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February 24, 2003 |
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Luhr Jensen™ Fingerling Hi-Catch Lure Takes on New Finishes For 2003 Season
From Silver
Sardine, Watermelon, Blue Mackerel to
New finishes have been added by Luhr Jensen & Sons, of Hood River, Oregon to their line of Fingerling lures. Because of the Fingerling’s recent growth in popularity, Luhr Jensen has added six new fish-catching finishes for the 2003 season, making a total of fifteen exciting finishes to choose from.
The Fingerling, in recent years, has been making great strides with anglers when fishing for a variety of large fish species. Its tight swimming minnow-like action makes the large feeding fish attack the Fingerling without remorse. The Fingerling has solid body construction and features heavy duty rigging. Muskie and Pike fishermen are just starting to discover the rewards of using Luhr Jensens’ Fingerling lures for these larger fish.
Features Include: Deep Diving Heavy duty rigging Comes in 15 colors, Sizes: 5/16 & 1 oz.
About $7.80 & 9.55 ea.
800-535-1711 order@luhrjensen.com
Available online http://www.luhrjensen.com/
Power Trolling The latest tactic, power trolling, is proving to be perhaps the deadliest and most consistent yet for big walleye in rivers. Power trolling is an aggressive strategy, but there is a method to its madness.
Big walleye spend the warmer half of the year prowling the flats close to the bottom or lying in ambush near rocky structure . . . in both cases at 20 - 30 ft for fish over 4 lbs. They use their eyes to locate prey and their speed to overcome it. Walleye are NOT timid feeders. On the contrary, they are ferocious predators. When they see a fast-moving forage fish within their range, they strike with an aggressiveness that rivals ANY game fish!
Power trolling puts the angler into this aggressive feeding loop by realistically imitating the size, shape, color and behavior of the walleye's targeted food source at the depth range where the biggest walleye are lurking. It requires . . . absolutely . . . the conflicting requirements of a lure that looks and acts like the walleye's natural prey, yet can swim in the right depth range, down to 30 ft. Speed Kills Baitfish have one thing in common . . . a slender, torpedo-shaped body and absolutely no desire to loiter in walleye-infested waters. They're fast movers, and to imitate them you have to shuck your natural desire to troll slow. Also be ready to vary your speed somewhat depending on the speed of the river current.
Get Back, Way Back Let out a lot of line. The Fingerling Hi-Catch Lure will reach maximum depth at 120 ft of paid out line. Most of the experts now scoring regularly with this tactic are letting out anywhere from 150 - 200 ft of line, sometimes more, usually as much as 170 - 180 ft. The idea at work here is to give the walleye a little room to move back into the trolling lane after your boat's sound and shadow have moved them out.
Work the Boat Most of the time you'll be heading upstream, but there will be current conditions which will require downstream trolling. For example, upstream trolling may increase line drag and pull your lure line up. Remember, the idea here is depth, lure action and speed.
Cover the Water The speed aspect of this technique gives you the advantage over the jigger or slow troller when fish are hard to find or scattered. Play the structure. The best is long, stepped cliffs and ledges running up and down the river or along lake drop-offs. There's plenty of that, hundreds of yards if not miles of continuous structure. It's perfect for power trolling. Locate a shelf or ledge with a break point at 20 to 30 ft and troll the length of it, then work the ledge sides on deeper shelves for suspended fish.
Sharp Hooks pay off!
These top-quality, high-carbon steel, ultra-fine tooth files are available in two sizes (4 1/4" x 5/8" and 5 1/2" x 3/4") and four models (tang-end, thumb handle, unbreakable plastic handle and with a lanyard and snap). Keep the file clean and dry and occasionally spray it with a non-corrosive lubricant such as WD-40 to prevent rust.
Features Include: Fine-toothed High-carbon steel Sizes: 4¼"x 5/8" & 5½"x 3/4"
About $5.42 ea. 800-535-1711 order@luhrjensen.com
Available online http://www.luhrjensen.com/
Luhr-Jensen™ Javelin Shallow Runner New for 2003, the Javelin Shallow Runner has been added to the Javelin family of casting/trolling stick baits. Originally designed for surf casting long distances or into strong winds, the Javelin has since been found equally effective in lakes and rivers for tiger muskies, pike and other hard fighting species. A heavyweight casting or trolling minnow, it dives to 2-3 ft.
Both the Javelin and Javelin Shallow Runner come in 15 colors and 5 ¾" length and retail for the same price.
Features Include: Shallow Diving 2-3 ft Multi-species design Heavy duty construction Comes in 15 colors, Size: 5¾"
About $10.27 ea. 800-535-1711 order@luhrjensen.com
Available online http://www.luhrjensen.com/
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Yamamoto 6.5" 7X Cut Tail worm First new innovation for 2003
Here's one of Yamamoto's newest baits to kick off the 2003 season! Yamamoto has just created his own best competition to rival the Senko, leapfrogging ahead of the field again by building a totally new soft stick bait design, the 7X.
The 7X Cut Tail is everything the 5" Senko is, same salt, same formulation, same density. It weighs the same 3/8 oz and it casts pitches and flips well weightless, even on medium-heavy baitcasting tackle. The 7X has most of its mass up front, yet still maintains a horizontal body posture on the fall. It has a swayed belly like a baitfish, and a prominent diamond-cut tail fin.
The 7X Cut Tail has a more realistic fish-like profile. Other worms often taper to a thin needle tail, however the tail on the 7X is like hoisting a big old flag for all bass to see. It is a very visible tail, telling any bass that an easy meal is here for the taking. The tail fin is almost see-through. It's more translucent than the thicker body. That creates a natural two-tone tail tip effect.
At 6½" long, the 7X Cut-tail comes in 34 bass-catching colors and color combinations as only Gary Yamamoto can make. The Cut-Tail is also comes in 3.5", 4", 4.5", 5" and 5¾" sizes, with the 3½, 4 & 4½" sizes in bags of 20. The other sizes are packed in a bag of 10.
Specifics include: Length – 6½", and 5 other sizes Comes in 34 colors Weight – 3/8 oz. About $5.49 for a bag of 10
800-645-2248 wecare@baits.com
Available online http://www.baits.com
In comparison to the Senko which often works best as a deadstick dropbait, the 7X Cut Tail can dart and wiggle its cut tail on a stop-n-go retrieve. Just reel in a few turns, then pause, which can cause the cut tail to flutter as it sinks on the way down. The 7X Cut Tail not only looks sleek and tapered like a baitfish, but can move like one with practice using this retrieve. Unlike other soft jerkbaits, you don't need to jerk the rod tip to activate the 7X Cut Tail swimming action. Hold the rod tip down, just reel in, then pause, reel in, then pause. That's all that's needed to create great tail flexure and lifelike swimming movement.
When reeled in, the 7X has a lazy tail-flexing, side-to-side darting action. This action begins as a dart in the thick head, and becomes a whip or flex in the thin tail. Very lifelike, it is remindful of the darting, wiggling action of a hard plastic lipped minnow jerkbait.
Hefty and dense, use the 7X Cut Tail weightless or rig it Texas, Carolina, with a screw-in weight or any way you want - it works big time.
Creek Chub® unveils Knucklehead™ Twenty years was well worth the wait.
Creek Chub introduces the
Knuckle-Head, its first new
Equipped with super-strong, heavy-duty, corrosion-resistant hooks for the toughest of sportfish, the super-tough Knuckle-Head will withstand all punishment delivered by the giants its unique action will summon. This five-inch lure is more than saltwater stout. The jointed lure features new “Hold-Tite” technology that links the head of the lure to the body. This new hardware makes the Knuckle-Head a must for trophy-hunting anglers.
It is also extremely castable. Surf anglers along the Atlantic Seaboard from North Carolina to Maine will be able to reach fish and create a splash and roll unlike any bait before it. Creek Chub’s Knuckle-Head is the first lure to combine the irresistible popping and rolling action of a jointed head with the tough build required for trophy fish.
Colors include: Black W/ Red Eye, Yellow Croaker, Baby Striper, Mackerel, Chrome Black, Chrome Blue, Red/White and Parrot. The tail hook is dressed with Marabou Hair.
Specifics include: Size – 5", Weight – 1½ oz, Hook size – #1/0; Cranking depth – topwater.
About - $10.99
501-782-8971
Available Online www.lurenet.com
Cotton Cordell® Introduces Four New Spot Colors Cotton Cordell introduces four new colors in the Super Spot family: Rayburn Red, Watermelon, Gold/Black Back and Fire Tiger.
The new colors will be
available in the 3, 2 ½ and 2"
Specifics include: Up to six colors available Comes in 4 sizes – 3, 2 ½ & 2", Weight – 1/2 to 3/8 oz, Hook size – #4 or #8 for the 2"; Cranking depth –sinker
About - 3.29
501-782-8971
Available Online www.lurenet.com
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product in
20 years. A one of a kind popper, the Knuckle-Head introduces the
new concept of a jointed head that produces a “rolling” action that big
gamefish can’t resist.
