Category: Spinnerbait
Giveaway: You Too Can ‘Death Shimmer’
[This giveaway is now over. Congrats to the winners!] Speaking of bait names, how ’bout that Death Shimmer spinnerbait you read about here a while back? The name alone got me to check into it, so a good name. Caught up with Rich Lau, the Death Shimmer namer, inventor, owner, to ask a few questions. [...]
Do You Ever Go Pink? Or Pinky-Dink?
Don’t mean “K-Pink,” but spinnerbait. Remember the old Color-C-Lector? (Wait – I think they still sell it!) Anyhow, believe it used to/still does recommend the color pink for dirty water. Real dirty. Never bought it. Not that pink wouldn’t work, but that it’d work better than another color the basses could see better (imo) in [...]
Do You Use Titanium Spinnerbaits?
Are you old enough to remember Jimmy Houston and Terry Bradshaw hawking Terminator titanium spinnerbaits in a TV infomercial? Believe it was in the late ’90s, unfortunately not YouTube. Dang, some money was poured into that puppy. If’n you recall, the “lure” (he he) of titanium was its flexibility: as in, no more time wasted [...]
Any Night-Bassin’-Only Baits Out There?
Was reading the other day an old article about short-armed spinnerbaits. In it Basil Bacon was talking about when spinnerbaits were first used in bassin’. Said they were first used only at night – I’m guessing because they don’t look remotely like anything natural. Then at some point a brave bassin’ soul decided to try [...]
Have You/Would You ‘Death Shimmer’?
Don’t know where we ran across this either, but have you heard of the Death Shimmer spinnerbait? Gotta love that name, man! Here’s the deal, from the so-so website: “Our patent pending arm causes enormous amounts of drag and resistance as the lure comes through the water. The various offsets are strategically placed to load [...]
One Reason KVD Fishes So Fast
Why does Kevin VanDam fish so fast? He doesn’t think he does, but he does. Dude is making a zillion casts while that little alien in his head makes real-time tweaks to presentation, bait and whatever other factors go into those calculations in alien-ville. Stumbled onto a spinnerbait article the other day, ran on bassmaster.com [...]
Giveaway: Are You Ready To Go Mega?
What are some of the hottest baits in the entire universe right now? Who makes ‘em? You got it: Megabass. The good folks at Megabass USA and the semi-good folks here at BassParade and FishingGold! have teamed up to give away not one but two freakin’ amazing Megabass Tournament Starter Packs, which include (one of [...]
Ken Cook on Turning Pro, Classic Win
Most of his derby fish were caught on a… Ken Cook, 64 and now retired, was one of the three men inducted into the Bass Fishing Hall of Fame this year, and like all pro fishermen has a ton of great stories. Here are a few that were recently in The Oklahoman newspaper: Start I [...]
