sorry we got the thread sidetracked, when we should have been talking about Tobin's great lure.
When I wrote my Estes flats photo essay, there was too much to talk about to include the experience of this one fish, but it was a hoot, and an illustration of the aggression and persistence fish attack this lure with.
I don't know if it was one fish or a pod, but my cast took a solid eat as soon as it hit the water. On the set attempt, my line went slack again, and I continued my dog-walking presentation. Right up by the boat, this big head came out of the water, pushing the lure in front of him with a miss - this time I stopped my retrieve dead, and the big head turned, lunged and broached again with a solid eat - both lure and fish were already closer than the bow of my drifting boat. In fact, the final eat was 3 feet in front of my dangling legs. Of course, by then, he knew all about me.
After the hook set, the fish easily took 50 yards in a straight run against my steadily increasing drag set. The distance he ran out gave me a lot of time to get my boat prepared for his return - pick up drift sock, pick up rudder, trolley to center so no loose line - make sure everything was clear for the guaranteed 2 trips around the boat. It was a good tiring 10-minute fight, and I had to pump to get him back to the boat.
When I staked out a few minutes later at sandy point, shot the measurement photo against my boat paint marks - 25"
About birthday suit, it looks more like a mullet than any other lure, and of course acts more like one, so it will take fish that inspect it closely before the eat.