
And, and it does spread the love and it kind of does encourage that message that
especially here today, we try to push all the way through every species of support
is power, you know what I mean?
And a community is power in making sure that there's, cause one day they can just
say, Oh, there's not enough people fishing for these fish or these stalker trout.
Unfortunately, I mean, quite realistically, that's not necessarily the case.
Probably more people fishing these trout stocks and anything else these days, but
those people are going to grow up to support the industry and support any form
of fishing and any sort of movement to do the right thing for the outdoors and for
the fisheries, you know, and it just, it just encourages a healthy environment
for people to go enjoy, especially in times like these, you know, I don't agree.
I'm going to ask the legend, Karen Black, what he thinks about traffic.
Cause he's been very quiet.
He looks very like, uh, you know, content here.
Listen to our trout conversation.
No, I, I don't get me wrong.
I mean, I was just thinking like, shoot, like this springtime, the last time I
went on like a dedicated trout trip, went fly fishing, had a ball catching small
trout and just like, like I said, just very engaging, very like once you're there,
you're not thinking about other things.
You're just trying to catch a nine inch trout.
Yeah.
And I was trying to catch bigger ones, but they were, they didn't want anything.
They're smarter than that.
Well, they're smart.
My favorite Cameron trout memory was when he had his daughter out and we were
running down riggers and 10 foot of water and hooking these trout bigger than we
thought it existed in this roadside Lake and the Washington Paisley reel.
That's awesome, dude.
But love does cool.
That is awesome though.
Freaking out the whole time.
Put fishing rods in there.
Oh yeah.
There you go.
She experienced, I opened the rod locker and she's like, you put fishing rods?
I always wondered, I was like, yeah, I guess if you're four, that's what, that's
what you do.
Yeah, no, it's fun, man.
I mean, um, I think all fishing is fun, but the trout thing, you know, it's just
one of those, I don't know, man, all the trout, like you catch a bluegill and
they're pretty much the same.
A crappie pretty much the same, you know, but like trout there, all their spots
are different.
Their specs are different.
Their stripes are different.
Their gills are different.
Their tails are different.
Why?
Like, I mean, from a planning trout to a wild trout to brook trout to, you know,
all these different kinds of trout, you know, um, it's just, it's just such a
unique thing, right?
Like in each one is just kind of special in its own right.
Similar to like a steelhead.
I mean, they all have different markings.
If you actually pay attention to that, just kill it, you know?
So I think that's the cool thing about trout is you're just, it's just a unique,
unique, unique, unique fish in its right.
And, uh, play chess with mother nature and win no matter at what levels it's
cool.
So on the theory of uniqueness, do you guys have anything new coming out for trout?
Obviously the rooster tail is best selling trout lure maybe ever.
Yeah.
I know I use a hell out of them.
Yeah.
The world does.
Is there anything on the docket here that people might get to use coming up in the
summer?
So, yeah, man, we, we got some, uh, a new lure in the category of trout and
kokanee.
That is something that I guarantee you you've never seen before, right?
Like, you know, in the history of lures, like it's pretty cool to have something
unique in that category that no one's ever seen.
Like no one's ever done.
People may have thought about it, but no one's ever thought it would be like to
that level.
But the way we have it set up and the components we have on it, the way it's
going to be marketed, it's going to be a pretty big deal, bro.
Like it's, and it's super, super fishy, like super, super like stupid fishy, like
not funny.
And there's only about maybe five people that know about it.
Mr.
Sam Baird.
He, he, I'll take, I'll give Sammy most of the credit, right?
Like Sammy and I, he's such a cool cat, bro.
He's like my little brother that I bail out of jail once a week and he's just a
good dude, but the guy is super sharp when it comes to fishing.
Right.
And he had this idea and so we worked together on it and he put it together,
man.
And he shared it with a few of his very close friends and it's, it's really nuts,
bro.
Like what, what, what it, what it's done and like what I've seen from it, you
know, and I had this for a living, you know, every day, right?
Like I hear stories all the time, but it's pretty unique in this part of the
world in this way, in this fashion and with the techniques that are around and
about now, right.
To relate to that.
It's just a, it's really, really cool, dude.
And I can't wait to like kick it out and get it out.
We've got all the homework done on it.
We've got all the specs done on it.
I've literally got the hooks and everything's done.
Right.
It's just a matter of us getting caught up from normal production to be able to
distribute something new and distribute it in a marketable and timely fashion.
And plus, you know, you want to get photos and you want to get all this stuff
done and you know, you got to write some stuff about it and you want to do videos
on it.
And you know, I think sharing part of the R and D process on how we get to this
point.
It's cool.
You don't see that, right?
Like, um, so it is a grueling process because you want to make sure it's right.
Right.
Nobody likes the drama.
It's definitely a drama filled drama filled thing and designing a product.
Oh, angry emails.
And yeah, well, yeah.
And people are like, you know, I do, I got a million dollar idea.
I'm like, really, do you know what's going to cost me 150,000 to get one in a
package?
I was like, if you've thought about that at this point, yeah, 150 grand to get one
in a package.
And that's before I sell any of their homie.
So, you know, it is a process, but you know, I mean, from my standpoint, I've been
doing this for 10 years.
And so I've seen a lot of things and throughout the industry, not just my
products, but this one dude is, it's going to be a game changer, especially in
the cocaine world, but it's, it's cool.
It's really, really cool, dude.
And I don't get super excited about stuff much.
Often.
I was excited about the spin fish.
That was super cool.
Cause I had something in that category, but the more efficient than we're here
about it, dude, it's really fishy.
It's super cool.
And super easy.
And this thing here is just right up there with it.
All right.
Time frame.
So my goal is July, 2023.
I got two new products coming out in July, 23 that are gay.
They're pretty much game changers, bro.
So my good buddy Shane Mags and I stopped by our mold maker today, um, Shane
designed a new lure and it is super cool.
It's super fishy and it's a salmon trout, steelhead, kokanee or a salmon
kokanee, uh, lure, but it's definitely a dude that's one that's up here.
That's that's different.
Unique.
Like it's always something.
Yeah.
And I've had, dude, I've got like six or eight pages of stuff on my
docket at work of new items.
I can come out with like that are legit, but time production,
capacity, testing capacity, and then seasonality to you guys too.
Cause like, just like with what we do with our products, I mean, you just
got to have the seasons to like test it.
And then generally by the time, I mean, you can't just launch design or
can't just design, you know, test, get, get prototypes, test it out, get
marketing material, like generally in one season, it just doesn't happen.
That's why when you said July, 2023, I was like, not surprised because it's
just, it is a long arduous process.
And you know, we've been, we've experienced a lot of that too.
Just even with some of the stuff that we do, that's not even like molded and
just some of the, I would say simpler products would be, uh, yeah, it's,
it's a challenge, but you want to do it right when it comes out.
Right.
And like, you know, we've got 20, I think 22,000 skews, 22,000.
That's what Yakima Bait has.
Right.
And so I'm in the process right now of analyzing the last six to eight years
sales, um, each year in each color and each product and each size.
So just to give you a little rundown, like say spinning glows, there's I
think 212 colors of spinning glows in 10 sizes, bro.
So that's 2,200 items.
Now those 2,200 items have three packs, 12 packs, six packs, 12 packs.
25 packs, a hundred packs.
So immediately right there is 10,000 skews just in those that I have to
review, but that's what I'm looking to do because I don't, I don't want these
products on the markets that aren't catching fish, right?
Like I want, I want, I want stuff on the market that is a selling and be
catching fish and you know, the consumers tell us that stuff that you, and we see
it all the time, like stuff that comes out and it's like a flash in the pan.
It's like the hottest thing.
And then once people try it, like if it's not, if it's not legit, like it
quickly gets like sidelined.
Yeah, bro.
I mean, I can think, I can even, I don't, I'm not going to say them, but I can
think of a couple of products out in the last few years that like came out and
everyone went, Whoa.
And then everyone tried to win pass.
And now I see him sitting on the shelves all the time.
Well, I've got products in my lamp right now that were, you know, in the
eighties and nineties top selling in the country, but like, you know, doing
hundreds of thousand dollars worth of business that now do $5,000 a year.
Yeah.
I mean, I guess everything's evolving and, and, but you know, then, then you
see like the older, some of that we'll call the older antiquated, like products
also like come back to, because they worked, but I was talking about products
that were definitely like hurried out the launch and that didn't do what they.
They kind of portrayed to do.
And they didn't get, they don't even get that 30, 40 year longevity thing.
Like where they did good at one point, they're just not doing good.
Well, and that costs those companies a lot.
It costs them a lot of money.
And you know, the hardest part about that is so many people jump the gun
because they're so excited to get out and they don't do the homework.
And Buzz, Buzz told me one thing all the time we were doing R and D.
He's like, we'd be doing this for literally six to eight months.
And I'm like, we're so close to being done.
This is so bad-ass.
And he would turn to me looking like, okay, Jared, it's time to start over and
reconfirm what we think we've learned.
And I was like, he's like, we need to do this all again, just to make sure.
And sure we did.
But I learned more about a plug in a flasher and how things work and how to
design a product and how to really dive deep into it because everybody has these
passions or whatever they dive into that are just unique and different.
Right.
And you go further than anybody else does.
Right.
And so he kind of opened my mind to the way that should be done.
And so I'm trying to take care of what he kind of set me up for and left me to
make sure that when I bring a product to market, right, like, you know what I
mean?
He's kind of my mentor and I want to make him proud too.
Right.
You know what I mean?
That's, that's something that, you know, you look for as a goal, right?
I want to make him proud when I come out with something to where he's like,
that's awesome.
Do a good job.
You know, hit the nail on the head.
Well, you're also a fishy dude.
And that also helps too.
Yeah, yeah.
You know what I mean?
You guys all know I put in the time and my son puts in the time and the cool
thing is, I mean, he tells me all sorts of stuff all the time.
I'll be thinking and so focused.
Right.
And he'll be like, dad, he goes, why don't you just switch out the weights and
you know, maybe add, add some lead or shorten your leader length, you know, and
we'll get a different presentation.
I'm like, that's actually a good idea, son.
I mean, just simple things that you, you know, you get so focused and dialed.
Right.
And so, um, and having him as a sounding board and the fact that he's been around
me doing this my whole life, right?
Like, it's kind of nice because I actually respect his opinion.
So it's nice to have that to bounce off of guys like Shane or yourselves or
whoever, right.
That I respect as a fisherman.
And, um, you know, I can send something to him and you can give me a, to do this
sucks, or bro, this is money, or you should add this here, or if it ran faster
or maybe a smaller hook or, you know, I mean, those types of things is that's
what we all do, dude.
We're all fishermen.
We want the best products for everybody out there.
That's why we're here teaching.
So.
You got to commit to it.
Yeah.
Last, last two seasons, we've spent something, you know, we, we've, we've
been playing with salmon hooks, like bead hooks, for instance, you know, two
seasons to get that right.
And now that it's right, and I can confidently say that that hook, like I
get more messages from guys that I would not think that I'd get messages from.
They're like, you know what?
That'd be hooked now, but it took two full seasons before I like came out.
And I think we're right now on the cusp of a, of a hook that I committed, like
our whole guide season, um, out in the ocean for, for coho or for bait.
And then actually now this whole spring season, and I'm just, I lost three
fish on the line this year, like three on barbless hooks, like I'm so
impressed with these hooks now.
Like if basically if, if we don't make it, I'm going to find someone
to make them for me, but it's like, but I've spent two seasons, you know,
like you spend that amount of time and that amount of commitment to just be
like, well, this is either going to work or I'm going to look like an idiot.
Well, but that's what it takes a lot of fish figuring this out.
You, you nailed it.
You know, it takes that effort.
And you know, like when I design a product, I mean, say if I'm designing a
spinner, everything from the hook to the clevis, to the bearing bead, to the
washer, to the body, the beads, to the blade, um, to the wire thickness of the
thickness of blade, every, everything, right?
Like I look at all of those things to make sure in my mind that I know I will
grab this out of a package off the shelf and fish it confidently.
And that's what I look for.
And, um, you know, I mean, like any manufacturer, you know, you have
struggles, things, things, people go out of business or this happens, or if
something breaks down or blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, and you can't make this one,
or it doesn't make right.
And you don't realize it until you've sold a thousand of them type thing, right?
Like, and that happens in, um, that's manufacturing, right?
Like in, but we learn, you know, one thing I, I never take a customer's
complaint as a negative.
I take it as a positive, as a teaching experience and a learning experience
to, for me to be better at my job.
It's just like my guides, even pro staff guys, if they call me and say, um, you
know, I'm fishing competitor X's product today, dude, I'm sorry.
I'm like, I don't care, man.
I'm like, that's my fault.
Not yours.
I'm like, well, what do you mean?
I'm like, your job is to put fish in the boat for your clients.
That's your job.
You did that today.
You did your job.
If you, you're not fishing something that I designed, then I'm not doing my job.
So I need to do my job better.
Right.
So that drives me, right?
Because I respect for all you guys and, you know, a lot of other anglers out there,
just like yourselves that are guides or pro staff or just really fishy dudes.
And so, you know, I mean, I take that to heart because like I said, I want to make
sure that when you guys put something on the end of the line, you guys, or just a
standard, you know, just a consumer from Walmart or whatever, that they're getting
the best quality product that Yakima bait can put out.
Well, Jared, we thank you so much for that because ultimately, like I can tell
you, like I've used a lot of your, uh, products, uh, to kill a lot of fish over
the years, so thanks for coming in and shedding some light on that guys.
And before we go, guys, just remember April 10th, it's the spring drop is a ton
of new products, hats, t-shirts there.
Uh, there's some new micro worms coming out that you need to check out coming up
for this, especially for this, this 52 different hat designs, something like
that.
If you said, if you said you didn't like any of our hat designs, you better check
out the truck.
Hey Marlon, if you want me to wear any addicted stuff, a three X tall would be
great because if I wear a one X I'm going to look like Lance Armstrong and Chris
Farley had a baby and put me in spandex.
So give me a three X tall, but I mean, want addicted sweatshirt.
Well, thank you so much, Jared, for coming in spring drop, April 10th.
We'll see you guys.

