Evergreen International's Chaotic EsFlat Glide Bait

Total Score: 7.92 - GOOD

Introduction: I've had the extreme good fortune to be able and travel to Brazil in pursuit of Peacock bass on two separate occasions. Back in 2012, I was supposed to head out for a third trip until I came down with a rare medical condition called Gillan-Barre two weeks before I was to depart. It sidelined me for a couple of months but fortunately I recovered. In the meantime, all the lures and other tackle I had set aside for the trip weren't so lucky. They've been sitting in limbo in a corner of my garage ever since.

Sometimes, review subjects are just sitting in my collection of tackle waiting for an opportunity to shine

Enter this past Winter when I was surfing through TackleWarehouse.com looking for new and exciting baits to review this upcoming season. I came across a bait made by Evergreen International that looked oddly familiar to me. It was their ES Flat swimbait. A bell rang in my head and I headed over to my stash of Amazon baits, dug around, and lo and behold, I had one sitting in my stash for almost ten years! I immediately placed it in my pile of baits to fish the coming season and am now happy to share with you my thoughts on this forgotten little gem.

Introducing Evergreen International's EsFlat

Impressions: Back almost a decade ago, Evergreen International started teasing us about their pending entry to the US Market. After several starts and stops, they finally settled, a few short years ago on a partnership with Daiwa USA the fruits of which are witnessed in their Brett Hite Combat series of fishing rods and a selection of fishing lures. It seems that the company has expanded on that initial roster of lures because the ES Flat, for those in the know, is not a new bait. It is, however, new to US store shelves which is what prompted me to find mine and finally fish it.

As one would expect, this originally JDM only bait has superb detailing

The ES Flat is a two piece bait measuring five and three quarters inches (5.75") in length and weighing a hair under two ounces (2oz). It's rated as a slow sink bait and comes in a variety of colors though many are difficult to find in the US. Maybe Evergreen is still testing demand. It comes with two #1 sized trebles but since mine are so old, I swapped them out to some 3x strong Owner hooks just in case.

Time to get on the water with this old, but new again bait!