STX: I can see it now: Within 6 months--tops--Anglers Pro Shop (Don't shoot me for this Randy and Sami!
) will be selling the "Fisherman Cigar Surface Slider" for $45.00 per piece--colors to include Basic Brown, Baby Scat Yellow, and Parasite Green. The pamphlet will state something like the following:
素材は、３０トン＋４０トングラファイトのコンポジットで、グラファイトクロスを３方向から巻
Which translates roughly as: “In order to simulate to the diving tuna the foremost in exactness of the turd-shape, while springing forth the action of the current drift, outside of lure is woven with cross-linked kevlar to hold form when tuna bites big one and to imitate exactly the texture of the hard-squeezed unit while representing to rising fish the freshness of the mayfly on mountain stream."
Someone will catch a tuna on one of the damned things and APS will have to put up a "Sold Out" button on the website until 12 more units are allocated from Japan.
Within another six months, TJ, Rick, Kevin, and company will put their heads together and OTI will come out with a more cost-effective unit that is perhaps not quite so attractive, but will have authentic scents added.
(Like I said, Randy and Sami: I hope we can still be friends. TJ and Rick--you too.
)
Russ