The red/black ventilator is something else for those big Mississippi River backwaters pike. I'll carry 2 rods rigged with JB's spinner baits when I am snooping for bass in the backwaters and one is going to be red/black without fail. If I get a swing and miss from a bass or pike or any unknown variety, I set down whatever brought the strike and lay that red/black right in the same spot on the next cast. More often than not, it gets the fish.

Good looking baits...when I'm casting the shallows for pike, I always have two rods: one with a spinnerbait and the other with a Mepps Black Fury #3 or #4.

Here are a few of the colors of the ventilators I ordered from Tom. That orange/black is just a death sentence for northerns.

At the top of the pic are the 8 colors of spinner blades I ordered for making walleye in-lines. These are the #3 Indianas in the Hot Flash series. Occasionally I like to make up a custom number and these blades make the task a snap.

All of JB's painting is done right here in the state and the guy that gets it done is an ace at it. Nobody, and I do mean nobody, can coat a spinner or jig or a blade like this guy does.

If there are any crankbait trollers out there, JB makes a line of deep and shallow crankbaits geared for waldo and JB also has some stickbaits for doing the same that are great producers. I use the stick baits and the crankbaits on Lake Superior on occasion with super success.