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An Interview with Manabu Kurita, Largemouth Bass Co-World Record Holder
TackleTog contributor and custom lure painter Brock Hiroshima reaches out overseas to connect with Manabu Kurita and discuss his world record tying Largemouth Bass and fishing for the forbidden species in Japan. |
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Putting Kistler's New ZBone Sticks to the Test on Falcon Lake, TX
Join us now as we head to Falcon Lake, Texas where
Trey Kistler gives us an on the water introduction to his ZBone line of custom order rods. |
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The Orvis Pro
Guide Stretch Wading Jacket shields anglers from the elements
Orvis has one of the most popular wading jackets
on the market with the Tailwaters XT, and to follow up on that successful jacket
the company hopes to up the ante with the new Pro Guide Stretch Wading Jacket
designed for hardcore anglers and professionals that make their living spending
the better part of the year on the river. |
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Low Speed Cranking Reel Shootout : And the Winner Is...
It is time, the moment cranking fans have been
waiting for, this is the main event! In all four corners we have reels designed for
low speed power cranking, all have their eyes (or gears rather) set on
becoming the low speed cranking champion. |
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The Search For One ... Exel-lence from
Lamiglas
In a
move that belies their somewhat conservative nature, Lamiglas’ new, Excel series
of rods feature a metallic brown finish (Lamiglas describes it as a deep
metallic copper), split rear cork grip, and no fore grip design. |
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Abu Garcia Veritas
Rods: A Blend of Truth, Nanotechnology, Performance and Affordability
Already seen on our TackleTour Forum, Abu Garcia will soon
be revealing a new affordable rod named Veritas. This new bass rod will be one
notch higher than the Vendetta but still have a great price of under $100. Let's
see what this new "next generation" rod is all about. |
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An extra edge on
the water with the FishHead App
Own an iPhone? Like to fish? Then you’re probably
already inundated with tons of apps, but quality fishing apps are few and far
between. FishHead is designed to be a easy to use on the water and planning tool
for anglers interested in tracking weather, stream flows, tides and lunar
information all accessible via iphone in the palm of your hand. |
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Wrapping up the regional ISE
shows with some new products in Fly, Electronics and Watercraft
Back at the show we meet with guides to plan our trips
for our tenth anniversary as well as check out the latest in the fly,
electronics and boating categories.
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Twilight of a new generation, Bassin' Young Guns Shoot it out at Pardee
It is that time again, the
annual media day hosted by Ultimate Bass radio talent Kent Brown kicks off the
season at Lake Pardee, and this year the “Young Guns” came out to join the hunt
for trophy smallmouth and quality largemouth at this premier Northern California
fishing destination.
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New
Lures at the 2010 International Sportsmen’s Expo
We return to the ISE 2010
shows to check out the latest lures to make their debut this January. As
expected a number of new swimbaits were introduced as the big bait craze shows
no signs of slowing down, and while they were the easy pick for most exciting
new lures, there were other attention-grabbing baits on display as well.
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Shimano debuts new ultralight Cumulus rods at the Big Rock West show in Las
Vegas
We stop by the Big Rock
West Dealer Show in Las Vegas to see if any of the manufacturers will launch any
mid season new products and learn about Shimano’s new ultralight rod series
which is appropriately named “Cumulus.” |
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Consistency & Variety in a Jighead : Fin-Tech's Title SHot
There may not be one dominant technique but it’s
obvious from our perspective that one application continues to shake things up
beneath the big bait talk. That’s right, the “yin” to the West Coast’s big bait
“yang” is the finesse oriented technique shakey head. |
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PRODUCTTPREVIEW:
e21 Goes Micro
Since the departure of Boyd Ducket from the e21 camp, there have been a few other changes within the company. These changes have done little to stop their drive to produce new and effective fishing tools, and as we've come to find, e21 is joining the micro-guide craze. They are the second rod manufacturer to get in our hands rods with these new guides. |
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CB Rod Wars part 18: Megabass's New GTZ Series
After having already reviewed product from each of their two series of crankbait rods, the GT3 and GTC series, we thought for sure our Year of the Crank Crankbait Rod Shootout was going to go on without a participant from Megabass... |
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PRODUCTTPREVIEW:
Dobyns Rods New Savvy Series
Last year, when Gary Dobyns debuted the second
generation version of his bass rods, they were received with great fanfare from
tournament anglers all around. For 2010, Dobyns is addressing this criticism
with the reintroduction of an alconite outfitted rod at an even lower price
point than the original Champion Series. |
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The Search For One... Setting the Baseline With Not Just Any G.Loomis
Kicking off our “Search for One”, it’s time to discuss that one
fishing rod. Imagine decades ago when fishing meant heading to your local
waterway with nothing more than one rod, one reel, some hooks, weights, and your
bait of choice. |
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Year of the Crank Bait Review : Custom Lures Unlimited Ikon/Ikon M2
Our introduction to
Kelly Barefoot and Custom Lures Unlimited came in 2006, right on the cusp of his
launch into a full time business model. I contacted Kelly for some custom
painting services and it was at that time he shared with us his plans to build
more hand carved wood baits. |
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Here is to the next ten years...
Letter from
the Editor: It
is hard to believe that ten years have gone by so quickly, what started out as
nothing more than an hobby site has turned into a huge community of anglers from
across the globe that share a passion for fishing and the tackle we employ in
that pursuit.
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