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Location: Essexville, MI./Saginaw Bay. | If I had to pick the one single lure that has caught me the most walleyes in my whole life it would be the 1/4 ounce Hot-N-Tot, hands down. This lure enjoyed it's best ever success and fame right here on the Saginaw Bay, in both their regular and then locally custom color choices. When in other (even more famous and walleye plentiful locations) it enjoyed only fair to limited success IMV. After 14 years on the Old Storm Companies writers list, I was privy to this tid-bit of knowledge. I Believe the Saginaw Bay was both the 1/4 ouncers and the companies brief selling savior in the final years when things got tight before Storm sold out to Normark.
Some of the first changes Normark made to the Storm line when they initially bought the company were not very welcomed by us Saginaw Bay guys. Like removing the 1/4 ouncer totally from the market for a few years. In fact, I'll refrain from telling you exactly how I felt about it here. Then the plastic billed/shallow model Normark version of the 1/4 ouncer came out and that almost made me boycott all Normark products if I could have. But Rapala just makes to many other lures that work to good for me to cut my own wrists at that stage of the game.
So now I see these newest lures by Storm today while web surfing and called Franks to see if they had any. They did, and I bought quit a few. And you can see why, when comparing them to the 2 Tot's I threw in the picture along with them. Having them in almost the same size as the 1/4 ounce Tot was only the first approving feature I noticed. Both have internal BB's. And for such a small lure, put out one heck of a sharp (on the Deep Thin Fin) and sonically dull, loud, crayfish type thump (on the Baby T-Stick) that you ever heard. In other words, even though never having caught me a single fish, I give them a perfect Saginaw Bay 10 right out of the box. 
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