A few things I DON'T want...

I don't want a swimbait that I have to spend time tuning, inserting nail weights, etc...

I don't want a swimbait that's going to tear up/fall apart/become unusable after the first 5 fish.

I don't want a swimbait that I have to spend an hour re-rigging to get a halfway decent hookup ratio.

The fact that there are very few swimbaits available on the market that meet all these requirements (MS Slammer and the 3:16 lures come to mind) tells me there's plenty of room in the market for truely well-designed swimbaits.

There has been a lot of new sinking swimbaits recently, I want to see more floating/diving baits. Something that dives a little deeper than the Slammer and has a more realistic finish. Something like the old original Castaic hard bait that doesn't cost an arm and a leg.

One idea I've been thinking about recently is a bait that's kind of half way in between the current castaic hard-head soft-body trouts and the full wood baits like slammer and generic trout. The bait would have same realistic chubby sillouette as castaic trouts. The bait would be jointed in the middle. The front half would be completely wood much like the front half of the old original castaics. The back half would have wood for where the eyes for the joint and second treble hook attach, but otherwise be as much soft plastic as possible. So it's like joining the back half of the new castaic with the front half of the old castaic. There would have to be some wood in the back half for the joint eye and second hook (second hook is the whole point of all this mess) but not much. Hopefully no wood visible in the back half.

Or if someone would recreate an original wood castaic trout like bait and not charge $100 each for them that would be nice as well.

Good luck,

Nico