Archive - March 2007 New half-size ~FINESSE SKIRTS~ added to the storePosted Mar-29-07 09:54:24 PDT Updated Mar-29-07 09:56:04 PDT Finesse Skirts. These are made of the same silicone material and have the same number of strands - 44 to 50 strands - as standard skirts but are half the length of standard skirts. The strands are locked in place with a thin clear application of silicone adhesive in between an inner core collar and outer rattle ear band collar (rattles not included). The strands can't hardly move or get pulled out of place.
The price is $1.99 for a pack of five (5) skirts all the same size and color. Top Down : Brown Purple; Black Brown Craw; Black Blue Flash; Watermelon Candy Sunfish
New ~JACKALL MUSCLE DEEP CRANKBAITS~ added to the storePosted Mar-29-07 07:58:18 PDT Muscle Deep. Jackall's latest crankbait, New for 2007. This new crankbait was created using cutting edge technology. Prototype baits are designed using a computer to generate a three dimensional image of the lure, which is then created by a machine that can shape the bait and reproduce it from the computer image within minutes. This allows Jackall to create different design opti The secret to the Muscle Deep's success lies in its moving weight system that allows longer casts, deeper retrieves and most importantly, better action than ever before. ons quickly and allows their pro staff to field test more bait variations rapidly.
Jackall Muscle Deep 15+
Jackall Muscle Deep 10+
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New ~JACKALL JERKBAITS~ added to the storePosted Mar-29-07 07:57:03 PDT Jackall lures are highly-respected by bass anglers in Japan and are just beginning to become available in North America for the first time. Company chief Ty Ono is a leading tournament angler in Japan, and he's hand-picked Jackall's very best models and colors for his company's North American debut. Overall, Jackall produces four plastic-lipped minnow jerkbaits. Used together, all 4 models of the Jackall jerkbaits,represent a complete set of jerkbaits to fish from shallow to deep in the water column:
Jackall Squad Minnow. Jackall's latest jerkbait. New for 2007. The Squad Minnow includes darting and stop and go action. The weight system is the reason why the minnow is able to create a great darting action. Also, once you stop your rod, the action quickly stops as well.
Jackall Smash Minnow. Has a more exaggerated darting action and a special weight distribution system that enables super long distance casts.
Jackall Squirrel. This jerkbait has a long bill which makes it possible to dive deeper. It produces a tight wobbling action and has a life-like stop-and-go action.
Jackall DD Squirrel. This jerkbait has a long bill which makes it possible to dive deeper. It produces a tight wobbling action and has a life-like stop-and-go action.
New ~SWIMMING SHAKEY JIGS~ added to the storePosted Mar-24-07 10:26:20 PDT
Getting the most out of swimming soft baits is the raison d'etre for this swimming shakey jig head. The jig is optimized for swimming style soft baits like Gary Yamamoto's Swimming Senko, single tail grubs or any other brand or model of soft plastic bait used with the swimming method. However, it will work swell with straight-tail worms, small craw worms or any other soft baits that can be rigged on it. It is not designed to bounce bottom, although it can do that perfectly. It is purposely designed and optimized to swim soft baits: 1) near the surface, such as over and around weed beds, 2) to swim through suspended bass at any mid depth in the water column (called "mid-strolling" in Japan), and 3) for swimming soft baits deep and slow close to the bottom. It is a swimming shakey jig.
The same size 4/0 Mustad Ultra Point round bend hook is used in both the 1/8 and 5/32 oz jigs. This strong medium wire hook matches well with 6, 8, 10 or up to 12 lb test line. The hook has an extremely low angle eye positioned to shed weeds and debris as the jig swims through cover. This jig and hook work best with finesse-sized soft baits and finesse fishing rods/reels/lines in the 6, 8, 10 class range, up to 12 pound test. On such gear, the jig can handle something up to the size of a 5" Senko or 5" Swimming Senko with ease. The hook point can be rigged exposed for fishing open water, tex-exposed for light to medium cover, and Texas rigged for dense cover as shown here:
Don't screw the bait down too tightly too close to the jig head. There are more than enough turns on the screw wire so that just a few turns will attach a soft bait more securely than most any other means of attachment including glue. So don't screw the bait on too tightly. In fact, try to "suspend" the bait relatively set back from the jig head on the wire coil. One common theory with jigs is to incorporate the jig head as a part of the bait presentation. An example is a jig head shaped like a fish face with eyes, realistically etch gills, etched fins, etc. With the swimming shakey jig here, it is not part of the bait presentation. Don't try to incorporate it as the head of the worm or bait. It is only a dot of ballast strategically suspended on the hook wire in order to aid casting distance, accuracy and most importantly, to govern proper swimming balance of a soft swimming bait. With some colors, such as the red-painted jigs, they also add a small spot of color flash, but it would be wrong to think of the jig head as the worm or bait head. It's just a strategic blob of balance weight put there to help make soft swimming baits swim at their very best. You'll see this in action when you start swimming a few baits with this jig. This jig is so perfectly balanced that even an ordinary Senko (can one call the Senko ordinary?) on the swimming shakey jig will swagger and sway, squirm and squiggle like a live earthworm that's fallen into the water. Just use a semi-tight line fall, and the Senko will vibrate both its tips, undulate its body in an oscillating S movement as it falls on a semi-tight line. A Senko makes the same famous shimmy and shake on the swimming shakey jig as when a Senko is fished weightless. With the jig of course, it's a faster fall and gets deeper than a weightless Senko, yet has the very same tip movement and body vibration. The jig head lets you fish a Senko faster and deeper than possible weightless, without any loss of squirm or squiggle as it falls on a semi-tight line. Once it reaches bottom, wait a spell and then start a series of slow lifts followed by pauses. The lifts will raise the Senko above bottom, attracting attention. On the pauses (with a semi-tight line) the Senko will wriggle and squirm like alive as it glides forward and toward the bottom again. Repeat the lifts and pauses is all you need to do. It's too simple and devastating in its effectiveness. There's no better way I know to fish a weighted Texas-rigged Senko.
Hot new skirt color ~WATERMELON CANDY~ added to the storePosted Mar-19-07 20:00:20 PDT
Watermelon Candy Skirt. In soft plastic lures, watermelon candy has been a wicked clear-to-stained water color in the southeast and south central states of the USA for many years. Now for the first time ever, watermelon candy is available in a skirt. Just like the tried and true soft plastic bait color, this skirt has the desirable translucence so you can see through the watermelon color, and glistens with ample purple and metallic green flake. It's an instant classic skirt color available only at Bassdozer. Please enjoy.
New ~SKIRT COLORS~ added to the storePosted Mar-18-07 18:53:27 PDT These EZ skirts have been on the market about two years already, but are still relatively hard to find. They're still considered fairly new and untried by the majority of anglers. They have great wriggling movement in the water, and are so, so easy to get on or off a jig, spinnerbait or buzzbait. The skirts stay firmly in place. Striking fish really can't pull the skirts down easily (if at all) and the skirt strands are looked permanently and perfectly in position. Baitfish or multi-color patterns can never get jumbled up or out of kilter. The EZ skirts present a sparse see-through appearance. The tail ends look square-cut in photos. When being retrieved however, the skirt tips all pull in close together into a tapered point like the tip of an artist's paintbrush. Some people describe the skirt appearance as a "bloom" since the skirt's shape looks like a closed rose or tulip bud that had not yet blossomed. There's an incredible amount of shimmy, squiggle and breathing pulse the skirt displays on the retrieve. When paused, such as when a jig rests on bottom, the strands spring open like unfurling a picnic blanket, presenting the jig trailer in the middle.
Two new ~SKIRT COLORS~ added to the storePosted Mar-17-07 10:34:12 PDT
New ~WATERMELON CANDY~ Shakey Jigs added to the storePosted Mar-15-07 15:02:39 PDT This is a new color for the shakey jig heads - the dark green pumpkin base really brings out the lustrous sheen of the purple flake topcoat. It's a better-looking, far more attractive color in reality than in the photo. One important point is that although the flat face plate lets this shakey jig stand flat-footed on bottom (even if just momentarily), it will eventually keel over as all shakey jigs will keel over. However, due to the oblong sideways shape of the head, this shakey jig will often remain with the hook upright, and since the worm is elevated above the jig, it keeps the worm pointing upward at a 30 degree angle. In other words, the head tends to take a three point stance (the two tips of the head and the back of the hook shank equals the three perch points). That three point stance keeps the worm elevated above the bottom even when not standing up on the flat face. So if you look at the photo, four of the jigs are standing flat on their faces, but what I am talking about here is the fifth jig is in the three-point stance that keeps the worm elevated above the jig head and pointed upward at about a 30 degree angle. Most other shakey jigs cannot maintain this kind of three point stance that keeps the jig upright and worm pointing upwards. Most other shakey jigs roll over on their sides and put the hook and the worm in the dirt.A second important point is the worm is never solidly and immovably fixed to the jig - ever. It is as if the worm is cradled in a free-swinging tree hammock. The worm is not permanently fixed to the jig - it is suspended in between the wire coil and the embedded hook point. This feature sets this shakey jig apart from other jigs that affix the worm head immovably to a permanently molded-in coil, or that affix the worm head using an immovable keeper collar on the hook shank. Since it is not affixed to the jig head, the worm remains as flexible and unfettered and independent as possible on the shakey jig shown here.
Get FREE Bassdozer Bumper Stickers for Your Bass Boat & Truck!Posted Mar-07-07 09:16:20 PST Avid bass anglers can now get two free Bassdozer bumper stickers.
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Black Chartreuse Color. This is a classic color. It has a solid black dorsal swatch over black fishnet shoulders. The shoulders are dusted with fine silver glitter, fading to a rich chartreuse sides and belly. The nice part about the thin orange belly swatch is that it does not run from nose to tail. The orange belly swatch is only where the belly treble would lay back against the belly. This creates more of a strike focus for the fish to target the ripe orange belly and therefore the belly treble. The visually-dominant black side puffs also pull the fish eye's focal point (and therefore the strike) toward the belly treble area.
Scared Shad Color. It has a slim black stripe on top of its back, gray shoulders, plus a vibrant pink lateral blush and pearly white belly. The entire body has a rich, shiny hologram sparkle glitter topcoat for the ultimate life-like sheen. The black top stripe is slender and appears to squiggle and squirm as the crankbait rolls side-to-side. The hyperactive visual quiver of the black stripe becomes an exciting strike inducement for a fish. Many other crankbaits have wide black backs, but lack the slim black line that is the hyperactive squiggling strike enticer on the Scared Shad. This black stripe is a natural color phenomenon that highly-excited shad display at times. Usually it occurs at moments during the spring spawning run and again during the fall false spawn when shad again run shallow and become vulnerable, shad may exhibit this black back stripe color. The black stripe may be a spawning cue or it may be a fear reaction or simply the result of high activity and excitement within the shad school. It could be a signal to school more tightly. When shad are emitting this black stripe, a tightly-clustered school can look like a black cloud or ominous dark black shadow moving through the water. I have no idea why shad show this black stripe at times, but it is usually when they are active, moving quickly in risky shallow areas where they are vulnerable to being eaten. The bright pink side stripes of the Scared Shad color reinforce the illusion of a baitfish that is "flushing" or excited and emitting vibrant color signals. |