| __________________________________________________ March 1, 2005 - Vol. 6 No. 5 __________________________________________________ BECOMING A BETTER CO-ANGLER ~ BY DON ROBERTS In the January/February issue of the Inside Line magazine, Team Yamamoto writer Don Roberts presented the first in a multi-part series on fishing out of the back of the boat. To co-angle correctly, it really is a different fishing style. Click here to read Don's article: JANUARY/FEBRUARY INSIDE LINE SAMPLE ARTICLE http://www.insideline.net/2005/0102.html And while you're there, don't forget to subscribe to the Inside Line magazine, so you won't miss out on the rest of the magazine anymore! Subscribe today. For $15/year, get six big issues delivered to your door and get our SENKO SECRETS and GRUB FISHING SECRETS DVD for free! __________________________________________________ MEGASTRIKE PURCHASES CAVITRON BUZZBAIT COMPANY Bobby Uhrig, President of MegaStrike, Inc. has announced he has reached an agreement with bass pro Lee Bailey Jr. to purchase Bailey's highly successful buzzbait company, Cavitron Lures. Cavitron Lures manufactures the famous Cavitron Buzzbait. Designed and patented by bass pro Lee Bailey Jr, the Cavitron buzzbait has been in production over ten years. MegaStrike Inc. manufactures MegaStrike Fish Attractant, the most technologically advanced and fastest growing fish attractant in the world. The Cavitron buzzbait is the most well known buzzbait on all of the professional bass fishing circuits. It is a proven design that has claimed national championship wins on the Bassmaster Tour. Lee Bailey Jr. cited his extremely busy schedule fishing two national tours as the reason for the sale. "I have a lot of pride in the Cavitron lure and company," said Bailey, adding "I know that Bobby Uhrig will take Cavitron to new levels of success." "This will also allow me more time to concentrate on my professional fishing career," continued Lee. Bobby Uhrig stated he was pleased his well-known fish attractant company was able to buy Cavitron. "Cavitron Lures is a great addition and will further our goal to provide anglers with only the very highest quality products," said Uhrig. "To have a proven product like Cavitron with a great history behind it is a win/win deal for us," stated Uhrig. The Cavitron buzzbait features a precision gold anodized Cavitron prop, a patented "stealth" body and custom oxbow wire bend that sets Cavitron Buzzbaits apart from all others. Cavitron is the slowest buzzbait you will ever use, claimed the company. The Cavitron is a high end buzzbait that comes with the finest quality components. It features a setback Gamakatsu hook that virtually eliminates the need for a trailer hook. Available in three sizes (1/8, 1/4, 3/8 oz) and five colors (black, white, chartreuse, ghost minnow and chartreuse/white) that fish see best. Most other colors catch fishermen rather than fish, so we keep the Cavitron buzzbait colors simple. It works. Cavitron Lures will move its manufacturing operations to MegaStrike's facilities in Jackson, New Jersey. To visit both companies on the web, go to http://www.cavitronlures.com and http://www.megastrike.com. Media Contact: Bobby Uhrig, president/owner, MegaStrike and Cavitron. Phone: 1-866-4-LIMITS __________________________________________________ THE SECRET SPOT I remember some years ago, whether it was seven, eight, ten years back, when red lipless crankbaits ripped in springtime received a lot of press. The stories came out of Texas. It was news. It made the pages of all the magazines then. Of course, nothing in fishing is ever entirely new, especially by the time it hits the national press. So who knows how long or how widespread use of red lipless crankbaits had been before that, but the average angler was unfamiliar with the whole concept. The stories were written as if it was a particularly Texas-centric phenomenon, but any reader anywhere who had the gumption to try it, he or she would see the red rattle baits work at any latitude or longitude where bass swim in cold/cool water from late winter through late spring. This weekend, bass pro Zell Rowland won the BASS Pro Tour event on Alabama's Lake Guntersville with the help of a Cotton Cordell Super Spot lipless rattle bait. Rowland, whose fifth career win pushed him close to the $1 million mark in BASS events, said he relied on a red and a gold 1/2 oz Super Spot for most of the tournament. He caught the rest of his fish on a Smithwick Rogue and a jig. In a press release made by the Cotton Cordell company, they estimate over half of the tournament participants used this lipless crankbait as their primary lure during the tournament. The Super Spot is considered to be a great choice to rip through grass. Bass pro Tim Horton says, "The reason is it comes through the grass unlike any crankbait or any lipless crankbait. The key to getting strikes is being able to rip a bait through the grass and none does it better than the Cordell Spot." Rowland, like Horton, said a Super Spot is better in vegetation because it has a body that is taller from top to bottom. Other more streamlined lipless lures, he said, sink too fast due to their body shape. "A Spot has a little bit more buoyancy to it," Rowland said. "It's easier to fish a Spot. It sits a little bit more head down, so it pulls at a 45-degree angle. Others pull at about 20 degrees. Because of this it pulls with its head down, making it easier to work through the grass. It is 10 times better than the others." "It seemed like everyone we talked to was throwing the Cordell Spot, particularly the Rayburn Red and Royal Shad. It's hard to explain how much better it feels than other lipless crankbaits." Edwin Evers, who finished third and led the tournament until the final day, also threw a Super Spot throughout the tournament. He said he caught the majority of his fish on the Tomato Red color. "I used it because I could reel it real slow," Evers said. "It has a great wobble at a slow retrieve. I can keep the bait up better than the other brands. It works better over the top of the grass." Of course, nothing in fishing is ever entirely new, especially by the time it hits the national press. Nearly three years ago Horton quietly won a tournament on Lake Guntersville with a Super Spot. Team Yamamoto's Takahiro Omori won the BASS Pro Tour event this January on Lake Toho, Florida on Daiwa's Team Daiwa TD Vibration lipless crankbait (gold with black back, Gamakatsu red treble hooks). Cranking lipless rattle baits (1/2, 3/4 and 1 oz sizes) has been a mainstay on the springtime BASS and FLW Pro Tour stops for at least the last few years. And although the stories you'll see are written as if this is a particularly grass-centric phenomenon, nevertheless any reader who has the gumption to try it, he or she will see that the rattle baits work as well on grassless bass in cold/cool water from late winter through late spring. __________________________________________________
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