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A Brawler Ready to Battle, the
Pike Team Six B52 Wake Swimbait
Pike Team Six is a custom swimbait manufacturer that
has created a handmade wakebait called the B52 which is designed to take on the
biggest and baddest freshwater fish out there. This swimbait features a unique
profile, swimming action, and can be ordered in just about any configuration and
pattern that anglers can dream up. |
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MagDraft Part II : We Know It Was
You, Freestyle
The MagDraft Freestyle is a six inch (6")
paddletail style bait based off the companies popular MagDraft swimbait. The
difference here is while the original MagDraft is pre-rigged with a hook and
internal harness, the Freestyle is, well, free of all of that. |
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PB Rat Lights It Up With a
Little Slosh and a Lot of Boils
What the hollow body frog is to
fishermen who prefer conventional sized bait and tackle, the waking rat bait is
to those anglers who make throwing big, oversized baits their purview. It is an
obsession not easily overcome and haunts your every waking dream like an
infestation of your subconscious realm. |
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Cal Coast Fishing's New Twerk Minnow Swimbait
Cal Coast Fishing's Twerk Minnow is available in two sizes, five and a half and seven and a half inches (5.5" & 7.5"). It is a full body, split belly type of paddletail
made from a soft plastic material. |
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Buongiorno! An
Aggressively Priced Glide Bait from Molix
From their Supernato hollow
body baits to imaginative soft plastics like their SC Bug and Vincex Craw, to
their triple armed spinnerbait, the Lover, Molix brings a fun spirit to their
bait products. Up until now, what had been missing from the company's catalog
was a contender in the increasingly competitive big bait market. |
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The Wrap to Get.
Swimbait Underground's Union
As your swimbait arsenal
grows the need to be able to safely store, organize, and transport them also
increases. I've been searching for a quality wrap solution for years, and
most of the ones that I have tried have required a number of sacrifices. This
year Swimbait Underground released their own branded wrap, the Union 9", designed
for protecting swimbaits, and easy access to them in the field.
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Savage Value, the Pulse Tail RTF
Bluegill Swimbaits
The Pulse Tail RTF Bluegill is the most realistic
looking bluegill swimbait that Savage has introduced to date, and is designed to be easy for anglers to
simply tie on and start fishing effectively right out of the package. |
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My Favorite Topwater Custom
Swimbait - The Illude Rad Rat
Illude's Rad Rat is a
hand carved wakebait that is designed to generate explosive strikes both day and
night. How good is this bait? I must warn you in advance, the second you see,
and hear, a Rad Rat being fished you are probably going to want one for your
arsenal, and the biggest challenge with this swimbait might just be trying to
land one. |
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Evergreen International's Chaotic EsFlat Glide Bait
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. |
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The Latest Swimbait from Mattlures : Code Name
"Bo"
Matt Servant, owner and creator
at Mattlures cut his big bait making molds on the soft product then made his way
into the hard bait side where his background in taxidermy really set him apart.
Many of his baits rival in realism, fish you could actually catch out of the
water.
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Just How Wild is Willy? G-Ratt's Topwater Walker
The G-Ratts Wild Willy is a top water plug measuring six
inches and weighing about two ounces (2oz). It's a hard plastic bait, but does
not have any moving parts inside so it runs silent. |
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The i-Slide 262T's Long Journey En Route to Earning Our Ultimate Award
The i-Slide 262T
is far from an easy bait to get to know. It measures 262 millimeters which
equals somewhere around ten and one third inches (10 1/3"). I mean, how do you
even measure a third of an inch unless you have an engineering scale? It weighs
six full ounces and comes with two, very large hooks. But those stats don't tell
the story. |
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Like Fireworks, Imakatsu's Stealth Swimmer Showing Us What It's Worth
Few terms perk the collective eyebrows of
tackle enthusiasts everywhere like "JDM." Short for the words, Japanese Domestic
Market, the literal reference is to products made for sale in Japan. There are
several companies in the fishing industry that go hand in hand with that term... |
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River 2 Sea and JSJ Team Up to Trigger Those Bass
River2Sea
produces and distributes this bait as the JSJ Trigger Trout. On the packaging,
there's a logo for "JSJ Series". Hopefully that means the Trigger Trout is one
of many more baits to come from this collaboration.
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Storm's Latest Dance Craze, the Arashi Glide
There was a time, maybe ten
years ago, that the two-piece glide bait was a very hush-hush lure. Anglers had
been fishing them a long time, but very few if any were sharing their success
stories. However, once a bait like that hits the national stage with BASS Elite
Series Pros like Brandon Palaniuk fishing them, you know it's only a matter of
time before they force the hand of their big-time, sponsoring lure
manufacturers.
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A Surprisingly Good First Offering
from FishLab - The Bio Gill Swimbait and Glidebaits
The FishLab brand, the creation of the Okuma team of designers, was
recently launched this past ICAST. The company introduced a wide range of
freshwater and saltwater baits at the show, including a particularly robust bass
offering led by the company's Bio-Gill Series of bluegill swimbaits.
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The Evergreen Bream Slide Comes to Life on the
Snap
Evergreen International's Bream Slide is a six inch (6"), three ounce (3oz) bait resembling a sunfish. It comes with hand tied, feathered hooks (that you must install yourself) and is every bit as JDM
as it gets implying it's almost too pretty of fish - almost.
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The Defiant 247 and 210 Swimbaits – A One Two Knockout
Fishing big soft bodied swimbaits successfully
requires a heightened state of focus and patience, and even if you do get a
strike keeping that fish pinned typically comes with a whole new set of
challenges. To help redefine what is possible with this class of baits a new
company, Defiant, entered the swimbait scene a few seasons ago... |
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SLURPOWW!! Bull Shad Swimbait's Bull Wake
Bull Shad Swimbaits's Bull Wake is a three-piece, six inch bait
in a generic shad profile with the company's signature, brush like tail. The
bait also has the company's signature, unrefined, thrown up and dragged on shore
for a mile or two, beat up look to it... |
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The Cure for Big
Bait - Big Price Fatigue: The Baitsanity Antidote Glide
While the Explorer continues to be
the Baitsanity flagship product the company knew that in order to expand they
needed to provide a more aggressively priced swimbait offering, a glide bait for
mainstream anglers. That swimbait is the Baitsanity Antidote. |
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Here to Challenge Your Imagination : Megabass of America's Garuda
Megabass of America has been
hard at work globalizing the brand's name creating and refining product that not
only works in Japan, but in other parts of the world too, and really, primarily,
North America. They've had some intriguing bait introductions over the last
couple of years and others that feel more like an effort to fill out their
catalog. Today, we're taking a closer look at a bait that falls into the former
category... |
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Trophy Bass Baits's Intriguing SGT Glide
Just when I thought the list of big bait manufacturers had somewhat stabilized, I came across Trophy Bass Baits's product at TackleWarehouse. Their SGT Glide bait measures just over nine inches in length and a hair over five ounces in weight. It is a hard bodied (I'm assuming plastic) bodied bait sheathed in soft plastic.
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Product Reviewed |
Date Posted |
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Give Me a Beat! ... and Make it Wild |
9/2/19 |
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Going With The Flow... Glider by 6th Sense Fishing |
8/12/19 |
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Opportunity is 2Knocking for Bull Shad Swimbaits |
7/17/19 |
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Another Masterpiece from Roman Made : South |
6/2/19 |
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New Bait From ima Is No Fluke But It Sure Glides! |
3/31/19 |
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Small but Mighty, the Deadly Megabass Dark Sleeper |
2/28/19 |
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Berkley's New MaxScent PowerBait D-Worm |
1/28/19 |
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A Mix of Swimming and Gliding Actions – The Jackall Dowzswimmer |
1/25/19 |
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Optimum's Shad That Goes Boom Boom Pow! |
8/19/18 |
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Crazy Glide? The Baitsanity Explorer
Swimbaits |
6/13/18 |
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Bull Shad Swimbaits Enters the Rat Race |
12/20/18 |
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Reaction
Innovation's New One Two Shiver Punch |
3/18/18 |
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OSPs Transformational Yamato Walking Bait |
10/26/17 |
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A Finesse Walker : ima's Skimmer |
10/25/17 |
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Return of the Vixen by Reaction Innovations |
10/24/17 |
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The Walking
Baits: Selecting the Right Rod, Reel, and Line for Your Walker Arsenal |
10/23/17 |
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A Bait that Defies Categorization : Megabass of America's Vatalion |
9/3/17 |
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The Original TroutGlider - The Glide Bait for Millennials
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5/29/17 |
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Big Bite's Latest Addition to Their Squad : The Suicide Shad |
5/3/17 |
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Megabass's MagDraft Soft Bodied Swimbait |
4/23/17 |
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What Makes Molix's SS Shad a Special Swimmer? |
3/25/17 |
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Looking Lively! Live Target's
Threadfin Shad Swimbait |
1/22/17 |
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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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Imitate Big Forage with the Damiki
Gizzard Shad |
2/7/16 |
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Project Prometheus Catches
Fire with the DUO Onimasu Swimbait |
12/6/15 |
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Jackall’s
Gantarel Effectively Mimics Bluegill and Panfish |
11/11/15 |
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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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Imperfectly
Perfect, the Little Creeper All American Sunfish |
10/22/14 |
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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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Thru and Thru, Savage Gear's New Trout Inspires Confidence |
1/19/14 |
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Roman Made's Trick to Get Our Enthusiast Meter Moving |
5/12/13 |
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Simple
yet Deadly Effective, the Savage Gear Sandeel |
3/31/13 |
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ProducTTPreview :
Got'Em Coach Real Gillz Swimbaits Bring the Detail to Design |
3/13/13 |
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Roman Made Prepares to Introduce New Patterns
Designed Specifically for the US Market |
11/28/12 |
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Son of a Mother, the Roman Made
Negotiator Swimbait |
6/6/12 |
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Cute and Deadly,
the BBZ-1 Baby Shad Imitates Baitfish |
1/14/12 |
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The ABT Banshee Screams for Attention |
12/14/11 |
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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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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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The Fix is In : Lucky Craft's Real California Supreme 200 - Round 2 |
6/24/11 |
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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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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 |
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Decoy Swimbait's HydraTail : Size Just Right - To Be Eaten! |
2/22/11 |
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Rago and Velvick's Winning Combination : The BV3D |
1/10/11 |
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So Unrefined It's Art : Triton Mike's Bull Shad |
8/22/10 |
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Sebile Creates Some New Magic With Its Soft Swimmer |
5/9/10 |
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Spro’s Little John
MD is one mean little crankbait |
4/25/10 |
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Move, Slide, Stop ... Slammer Time! |
3/09/10 |
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The Leader of Rago's Rat Pack : The Original Generic Rat |
12/22/09 |
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PRODUCTTPREVIEW : Meet
the shrunken down Spro BBZ-1 Jr. |
11/5/09 |
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In The Mood ... For Jigs, 2009 Jig Roundup |
11/1/09 |
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Bass Jam '09 Preview : What's Cookin' with Rago Baits |
10/29/09 |
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Mythical Creatures, Legendary Baits : The Return of Nezumma |
10/08/09 |
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Raising the Bar Once Again : Mattlures Hard Bait Bass Series |
9/30/09 |
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Still Not Sold on Big Baits? How About a Hybrid? : Deps Highsider |
9/28/09 |
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Sometimes, You Just Have To Go Small : TyLure's Kicker Shad |
9/27/09 |
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Junk Food for a Quality Limit: JSJ's Snack Sized Trout |
5/06/09 |
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Unfinished Business:
Our Soft Bodied Swimbait Tackle Drop |
4/22/09 |
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What happens when a Swimbait
and a prop bait
get together, meet the Basstar Proprunner |
4/19/09 |
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A.C. Plugs
Modernizes the AC Minnow |
4/12/09 |
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Falcon Lure’s Big Eyez Paddletail Swims True |
4/5/09 |
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The Evolution of a Big, Hard Bodied Bait: 3:16 Lure Company's Real Deal |
3/16/09 |
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The Castaic Catch 22
Swimbait offers guaranteed durability, and it catches fish too |
3/11/09 |
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PRODUCTTPREVIEW : Nate's Baits |
2/25/09 |
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Mattlures Cranks It Up With Their Latest Masterpiece: Their Hard Bluegill Series of Baits. |
2/11/09 |
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A Tale of Two Baits, Bettencourt Baits' RealFish Shad & Real Snake |
2/04/09 |
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The Return of Rago Baits |
1/11/09 |
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Shallow, Deep, or In-between? Versatility for All Occasions: Tru-Tungsten's Tru-Life
Baits |
10/22/08 |
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PRODUCTTPREVIEW : Orso Swimbait Company |
10/12/08 |
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Shellcracker
[shel krak-er] - noun : Redear Sunfish : see also BlackDog Bait Company |
9/17/08 |
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A "Dink" for big fish, Osprey's
newest swimbait |
8/31/08 |
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Tru-Tungsten
announces new
Tru-Life 4-Inch
swimbait |
7/13/08 |
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Castaic Soft Bait Company Re-Enters the Hard Bait Market With Their New, Platinum ROCK HARD! |
7/09/08 |
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New Bait Company, JSJ Baits Introduces Their Take on Big Baits, the Snack Sized Trout |
7/01/08 |
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The Small, Stealthy, Sexy, Spro 4" BBZ Shad! |
5/30/08 |
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TackleTour Goes Fun-Fishing with TV Host Alan Fong and Gets an Introduction to the Al-e-baby |
5/12/08 |
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Optimum Bait Company Introduces Diamonds for Anglers |
5/12/08 |
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AC Plugs Prepares
to introduce
Bluegill Swimbaits |
5/03/08 |
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A new Swimbait entry, the
Flex Phantom from Strike Pro |
4/03/08 |
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Breaking News : Lucky Craft's Real California Supreme 200 |
1/29/08 |
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Looks Can Be Deceiving: Black Dog Bait Company's Lunker Punker
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9/23/07 |
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Topwater Annihilation: the 3:16 Wake Jr. |
7/07/07 |
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The Triple Trout
performs a lot better than it looks! |
6/11/07 |
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Nothing Yet, to Scare the Competition: The Fish Arrow Spooky Jack |
6/4/07 |
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MattLures Revisits Their Design and Brings To Market, The Ultimate Bluegill |
4/15/07 |
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An Affordable Alternative For Those Not Quite
"Sold" On the Price of The Swimbait Craze |
2/14/07 |
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Mimic injured baitfish with the innovative Daiwa "Dead or
Alive" |
2/04/07 |
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Instruments of a Legend, Introducing Jerry Rago's Baby Tool |
12/11/06 |
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Designed by the Master, Introducing the Ken Huddleston's Deluxe Rate of Fall Swimbait |
10/19/06 |
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Going Old School With a Tried and True Swimbait: Sunrize
Tackle's Hammerhead |
4/6/06 |
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As lifelike as plugs get, the Bettencourt "Real Fish"
Bluegill |
11/30/05 |
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A Bait to Lure Monster Bass : Introducing The MattLures Baby Bass Swimbait |
10/5/05 |
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A Hot West Coast swimbait with a patented easy to rig
system... the Megabait L.A. Slider
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6/13/05 |
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The A.C. "Real Trout," the latest in a line of modified
plugs from Allan Cole |
3/10/05 |
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The
Bettencourt Assassin slays unsuspecting fish with distinctive tail swimming
action |
12/09/04 |
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Targeting Trophy Bass
with the Basstrix Swimbait |
11/20/03 |
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