Entry 133-4

Denny Brauer on Strike King’s New Baits

The Family at El Salto

Denny BrauerEditor's Note: Denny Brauer of Camdenton, Missouri, fishes in all kinds of weather and under many varied water conditions. Since he must know how to catch bass year-round, he's especially excited about Strike King's new offerings for 2005.

Question: Last year you took your son and your grandson to El Salto in Mexico for a fishing trip. What was the fishing like?

Brauer: My 10-year-old grandson, Toby Brauer, is just eaten-up with bass fishing. He's totally convinced that he's going to be the next World's Greatest Bass Fisherman, and he very well may be. He's been fishing bait-casting equipment - since he was only 5-years old. He can flip and pitch like an adult and doesn't use kid's tackle. He uses my rods and reels. When he's flipping and pitching, he's using my 7-1/2-foot Daiwa flipping and pitching rod. When I'm at home, he and I go out one day a week and work on a different fishing techniques. Too, since his dad fishes with him an awful lot, Toby's really learned quite a bit about bass fishing.

Denny BrauerBefore we went to El Salto, I spent quite a bit of time with Toby teaching him how to Carolina rig the Strike King 3X lizards. I thought that would be a technique that would catch those big bass in Mexico. Then when we got to the lake, Toby was whacking the bass and stacking them with that Carolina-rigged lizard. In one day, he caught a 5-1/2, a 6-1/2 and an 8.2 pound bass. There's no telling how many 3- and 4-pound bass he caught. Chad, my son, caught one bass that weighed over 11 pounds on that trip.

Question: Denny, what other new lures are you excited about that Strike King has come out with this year?

Brauer: Three new colors of crankbaits are going to be really good for me this year. Each year I sit down with my tackle box and try and decide what lures I'm going to take out of my box and what new lures I'm going to add. I can only carry so much tackle with me when I go on the road to fish tournaments. I have some lures that I have confidence in that I may say to myself that no one can make a better crankbait than this one. However, this year, I'm going to replace some of my crankbaits with some of the new colors. The chartreuse-root beer and the gray ghost are two colors that have found a place in my tackle box, and I'll have them on the tournament trail in 2005.

Denny BrauerThe other lure that's working its way into my tackle box is the chartreuse shad, a color combination that's difficult to find. Most other lures don't have what I believe to be the right color of brown on their backs. The other lures either have too much of a tan in their brown, they're too dark, or they even may have a black stripe down the middle of the brown. But I believe that the brown in the chartreuse shad is the right brown with just the right color of chartreuse. I believe this bait will be a great pre-spawn bait for off-color water. My son Chad has really gotten excited about the powder-blue 3X crankbait. There are some exciting new colors out this year for the crankbait fishermen to choose.
 

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