ICAST 2011 | Jackall Impresses with Technology Based Tackle
Posted by Jason Sealock on Fri, Jul 15, 2011 @ 04:31 PM
We always like to go to the Jackall booth and talk shop with our friend David Swendseid. He studies tackle to the nth degree, and can talk about why a bait is different from another better than just about anyone in the business. So we saw several of the Jackall products in the new Product Showcase so we wanted to get the run through on the new technologies in tackle from Jackall.
The first bait he showed us was the Aska 60SR. It's a high quality squarebill crankbait. The lip is made of a fiberglass material and it has no rattles in it whatsoever. It's also built along the same science as the MC/60 SR so it tracks true as it deflects off cover and doesn't roll up on its side. It comes in 8 proven colors. The bait is 2 1/2 inches and weighs 3/8 ounce.
The next lure we studied was their new hollow body frog, the Iobee. The Iobee was designed by polling several accomplished anglers and having them list all the modifications they make to frogs. They came up with 17 modifications they do to improve their stock frogs and those adjustments were included in this frog. Things like a beveled edge on their rear weigh to keep the hook where it's supposed to be. A drain hole for water, a dual weighting system, round rubber legs that float, angled upward hooks, soft body for easy hookup, deeper keel so it immediately starts walking on the first twitch. All of these things turn this into a must have frog overnight.
The Super Cross Tail Shad is an evolution of the their popular Cross Tail Shad. This bait comes in nine new lifelike finishes. The translucent colors actual act a bit differently than the solid colors in that one will sink a little and one floats more so you can give your baits subtle different actions just by changing colors in the baits.
The new Clone Fry and Clone Gill are good dropshot baits. They are lifelike plastics that closely mimic long slender narrow minnow profiles and short, round panfish profiles. They are also dynamite bed baits just hopped and inched through a bed. Bass can't stand them.
They also added new colors to one of our favorite baits, the Squirrel DD deep jerkbait. The new Super Shad and Secret Shad are going to be killers on lakes we fish.
We'll have more information on these baits once we've had time to test them.