Guiding You In Your Quest For More And Bigger Fish
The Scrounger
Today, let’s look at another piece of terminal tackle that has become the “flavor of the month”, so to speak. The Davis Baits Aaron Martens Fish Swim Jig or scrounger head as it’s known. These jig heads are molded to accept a collar that is made of a flexible clear plastic that when retrieved will impart a subtle side to side motion on fluke style baits. [Read more…]
We discussed spring cleaning for the fisherman and I gotta’ tell you, I did mine and found some things in the terminal tackle box that desperately needed to be replaced, starting with swimbait hooks. [Read more…]
Today’s review is on another new product from Mustad, the Power Grip Pin-KVD Soft Plastics Hook. I needed to replace some EWG’s this year so I figured I might as well try these and see if they really work.
The way these things are designed, they have a small piece of hook wire welded to the shank of the hook on the underside near the hook eye that sticks out about 3/16 of an inch. You thread your soft plastic on the hook just as you would any other making sure to get it over the pin and then just bring it back into place. The small reveal of the pin holds the plastic in place and doesn’t allow it to easily slide up or down the hook shank. [Read more…]