Thank you for looking. These are some of the latest new items that will be available for sale in painted and finished versions in the store in about 3 or 4 weeks.

There are 5 or 6 other new jig and spinnerbait styles in progress that are not shown here because they won't be ready as soon as the ones below.

3/4 oz Spoon Jig. A thick 7 to 10 inch worm, a 6 to 8 inch swimbait, or any long-bodied soft bait are some of the best dressings to use on this heavy duty 3/4 oz snagless spoon jig. It imparts a wobbling swimming motion to many different soft plastic or pork dressings, with or without a skirt. Depending on what dressing is used, the action can be S-like similar to a snake, a hard whipping action or a fluid baitfish swimming movement. The action can be dialed in by bending the lien tie eye up or down to fine-tune the swimming action of a wide variety of baits you can add. Think of it like the bill or diving lip of a crankbait. You just add on whatever body you like best.

1/2 oz Style T Flipping Jig Spinnerbait. Thanks to its protective wire arm, a spinnerbait  is quite snagless. The arm acts like a blocker for the hook running behind it. Many anglers, however, tend not to toss spinnerbaits into snaggy stuff. They just do not have the confidence they'll get their expensive spinnerbait back out. Now anglers of all skill levels can have more ability and confidence to get this spinnerbait in and out of the toughest cover with this new Style T Flipping Jig Spinnerbait.

In years past, a couple of hybrid spinner jigs (usually with arms much too short and a single Colorado), have come and gone. This spinnerbait is not like them. The arm isn't shortened, and the full features of both a spinnerbait and flipping jig are 100% intact. Nothing's modified, hybridized nor compromised like other spinner jig designs of the past.

Style H Spinnerbait. This new model looks simple, yet it was redesigned three different times until  it was good enough to meet the approval of the industry's most meticulous spinnerbait manufacturer.

All the above models, painted and finished, will be available in the store in about 3-4 weeks.

Thank you for looking.

Deps Buzzjet ~ Wakebait ~ Real Bass

Deps Buzzjet ~ Wakebait ~ Real Bluegill

Deps Buzzjet Jr ~ Wakebait ~ Real Bass

Deps Buzzjet Jr ~ Wakebait ~ Real Bluegill

Deps Radscale ~ Walking Bait ~ Real Bass

Deps Radscale ~ Walking Bait ~ Real Bluegill

The Mikey is not gigantic, but it's a fairly bulky 5-1/2 inch, three-piece jointed bait will dive down to 3 feet on a moderate speed with the rod tip down. It will also create a big wake on the surface water when fished with your rod tip held up. The best retrieve speed is slowly. It's sometimes best  to intersperse sudden stops that cause the triple-jointed body to react nicely (and trigger strikes) in between slow reeling. Even deadsticking on the surface, especially when there's a little wind drift or ripple to bounce the three body parts around, can be effective due to the disjointed nature of the three-piece body.

It's tough to call the Mikey Jr a big bait - but it is bulky for its 3-3/4 inch size. It excels on a slow retrieve. It is at its best when slowly crawled across the surface. At times, experiment with slow steady pulls and pauses. Even deadsticking on the surface, especially when there's a little wind drift or ripple to bounce the three body parts around, can be effective due to the disjointed nature of the three-piece body.

Jackall Mikey ~ Swimbait ~ Aurora Black

Jackall Mikey ~ Swimbait ~ Rainbow Trout

Jackall Mikey ~ Swimbait ~ Tennessee Shad

Jackall Mikey Jr ~ Wakebait ~ Aurora Black

Jackall Mikey Jr ~ Wakebait ~ Chartreuse Shad

Jackall Mikey Jr ~ Wakebait ~ Rainbow Trout

Jackall Mikey Jr ~ Wakebait ~ Golden Shiner

The SSR stands for Super Shallow Running and really, the Aragon SSR is at its best when kept on top of the water's surface. Even when it gets barely subsurface, it often throws a wake.

Like other types of topwaters - poppers and buzzbaits for example - the Aragon SSR also appeals to bass with sound. It is an intense cracking sound that attracts bass to the Aragon SSR. The jointed body produces a tight wobbling action that's very lively - and emits an attention-getting cracking noise whenever the two pieces of the body hit.

Jackall Aragon SSR - Wakebait ~ Chartreuse Shad

Jackall Aragon SSR - Wakebait ~ Tennessee Shad

Jackall Aragon SSR - Wakebait ~ Aurora Black

This lipless crankbait is weighted on the outside of its body. The mouth is a tungsten metal weight. That helps keep the nose down. As the crankbait hits brush or snags, it sort of does a headstand and practically flips over backward, thereby flipping the treble hooks up and over snags.

With the action-balancing weight on the outside, the rattles inside the hollow body chambers are optimized mainly to make fish-attracting noise. The rattles put out plenty of sound, and it is a proven fact that bass like and are attracted to the sounds of rattles hitting against the walls inside a crankbait's body.

Jackall TN70 ~ Lipless Crankbait ~ Tennessee Shad

Jackall TN70 - Lipless Crankbait ~ Chartreuse Shad

We're witnessing an unprecedented shift of techniques the past few seasons (from mid-2005 onward) on the top pro tours in the USA. The legacy and domination of top pro wins with staunch staples like crankbaits, Texas-rigged worms, flipping jigs and spinnerbaits isn't over, but it's not the only way anymore. Lures, tactics and even locations being fished by winning pros are often new and unfamiliar at pro levels. A few examples include mop-sized rubber jigs, saltwater-sized pencil poppers, waking plastic-lipped floating and jointed minnows, plus humongous soft swimbaits to name a few unprecedented approaches we've seen pros embrace and win with lately. Some of these lures and techniques are regional practices not widely-used outside their areas, such as mop jigs in Georgia, big trout swimbaits in California or wiggle diggles (jointed Red Fins) in Missouri for example.

What all these regional favorites have in common is that these techniques are being used (many for the first time) by top pro anglers to win top competitions.

The last 2 seasons, top pros have won and place highly with such new tactics. New, that is, at top pro levels. With the heavy media coverage of top pros on TV and in fishing magazines, these new and often regional tactics become communicated and disseminated to local and recreational anglers everywhere, causing major shifts in lure usage nationwide.

That's not to say every bass angler has gone and gotten a saltwater pencil popper or mop-sized jig, but do you have a Chatterbait due to top tournament successes reported with it in early 2006? Do you have a new interest in fishing deep with football jigs or shakey jigs since top pros have repeatedly won with such jig types by fishing deeper locations the past two seasons? Like many bass anglers, you probably have or will incorporate shakey jigs and football jigs into your repertoire, based on top pro's recent successes with such lures.

The shakey jig in particular was virtually unheard of across much of the country - until top pro anglers started to use them about two seasons back. Since then, due to top pros continuing to demonstrate success with shakey jigs, it is an incredibly popular tactic across the USA today.

Shakey jigs are associated with long, slender finesse worms and with 6, 8 or 10 pound test finesse spinning gear. It's hard to find a winning pro nowadays who isn't using finesse spinning gear as part of his winning methods. Consider however, such finesse spinning gear was relatively unused by top pros until two seasons ago.

Shakey jigs are not really geared toward shallow water or the bank. One accepted way to use a shakey jig is to let it hit bottom in moderately deep water, say in the 10 to 30 foot range. Many anglers believe the shakey jig design will stand a finesse worm upright on its nose (which actually isn't the case much of the time). As the name implies, many anglers then shake the line to make the worm quiver and shake on the bottom. Keep in mind however, it's often the initial fall and touchdown - or it is a lackluster pause in the shaking process, when most bites occur.

The Swimming Shakey Jig you see here can be used and works swell exactly as described in such a bottom-hugging approach. Yet its special value is, as the name implies, swimming and shaking it, keeping it moving above bottom. Swimming and shaking - not bottom-hugging - is what this Swimming Shakey Jig is all about.

The Swimming Shakey Jig you see here is particularly useful for swimming finesse worms or action-tail worms through weeds. It can be swam through weeds emerging close to the surface - or swam through deeper weed beds growing closer to the bottom.

Another great method for the Swimming Shakey Jig you see here, is to swim it and keep it coming at you in open water, anywhere from just below the surface to just above the bottom, and all mid-level depths in between. In Japan, they've defined this very tactic. They call it "mid-strolling."

It is done with finesse spinning gear, a finesse worm (or similar soft bait) equipped with a light jig head.

Mid-strolling is a technique whereby a Japanese angler casts out and will softly shake the rod tip ever-so-gently little by little and have the lure swim back to the angler anywhere from 3 to 15 feet deep in the middle range of the water column - slowly. The retrieve speed can be from zero (just letting the lure pendulum fall back toward you with no reeling) to whatever reeling pace is needed to maintain a target depth level. That is, you should reel slower to maintain a 15 foot depth level, often requiring momentary pauses in the retrieve. Brief pauses in the reeling not only help the jig counter its tendency to ride up higher in the water, but the brief pauses are also high percentage strike moments. During the pause, the jig will reverse its tendency to rise and it will instead want to settle lower. When reeling is resumed, the jig will again want to ride up again. The momentary up-down-up effect when you pause is a natural strike trigger.

So you will need to reel slower (often requiring pauses) to maintain a deeper strolling level. You will need to reel a little quicker (with the rod tip up) to maintain a higher (say a five foot) strolling level through the water column.

What anglers in Japan do during the retrieve, they shake it maybe 75% of the time. The other 25% should be equally-spaced, short intervals when it falls or glides slowly. Think of three slow turns of the reel (75%) while lightly shaking, then one slower, steady turn (25%) without shaking.

The mid-strolling technique excels under tough conditions, or whenever bass are suspended at mid-levels in the water column.

5 Swimming Shakey Jigs ~ 5/32 oz ~ Red Gill Flash

5 Swimming Shakey Jigs ~ 1/8 oz ~ Black