This page has been created to answer that age old question...does size really matter?

Throughout the years, it has been often stated (and very much overstated) that trout will only hit lures up to a certain size. We've even heard that some of our lures are "too big for any fish to ever go after", and more comments of the like. Due in part to the size of certain egos and other factors, this has gone fairly unquestioned. Until Now. Us here at B&L, plus many of our good friends, have sought out to disprove this old myth.

Anyone can tell their stories of how many fish they caught on a certain lure, but that isn't nearly enough to prove our point. We would much rather show you the fish that our lures are catching, like on the Braggin' Rights Page, than talk about them.

Of course for us, that isn't nearly enough. As always, we want to take it a step farther and show everyone more than just pictures of nice fish. That is where this page comes in. A good friend of ours, Mark Holt, came in one day with this tape of him and some friends fishing. While there were some great catches caught on that tape, the most intriguing part of the film was the cleaning of the fish at the end.

Inside one trout they opened up was....another trout! While you, being the experienced angler that you are, probably already knew that trout like to eat other trout, it's amazing how many people just don't believe that. Well for those of you who would be included in that group, you should check out this nice little video. It shows Mark & co. cutting open one trout to find yet another trout. And we aren't talking about some monster of a trout feeding on a little baby. This is a fair-sized, but not huge, trout that ate a fish half the size of his own body. As you can see, the stomach literally burst when they tried to cut it open, and it was still feeding!

But that's not all... Just a few fish later brought us another little gem. Inside a 25" trout was a 12" mullet. I trust you can do the math yourself and realize that the mullet was roughly half the size of the trout.

This goes back to what we said earlier about people saying some of our lures our too big. Although it hasn't been around for a long time, the Super Corky Devil has already drawn its fair share of criticism pertaining to its size. The Super Devil, which measures about to about 6 1/2", is only half the size of that mullet. Rather than just throw numbers at you I decided to play around with the picture a little. In this picture, I took a shot of our Super Devil, scaled it down to match the rest of the picture, and layered it on top of the picture. Look for yourself.

The Devil in the picture is scaled down almost exactly to the right ratio. Check it yourself if you want: the mullet is 12" and the Devil is ~6 1/2".

Simply said, if a 25" trout can eat that big of a mullet, our biggest lures should just be a little snack.

Oh, and just a little side note. This was filmed during the winter, when the "experts" say we are supposed to downsize our lures.