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Go Big or Go Home…
Go Big or Go Home… Dutch Fork Custom Lures makes Ghost spinner blades, and they’ve been in Pro Reports before. The blades are plastic, and as a result are very lightweight—we’re talking potato-chip...
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With Wings On it…
With Wings On it… When you talk about wings and flash, the comic-book character The Flash comes to mind. What the wing-wearing (on his head hoodie, remember?) has to do with fishing, I am not sure....
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Got the Twitch, Get the Twitch…
Got the Twitch, Get the Twitch… Twitching jigs for coho is a relatively new technique in some ways. It wasn’t too long ago that fishermen discovered casting a jig into holding water and then...
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Count Down Made Easy…
Count Down Made Easy… Okuma’s new Cold Water low-profile, line-counter reel is made for a lot of what Northwest fishermen do when they’re chasing steelhead or big trout in reservoirs or kokanee or...
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Getting Nasty…
Getting Nasty… Eagle Claw brought out its line of TroKar hooks, and fishermen have taken to them because they are extremely sharp. The downside of this popularity is that the Lazer Sharp series of...
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A Rose by Any Other Name…
A Rose by Any Other Name… The effectiveness of adding scent to a bait or lure is one of those things on which a lot of folks differ. Some don’t believe in it. Others swear by it, and some folks don’t...
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Floating Down the River…
Floating Down the River… Blood Run Tackle’s floating monofilament was designed with centerpin fishing in mind. The Floating Mono steelhead and salmon mainline does what it says: floats. However, the...
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The Natural Look… Road Runner jigs are real sleepers for trout fishermen, if they are on the radar at all. They are panfish and bass jigs, right? That may be how these jigs are used the most, but...
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Eight is Great… P-Line is a brand well known to steelhead and salmon fishermen, starting with its tougher-than-nails monofilament. That’s not to say that its fluorocarbons are slouches because they...
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Good Vibrations… Bill Lewis originated the lipless, vibrating lure better known as the Rat-L-Trap—one of the all-time great lures for bass fishing. But, wait for it, it’s not only a good bass lure,...
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Head of the Clan… Pflueger has been in the tackle business longer than any of us have been around. While the ownership of the company has changed over the years, one thing has remained constant: you...
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Vendetta—The Next Generation… Sounds like a movie title or new version of a video game, right? Wrong. This is a rod series from Abu Garcia that addresses the question of “What next?” I can’t address...
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A New Hooch In Town… P-Line is well known for the quality of its monofilament, fluorocarbon and braided fishing lines. However, some fishermen also have discovered that P-Line makes lures. One of the...
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Stormproof… Growing up in the Pacific Northwest as I did, I like foul-weather gear that works. I’ve duck hunted in sleet and wind, and I’ve fished for walleyes where we had to shovel snow out of the...
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Small Can Be Very, Very Good… If you follow Yakima Bait Company’s Facebook page you have seen the many rave reviews for the new FlatFish. It’s the Mag Lip 3.0, a smaller version of the very popular...
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Speckled Trout(?) Baits… In parts of the South, fishermen call crappies “speckled trout,” probably through wishful thinking that these tasty panfish were really trout. Whatever the reason, crappies...
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Storm(r) Shelter… I don’t know about you, but I end up fishing in the rain more than I care to. Too often, that rain is Northern Pacific, gutter-filling, stream-bank-overflowing heavy—the kind of...
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Sharp is as Sharp Does… Daiichi’s series of Death Trap trebles includes a killer kokanee hook. Speaking as a user with bloody fingers, the Daiichi trebles might be perfect. I say that because they...
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High Floater… When is a plastic egg not a plastic egg? The answer is when it’s made of ElaZtech—a proprietary material produced by ZMan Fishing Products. The company has a line of soft baits that,...
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Smokey Good… Just as Texas has brisket and Tennessee has barbecue (and here we’re talking pulled pork because there is no other kind of barbecue), we in the Northwest have smoked fish—whether it is...
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Light Up…. Way back when I was a kid, my parents and I used to do a lot of trout and kokanee fishing off the face of the dam at Lake Cushman because my father worked there. Fishing could be good...
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It’s All In The Tip… Finding the perfect tool for a specific job is always rewarding. That’s especially so when you’re talking about tools for fishing instead of tools for something like, well, yard...
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Just Enough… It all started in 1911 when Carl Grunden began making oilskins for fishermen plying the waters of the northern Atlantic. Now, Grundens is a Swedish company known for its raingear. The...
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No More Downrigger Blues… Big C Tackle’s Pro Release is a cure for the problems you are likely to have when using a downrigger. Premature release, um, means you have to start all over again by winding...
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Here Salmon, Salmon, Salmon… If you’re the suspicious type, toss the yellow-skinned jinx out at the launch ramp and give the banana bread in your buddy’s lunch to someone on the bank. Fishing is not...
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Keep Your Cool, Man… Don’t know about you, but I’ve fished a lot during the summer season and in places, like Mexico, where you can fry frijoles on the boat deck. Even the east side of the Cascades...
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Hot to Trout… Rapala is the company that introduced the minnow-style bait to the world. And now it’s come out with another innovation: the “Scatter” lip design that makes a bait move like it’s alive....
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Thin is In… Power Pro is a preeminent braid brand. It’s been in the business since gelspun polyethylene (that’s superline in case you were wondering) became the line of choice for many fishing...
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Resurrection and Reinvention… Rebel’s TracDown Ghost Minnow and the new Lindy Lil’ Guy are new to the scene this year. Both were introduced at the 2015 ICAST fishing tackle trade show. While the...
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The largest fishing tackle trade show, ICAST, was held this past July in Orlando. It’s the venue where the tackle business showcases its finest wares and brings out new products to lighten the wallets...
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