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The largest fishing tackle trade show, ICAST, was held this past July in Orlando. Itโs the venue where the tackle business showcases its finest wares and brings out new products to lighten the wallets...
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Resurrection and Reinventionโฆ Rebelโs TracDown Ghost Minnow and the new Lindy Lilโ 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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Thin is Inโฆ Power Pro is a preeminent braid brand. Itโs been in the business since gelspun polyethylene (thatโs superline in case you were wondering) became the line of choice for many fishing...
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Hot to Troutโฆ Rapala is the company that introduced the minnow-style bait to the world. And now itโs come out with another innovation: the โScatterโ lip design that makes a bait move like itโs alive....
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Keep Your Cool, Manโฆ Donโt know about you, but Iโve 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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Here Salmon, Salmon, Salmonโฆ If youโre the suspicious type, toss the yellow-skinned jinx out at the launch ramp and give the banana bread in your buddyโs lunch to someone on the bank. Fishing is not...
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No More Downrigger Bluesโฆ Big C Tackleโs 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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Just Enoughโฆ 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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Itโs All In The Tipโฆ Finding the perfect tool for a specific job is always rewarding. Thatโs especially so when youโre talking about tools for fishing instead of tools for something like, well, yard...
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Light Upโฆ. 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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Smokey Goodโฆ Just as Texas has brisket and Tennessee has barbecue (and here weโre talking pulled pork because there is no other kind of barbecue), we in the Northwest have smoked fishโwhether it is...
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ย High Floaterโฆย When is a plastic egg not a plastic egg? The answer is when itโs made of ElaZtechโa proprietary material produced by ZMan Fishing Products. The company has a line of soft baits that,...
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ย Sharp is as Sharp Doesโฆ Daiichiโs 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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ย Storm(r) Shelterโฆ I donโt 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 heavyโthe kind of...
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ย Speckled Trout(?) Baitsโฆ In parts of the South, fishermen call crappies โspeckled trout,โ probably through wishful thinking that these tasty panfish were really trout. Whatever the reason, crappies...
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ย Small Can Be Very, Very Goodโฆ ย If you follow Yakima Bait Companyโs Facebook page you have seen the many rave reviews for the new FlatFish. Itโs the Mag Lip 3.0, a smaller version of the very popular...
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ย Stormproofโฆ Growing up in the Pacific Northwest as I did, I like foul-weather gear that works. Iโve duck hunted in sleet and wind, and Iโve fished for walleyes where we had to shovel snow out of the...
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ย A New Hooch In Townโฆ 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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ย VendettaโThe Next Generationโฆ 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 โWhat next?โ I canโt address...
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ย Head of the Clanโฆย 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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