Entry 133-5

Denny Brauer on Strike King’s New Baits

I'm Going to Catch Some Bass on This One

Editor's Note: Denny BrauerDenny 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: Denny, we've heard you say that Strike King has a new lure out that's really going to catch some bass. Can you tell us more?

Brauer: Strike King has come out with a lure - Redfish Magic - that will fool a lot of people. It was initially designed for salt-water fishing. However, this lure is extremely deadly on bass, and I'm going to fish it quite a bit this year. I promise you I'll catch some bass on it. I like the way the bait casts, swims in the water and looks coming through the water. If you see the Redfish Magic bait swim in a swimming pool, the first thing you'll say is, "This is a downsized spinnerbait." But it has a different look and a different profile in the water than the standard spinnerbait does. Anytime you can have a different look from a standard lure you can get the attention of bass.

One of the different baits we fished in years past and caught bass on was that little Beetle Spin, the goofy-looking safety-pin bait that had a spinner on the arm and a little jig and grub on the other end of the safety pin. That little bait wouldDenny Brauercatch anything that swam.

The Redfish Magic lure looks like a grown-up Beetle Spin. The bait kind of looks like a flip and spin also and also will be a great drop bait. I've already decided I'm going to experiment quite a bit with this lure this year because it's new for me. I know it will be a great lure for the bass. Here's one of the secrets for catching more bass. Learn to fish new baits and new colors in different ways. Then you can present a bait the bass has never seen before, and this causes the bass to be more attracted to that new lure or that new color and bite better.

One of the misconceptions about professional bass fibass fishermen is that they're constantly fishing new lures and learning to fish new lures and new colors ishermen is that we know how to fish every lure each way you can fish it. But the truth about professional n different ways to give the bass a new look or new action that will solicit more strikes. By the time we learn to fish a new bait, lure or tactic, then within a year or two, a large number of anglers will be fishing that same lure or that same tactic the way we do. The bass get conditioned to seeing that lure or that tactic, and then they don't bite it as readily. This reason is why professional fishermen, Denny Brauermyself included, are always experimenting with various colors and different lures to learn different ways to fish so we have a slight edge when we go into a competition that can help us win.

I say all this to explain that this new Redfish Magic lure is a totally-different bait from anything else we've had. I like it being named Redfish Magic because most bass fishermen will assume it's a salt-water bait and probably won't fish it as much or buy it as quickly as they will a new spinner bait. Then I'll have more time to learn how to fish this bait and develop some new tactics to fish this lure that maybe other fishermen won't find out about quickly. If you want to try a technique that most fishermen won't learn about, then right now is the time to master this new Redfish Magic lure. You can bet that's what I'll be doing this year. And I bet that next year, I'll have some new techniques I can tell you about AFTER I've won some money with this lure.
 

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