Introduction: Hair jigs have been employed for bass fishing for years, and especially when fishing for smallmouth, but hair jigs designed for largemouth often taken a backseat with so many lure options. Northland, a specialist in jigs, has created a new jig with all the best attributes of a tiny marabou jig but with some extra features designed specifically for largemouth.

Born in Minnesota, the new Mullet from Northland is a big, flowing, hovering, water displacing jig

Rock the Minnesota Mullet: While there are hair jigs for bass they are often quite stiff and do not exhibit the fluff that makes their smaller marabou jig cousins so effective. Northland's Minnesota Mullet is named after the "business in the front, party in the back" hairstyle, and not the fish, and is all about loft.

This oversized Northland Minnesota Mullet hair jig is designed for fishing everything from shallow water, over summer weed tops, to open water, anywhere where largemouth are feeding on panfish.

The Minnesota Mullet is a big, flowing, hovering, water displacing jig. The big hair features a synthetic fiber material that is designed to create a breathing, lifelike appearance in the water while also providing flotation. This is designed to  allow anglers to hover the bait over flats, weed beds, and suspended fish while pulsing the hair, and its extended back feathers tease big bass and other predator fish to strike the bait.

The hand tied Minnesota Mullet features a combination of three materials and a lot of synthetic fiber to deliver more loft and buoyancy

Northland lure designer, Sam Larsen, talked about the new bait: "Most of the best fish-catching baits are simple in design. We took that direction with the Minnesota Mullet, which is made of three materials on a premium Northland Elite Series Mimic Jighead with 60-degree upward hookbend and heavy wire for solid hooksets. We utilized a unique, synthetic fiber with a lot of loft, buoyancy, and flow; a couple chicken feathers off the back that undulate like a trailer; and just the right amount of tinsel. Then you have the thread tied farther back on the jig hook shank so it's really streamlined. Especially in the upper Midwest, tournament bass anglers are going to town fishing big hair jigs for bigger bass. We knew we could create a better jig to use in the same manner in-the-know anglers have been doing for the past several years. There's really nothing like it, especially given that we added an entire extra step to the jig production process by applying vertical lines to the material to give it an even greater forage-matching appeal. These baits look like the real thing that big bass eat."

A look at the Green Bluegill pattern. Notice the vertical lines incorporated into the jig. In many ways this is new jig is a combination of a marabou jig and classic bucktail

Our Quick Take: Northland Fishing Tackle makes a lot of different baits but their jigs are legendary in the Upper Midwest and continue to grow in popularity in all regions. The Minnesota Mullet should appeal to more bass anglers with a larger profile, and a hair blend that is designed to breathe, some extra flotation, and the ability to better maintain shape when paused making it effective for suspending action. The new Mullet is designed to entice big bites and help anglers coax kicker quality fish to chase and eat with 1/2 and 3/4 ounce sizes. The Mullet is available in patterns including Crappie, Perch, Green Bluegill, and the ever versatile white for the $14.99.

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