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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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