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John Crews spends most of his time at ICAST at the booth of the company he created 3 1/2 years ago, Missile Baits.
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He shows off a new color of one of his Missile lures ...
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... along with one of the new lures, the Baby D Stroyer.
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Crews can bend it like Ike ...
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... and he mean mugs Ish Monroe -- at least a picture of him. He claims he would also do it in person.
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We leave the Missile booth and pass by the SPRO lures he designed, the Little John series.
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He has a friendly reunion with Angelo Alorro of River2Sea.
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It looks like he's saying, "This lure is bigger than the fish I catch!"
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Crews is considering a future career as a model.
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He checks out a couple of the new Under Armour shirts ...
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... then strikes a pose with a friend.
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Unmask that man.
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Crews tangos with a mannequin.
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Glove. On.
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This is serious business.
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Michael Jackson? Is that you?
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Crews puts on the Stormr Fusion, the suit he wears in the rain.
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He likes it because the cuffs are completely sealed so he can stick his hand down in the livewell and he doesn't even get his wrist wet.
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New York angler Jim Root runs into Crews and tells him the Elites should have been on the St. Lawrence River three weeks ago rather than two weeks from now. "You'd have had to get 100 pounds to get a check!" said Root.
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Wait, who's that guy?
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The Stormr crew is testing out a top secret prototype on Crews -- intentionally blocking the camera's view.
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Crews meets Chad and Stephanie LaChance. Chad will be taking Colorado's Ryan Wood to the Costa Bassmaster High School National Championship presented by TNT Fireworks next week as his coach.
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Todd Hammill of Wired2Fish talks shop with Crews.
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It floats, he says.
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Crews holds this lithium battery butler-style. It weighs 30 pounds, much less than a standard battery.
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"These are all the batteries you need on your boat," said Crews. "Yes. Whoop, there it is. All you need."
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Chance meeting with Fletcher Shryock!
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Crews shows off the new Sunline Assassin line. "I've never felt any line that feels like this one," said Crews. "The coating reduces so much friction. It's crazy."
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Crews acted like he would video-bomb Dean Rojas, who was giving an interview. But he stayed to the side.
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Crews and the Sunline staff catch up after a while of not seeing each other.
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Morizo Shimizu stopped by the booth ...
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... and the two talk about Shimizu's travels.
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Then it's back to work for Crews. He talks for a minute with Neil Paul, who works with the host city of the 2015 Classic on Hartwell, then heads back to resume his duties in the Missile booth.
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