09-02-2006, 12:13 PM
Friend of mine bought the kit...we had a morning outing together and by the time he got it rigged properly and tuned I think he had a few casts in and it was time to go...
My attitude is that if they need an infomercial to sell it, it's not a tried and true, honestly marketed bait...they're not trying to sell them to real fishermen, they're trying to sell them to the "occassional" fisherman, like a "secret weapon" type lure that will guarantee that the guy who only fishes once or twice a year will get quality fish. The catch of course is that most of the people who only go out once or twice a year don't know how to locate quality fish, so you know as well as I, that if you're not throwing a bait where there's any fish, you're simply not gonna get any.
Marketing hype is 90% of the selling feature of the banjo minnow...if it's too good to be true, it's too good to be true.
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My attitude is that if they need an infomercial to sell it, it's not a tried and true, honestly marketed bait...they're not trying to sell them to real fishermen, they're trying to sell them to the "occassional" fisherman, like a "secret weapon" type lure that will guarantee that the guy who only fishes once or twice a year will get quality fish. The catch of course is that most of the people who only go out once or twice a year don't know how to locate quality fish, so you know as well as I, that if you're not throwing a bait where there's any fish, you're simply not gonna get any.
Marketing hype is 90% of the selling feature of the banjo minnow...if it's too good to be true, it's too good to be true.
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