Filthyfishermen Bait Company
News Letter for July 2006

   Thank you all for your intrest in the Filthyfishermen Bait Company. It has been a successful start to a business that is trying to get off the ground. My name is Jeff Choi and I am the owner and founder of Filthyfishermen. I started this company on the intensions of having fun, teaching conservation, starting  casting for kids programs, and saving money on baits. To be a great captain you need a great first mate, and you can't go wrong when you look to the "Yuengling" Family. Somewhere in that tree you'll find a dirty apple named Matt Yuengling, and he will catch fish, and drink a lot of beer!
       I will get started by answering a question that everyone seems to ask me. How did I come up with "Filthyfishermen" as a name, to answer that question I have to go directly to the dirtiest lady I know, my boat (The Filthy Whore). She is a sound vessel, 12' in length, made out of light aluminum, fast and true, she's reliable and tough, shes the filthywhore . The name stuck with me as time past. Other anglers and the normals up at Lake Nockamixon began to know me as filthyfisherman. A couple years back, Yuengling and I toyed with the idea of starting a fishing company. At the time we both hated our job, and wondered how nice it would be to just fish or do something that involes fishing for a living.
      The bait industry makes a killing off anglers each year. Some of the bait they make catch fish, and rest catches us! Its all about testing things out for yourself, and finding what works best. It takes a lot of time spent on the water, and many cast. In the past 8 years of fishing, Yuengling and I have come up with many ways to catch fish. We have been through many different baits and colors, weeding out the ones the work and the ones that don't. We both agreed that the "Stick Bait" was the most productive and reliable bait that we used. It could be used practicaly during any season, time, place, and situation. We both spent a lot of money on stick baits each year, only to spend more the next year. That was until now. Now we make our own stick bait, It's called "The Big Stick 5.25" same sink rate as a senko with the flexibility of a yum dinger. 
     The Filthyfishermen fishing team has fished in a bunch of tournaments this year, and have a couple of good finishes. Yuengling has a couple first place finishes. You can garuntee that in each of those tournaments we had a Big Stick tied on and ready. Last tournament we fished up at Lake Nockamixon, I caught our kicker fish 3.91lbs Largemouth on my Big Stick in pumpkin color..
    We are surprised and glad to have so many people sign up for this news letter. This is the first of many news letters that we will be sending. I feed on the information that I recieve from everyone. That is how I make improvements and adjustments on the baits and the way this company works. In the next month I would like to concentrate on the field testers. I still need to get samples out there to be tested I know. Hopefully I can get it done soon. Log on the eastern PA fishing reports to stay up to date with fishing reports from the area. I post on there sometimes.

            There is a new movement being formed. Its called the Mighty Galena Crew, it's a couple of good guys that head out to Lake Galena once a week. Yuengling and I joined them on 7-18 during the hurricane that went through. It was a good time, other than the hurricane. Check it out.

Tight Lines ......................... Filthyfisherman