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Today, we are talking about rats. Specifically, the Spro BBZ-1 Rat.
Winner of “Best New Hardbait” at ICAST 2014 and designed by Bill Siemantel, Spro pro-staffer, lure designer and famed big bass hunter; this bait brings together all his experience in one fish catching package.
We have been using rats—well, rat imitations—on the west coast for a number of years. Unfortunately they have been, up to this point, expensive, hand crafted, and difficult to find.
The BBZ-1 Rat 50 has broken the rules for a lure like this. It retails for a very reasonable $30 with two additional sizes that debuted at ICAST 2015 that will be less than the 50 size.
For the time being, we’re going to focus on the 50 and take a look at the spec’s for this bait. [Read more…]
Any discussion of new topwater baits has to include those that have taken not just a small step away from proven older designs but those manufacturers who have completely re-imagined a lure in such a way that it ushers in a new standard for an accepted genre of lures.
Stick baits, or spook style baits have been all the rage for the past several years but we are now seeing an older design resurface.
We’ve been fishing a bunch of new top-water baits lately but as every good angler knows, when you’re fishing top-water, you have to have a follow up bait.
When the air temperatures in this neck of the woods starting climbing into triple digits we go out with one thing in mind, top-water bass.
Since we started ManVersusFish.com, we’ve had the privilege of covering some of the biggest events in fishing.
e, fishing the thick stuff is in full swing which means using some heavy line for specific applications. Today we’re talking about pitchin’ and flippin’ around stick ups, cattails or other heavy vegetation that bass tend to inhabit.
During the post-spawn, a lot of us like to rely of poppers as one of our main baits to target those bass who are guarding fry not to mention the females who are now recovering and feeding heavily.