About

Four generations on the Cowlitz

 

We grew up on this water.

Four generations of Bunns on the Cowlitz River out of Kelso, Washington. Levi made the local paper in '57. Tom passed it down. Jeremy's grown kids out-fish him most days.

What we wanted

Every traditional spinner blade we ran behind a flasher fished the same way. Heavy. Predictable. Plowing through the water. Salmon get used to it.

We wanted a blade with its own action — wobble, spin, and whip — behind whatever flasher you were already running. The kind of unpredictable motion that triggers a reaction strike.

What we made

Hundreds of iterations later, the Tater Tot Stubby Blade. A self-rotating body — slanted leader channel, back-bend, offset rear body, perpendicular tail fin — that spins around your leader without a separate axis rod or clevis. Rigs like a soft spinner with your own beads, hooks, and hoochies. Patent-pending.

Tested on Buoy 10 fall Chinook, Cowlitz salmon and steelhead, Riffe silvers, springers. If a version didn't out-fish what we were already running, it didn't survive.

Version 521 is what we sell.

Where we make it

Every Tater Tot is built, finished, and packaged by hand in Kelso, Washington — same town Levi caught that 1957 steelhead. UV stickers, clear seal, ready to fish.

We're small by choice. No mass overseas runs. No big-box knockoffs. If you have a question about how to fish it, the person who designed it answers. So do the folks who've tested it for three years.

Thanks

This blade is better because of the people who fished it before anyone else did.

Tom Bunn · Ron Bakke · Dave Allred · Jack Bunn · Andrew Bunn · Kristen Bunn · Jacob Isaacson · Brayden Liebe · Tim Deaver · Dean Halver · Jacob Childers · Troy Welter · Connor Quintano · Justin Johnson and many more...

Thanks for the time on the water, the honest reports, and the patience with versions that didn't quite work yet.

— Jeremy Bunn, MuchWater Design