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TRIKA Casting, Spinning Rods

Thursday, April 6, 2023 By Tony Jenniges

By Tony Jenniges
Bass Fan Contributor

When I'm testing out a rod, I do my best not to dig into the details like cost, components or other things that may give me a heads-up on what to expect. I want the rod to speak for itself. more

DT Flat 03
Thursday, November 29, 2007 By Terry Brown
Rapala has a long and rich history of creating balsa baits that catch fish. Whether it was the Rapala Minnow first carved by Lauri Rapala to help him put food on more
Little John Crank
Friday, November 2, 2007 By Terry Brown
Over the years, I've been fortunate to have several companies ask my opinions on baits. I get to see tons of prototypes and baits that companies may only be thinking more
Oxbow Sunglasses
Monday, October 29, 2007 By Terry Brown
I remember buying my first pair of sunglasses specifically for fishing. They were a $12 pair of Bill Dance glasses that I bought at Wal-Mart, and if my memory serves more
1/2-Ounce Football Head
Thursday, October 25, 2007 By Terry Brown
Each year it seems a new "super bait" phenomenon hits the bass-fishing marketplace. Sometimes thee tool is actually new and innovative, but rarely does more
Oxygenator Pro Livewell Flush Mount System & U2 Pro Formula Livewell Conditioner
Wednesday, October 17, 2007 By Terry Brown
What's the most important ingredient in bass fishing? Is it the boat? The rod and reel? The line? Nope. It's the fish.
Our most precious resource in bass fishing more
Elite Tech Drop Shot Rod
Friday, October 12, 2007 By Terry Brown
A technique that's become overwhelmingly popular over the last 5 years is the dropshot. As BassFans know, it's basically a reverse Carolina-rig that's perhaps the more
XS1000
Friday, September 28, 2007 By Terry Brown
When you hear the news that a group of diehard anglers are about to build a new state-of-the-art reel that'll be American made with American parts – and that it more
Dean Rojas Hydro-Pop60
Friday, September 21, 2007 By Terry Brown
The idea of utilizing professional anglers to design and develop baits has been around for eons. Spro has added some intricacies to that formula and has come up more
Minn Kota 101 Maxxum Pro/Humminbird 797 c2 SI
Thursday, September 13, 2007 By BassFan Staff
Matching up your truck with your boat in terms of color, towing power requirements and, of course, bling is important, and many anglers do their best to make sure more
Elite Tech Flippin' Stick
Monday, September 10, 2007 By BassFan Staff
Fenwick's a longstanding, top-notch rod company known for innovation and quality. In recent years, it continued to build a quality product, but somewhat fell from more
Ole Monster
Tuesday, August 21, 2007 By BassFan Staff
Some baits are fish-catching mainstays despite the lack of fanfare around them. They keep catching bass year after year, but because they aren't the newest or the more
Revo Premier
Friday, August 10, 2007 By BassFan Staff
We begged and pleaded, called in tons of favors, and unleashed spies who nosed around every nook and cranny of the Abu Garcia offices in Spirit Lake, Iowa. The more
Super Speed Craw
Tuesday, June 12, 2007 By BassFan Staff
Just about the time you thought nothing new could be done to a crawfish imitator that would be cutting-edge among plastic baits, Zoom comes along and builds a better more
SaberTail Tube
Wednesday, June 6, 2007 By BassFan Staff
When the new products hit the streets every year just before ICAST, we're like kids in a candy store. This year has been no exception.
A couple of weeks more
Skinny Dipper
Tuesday, May 22, 2007 By BassFan Staff
Ever heard of a bait from Reaction Innovations called the Sweet Beaver? If not, you either don't fish, or live in a cave.
Without question, Reaction Innovations more
C-4 Elite Series Crankbait
Saturday, April 7, 2007
When Hunter Cole, marketing director at Mann's Bait Co., called the new C-4 crankbait a crashbait, we said, "What?" We'd never heard that specific more
3258 FlipSider Hybrid Satchell
Friday, March 23, 2007 By BassFan Staff
BassFans, by nature, are outdoors people. And just like us, they take storage seriously. There's just nothing in the world more frustrating than losing (or forgetting) more