At first look blade baits appear flat and unappealing. While most anglers just put it in the same category as boring spoons. Nevertheless, cold weather anglers appreciate its fish catching ability. Two companies who make blade baits are Cotton Cordell and Heddon Lures. Both companies offer different color patterns and sizes for anglers to choose from. The Cotton Cordell Gay Blade is shad shaped and compacted in size with 2 line tie holes. While the Heddon Sonar is fish shaped with a turned up tail. The Sonar has 3 line tie holes and available in a rattling model.
I give up! I mean, what else can I say about the Strike King Sexy Spoon that already has not been written. I love the articles that cleverly play on the word sexy. You know the ones. Do you really think that a slightly, curved piece of metal is sexy, tantalizing, lifelike, seductive, curvaceous, or large and in charge? No way! The Strike King Sexy Spoon is simply a spoon designed especially for catching fish when they are located on off shore structure. No one professional angler has profited more by using the Sexy Spoon in bass tournaments than Mark Rose from Marion, Arkansas. Truth be told, part of the resurgence in the popularity of big spoons can be directly related to Rose’s success in bass tournaments. Rose’s technique for how and when to fish big spoons is anything but sexy; however, the results can be very exciting.
In today’s world, it’s all about having your own theme or customizing everything. You can customize your Xbox 360, your desktop, even your iPhone. Why not customize your plain, dilapidated casting or jigging spoons. Just look at them, spoons may be the most unappealing lure anglers fish with…for real, though they hardly look realistic. Just think of how many more fish you could catch by customizing them. Why not put scale pattern decals, 3-D eyes, or a feather dressed tail on them? No doubt about it, the customized spoon will catch more fish.
From the first cast of the day to the last cast, if you are fishing the Zook Presentation Spoon, you will shake all day long. The water will bubble, gurgle, spit, and your rod tip will shake all day long. It’s not your typical fishing spoon. The Zook Presentation Lure swims in a zig zag motion, flutters, and sashays through the thickest cover on the lake.
Floyd E. Lindsey, owner of the Zook Presentation Lure, knew he had something special once he worked out all the bugs of the proto type. The idea came after fishing with another company’s spoon. Lindsey knew that he could make a spoon that would catch more fish. So, he went to the kitchen? What? No, it not a misprint, the proto type was carved out of his wife’s spaghetti tongs over 10 years ago. After having success with the proto type, Lindsey began building the spoons from stainless steel sinks. Today, Lindsey makes the 1/4-ounce and 1/8-ounce Zook Presentation Lure with a metal fabrication machine; the larger 1/2-ounce Zook Presentation Lure is fabricated by another company to Lindsey’s specifications for him. After forming the spoon, each one has a hook added to the lower backend, painted, the weedguard added, and a coating applied to the spoon. The Zook Presentation Lure comes in a variety of color patterns to choose from. Lindsey builds each and every one in his basement.
In Greek mythology, the Cyclops was a one eyed being. The three sons of Uranus and Gaea were said to have been Cyclopes. Each son was a titan, meaning that they were of phenomenal size and strength. Their names were Brontes, which means thunderer; Arges, which means bright; and Steropes meaning lightner, which translates to lightning. All together, they were the producers of Zeus’s thunderbolt and lightning. Just like the Greek Cyclopes, the Mepps Syclops sports just one eye and produces bright light flashes and thunderous results.
In the realm of fishing lures, the jigging spoon may be the most underwritten about and unadvertised. Expensive swimbaits and high tech lures dominate fishing magazines along with tackle store shelves. The jigging spoon gets little fanfare and stuck deep, deep into an anglers tackle box, if they even have one at all. The “catch” to jigging spoons is they produce fish year round but can be pimped out to increase bites.
At first look blade baits appear flat and unappealing. While most anglers just put it in the same category as boring spoons. Nevertheless, cold weather anglers appreciate its fish catching ability. Two companies who make blade baits are Cotton Cordell and Heddon Lures. Both companies offer different color patterns and sizes for anglers to choose from. The Cotton Cordell Gay Blade is shad shaped and compacted in size with 2 line tie holes. While the Heddon Sonar is fish shaped with a turned up tail. The Sonar has 3 line tie holes and available in a rattling model.
