Salamander Sinkers Tie On Sinkers

Salamander Sinkers are a snag resistant, lead free fishing sinker perfect for smallmouth, walleye and steelhead. These tie on sinkers are made of rubber, steal weights, a stainless steel wire to hold it all together and topped off with a swivel to prevent line twists. The Drop Shot Sinkers shown here sell for $2.49 (2 per package) and the larger inline sinkers sell for $4.99.

Salamander Sinkers unique design uses steal weights to counter balance the natural buoyancy of the rubber body, which is snag-free and absorb vibrations to give increased sensitivity. We’ll see if they live up to the hype by putting them to the test this year.

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RedRam Everyday Merino Reviewed

It’s not everyday that I get to write articles about underwear, but you can probably bet that when I do, you’ll want to read it. Either for some enlightening retrospective on boxers versus briefs, or the punchline.

Well this is entirely different, and there’s no punchline. This is to let you know that I’ve posted the review of RedRam’s pure merino wool thermal undergarments. You can check out the first impressions from several weeks ago, or just dive right in to the full review.

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Snap Shot Ruler: The Review!

The Snap Shot Ruler is a bright vinyl fish ruler that easily fits in your tackle box and quickly deploys into a 40″ vertical ruler perfect for photos. It also features a clip at the top designed to attach to vertical fish grips and scales, and small weight at the bottom keeps the ruler hanging straight down.

We received several Snap Shot Rulers from the manufacturer, Shoreland Outdoors, and decided to take one for this review and give the rest away to our visitors*. The Snap Shot Ruler seemed to be perfectly adapted to the type of fishing I was planning on doing this year, mostly river fishing and fishing on multi-day portages in Algonquin Park. Having a tool that is lightweight, easy to roll/pack up, and very quick to deploy is invaluable in these situations. So did the Snap Shot Ruler live up to my expectations? Keep reading to find out!

* There is still one way to win a FREE Snap Shot Ruler at the time of this publication, and you can win it by following us on Twitter and re-tweeting our post about this review.

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Big Smallie Tackle – First Impressions

We’ve mentioned Big Smallie Tackle before when we compared them to Rockstar Lures, and no they’re not actually related in any way other than being fantastic handmade lures! Big Smallie Tackle are handcrafted hair jigs with “unmatched attention to detail” according to their creator Ryan Lampe and that’s no marketing fluff. Ryan leaves the fluff to his handpicked choice of high quality hair and feathers used to create these fantastic jigs.

I received my small collections of jigs in the mail last week, all individually wrapped in small ziplock bags. Though they came packed nearly flat in the bubble envelope they were shipped in they puffed up very nicely with only a little shake. So far, I’m very impressed with the quality of Big Smallie Tackle’s jigs and I have a feeling these are going to make those Toronto Island spring pike go crazy!

More photos after the break!

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Pure Alaska Salmon Review

I published this full-length review of Pure Alaska Salmon’s wild-caught canned Alaskan Salmon yesterday, but I’ve been so busy I forgot to post it to the main page. So here it is, I hope you’re hungry!

It’s been a while since we had a post as mouth-watering as this one, that’s normally Adam Guy’s arena these days. But despite the fact that I’m a good cook and a fisherman it’s not all that often that I’m eating fish at home. In fact, the last time I had a diet where I was eating fish consistently was in La Paz, where we ate Dorado, Snapper, and even Marlin and Tuna. Even then I left most of the cooking to friend and chef Micheal Leary. Still, I think I came up with a few really nice dishes made with Pure Alaska Salmon’s wild-caught canned salmon, like these fish cakes.

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Phantom Lures: First Impressions

In the past few years I have fished with a lot of great muskie anglers and they have all had one thing in common besides their love of muskie – they all had Phantom Lures in their tackle box.

Phantom Lures are high quality glide baits that are made in the good ole U.S.A. They feel like they are made of wood but are made of a solid, high impact polymer. The moment you lay eyes on these lures you can tell they are built to endure. Each lures is hand painted, covered with thick epoxy and assembled with heavy duty triple split rings.

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