New For '08

[Central Bassman]

This posted is for all the new products that are coming out for the '08 season. Here is a New Crankbait by Spro

[river rat316]

looks kinda mad

[Central Bassman]

Yea i like that!!! I like the Lucky Craft RC but might give these a try.

[ricqik]

That looks mean, literally. I think the bass would be scared to bite that.

[Slyster]

I really like the color! Really nice.

[EBass]

I'll take a few - those look nice.

[bassNspear]

Its a great looking bait.

[lookincalifornia]

they do look nice, but i've never seen a fish show emotion before

[Central Bassman]

New Strike King Products-

Strike King Tour Grade Football Jig

Strike King Rage Tail Craw

Strike King Rage Tail Shad

Strike King Coffee 4.5" and 3.5"

Canyon Plastics Swim Doctor 6"

[bassNspear]

i like the way the new craws look. GOing to be a great bait for 2008 and beyond.

[olski]

I don,t have any pics. But check out Verticallures. Have any questions about this stuff shoot me an e-mail at [email protected]. I will try and get some pics on the thread.

[TurnUpTheFishing]

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.

[RK]

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

[JP Z]

that Strike king Rage Shad looks weird????

[RK]

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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.

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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

[Central Bassman]

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that Strike king Rage Shad looks weird????

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The Rage Shad is a top water bait with some crazy action. There is a video out on You tube that show you some of the new baits from strike king.

If its ok can i posted a link to it Deitz or Ray??

[Deitz Dittrich]

Sorry, nope, they are not a sponsor.

[Central Bassman]

10-4

[Central Bassman]

I haven't learned much about this line yet but its new from Stren..?

[lookincalifornia]

seems like that line would be great for catfishing.

[Nick Kuhn]

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).

[Central Bassman]

The only braid that i use is Stren Super Braid!!! I have used power pro before but Stren seems to last longer and it also doesnt go flat like some braids do. Im also a big fan of it!!

[bassNspear]

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The only braid that i use is Stren Super Braid!!! \

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Im with you. This line is the Bomb. You can rip it and the fish are going to come rolling out. Awesome line.

[SluggoMaster]

I like Superbraid too. The only thing I have found that is better is Suffix braid, but it's quite a bit more in price.

[Vallejo]

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.