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Crank It Up! : Berkley Fishing's Comprehensive Dredger
Deep diving crankbaits of recent vintage have taken on a new profile as is witnessed by our L.O.U.S. (lures of unusual size) series. Berkley bucks that trend and goes in the opposite direction with a pint sized crankbait they've engineered to reach depths in excess of twenty five feet!
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A Jig Worth More Than Just Flipping Out Over
Pre-ICAST 2017, social media was a-buzz with Mike Iaconelli supposedly flipping out for some mysterious reason. We now know the reveal was Missile Jigs's new Ike's Flip Out Jig. We managed to get our hands on some post-ICAST and have been fishing them off and on ever since. Here's a closer look at this new jig. |
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Stop, Wait a Minute.. Yes, that's Megabass's Funky Flipper
The Funky Flipper measures just over two inches in length but
this bait's story begins with its over all teardrop shape that really resembles
the vintage Griffon that's been sitting within a Plano box baking in the sun for
several hours causing it to balloon up from the inside... |
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Bull Shad Swimbaits Enters the Rat Race
Like an infestation that circles around every three or four years, rat style baits seem to come back into vogue with good frequency. Bull Shad Swimbaits has made their mark with kind of nondescript, really plain, almost beat up looking baits that mimic shad, sunfish, herring and the like. Late last year, they jumped into the rat race too. We spent some time with the Bull Rat and the following is our review!
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Reaction
Innovation's New One Two Shiver Punch
The Shiver Shot is just over three and a half inches long soft plastic bait made in the general shape of a baitfish. The main body and head of the bait resemble the company's Skinny Dipper only with a flat, dolphin like spit tail rather than a paddletail.
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What the Enthusiast? Keitech's Easy Shaker Worm
Keitech snuck onto the scene several years ago with their Swing Impact series of paddletail baits. One week, these baits were no where to be seen, and in no time, they became the paddletail of choice - especially at the height of the Bama-rig craze. But the company makes more than just soft bodied swimbaits... |
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From Crawler to Star, Cranking it Up with Spro's RkCrawler 55
Mike McClelland is well known as a jerkbait fisherman as is evidenced by the many variants of his McStick baits by Spro. But like many of us, he grew up throwing an old fashioned mid-depth running crankbait banging it against the bottom in about ten to twelve (10-12) feet of water searching for bass. A few years ago, McClelland convinced the folks at Spro to help him revive this genre of bait... |
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New Savage Gear 3D Minnow Wobbles
for Walleye
Here at TT we joke about all the horrors that the Savage Gear 3D scanner
has been subjected to as the company continues to crank out bait after bait
based on scans of actual prey. The latest in the never-ending lineup of baits
based on three dimensional scanning is a minnow style diving crankbait that is
created specifically to target Walleye. |
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The Original Vision for Yuki Ito's RipBait : The Megabass Ito Shiner
A couple of years ago, the
company unveiled a hard plastic version of a hand carved jerkbait Yuki Ito had in his personal tackle box. This forgotten bait actually served as the inspiration for the OneTen and now Megabass has done their best to replicate that bait as a production lure. Here now is our look at Megabass's Ito Shiner. |
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A New Specialty Bait from Roboworm : The Ned Worm
Soft plastic stick baits are in the midst of a revival thanks to the popularization of two weighting strategies to fish these baits. The strategies aren't really new per se, but have gained notoriety over the last few years. The most recent of these strategies involves fishing the stick baits on a specialized, mushroom shaped jig head. Yes, we are talking about the Ned Rig...
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Taking Aim at the Ubiquitous Stick Bait, Missile Bait's New The 48 Worm
Inconspicuously missing from the Missle Bait's
arsenal has been that do-nothing soft plastic stick bait so pervasive in other
brands. That changed this past year at ICAST when Missile Jigs introduced their interpretation of this bait, The 48. Let's see how this bait stacks up.
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Crank It Up: Megabass Eccentric X-Dad Crankbait
Several years ago, before their STW initiative took over a good part of the company's focus, Megabass debuted a funky little crankbait designed to mimic a crayfish. It is an eccentric little bait that only a company like Megabass can pull off. Here is our look at Megabass's X-Dad crankbait.
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Spro's Mike McClelland McStick 95 Rip Bait
McClelland is a jerk bait
fanatic so you know any bait with his name on it has to perform. Today, we take
a look at a jerkbait built with a slightly smaller profile than usual and designed to be effective in highly pressured waters. Here's our take on Spro's Mike McClelland McStick 95.
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Ready for Battle : Damiki's Knock Out
Where the Monster Miki was long, thin, and crazy with appendages, Damiki's Knock Out is a much chunkier piece of soft plastic with four arms, claws, antennae and ears? It's body is similar to a beaver style bait, but the rest of it is all creature.
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Reaction Innovation's New Pocket Rocket
Reaction Innovations, a company known just as much for their provocative packaging, and bait and color names, as well as their actual product has a new plastic worm made for those who like to get a little wacky with their rigging. Introducing
the Reaction Innovations new Pocket Rocket soft plastic worm. |
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Seaspin USA's Intriguing Little Geko Jig
Seaspin USA's Geko
Jig is available with either a ball head or a bullet head configuration. The
skirts are a mix of living rubber and silicone depending on the color pattern
you choose, but the intriguing aspect of this jig is the hook is not molded
through the weighted head.
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Better Late Than Never : Lucky Craft's Pointer Minnow
As popular and effective a jerk/rip bait as the Vision OneTen is, one bait suspends shoulder to shoulder with that bait on the rod tips of the TackleTour Editorial Staff. That bait is Lucky Craft's Pointer Minnow. This is the first jerkbait I had ever seen Zander tie on, toss out, and rip back. In fact, he had never handled a Vision OneTen until I gave him one back in 2005...
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Creature Fever : Strike King's Rage Twin Tail Menace Grub
With today's seemingly unlimited choices in specialized plastic baits, one old staple seems to have fallen by the wayside. How many of you still fish the old staple single or double tail grubs? Maybe they've fallen out of popular discussion because there's really not much to them. Well, Strike King introduced a new interpretation a little while back and we're here to take a closer look. |
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Spro's New Dean Rojas Bronzeye Spit Shad
Back in 2013, we reviewed a new bait from Spro representing yet another variation on the popular hollow bodied frog. It was their Bronzeye Shad 65 - a bait that's super easy to walk.
Today, we take a look at a variation in that same bait with the incorporation of a cupped mouth. Introducing our look at the Spro, Dean Rojas Bronzeye Spit Shad 60. |
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OSPs Transformational Yamato Walking Bait
OSP is a manufacturer that has skirted the line of popular mainstream baits, but those who pay attention know about their quality, and sometimes hard to get baits like the
Blitz, Rudra, and Asura. Today, we take a look at OSP's entry into our TWB themed week with the dual personality Yamato.
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A Finesse Walker : ima's Skimmer
When we think of topwater walking baits, the prototype that comes to mind is Heddon's Zara Spook, a four and a half inch (4.5") bait shaped like a cigar. Bait manufacturing company, ima's interpretation of this genre is much more slender
and in many respects the Skimmer is literally a stick bait. |
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Return of the Vixen by Reaction Innovations
For years, Reaction Innovation's Vixen topwater
walking bait was coveted for its easy walking, far casting, fish catching
ability. But several years ago, for some unexplained reason, it disappeared from
store shelves and was out of production. Then, a couple years ago, like Merle
Dixon, the Vixen resurrected. |
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The Walking
Baits: Selecting the Right Rod, Reel, and Line for Your Walker Arsenal
While having the right bait is certainly a key part of the battle
selecting the right reel, rod and line can also make it easier to impart that zig-zag action that is essential to draw those explosive
strikes. |
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The Walking Baits: Top 5 Walk-The-Dog Picks
There are a lot of topwater hardbait
options, poppers, chuggers, propbaits, twitch baits, wakebaits, and walkers.
Even if you just focus on topwater walk-the-dog hardbaits there are over fifty
different choices alone! There are lot of good choices and today we pick our top
five most productive topwater walkers that we utilize in the majority of our
topwater reel and rod field tests. |
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A Diamante in the Rough? Megabass's Latest STW Achievement
In January, we shared with you the first official bait from Megabass's Support to Win (STW) initiative, the S-Crank. Today, we take a look at another bait from this program that the company's prostaff was very adamant about during our factory tour back in 2013. It's taken that long for this bait to make its way to market, but here now is our look at Megabass of America's Dog-X Diamante topwater bait.
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Sometimes Smaller Really is
Better: The Gantarel Jr. Swimbait
To expand on their original bait the company has now introduced two new
versions, the larger and appropriately named Gigantarel and downsized Gantarel
Jr. swimbaits. We take a look at both new baits with a focus on the smallest
bait in the series to see if this “gill” really has a place in the tackle box. |
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Squeak, Squawk, Clank - Picasso's Din-R-Bell
In an earlier review, we took a look at Picasso's Buzz Saw double bladed buzzbait. The product scored very well and I had good success with it, but in the words of
wise Yoda, there is another. Picasso double dips their double bladed buzzsaw
offering with a second product built to cause a little more commotion. |
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Doomsday Tackle Co's Not So Grim Reaper 3.2
There are countless manufacturers in the fishing tackle industry selling soft plastic baits. Many of these baits are barely distinguishable from one another, many more are unique. One bait profile that continues to be reinvented is the craw-creature trailer style baits. One company, new to us, debuted their take on this staple early in 2016. Here now is our take on Doomsday Tackle's Reaper trailer bait. |
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Creature Fever : Big Bite Bait's Russ Lane Real Deal Craw
A couple years ago, Elite Series Pro Russ Lane
showed me a bait he was working on for Big Bite Baits that kind of skirts the
line between ultra-realistic and not. We had to keep it under wraps until they
were ready to bring it out, and somehow in the interim we missed the
announcement. Well, better late than never. Here now is our look at Big Bite
Bait's Russ Lane Real Deal Craw. |
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A Mid-Depth Crank with Built In Erratic
Behavior : Spro's Little John Baby DD
Several years ago, Zander took it upon himself to dissect a new, up and coming bait by Spro, the Little John DD. It's a deep diving crank designed to reach depths of up to twenty feet (20'). A few years after the successful introduction of that bait, the designers at Spro,
together with John Crews himself went to work on a smaller, shallower running
version of this same bait - the subject of today's review. |
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The KJ Flat Silent - But Lethal Crank from Lucky Craft
One of the best search baits
you can use is a crank, so to have a crank that excels in these situations is
something every bass angler needs. BASS Elite Series angler, Kelly Jordan
recognizes this need and together with Lucky Craft, designed a bait for just
this situation. Here's our look at the KJ Flat Silent Crankbait by Lucky Craft.
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Going Big with Missile Baits's Tomahawk 8.75
Before there were big swimbaits, there was the big, soft plastic worm. Anglers looking to up their weights often relied upon these larger worms as a way to cull through the smaller, feistier fish and entice the bigger ones to bite. Missile Baits has a product to help you lock on target for those bigger bites. It is their Tomahawk, an eight and three quarter inch (8.75") twin tail worm. |
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A Bait that Defies Categorization : Megabass of America's Vatalion
Swimbaits, crankbaits,
jerkbaits, topwater... every now and then you come across a bait that defies
categorization. The first thing I thought when I laid eyes on Megabass of
America's new Vatalion was "oh cool, Megabass has finally come out with a
panfish shaped glide bait." It's a two piece, hard bodied bait in the shape of a
bluegill so naturally, this is what it is, right? Nope.
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A Frog by Any Other Name Would Fight as Hard
It's a pretty well known fact that the favorite
bait of BASS Elite Series angler Dean Rojas is the frog. Case in point? With no
less than six (6) topwater frog baits to his name you can bet a good percentage
of the time when asked, "Hey Dean, what did you catch them on?" that the answer
will be "a frog!"
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BullShad Swimbaits Extends Their Lineup : The BullGill
With everything from a new rat
to herring to a wake bait and more, we have a lot of catching up to do with BullShad Swimbaits and today we start that journey with a look at a bait that takes the company's namesake and changes it up oh so naturally. Here's out look at BullShad Swimbat's BullGill.
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A Prop Bait Not for Spying but Topwater! The X-Plose Topwater by Megabass
Topwater fishing is considered
by many, the most exciting way to catch a fish of any species. It is certainly
one of my favorite ways to catch a fish. The myriad of different baits to help
you accomplish this seemingly straight forward goal can be overwhelming. Do you
choose a popper, walker, buzzer, crawler, waker, deadstick bait or combination
thereof? |
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Product Reviewed |
Date Posted |
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SpotSticker Baits's Puts the Q in Jig |
8/2/17 |
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Envisioning Megabass as Your Plus One |
7/2/17 |
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Strike King : A Chunk Style Trailer Bait that is All the Rage |
6/11/17 |
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Chuck and Cover with Megabass of America's Grenade |
6/11/17 |
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The Original TroutGlider - The Glide Bait for Millennials
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5/29/17 |
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The Difficult to Rip Spro McStick 110 |
5/22/17 |
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Double the Blades, Double the Buzz? Picasso's BuzzSaw Buzzbait! |
5/11/17 |
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Big Bite's Latest Addition to Their Squad : The Suicide Shad |
5/3/17 |
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Molix's 3 Dimensional Lover Spinnerbait Designed by Mike Iaconelli |
4/30/17 |
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Seaspin USA Enters the Market with the Bruko, a Soft Plastic Stick Bait |
4/25/17 |
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Megabass's MagDraft Soft Bodied Swimbait |
4/23/17 |
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Crank It Up : Spro's John Crews Little John 50 |
4/16/17 |
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Rapala's Shadow Rap Sequel - the Shad |
4/8/17 |
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What Makes Molix's SS Shad a Special Swimmer? |
3/25/17 |
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Respect YoDaddy, Big Bite Bait's Surprising Little Creature Bait |
3/23/17 |
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Crank It Up! : Storm's Arashi Squarebill Crank |
3/17/17 |
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An Easier to Fish Schooling Bait -
The PDL Rig |
3/12/17 |
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Creature Fever : Huddleston's Huddlebug |
3/8/17 |
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A Better Jig? NuTech's
Lures are Designed Not to Hang Up |
2/8/17 |
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Looking Lively! Live Target's
Threadfin Shad Swimbait |
1/22/17 |
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Fishing Jigz with the Z Man
BatwingZ Trailers |
1/11/17 |
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Stay On Top With Storm's Arashi
Top Walker |
11/2/16 |
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Gear Up With the 3D Shine Glide From Savage Gear |
10/9/16 |
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Topwater Action with the Live
Target Sunfish |
9/11/16 |
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Does One Plus
One Equal More than Two? Meet the Lunkerhunt "Link" |
7/6/16 |
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Now that is
Savage, Duck is on the Menu for Bass and Pike |
5/10/16 |
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The Most
Realistic Rat Yet? A First Look at Savage Gear's 3D Rat |
5/9/16 |
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Rapala's 2016 BASSMASTER Classic Introductions |
3/4/16 |
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Imitate Big Forage with the Damiki
Gizzard Shad |
2/7/16 |
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Evergreen International's Call to the Amazon |
2/3/16 |
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Tie One On, Toss It Out and S-Crank It Up! |
1/20/16 |
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Rapping in the Shadows with Rapala |
1/13/16 |
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Evergreen International's Pencil Popper - the Shower Blows |
1/10/15 |
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Duo Realis Joins the L.O.U.S. Movement |
1/3/15 |
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6th Sense Crushing it in the DD Category |
12/26/15 |
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Project Prometheus Catches
Fire with the DUO Onimasu Swimbait |
12/6/15 |
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Taking a Walk with Spro's Aruku Shad |
11/17/15 |
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Jackall’s
Gantarel Effectively Mimics Bluegill and Panfish |
11/11/15 |
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Kickin'
and Swimmin' With the Shockwave From Missile Baits |
10/25/15 |
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Is the Smaller Vibration X Worthy of Its "Jr." Title? |
10/21/15 |
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Bring
Up the Lunkers With Gan Craft's S-Caper Topwater |
10/15/15 |
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Syncing Up with the Original : Bill Lewis's Rat-L-Trap |
10/8/15 |
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Shake, Rattle, and Shimmy with Lucky Craft's RTO-Crank |
9/27/15 |
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Creating a RUCKUS With Fresh New Designs, River2Sea |
9/1/15 |
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Jackall Prepares to
Launch New Hard and Softbaits at ICAST 2015 |
7/9/15 |
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6th Sense's Snatch X/FRS Lipless Crank |
6/10/15 |
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Swimming Heads : Strike King's Red Eye Shad |
5/27/15 |
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It's Name Is... Mini-Me, by S.O.B. & SpotstickerBaits |
5/16/15 |
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Cashing in on the Pencil Popper with
"The One" from Paycheck Baits |
4/19/15 |
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Delta Wood Bombers Enters the Bait Frey with Sinister |
4/16/15 |
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Hunting
for a Big Bite with the Lunkerhunt Swim Bento |
4/8/15 |
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ProducTTpreview: The Highly
Configurable DRT Klash Swimbait |
4/5/15 |
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Get
Your Bass Fix With DUO's Realis Vibration 68 G-Fix Crankbaits |
3/10/15 |
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Strike King Hits the TT Jackpot with their 10XD Crank! |
1/18/15 |
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Topwater Action with the Multi-Talented Jackall Binksy |
1/14/15 |
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Acting on a Wild Hunch with Evergreen International |
1/4/15 |
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The L-O-U-S SKT Magnum from Lucky Craft |
12/25/14 |
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Wintertime Bass Fishing with the Live Target Crappie
Lipless Cranks |
11/23/14 |
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Move
More Water with the PR-Labs Venom |
10/29/14 |
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Imperfectly
Perfect, the Little Creeper All American Sunfish |
10/22/14 |
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Power
Up With Gary Yamamoto Chikara Crankbaits |
9/30/14 |
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Goin' for a Walk with the Jackall Iobee
Frog |
9/2/14 |
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Creature Fever: Gettin' Crazy With the Yamamoto PsychoDad! |
5/11/14 |
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It's
What's on the Inside That Counts: The BX Swimmer From Rapala |
4/28/14 |
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Small in Size, Big in Stature, Bull Shad Swimbats' New Balsa Bull! |
4/23/14 |
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Glide Week : Art in Action, the Roman Made Mother |
4/13/14 |
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Glide Week : The Perfect Sliding Storm |
4/10/14 |
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Glide Week : Shhh... Don't Tell Anyone But Have You... |
4/9/14 |
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Glide Week : ABT Lures Squeezes In With the Suicide |
4/8/14 |
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Glide Week : The Lumbering Limberlamber |
4/7/14 |
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Glide Week : Riding the S-Wave! |
4/6/14 |
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Jackall takes aim at Spybaiting with the
iProp 75 |
2/22/14 |
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Beyond
Spybaiting: DUO Realis Jerkbait 100SP |
2/12/14 |
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Thru and Thru, Savage Gear's New Trout Inspires Confidence |
1/19/14 |
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Silent
but Deadly: The Molix SB Crank 55 Silent |
12/23/13 |
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The Easy Cranking, Deep Diving Megabass Deep Six |
2/2/14 |
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FW Installment #4 : A Frog by Any Other Color is Still a Frog |
9/18/13 |
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FW Installment #3 : What's a Shrog? |
9/15/13 |
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FW Installment #2 : Twitch, Pop, n Lockin' Frogs |
9/9/13 |
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Frog Week (FW) Installment #1 : Standard Designs with a Twist |
9/8/13 |
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LureFans USA Breathing New Life into Saturated Market |
7/8/13 |
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Creature Fever: The Zoom Super
Hog Is A New Take On An Old Favorite |
6/21/13 |
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Careful, It Might Bite You, Evergreen's One's Bug |
4/27/13 |
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Creature Fever : It Really Is "Da-Bomb"! |
5/27/13 |
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Creating a Buzz with the Big Bite Baits Buzzing Warmouth |
5/5/13 |
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Roman Made's Trick to Get Our Enthusiast Meter Moving |
5/12/13 |
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This Roboworm is PHAT! |
5/1/13 |
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Shallow
Crankin' With the ABT X-2 Square Bill |
4/11/13 |
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Simple
yet Deadly Effective, the Savage Gear Sandeel |
3/31/13 |
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Product Insight: Megabass's Blueprint of Success - The Vision OneTen |
3/11/13 |
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ProducTTPreview :
Got'Em Coach Real Gillz Swimbaits Bring the Detail to Design |
3/13/13 |
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Creature Fever: Getting serious with the Power Team Diesel
Craw |
2/6/13 |
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Double Trouble: River2Sea Twin Vibe 65 |
1/20/13 |
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Creature Fever: Causing Havoc with the Berkley Hawk Hawg |
1/9/13 |
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Creature Fever: One Strong Crawfish, the Z-Man Flappin Crawz |
12/4/12 |
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Megabass Does it Again with the Vision OneTen FX and More for 2013 |
11/26/12 |
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Roman Made Prepares to Introduce New Patterns
Designed Specifically for the US Market |
11/28/12 |
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Zerek’s
Sabre Dance Jerkbait Cuts through the Water and Price Barriers |
11/7/12 |
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Creature Fever : D&M’s
Flippin Craw, Power and Finesse? |
10/7/12 |
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Creature Fever : Getting Sweet and Kinky with Reaction Innovations |
9/30/12 |
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Creature Fever : Shhhh.. Can You Keep a Secret? |
9/26/12 |
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The
“Prologue” to this Worm’s Story Starts with Choices |
9/23/12 |
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Kickin' It with Evergreen's Frog Bait |
8/26/12 |
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Creature Fever: The Yamamoto Hula
Swimmer is a short skirted enticer! |
8/22/12 |
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Creature Feature : The Alien Meets Doctor Octopus! |
1/19/14 |
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Biggie, Biggie, Biggie,
Your Lures Hook Me… |
8/8/12 |
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Amazon Certified : KLures Peacock Ripper! |
8/6/12 |
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Son of a Mother, the Roman Made
Negotiator Swimbait |
6/6/12 |
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Creature Feature : Getting Squirrely With Big Bite Baits |
5/25/12 |
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ProducTTPreview : Robo's 4.25 Robo Minnow & a Quantum Sneak Peak |
5/2/12 |
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Ko-Man-Chi’s
Serves up a Second Generation Soft Wire Spinnerbait, the Platinum Composite |
4/29/12 |
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Creature Fever:
Wave Worms Tiki Stick Goes Pro and Gets Heavier and Softer |
4/15/12 |
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What the Stubby?!? : 22nd Century's Bulkier TripleTrout |
2/26/12 |
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Evolve Releases an
Assortment of New Baits |
2/15/12 |
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Fishing the Perfect Storm? Use the Right Tackle |
2/5/11 |
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Fishing the Perfect Storm? Don't Forget Your Umbrella - Rig |
1/31/12 |
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Cute and Deadly,
the BBZ-1 Baby Shad Imitates Baitfish |
1/14/12 |
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Creature Fever:
The Death Spiral of the Power Tackle Lateral Perch |
1/3/12 |
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The ABT Banshee Screams for Attention |
12/14/11 |
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Advantage
Spinnerbaits offers a “flashy” alternative |
12/3/11 |
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"A-Wadda" New Colors and Configurations from TnT Baits |
11/20/11 |
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Dad, Jr., +1 ... New Baits from Megabass |
11/16/11 |
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What the..
Finessing Peacocks? Yes, with the Caribe Jig |
11/5/11 |
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Fortifying the Arsenal : Bass Patrol's New Color Options |
10/26/11 |
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What the... Finesse Jigs? : Damiki's TG Tungsten Micro Jig |
10/25/11 |
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Man It's a Hot One, Like Nine Inches : Rago Bait's Smoothie |
10/9/11 |
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The
CL8 Bluegill & Crappie are More than Just a Swimbait for the Spawn |
10/2/11 |
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Jig, Wobble, and Roll with the Jigwobbler |
9/25/11 |
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The Elusive 22nd Century Bluegill Bait |
9/12/11 |
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Kickin' It With Tylure's Sunfish |
9/3/11 |
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"It's a Beautiful ..." Bait : Mattlure's U2 |
8/27/11 |
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Snack Time Anyone? JSJ's Snack Size Gill |
8/18/11 |
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Let the Revolution Begin : An Upgraded, Rebranded Spinnerbait by RMD |
8/14/11 |
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The Fix is In : Lucky Craft's Real California Supreme 200 - Round 2 |
6/24/11 |
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Fish Quietly and Throw a Big Stik |
6/12/11 |
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River2Sea's
Dahlberg Diver Frog Kicks Bass |
6/5/11 |
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Putting the Screws to Pressured Fish : GanCraft's Screw Bait |
6/1/11 |
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One Fisherman's Trash is Another's Hot New Bait |
5/18/11 |
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ABT Introduces
“Next Generation” Banshee Swimbait |
5/17/11 |
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Never Judge a Book
by its Cover, the unassuming Jackall Crosstail Shad
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4/24/11 |
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TackleTrends from Japan : Subsurface Prop Baits |
4/12/11 |
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WTF!! A Big Bait Side Dish : BaitSmith's 5" Shad |
4/11/11 |
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Huddleston Continues to Innovate : The Weedless Trout |
3/17/11 |
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Mattlures Does It Again, This Time For Tournament Anglers |
3/14/11 |
|
Decoy Swimbait's HydraTail : Size Just Right - To Be Eaten! |
2/22/11 |
|
New Pro-Designed Berkley HAVOC Baits
debut at the Bassmaster Classic |
2/17/11 |
|
Just what the Doctor Ordered, flexible spinnerbaits from Ko-Man-Chi |
2/16/11 |
|
What the Finesse : A "Weightless" Jig? |
2/13/11 |
|
Rago and Velvick's Winning Combination : The BV3D |
1/10/11 |
|
What Do You Get When You Cross a Zara Spook and a Pop-R? |
12/26/10 |
|
Peacock Bass
Fishing with the Legendary Luhr Jensen Big Game Woodchopper & Amazon Ripper |
12/12/10 |
|
Daiwa’s
take on the Premium Saltwater Rubber Jig, the Daiwa Conch |
12/5/10 |
|
The Basstar Big
Mac, two Spintech Trebles and Special Sauce |
9/26/09 |
|
Strike King's Rage Toad brings the Fury |
9/11/10 |
|
Make off like
a Bandit with a bounty of strikes |
8/29/10 |
|
So Unrefined It's Art : Triton Mike's Bull Shad |
8/22/10 |
|
ICAST Preview : Rapala's New Offerings for 2010/11 |
7/1/10 |
|
ICAST Preview: I'll take one order of the "Big Mac" please |
6/30/10 |
|
Dress Your Baits For Success with the Punch Skirt by Paycheck Baits |
6/23/10 |
|
TackleTour's 2010 Spinnerbait Shootout! |
5/15/10 |
|
Sebile Creates Some New Magic With Its Soft Swimmer |
5/9/10 |
|
Spro’s Little John
MD is one mean little crankbait |
4/25/10 |
|
Attack both Fresh
and Saltwater Species with the Slayer Swim Jig from Warbaits |
3/24/10 |
|
Move, Slide, Stop ... Slammer Time! |
3/09/10 |
|
A Better Tail, the
Strike Pro Flex Crawfish |
3/07/10 |
|
PRODUCTTPREVIEW : Italian Company Molix Joins the Bait Craze |
1/25/10 |
|
ProducTTpreview: Owner Breaks into Soft Plastics and Debuts New Hooks |
1/25/10 |
|
PRODUCTTPREVIEW: Berkley 2010 Classic Baits |
1/21/10 |
|
Year of the Crank Bait Review : Custom Lures Unlimited Ikon/Ikon M2 |
1/1/10 |
|
The Leader of Rago's Rat Pack : The Original Generic Rat |
12/22/09 |
|
Get
Real, Koppers Live-Target Smallmouth Cranks |
12/21/09 |
|
Year of the Crank Bait Review : Megabass Z Crank |
11/20/09 |
|
Year of the Crank Bait Review: O.S.P.'s HPF Crank |
11/12/09 |
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Presenting TackleTour's Deep Diving Crankbait Shootout! |
11/08/09 |
|
PRODUCTTPREVIEW : Meet
the shrunken down Spro BBZ-1 Jr. |
11/5/09 |
|
In The Mood ... For Jigs, 2009 Jig Roundup |
11/1/09 |
|
Bass Jam '09 Preview : What's Cookin' with Rago Baits |
10/29/09 |
|
An "easy" choice to fish, the Roboworm EZ Shad |
10/22/09 |
|
Year of the Crank Bait Review: Rapala's Clackin' Rap |
10/20/09 |
|
Wake Up Shallow Water Bass With ima Japan's Shaker |
10/9/09 |
|
It's Not Just About Rods For Upstart Damiki |
10/9/09 |
|
Mythical Creatures, Legendary Baits : The Return of Nezumma |
10/08/09 |
|
Raising the Bar Once Again : Mattlures Hard Bait Bass Series |
9/30/09 |
|
Still Not Sold on Big Baits? How About a Hybrid? : Deps Highsider |
9/28/09 |
|
Sometimes, You Just Have To Go Small : TyLure's Kicker Shad |
9/27/09 |
|
Shimano Lucanus Jigs: Deadly and Just Plain Fun to Fish |
8/27/09 |
|
Year of the Crank Bait Review: Rapala's DT Flat 9 |
7/05/09 |
|
PRODUCTTPREVIEW : The Punch Skirt by Paycheck Baits |
7/03/09 |
|
Concealed weapons courtesy
of the CL8 Bait 9” Swimbait |
6/7/09 |
|
What's a Buzz with Reaction Innovations : Introducing the
Squeaky Dolphin |
6/03/09 |
|
Can O.S.P.'s Blitz Sack the Competition? |
5/27/09 |
|
Junk Food for a Quality Limit: JSJ's Snack Sized Trout |
5/06/09 |
|
Unfinished Business:
Our Soft Bodied Swimbait Tackle Drop |
4/22/09 |
|
What happens when a Swimbait
and a prop bait
get together, meet the Basstar Proprunner |
4/19/09 |
|
A.C. Plugs
Modernizes the AC Minnow |
4/12/09 |
|
Falcon Lure’s Big Eyez Paddletail Swims True |
4/5/09 |
|
The Evolution of a Big, Hard Bodied Bait: 3:16 Lure Company's Real Deal |
3/16/09 |
|
The Castaic Catch 22
Swimbait offers guaranteed durability, and it catches fish too |
3/11/09 |
|
PRODUCTTPREVIEW : Nate's Baits |
2/25/09 |
|
Mattlures Cranks It Up With Their Latest Masterpiece: Their Hard Bluegill Series of Baits. |
2/11/09 |
|
A Tale of Two Baits, Bettencourt Baits' RealFish Shad & Real Snake |
2/04/09 |
|
A
Smaller Pointer from Lucky Craft Targets Both Bass and Trout |
1/29/09 |
|
Taking Aim with D&M Custom Baits' Sniper Spinnerbait |
1/27/09 |
|
The Return of Rago Baits |
1/11/09 |
|
PRODUCTTPREVIEW:
Berkley's 2009 Bassmaster Classic Baits |
1/7/09 |
|
PRODUCTTPREVIEW : Gann's Performance Tackle |
12/11/08 |
|
Match the Hatch with the Koppers LiveTarget Golden Shiner |
11/5/08 |
|
PRODUCTTPREVIEW: Koppers
New LiveTarget Lures |
10/23/08 |
|
Shallow, Deep, or In-between? Versatility for All Occasions: Tru-Tungsten's Tru-Life
Baits |
10/22/08 |
|
PRODUCTTPREVIEW : Orso Swimbait Company |
10/12/08 |
|
PRODUCTTPREVIEW : TnT Baits Wadda Bomb Jig |
9/29/08 |
|
The
Megabass Bumpee Hog, strong to a fault? |
9/27/08 |
|
Shellcracker
[shel krak-er] - noun : Redear Sunfish : see also BlackDog Bait Company |
9/17/08 |
|
Look What's Been Hiding in Our Tackle Box: The Megabass X-80 Trick Darter
|
9/10/08 |
|
A "Dink" for big fish, Osprey's
newest swimbait |
8/31/08 |
|
Looks Can Be Deceiving: the Deps Realiser |
8/17/08 |
|
Tru-Tungsten
announces new
Tru-Life 4-Inch
swimbait |
7/13/08 |
|
Castaic Soft Bait Company Re-Enters the Hard Bait Market With Their New, Platinum ROCK HARD! |
7/09/08 |
|
New Bait Company, JSJ Baits Introduces Their Take on Big Baits, the Snack Sized Trout |
7/01/08 |
|
More Flash and Splash with the appropriately named Booyah “Bi-You Buzz” |
6/15/08 |
|
The Small, Stealthy, Sexy, Spro 4" BBZ Shad! |
5/30/08 |
|
A New Take On An Old, Reliable Bait: The Vertical Lures JigX |
5/29/08 |
|
Hand Pour Quality + Precision Controlled Production Facilities = Roboworm |
5/15/08 |
|
TackleTour Goes Fun-Fishing with TV Host Alan Fong and Gets an Introduction to the Al-e-baby |
5/12/08 |
|
Optimum Bait Company Introduces Diamonds for Anglers |
5/12/08 |
|
Are You Ready For Some Football!! ... Jigs? |
5/08/08 |
|
Introducing the Tru-Tungsten Jason Quinn Jig |
5/6/08 |
|
Finesse jigging
with the Keitech Tungsten Rubber Jig Model I |
5/05/08 |
|
AC Plugs Prepares
to introduce
Bluegill Swimbaits |
5/03/08 |
|
Kevkel's New Double LouveredLeaf Spinnerbait |
4/06/08 |
|
A new Swimbait entry, the
Flex Phantom from Strike Pro |
4/03/08 |
|
Effective bedded
bass fishing with the River2Sea Nest Raider |
3/18/08 |
|
A Diminutive Jerkbait That Packs a ZING! The Megabass Live-X Margay Stepcat |
3/16/08 |
|
Slash’em Farther Down with Rapala’s X-Rap Deep |
2/06/08 |
|
Breaking News : Lucky Craft's Real California Supreme 200 |
1/29/08 |
|
Shimano gets
Jiggy with the
Lucanus System |
1/18/08 |
|
It's No VisionX 110, But It Is Another Jerkbait From Megabass: The LiveX Revenge |
12/30/07 |
|
Is It a Crankbait or a Jerkbait? We say it's... Introducing the Lucky Craft Bevy Shad 75sp |
12/24/07 |
|
Is the Lucky Craft Real Skin “really” good? |
12/16/07 |
|
The surprisingly
buoyant V&M Mud Bug trailer comes to life
|
12/4/07 |
|
Get
ready to “Roumba” with ima’s new wakebait |
11/28/07 |
|
Tie One On, Toss
It Out & Hang On! Introducing Sworming Hornet Lure's Fish Head Spin |
11/7/07 |
|
A Small, Northern California Company's Answer to the Paddletail Craze: Rainbow Worms' Rainbow Bowfish. |
10/28/07 |
|
Kevkel baits "cuts in" to put a new spin on blades |
10/23/07 |
|
Elbow Jerking, Tail Slapping Action: The Lucky Craft Staysee 90SP |
10/11/07 |
|
Trophy
Sticks, custom design, clever hydrodynamics, and a little art all rolled in one |
10/08/07 |
|
Fooling Fish With The
Motion of the Ocean: Sebile’s Ghost Walker |
10/06/07 |
|
Flirting with Innovation: The Reaction Innovations Flirt 6.95 |
10/05/07 |
|
Looks Can Be Deceiving: Black Dog Bait Company's Lunker Punker
|
9/23/07 |
|
Daiwa goes after classic cranks with the
amusingly named Peanut |
9/19/07 |
|
A Bait With Two Personalities: The Megabass Crank/Jerk Flap Slap |
9/6/07 |
|
On the Hunt for an Oversized Slashing Type Minnow Lure? Check Out the FLT Zillva! |
8/19/07 |
|
Could this be the
most durable spinnerbait? River2Sea’s Crystal Spin with a Polycarbonate encased
head design |
8/15/07 |
|
The
Pointer on a diet, Lucky Craft’s “Slender” Jerkbait |
8/08/07 |
|
Don't Cover Your Eyes! It's the Reaction Innovations Skinny Dipper |
8/1/07 |
|
Topwater Annihilation: the 3:16 Wake Jr. |
7/07/07 |
|
Fishing With Chips: The Persuader
American E-Chip Spinnerbait |
6/24/07 |
|
The Triple Trout
performs a lot better than it looks! |
6/11/07 |
|
Nothing Yet, to Scare the Competition: The Fish Arrow Spooky Jack |
6/4/07 |
|
Predator Research
Laboratories draws on hydrodynamics to build their new Shrimp lures |
5/14/07 |
|
Oh What Could Have Been: The Megabass V-3 Bullet Shad and Bullet Shad Mini
|
4/29/07 |
|
An effective
minnow bait with a Dart and Stop & Go system, the Jackall Squadminnow 95 |
4/25/07 |
|
MattLures Revisits Their Design and Brings To Market, The Ultimate Bluegill |
4/15/07 |
|
Daiwa adds branded spinnerbaits to their lineup of lures |
4/11/07 |
|
Megabass's DeepX 200T Proves Appearances Can Be Deceiving |
4/04/07 |
|
Bring Life to a Familiar Design : The Persuader American Angling Double Buzzer Buzzbait
|
3/27/07 |
|
Meet the Berkley Powerbait Chigger Craw, the bait that
helped win the Bassmaster Classic |
3/8/07 |
|
What's Old is New Again, Or Is It? The River2Sea Wood'n Min 160
|
3/4/07 |
|
An Affordable Alternative For Those Not Quite
"Sold" On the Price of The Swimbait Craze |
2/14/07 |
|
Mimic injured baitfish with the innovative Daiwa "Dead or
Alive" |
2/04/07 |
|
Made in Italy,
Pelican handcrafts the Super Pinky from balsa-wood for its unique actions |
1/11/07 |
|
Introducing the Megabass Anthrax and Anthrax 100 Topwater Baits Where Imagination is Key |
12/26/06 |
|
The Crazy Action of Wood : H&T's Balsa Crank
|
12/21/06 |
|
Instruments of a Legend, Introducing Jerry Rago's Baby Tool |
12/11/06 |
|
River2Sea USA’s
V-Joint Deep Dive minnow, a triple section lure with great action |
11/30/06 |
|
Blue Fox goes big
with the Vibrax
Musky Buzz |
11/22/06 |
|
Ready, Contact, Action! The Megabass Scream-X Jr. |
11/15/06 |
|
Storm Stuffed
to the Gills with
exciting new lures
this fall |
11/08/06 |
|
Getting Back to Basics With a Quality Tie, Cooch's Wadda Jig by TnT Baits |
11/01/06 |
|
Designed by the Master, Introducing the Ken Huddleston's Deluxe Rate of Fall Swimbait |
10/19/06 |
|
The Daiwa TD
Mouthwasher: A popper and a crankbait in one? |
10/12/05 |
|
Caught Between a Crank and a Lipless Bait : The Lucky Craft Moonsault Crankbait |
9/10/06 |
|
Hard to find, but well worth the effort...The TD Minnow Type
SP |
9/10/06 |
|
A Different Take on Lipless Technology : The Megabass Vibration-X Ultra
|
9/6/06 |
|
Shimano
Butterfly Jigs are more than just “lures,” they are part of a complete system |
9/04/06 |
|
Another Monster Bait : The A.B.T. Lure Company Titan
& Strike King-King Kong
|
8/13/06 |
|
A Crank Born from Innovation : RI's Limited Edition Method Crank
|
6/7/06 |
|
Lucky Craft goes finesse with their Flat CB MR Crankbait
|
5/08/06 |
|
Going lipless with Daiwa's TD Vibration |
5/02/06 |
|
Keep it in
motion...the NetBait Paca Craw |
4/16/06 |
|
Going Old School With a Tried and True Swimbait: Sunrize
Tackle's Hammerhead |
4/6/06 |
|
Increase your numbers with the diminutive Live-X Smolt from Megabass
|
4/2/06 |
|
Cranking for bass
with the River2Sea jointed V-Crank |
3/13/06 |
|
The
Secret is out – Secret Weapon Lures revolutionizes Spinnerbaits |
3/06/06 |
|
Slow rollin’ for
Salmon with the Konezone trolling flasher |
3/1/06 |
|
Hand Crafted Artistry from the Deep South :
Awesome Bait Company's Thundershad Crank |
1/25/06 |
|
The Megabait Mega
Crank wobbles with much holographic flash |
1/17/06 |
|
Mark "EZ Bass"
Lassagne experiments with the Kinami Palm Tree |
12/21/06 |
|
Putting the Buzz in Buzzbaits : The MegaStrike Cavitron |
12/08/05 |
|
Are you addicted yet? ...the Megabass Vision One-Ten's
action will have you begging for more |
12/5/05 |
|
As lifelike as plugs get, the Bettencourt "Real Fish"
Bluegill |
11/30/05 |
|
This isn't your daddy's Rapala crank, the new-fangled X-Rap
"Slashbait" |
11/21/05 |
|
Lucky Craft's
"Big Daddy Strike" Crankbait serves up consistent action |
11/13/05 |
|
Combining collectability with fish a calling tease
- The Megabass PopMax
| 10/13/05 |
|
A Bait to Lure Monster Bass : Introducing The MattLures Baby Bass Swimbait |
10/5/05 |
|
The patented "automatic set hidden hook" distinguishes the
LockJaw from the competition |
9/25/05 |
|
What's old is new again, The Megabass Bait-X Concept
|
8/30/05 |
|
Good things come in small packages : Specialty Tackle USA's Flagship Bait, the Junior-D |
8/2/05 |
|
Simplifying the art of the jig : CritterBait Tackle Company's Swim Jig |
7/29/05 |
|
A Hot West Coast swimbait with a patented easy to rig
system... the Megabait L.A. Slider
|
6/13/05 |
|
Standing up to be noticed, The River2Sea Stand'n Yabbie
|
6/21/05 |
|
The Uniquely Designed Jackall Aragon MR,
is it as good as it looks? |
6/09/05 |
|
Strike Pro USA's
nicely finished trolling plug |
5/19/05 |
|
A Lipless Crank with
plenty of Teeth : Lucky Craft's LV-500Max |
5/11/05 |
|
Generate surface
eruptions with the Sizmic Toad |
4/21/05 |
|
A Collectible
and Fishable Finesse Cranking Dynamo, the Megabass Cyclone SR-X |
4/15/05 |
|
The Mark Drag, by Panther Martin,
adds extra enticement to trolling rigs |
4/11/05 |
|
The A.C. "Real Trout," the latest in a line of modified
plugs from Allan Cole |
3/10/05 |
|
Not your run
of the mill topwater lure, the realistic Dragonfly Popper by River2Sea
USA |
2/27/05 |
|
Fish a better bass trap - The
Persuader American Angling, Pro Assassinator Clacker |
2/16/05 |
|
MirrOlure's Popa Dog uniquely walks and barks at the surface
to attract aggressive game fish |
2/03/05 |
|
FoodSource's biodegradable Food Sticks
really are Fish Food |
12/27/04 |
|
The
Bettencourt Assassin slays unsuspecting fish with distinctive tail swimming
action |
12/09/04 |
|
Tempt
fish with a serving of Specialty Tackle's Big Bite |
11/18/04 |
|
When bass desire a big meal, look to the Strike Pro DD72 |
10/21/04 |
|
Storm's Wildeye Shad swimbait is tough on saltwater fish but easy on the pocket
|
10/14/04 |
|
Gary Yamamoto creates a monster of a new bait...the Kreature
has arrived! |
9/17/04 |
|
River2Sea makes big splashes
with the Bubble
Popper |
8/01/04 |
|
Settling the
scores with Revenge Bait's lifelike "Dart Hedz" |
7/12/04 |
|
Jerking for gamefish with the Strike Pro Jer-O-Minnow |
6/15/04 |
|
Updating an old
friend with the latest armaments, the Excalibur Fat Free Shad |
5/24/04 |
|
Culprit's Tassel Lizard taunts Bass with its skirted tail |
4/26/04 |
|
A Realistic Critter Crank unlike any other, the Bettencourt
Rodent |
4/14/04 |
|
Fishing sophisticated Jigs and time-honored Pigs from Uncle
Josh |
4/05/04 |
|
Pop-a-Long with the multi-functional topwater lure that will
drive fish wild |
3/22/04 |
|
Fish the wave with Kinami Bait's multi-appendage Nories Bug |
3/10/04 |
|
Surface gurgling with the Panther Martin WeedWing |
2/12/04 |
|
Super Speed
Cranking with the Luhr Jensen Mini-Speed Trap |
1/28/04 |
|
A blast from the past,
re-introducing the wobbling Panther
Martin Vivif swim bait |
1/01/04 |
|
Pursuing multiple species with the MegaBait Live Jig |
12/17/03 |
|
Drive bass crazy
with Strike Pro's alluring Finesse
Walking Stick |
12/11/03 |
|
Targeting Trophy Bass
with the Basstrix Swimbait |
11/20/03 |
|
The Snag Proof Wiggle Wog, an exciting
new top water bass lure |
5/24/04 |
|
Reel Pearl, a creative double blade propelling inline
spinner |
10/23/03 |
|
Explosive
topwater action produced by Strike Pro's Gobi Popper |
10/09/03 |
|
Time for a tournament quality alternative? Welcome the premium grade Classic
Shad by Strike Pro |
9/22/03 |
|
A sweet taste that carp can't resist, Uncle Josh Carp Bait |
9/17/03 |
|
Cotee turns jig heads with the swirling Crankin' JigLip
|
9/14/03 |
|
Give fish a mouthful with the MegaBait Chubby Shad |
9/04/03 |
|
Advanced trapping with Bass pro Shop's XPS Extreme Rattle Shad |
9/01/03 |
|
Tail
Whipping design delivers strikes, introducing the new Lucky Craft Live Pointer |
8/25/03 |
|
Fish like never before
with the multiple action Gee-min-ee lure |
8/18/03 |
|
The Terminator T1
is still among the best when it comes to Titanium Spinnerbait Design |
7/07/03 |
|
A stirring design that really knows how to
move, the MegaBait Charlie |
7/03/03 |
|
A clever way to challenge toothy gamefish, the Rollo System |
6/19/03 |
|
An old lure that's still a BIG hit, the Luhr Jensen AC Plug |
6/09/03 |
|
An innovative
enhancement to soft jerkbaits, the
Buttoneye Jerk |
5/20/03 |
|
When nature calls for a natural presentation, look to the
Clear Water Lures |
5/15/03 |
|
Daiwa
expands lure offerings with exciting new Team Daiwa
models and colors |
4/07/03 |
|
Revisit
an old friend, the Kastmaster, perhaps the most versatile lure ever
created |
3/05/03 |
|
Crave Gravy, a catfish attractant that will jitter some
taste buds |
2/24/03 |
|
The Wigston Tassie truly bites like the Devil |
2/1/03 |
|
It's a Top Secret... the AminoGel Trout attractant has
arrived from Europe |
11/24/02 |
|
A fresh spin
on the original trout magnet, the new Holographic spinners by Panther Martin |
11/07/02 |
|
Berkley's Rattl'r aims to drive fish into a Frenzy |
11/03/02 |
|
The Squidy
Mangler, an inline spinner that will spin 100% of
the time |
9/26/02 |
|
A flexible mutant creature bait, the popular Zoom Baby Brush Hog |
8/20/02 |
|
The Yozuri Mag-Minnows, magnets for
gamefish?
|
7/15/02 |
|
Arriving to
stores near you. New tackle with a new twist for 2003 |
6/19/02 |
|
A lethal new weapon in the hunt for hard hitting Stripers,
the SPRO Prime Bucktail Jig
|
5/01/02 |
|
If they aren't biting, throw a uniquely lifelike new
spinner, the Tantrum! |
4/11/02 |
|
SPRO Chug Minnow, a harmonious blend of a popper and a
spook...generates good top water action
|
3/20/02 |
|
Spoon? Spinner? Buzzbait? Nemire creates one of the most flexible new lures,
and bass
can't resist it!
|
2/24/02 |
|
New Harrison Hoge Superior Frog... for superior top water action! |
2/12/02 |
|
Envision Lures
strives to develop the "Perfect Jig"
|
2/11/02 |
|
VPR-PRO LBM spinnerbait with Titanium Nitenol
wire |
1/29/02 |
|
VPR-PRO LBM... just another
spinnerbait? |
1/15/02 |
|
Deadly Deep Diver...Norman Deep Little "N" |
12/08/01 |
|
The scent of shad...B.A.N.G. Fish Attractant |
11/23/01 |
|
Lures for the Backcountry: The "Must Have"
arsenal |
9/02/01 |
|
Targeting Bass in cold weather? ...turn to Yamamoto's Hula Grub |
12/08/00 |
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