NEW FOR 2023
JIGS & HARD BAITS
With every new fishing technique and every new lure innovation, one thing remains the same – Strike King’s uncompromising commitment to offering you the very best. Whether you’re fishing for fun or competing in tournaments against the best in the world, Strike King will lead the way. Introducing the 2023 line-up, designed and tested by Strike King Pros to deliver time and time again.
Features:
- KEY SPECS: Finally, a Thunder Cricket bladed jig with a tungsten head for added castability and superior vibration. The super-dense tungsten head of this Thunder Cricket creates a heavier lure in a smaller package. The Tour Grade Tungsten Thunder Cricket casts exceptionally well for a smaller-profile lure, even in windy conditions, and the dense head allows for maximum fish-attracting vibration.
- SUPERIOR ACTION: Strike King’s Tour Grade Tungsten Thunder Cricket features a hand-tied skirt that wiggles and dances like no other. Paired with the tight-vibration of the blade, the skirt imparts an movement that is hard for fish to ignore, resulting in strong reaction strikes.
- VERSATILITY ON THE WATER: The Tour Grade Tungsten Thunder Cricket is an exceptional choice around brush and vegetation. Its thin profile allows it to swim through standing grass well, and the pump of the blade is powerful enough to lure feeding fish out of cover to strike. It can be burned at a fast rate to cover shallow water quickly or can be “slow-rolled” near deeper rock and brush piles, attracting fish as it flutters down.
- READY FOR YOUR FAVORITE TRAILER: the exceptional trailer keeper of Strike King’s Tour Grade Tungsten Thunder Cricket holds soft-plastics like no other, keeping your trailer firmly in place through brutal strikes, hard-fighting fish and hours upon hours of casts. Gone are the days of missing a hookset or ruining the perfect cast because a plastic trailer has slipped down the hook shank.
- Strike King is pleased to offer the Tour Grade Tungsten Thunder Cricket in 14 vivid colors to mimic the natural forage of your favorite fish. It is available for in 3/8 and 1/2 ounce for long-distance casting and fishing deeper structure.
Tour Grade Compact Tungsten Casting Jig
Strike King’s new Tour Grade Compact Tungsten Casting Jig is built with a premium tungsten jig head that is 40% more dense than lead for greater castability, sensitivity and performance. Featuring a premium hand-tied skirt that emits life-like pulsating movement and a heavy wire hook for exceptional hook-setting. Strike King offers the Tour Grade Compact Tungsten Casting Jig in 1/4-, 3/8- and 1/2-ounce sizes and seven vibrant colors.
Features:
- KEY SPECS: Strike King’s new Tour Grade Compact Tungsten Casting Jig is built with a premium tungsten jig head that is 40% more dense than lead, giving the bait the same castability of a much larger lead jig in a small, condensed profile. Anglers have the benefit of being able to downsize their bait while still maintaining enough weight to make long, accurate casts and fish deeper water.
- SUPERIOR ACTION: The Tour Grade Compact Tungsten Casting Jig features a premium hand-tied skirt that emits an enticing, fish-attracting movement at the slightest twitch of the rod. The eyelet angle is set perfectly to impart a life-like swimming movement that sets this jig apart.
- VERSATILITY ON THE WATER: The new Tour Grade Compact Tungsten Casting Jig delivers the versatility serious anglers have come to expect from Strike King. Ideal around vegetation and shallow cover like laydowns, docks and brush piles, and featuring a recessed line-tie to come through cover with ease.
- PREMIUM PERFORMANCE: Pros and weekend warriors alike trust Strike King for second-to-none jig performance. The innovative design of the Tour Grade Compact Tungsten Casting Jig model makes it one of the most sensitive in the Strike King line-up, with the tungsten head transmitting vibration of the slightest bites and the most subtle change in underwater cover. Anglers who fish the Strike King Tour Grade Compact Tungsten Casting Jig find it to be a revolutionary change in jig fishing.
- Strike King offers the Tour Grade Compact Tungsten Casting Jig in 1/4-, 3/8- and 1/2-ounce sizes and seven vibrant colors.
KVD ELITE 300 JERKBAIT
Featuring the same incredible, erratic action KVD Jerkbaits are known for and weight transfer system to maximize distance—KVD ELITE 300 jerkbaits take performance to a whole new level. With 12 premier colors hand-picked by Kevin VanDam, and Mustad® KVD Elite Triple Grip treble hooks, the KVD ELITE 300 Jerkbait lineup is designed to deliver increased success on the water.
FEATURES:
- Tournament ready, right out of the box
- Premier colors hand-picked by KVD
- Comes with Mustad KVD Elite Triple Grip treble hooks.
- Weight Transfer system to maximize distance.
- Year-round lure
CHICK MAGNET JR
Strike King’s Chick Magnet Jr is a 1/4-ounce flat-sided crankbait that is designed with a circuit-board bill. The flat-sided build of the Chick Magnet Jr displaces water and gives the lure a tight wobble that attracts fish. Built to dive 4-6 feet, the Chick Magnet Jr is a downsized version of the award-winning Chick Magnet that was introduced by Strike King in 2021, winning the ICAST “Best of Category” award
FEATURES:
- LEGENDARY swimming action
- PREMIUM hooks
- EXCEPTIONAL versatility on the water
- VIVID fish-attracting colors
- SUPERIOR flat-sided design and circuit-board bill
HYBRID HUNTER SHALLOW
Just like its deeper diving brother, the Shallow Hybrid Hunter is a proven, fish-catching bait. With a distinctive L-shaped bill design, it excels around vegetation, and dives down to 1-3 feet. The Hybrid Hunter’s key feature is its versatility. It can be fished like a traditional crankbait, jerkbait, topwater wake bait, on-and-on the list goes. This lure has a distinctive wobble, a rattle chamber that emits a powerful fish-attracting sound, and an added buoyancy that allows it to rise faster out of submerged vegetation. Bass beware, the Shallow Hybrid Hunter is coming!
FEATURES:
- KEY SPECS: The Shallow Hybrid Hunter is 3.5-inches long, 1-ounce and made to put fish in the boat. Featuring an L-shaped bill, this hard plastic bait dives 1-3 feet for those super shallow fish. It is ideal around submerged vegetation, with a tight wobble and extra buoyancy that allows it to rise faster than traditional crankbaits
- SECOND TO NONE PERFORMANCE: Although this bait was designed to be used around grass, it performs everywhere. From vegetation to wood and rock, the Shallow Hybrid Hunteris a proven fish-catcher. Its key design feature is its versatility, excelling when fished like a traditional crankbait, but also performing like a jerkbait, shallow diving topwater wakebait, on ripping out of grass like a lipless lure. The Hybrid Hunter is truly a hybrid of many lures
- EASE OF USE: The Hybrid Hunter’s extra buoyant body features an unmistakable wobble that is unlike other crankbaits’ action. The design cuts hang-ups and snags to a minimum and drives fish wild
- IRRESISTABLE TO FISH: Featuring an incredibly loud rattle system and a great “hunting” actionwhen deflected off rock, wood and hard cover,the Hybrid Hunter will call fish out of hiding
- REALISTIC AND VIBRANT: Featuring a pair of realistic 3D eyes and available in a variety of fish-catching colors that mimic natural forage
