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A Gateway Swimbait – The Gracely Baits
Finesse Gill
Many anglers commonly associate "swim-baits" with
"big-baits," and indeed, most swimbaits on the market are full-sized baits
necessitating specialized gear to cast. However, there exists a lesser-known
category of smaller swimbaits that deliver a comparable experience in a more
compact, less daunting form. Gracely Baits played a pivotal role in defining
this segment... |
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A "Tail" of Two Baits: Baitsanity Explorer Gen 2 Swimbait
Updates
At first glance, the latest generation of the
Baitsanity Explorer may appear nearly identical to the original glidebait that
the company originally debuted to launch their brand. However, there are a number of
updates that have made significant improvements to the bait's capabilities and
performance over even last year’s models. In this update, we explore these
latest improvements, fresh tail designs, and a bones option. |
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Elusive No More : SPRO's KGB Chad Shad 180
Spend any time in that kind of underground, social media world of
big baits and you'll eventually come across discussion of the popular KGB Chad
Shad. This bait came on the scene a number of years ago and built a reputation
as the best shad glide bang for the buck. In the big bait world, reputation like
that inevitably leads to scarce availability which eventually raises that
buck-bang higher than retail.
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Illude Lunker Fighters Zombie
Gerbil – A Deadly Walker
The Lunker Fighters Zombie Gerbil is a rat-style
swimbait that is a resin version of the original cedar-wood Illude Narle Gerbil. The
Illude Gerbil is one of the rarest wood rat-style baits, with only a handful of
batches ever made. While it's easy to assume that the wood version is superior
in every way, there are many interesting attributes that the resin-based Zombie
offers, making it both effective and desirable.
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Giving Bass "The Bird" - A New Crawler From Defiant
Defiant is best known for their soft bodied 210 and 247
trout profiled swimbaits which feature a line-through rigging system. The
company has been expanding their product range and last season introduced
a range of braided and fluorocarbon lines designed for big bait anglers. This
Summer the company launches their first hard-bodied swimbait, a full sized
topwater crawler called "The Bird." |
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Not Too Big, Not Too Small, with Versatility That Can Surprise and Confuse : CBC's Mini-Sonar
Born from the need for a consistent big bait
profile for colder water, the Sonar has a build resembling a swimmer, but it is
weighted to behave like a flutter spoon or blade bait - not a spinnerbait, but a
solid metal, fish profile, blade. |
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"New" Slide Swimmer
Glidebait, Same Old Song?
There are countless discussions regarding the merits of the old
versus new versions of the bait including tuning strategies for both and even
methods to convert the floating, wake bait version, the Silent Killer, into a
Slide Swimmer...
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Chop
It Like It's Hot. Baitsanity X TW New Chimera Shad
Baitsanity is launching their first shad profiled
swimbait, the Chimera. In addition to a number of unique design features, and
emphasis on chop-style action, one of the things that makes this new swimbait so
interesting is that it was co-developed with the Tackle Warehouse product team
from inception to mass production. |
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Berkley Culls First Batch Cullshad Swimbaits
Berkley is literally asking customers to "cull" all the first run
Cullshad swimbaits to address a production issue that is affecting swimming
action, and launches a process to replace the baits with properly manufactured
ones.
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Megabass's Unheralded Spark Shad Swimbait
When it comes to a soft bodied swimbait in Megabass's product line, it's really mostly about MagDraft. Available in two varieties, MagDraft is a proven producer. The Sleeper line is probably a close second, but those are more like jigs. A third less talked about alternative, at least as a stand alone option,
we feel deserves more attention.
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Fold to Cast Further – Shimano’s Armajoint Hard Bodied Swimbait
The swimbait segment continues to grow, and it was just a matter of time
before Shimano launched their own hard bodied swimbait. Rather than introduce
just another single jointed glide or dual jointed wake, Shimano’s lure engineers
wanted to put their own spin on a shad-like profile and create a bait that could
be cast further and fished effectively by anglers of all skill levels. |
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It Is An Obsession, It Is My
Obsession, Lanciotti's Psycho Gill Can Be, an Enthusiast Bait Collector's Key
Nothing inspires an unhealthy passion for bass fishing like a good topwater
bite. This is especially true when your lure of choice is an oversized chunk of
resin or wood. Whether it be a rat, gill, trout profile or other, it's tough to
beat the adrenaline rush of having a three ounce or larger bait slurped down
from the surface of the water. |
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UFO 6” Gill Swimbait – Abducting Bass Night and
Day
UFO Bait Co. is a custom swimbait builder that creates some
of the most sought-after gill baits in the game. These include the immense
Mothership and the smaller 6” gill, both of which are coveted by swimbait
enthusiasts that have witnessed, or heard about, the many bass abductions that
these renowned baits are responsible for. |
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Accessible, Affordable, and More Importantly, Effective : Molix's GlideBait 140 SS
Begrudgingly,
time once dedicated to slinging something exclusive gives way to the less
exciting prospect of fishing something more accessible. However, on the rare
occasion, these circumstances can reveal something unexpected. Here's our
experience with Molix's latest entry big bait craze, their GlideBait 140 SS.
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Baitsanity’s Most Technical Glidebait Yet – The Antidote
TUG
Baitsanity’s newest glidebait, the Antidote TUG,
is also the company’s new halo swimbait and comes with a laundry list of
innovative features which also make it a highly technical bait to master.
Designed for big bait enthusiasts the TUG can achieve some remarkably diverse
glide actions but with somewhat of a steep learning curve is this a big bait for
everyone? |
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The Myth Lives and Has Transformed : 22nd Century's Nezzuma V-Cut
Well, you know we couldn't
go a full season reviewing rat baits without dubbing one our R.O.U.S. - Rat Of
Unusual Size. 22nd Century is one of the original big bait companies and their
Triple Trout swimbait remains one of our all time favorites. |
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Toxic Baits Suck! TXC's Impertinent Little Wake Bait, the Whippersnapper 2.0
Ceaser Chavez out of Northern
California, almost literally on the shores of the California Delta has been
making baits for big bait enthusiasts going on close to ten years. He's one of
the rare builders who've taken it to the next level by opening up a shop with a
retail wing you can actually visit and hand pick baits fresh off the drying
rack. |
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Collapse to Cast -
Shimano’s ARMAJOINT Swimbait
Shimano’s new ARMAJOINT swimbait is designed with an innovative dual
jointed system that is magnet loaded to enable improved casting distance and
accuracy by collapsing and maintaining a more compact and stable shape during
flight. In the water the ARMAJOINT can be swam a variety of ways and behaves
like traditional S-glide action... |
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FishLab’s First Topwater BBZ
Swimbait – The Bio-Rat
Last ICAST FishLab announced they were getting into the BBZ business as
Bill joined the team, and this year at ICAST 2022 the company readies the launch
of the first FishLab BBZ products, starting with the BBZ Bio-Rat. |
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The Elusive Gizzard Glide by High Powered Swimbaits
The Gizzard Glide, by High Powered Swimbaits is more commonly
referred to as the "HPH". HPH stands for High Powered Herring referring to owner
Randall Kirkpatrick's first swimbait product, a four piece herring profiled
swimmer that has since been discontinued... |
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This Stray Rat is Definitely Ready to Rumble
The Rumble Rat by Stray Rats Bait Company is built for anglers
who are serious about their rat baits. Measuring thirteen inches from tip of its
nose, to the tip of its tail, and weighing in just under five ounces at four
point eight (4.8oz), this rat is in the category of a true big bait.
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When You Wish Upon A Dream - Smash'em
Dream Smasher
Swimbaits is a company based in Minneapolis, Minnesota making quality soft
plastic swimbaits. Their signature bait, the six inch, DSS Shad, is based off a
design developed by legendary lure designer Bob King. |
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The Jackall Dunkle Swimbait Offers
Anglers More Rigging Options
The Jackall Dunkle is a soft-bodied swimbait that is designed to exhibit
a natural swimming action combined with a high water displacing paddle tail
design, and features one of the most flexible hook rigging systems available. |
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Bull Shad Swimbaits Enters the Premium Market with their Shad Glide
Still
made of resin, the edges, detailing, and scale pattern on the Shad Glide are at
a different level from what we've seen in the past. Gone is that bristle fiber
tail, and in is a new, soft plastic poured piece with a realistic shape and
ridges. |
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A JDM
Offering in the RatRumble: MLW's FP Rat
If you're familiar with the Monka Lure Works FPJ Crawler, the
FP Rat looks like the same bait but without the wings, and has instead, a carbon
fiber diving lip and a long, rodent-like tail (instead of the rear prop). |
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Glide Ready? Baitsanity’s Explorer Gill Might Just Be
Their Best Lure Yet
Baitsanity has had both trout and shad profiles covered
with their Explorer and Antidote glide baits but really needed a gill to round
out their swimbait offering. This season Baitsanity raises their glide game with
the new Explorer Gill, a compact and customizable bluegill that leverages much
of what makes the brand’s lures so popular among swimbait fans. |
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Rat Rumble : 2 Faced Baits's Waking Rat
Steven Loewen out of the San
Francisco Bay Area's East Bay Region has been in the business of making baits
since the middle of 2018. Through his company, 2Faced Baits, Loewen offers a
variety of big bodied, two and three piece, billed baits that wake and crank
giving anglers the tools they need when searching for those bigger bites. |
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Another SoCal Varietal, TrapBass's
Fine Trap Rat
The team at TrapBass have been making baits for nearly ten years now and their rat bait has been established since their company's launch in 2013. Here is our Rat Rumble look into their Trap Rat... |
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Swimbait or Crankbait? The Deps
Tiny Bulldoze 100
The Bullshooter and Bulldoze has
always played second fiddle to the Slide Swimmer, but are still popular options
for anglers looking for gill profiles. This season Deps has miniaturized these
lures and introduced Tiny versions designed to target bass of all sizes across a
wider range of applications.
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Feeding that Big Bait Obsession with Gan Craft's Jointed Claw 303 R-One
The Jointed Claw 303 is a huge,
300 millimeter (or 12") glide bait, and
though it has taken a while, here now is our look
at Gan Craft's Jointed Claw 303, also known as the Shaku One (one foot) |
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RatRumble : Fish the Sneaky!
In the world of rat swimbaits hand carved
wooden baits are among the most coveted, both for their artistry and
effectiveness. These baits often exhibit a hard to imitate swimming action
combined with a loud knock. Custom swimbait garage builder Brady Scott is the
creator of the Sneaky Baits “Sneaky Rat,” a bait that has gone from a sleeper to
one of the most sought-after wooden rats on the scene. |
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RatRumble : The Surprisingly Refined LitRat
The LitLures
mission began in Southern California, where in 2017, Jesse LeMar grew tired of
fishing rat baits that would either foul during the cast or as he was working
them close to structure wasting opportunity after opportunity. He started where
most bait makers begin, by carving bodies out of wood. But once he was satisfied
with a design, he immediately moved to resin... |
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RatRumble: Heerrree's Johnny!
The Johnny Rat, and subsequent Little Johnny,
splashed down into the swimbait scene in 2013, with initial conception in
California. Since then, Johnny has claimed dozens of tournament wins, hundreds
of thousands of dollars in prizes, and plenty of name recognition. |
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RatRumble : Bigg Nasty Baits's Nat Rat
Bigg Nasty Baits out of
Northern California is relatively new to the bait making game, but obviously not
to the world of big baits. A strong advocate for the local bass fishing scene
promoting up and coming anglers on their social media and organizing several
local tournaments through the calendar year, their motto when it comes to baits
is to build them "bigg." |
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RatRumble : The
Waking Dead – Illude’s Zombie Rat
Over the last year I have tried to bolster my Illude arsenal and started
delving deeper into the brand’s other resin baits from their Lunker Fighters line, including the similar profiled resin
Zombie Rats. While it easy to assume that the Zombie is simply a resin variation
of the Rad this undead bait’s unique waking behavior, performance, and origin
might just surprise you. |
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Gan Craft's Foray Into Crawler Madness : The Joi Crawler 178
If there's one bait company that has made the most
out of a signature bait and bait profile, it's Gan Craft. Their Jointed Claw
glide bait is available in six different sizes ranging from two and three
quarter inches up to twelve, but there's also a waking version, a new hybrid
glide swimmer... |
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RatRumble : Narrow Gate Baits's Affordable and Accessible WOOD Rat
The Narrow Gate Baits Rat is a foot long, three piece bait with
a body that measures out about six inches. It's a wooden rat turned on a lathe
but each section is hand cut with a dovetail saw. Craftsmanship is raw and a
little gritty, very apropos for a rat bait, and the bait itself is offered in
three different finishes...
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Rat Rumble : JSJ Baits's Pack Rat (Recoil Edition)
The current Pack Rat (dubbed the Recoil Edition) is made out of a special silicone mix St. John developed during a two year hiatus from making baits. The result is a bait with
extreme elasticity and durability. |
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The Sleeper Assassin of Cl8Bait's Rodent Squad : Water Vole
It feels like yesterday when we first met Clayton Bryant of CL8Bait at
Bass-A-Thon 2008.
Back then he was the new builder on the scene and
now, over a decade later, he's a seasoned veteran builder. I hate to think what
that means for me, but in any case, when Bryant caught wind of our Rat Rumble,
he immediately signed up to participate. |
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Smelly Rat - It's not Spro's Fault Their Rat 50 Stanks
If there's one space a custom,
hand built, garage bait cannot compete in, it's in the area of accessibility. A
bait, no matter how effective, is really no use to an angler if said bait is not
available for purchase, period. Many anglers, and especially those who enjoy
tossing big baits, turn their collective backs on baits that are easily
accessible and mass produced... |
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RatRumble : The RioRat by Hill Country Swimbaits
Based in San Antonia, Texas, Hill Country
Swimbaits offers a wide selection of baits from multi-piece swimmers, to
two-piece glides in gill, shad, and trout profiles. The subject of today's
article is in a classification that has infested TackleTour HQ. We have a plan
to root them out, but the invasion promises to endure through the Summer and
likely into the Fall. Introducing the Hill Country Swimbaits Rio Rat. |
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Gan Craft's Jointed Claw Zepro : A Surface Glide with the Little Kicks
In 2015, Gan Craft introduced a
variant to the Jointed Claw 178. It swims on a slightly upward trajectory versus
the downward trajectory of the original making it ideal in shallow water
situations where the 178 Type F might eventually get hung up. Here's our look at
Gan Craft's Jointed Claw Zepro 178. |
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Plenty of Options to Explore... The Baitsanity Gen 2
Glidebait with Hatch Match Tails
It has been nearly three years since our review of the
original Baitsanity Explorer and over the last two seasons we have been fishing
the company's updated version, the Explorer Gen2, which features a clever
interchangeable tail design as well as multiple new patterns to better match the
hatch. |
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G-Ratt's Signature Glidebait, only
Smaller. Match the Hatch with the Pistol Pete
Building on the popularity of the Sneaky Pete glidebait the company introduced a scaled down version, called the Pistol Pete, which is offered in
the same array of colors and is designed for situations when a smaller bait
better matches the hatch. |
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A Diminutive Paddletail with Big Bait Detailing : Molix's RT Shad
Since the Basstrix shortage a decade and a half
ago, paddletail swimbaits as a product category have been riding a roller
coaster of popularity and new introductions. We're in the midst of climbing yet
another hill, and we recently got our hands on the latest introduction from a
company not new to this ride. Here's our look at Molix's RT Shad swimbait. |
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Sometimes All You Need is a
Pistol. The Illude Pistol Gill Glidebait
For many enthusiast swimbait anglers there is just
something special, almost magic, about a handmade wooden swimbait. When it comes
to precision and refinement few brands do this as well as Roman Made, but
American custom baitmaker Illude certainly brings the heat. The Pistol is a
compact two-piece swimbait that showcases just how good a mid-sized wooden
bluegill glide can be. |
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Let's Get Real! - Sly Guy Lures
Replica Gill Swimbaits
With a name like "Replica" the Sly Guy Gills better be
realistic looking, but it doesn't stop with a genuine looking paint finish. This
year we are going to dive deep into swimbaits, including a closer look at many
custom handmade offerings, and the Sly Guy Lures Replica Gills are a perfect
example of what makes custom baits so desirable to anglers, and especially
swimbait fans.
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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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Product Reviewed |
Date Posted |
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The Wrap to Get.
Swimbait Underground's Union
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10/20/20 |
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Savage Value, the Pulse Tail RTF
Bluegill Swimbaits |
10/12/20 |
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My Favorite Topwater Custom
Swimbait - The Illude Rad Rat |
9/29/20 |
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Evergreen International's Chaotic EsFlat Glide Bait |
9/14/20 |
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The Latest Swimbait from Mattlures : Code Name
"Bo" |
8/3/20 |
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Just How Wild is Willy? G-Ratt's Topwater Walker |
7/28/20 |
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The i-Slide 262T's Long Journey En Route to Earning Our Ultimate Award |
7/26/20 |
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Like Fireworks, Imakatsu's Stealth Swimmer Showing Us What It's Worth |
6/29/20 |
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River 2 Sea and JSJ Team Up to Trigger Those Bass |
6/10/20 |
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Storm's Latest Dance Craze, the Arashi Glide |
5/17/20 |
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A Surprisingly Good First Offering
from FishLab - The Bio Gill Swimbait and Glidebaits |
2/4/20
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The Evergreen Bream Slide Comes to Life on the
Snap |
1/14/20 |
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The Defiant 247 and 210 Swimbaits – A One Two Knockout
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1/5/20 |
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SLURPOWW!! Bull Shad Swimbait's Bull Wake |
7/17/20 |
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The Cure for Big
Bait - Big Price Fatigue: The Baitsanity Antidote Glide |
12/11/19 |
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Here to Challenge Your Imagination : Megabass of America's Garuda |
11/25/19 |
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Trophy Bass Baits's Intriguing SGT Glide |
9/23/19 |
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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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