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Central Bassman

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RK Grand Master

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Hiya -

Northland has a bunch of new bass stuff coming out this year. Since they signed Dean Rojas, they really went to work on their lineup for bass baits.

They have a bunch of new colors in their Slurpies grubs and Dip Stick (stickbait style) worms, plus a new finesse worm, new beaver-style bait, and a new creature/brush hog bait.

For jigs, they're making a finesse size jungle jig with a flat eye and a football head, a shakey head, a football head (called the Butt Head Jig, which I think is hysterical), plus they updated their jungle-lock head (which is my favorite for pitching in shallow cover) so the wire plastic keeper is molded into the head.

Some more too I haven't seen yet too.

Cheers,

Rob Kimm

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RK Grand Master

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It seems like next season we will see alot of the soft plastic paddletail/swimbait lures. Anyone use these style lures yet?

This past year I had success swimming a senko style stickbait with a flat paddle. I guess these new baits will work the same, maybe better.

Hiya TuTF -

I haven't used the Swimming Senko much really (tried them, caught some fish on them, but nothing magical...)

I do like swimming "boot-tail" grubs though. Great cold front weedline baits. Fish them on a jighead (a ball head or mushroom head's fine. A light football head with a wire weedguard is better yet.) Basically just swim them along as slow as you can and fish the weight of the jig. Most of the time the tail doesn't even wiggle - it just provides lift and flops around once in a while. Mann's used to make a fat-bodied boot tail grub that was great. The Lunker City Grub is pretty good too. Or a Northland Mimic Minnow.

Last season I did start using swimbaits like the Northland Slurpies Swim Shiners and Swim Shads more. Smallies like them a lot at times (although day in and day out I think a 4 or 5" curly tail grub is better), and I did fish them for LMB too. Fun to fish them down a weedline because they catch about everything in the lake - bass, pike, walleyes. Even caught crappies on them here and there. Weird thing is, bass don't hit them that hard - they just sort of swim up and grab them, and the fish is just there - but walleyes murder the things.

Swimbaits like this fish more like a crankbait than a jig really. I fish them on spinning gear with #10 or #14 Fireline and a 4 foot 15# Fluoro leader. Cast 'em out and swim 'em in.

Cheers,

Rob Kimm

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Haven't used the new Stren but I do have the superbraid on my slip bobber set-up (8lb on a 6ft ml spinning) and it casts very smoothly. It's difficult to gauge the sensitivity on that setup but catching panfish on it is a breeze. For my cheap setups it works just as well as powerpro (actually the Stren has given me less trouble, but that may be the reel or rod causing it).

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Vallejo Contributor

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I got to use a Rapala DT Fat SureSet lure this fall and the bass were just slaughtering it. My fishing partner works for rapala and he said that he had a new lure to use this fall. He proceed to catch bass after bass. I had the DT3 Flat in the same color that he had and he proceeded to catch about 6 to each one I would catch. I humbly asked for one and started to catch them at about the same rate as him.

They would hit it when I hit a weed and stop reeling. As the lure would start to rise to surface and wham they would almost take the rod right out of your hand.

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