It may have been the flying lure but the one that would glide away from you on slack line worked for me a couple of times in getting under docks.

Before you bash Roland too much for promoting a sponsor just remember that today you same guys probably have paid for $20 cranks baits,$100 glide baits,$300 reels,and oh yeah $70,000 bass boats. And by the way I am not a big fan of Roland but he does deserve some respect. Just my opinion.

So Roland has been a closet metallurgist in his spare time? ...and a production engineer? LMAO! I would imagine that the weights we use are NOT a unique-to-fishing tungsten formulation; the application just isn't that critical. We need something dense and hard, which can be satisfied by many formulas. Which exact one gets used by each supplier is likely a cost/availability matter. A unique "metallurgical formula" for such a tiny volume production of material would drive the price up to be like space shuttle parts. Design? Aren't they just each supplier's rendition of a bullet weigh shape in general? Are we concerned with aerodynamics for Mach 2 performance, or maybe an extreme temperature range? Is there a specific shape that only works if the material is tungsten? The examples revealing the ridiculousness of the stated claims can go on and on.

Maybe Roland thought of looking for a higher density material, and discovered by talking with others that the answer to that was "something made of tungsten" is what you want. I don't know either way, but I would find it very very far-fetched and odd that he "drove" the technology.

How many of you actually believe an angler designed a rod? (Design = choose actual materials, resin, wall thickness, arbor size & taper, lamination pressure, etc.) Anglers might say "I want a rod that bends like blah blah" and then they try what the supplier brings them. They'll try that prototype and say something like "it needs a little more power" or "it needs to bend more into the backbone" etc.....and then the supplier updates the design and delivers yet another prototype for testing. In general, anglers TEST; they are not designers, nor production engineers.

I'm sure he's a nice guy but what a fiber.

I did too, they caught em reel good.

Have to admit, I was pretty shocked when he opened the COOLER for that fish. Kinda sad........ different time.

Got a pack of Flying Lures in the garage.

I give Roland all of the respect he deserves. I can't watch his fishing shows though. He's selling something from the very second the camera starts rolling. Boat cleaner, lip balm, energy shots, lures, fishing line, etc., etc. Every pro fisherman on camera is a salesman. He's just the most flagrant.

He is a marketing guru, why hate on successful people. fishing probably would not be what it is today without guys like him. I can relate him to pioneers like Arnold palmer in golf, tea, penzoil oil, The Golf Channel oh , and did I mention the umbrella, ...............way beyond their times. Its called CAPITALISM, sadly a dying thing in America.

Roland is the original GOAT. Also I hope I catch a fish that won�t fit in my livewell lol!!! Thanks for posting Fouz

What about Dance's talking jig and Carolina weights? They would start clicking when they got wet and had a small replaceable battery. My mom bought me some for Christmas once, I respectfully thanked her but thought they were ridiculous. I never tied the Carolina weights on but the jigs actually looked pretty good. I put them in my jig box, a black and blue and black and chartreuse. I caught a few fish on them, but the thing I remember most was them clicking while laying on the front deck of the boat in the rain lol.

Fortunately I found one hung on a stump on Toledo Bend.I had intended to buy some.I used it and tossed it in the garbage where it belonged.Pure junk.And don't forget the Screw Worm he was hawking too.

Years ago, I ordered some "completely weedless" lures. I can't remember who they were made by. They were 3/4" long, football shaped, all metal and have a spring loaded hook in them. I don't know what possessed me to buy two of them. I never even tied one on my line.

Very broad statement. Plenty of anglers are engineers, designers, chemists, and every single other profession in the world. A lot of the equipment we use today was created by really creative and smart people that love to fish. We are lucky for that...

Oh and fouzman said that Mark Pack created tungsten, not Roland.