Evolve Baits – The Next Generation of Realism

Hyper-realism is the next stage for the fishing lure industry. Gone are the days of the simple stick bait, the plastic frog, and the mass manufactured paint job. Today, we have baits that look so much like the real thing that you can’t believe they didn’t just coat a real frog in urethane. Evolve Baits are a prime example of this “hyper-realism”.

Evolve Baits are moulded from one of several three-dimensional hand-carved originals and all baits are hand painted and one-of-a-kind! I haven’t seen one of these up-close and in person, but the detail in the images is absolutely amazing.

We’re hoping to get our hands on one or two of these and do a proper full review so stay tuned. More photos after the break!

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Behold The World’s Largest Fishing Lure

At more than 10 feet tall and over 350 pounds this behemoth lure is home to Sandestine Golf and Beach Resort’s Marina just outside of Destin, Florida- which is supposedly the “World’s Luckiest Fishing Village.” This lure is huge, and it looks fantastic. The hooks alone dwarf the previous world’s largest lure by a factor of about 10!

If you liked this you’ll probably also like the million dollar lure we posted over 4 years ago!

IronClad Softbaits, Go Ahead Take A Bite!

It’s not everyday that we get an introduction to a new fishing lure from Popular Science, but that’s exactly what happened. The new softbait created by Ben Hobbins (photo) called IronClads are the winner of a 2009 Invention Award for creating a durable softbait lure that uses a surgical trick to prevent getting torn from hooks, and better yet it’s made from an eco-friendly nontoxic material.

In 2006, Hobbins, an avid fisherman, was really just trying to come up with a stronger version of the lures he was using for ice fishing, when the concept came to him. “I hate rebaiting hooks in zero-degree weather,” he says. A former biotech strategist, he speculated that methods used in the industry for skin grafting—using an expandable mesh to ensure that a graft stays intact and in place—could also work for reinforcing lures. The result was IronClads, which stay firmly on their hooks because of a microtube of polyester mesh that lends strength to the plastic, just as rebar gives tensile strength to concrete. The lures can sustain 93 pounds of tensile strain, so only fish with serrated teeth and considerable heft could possibly bite through them.

IronClads: How It Works: The IronClads’s twin polyester-tube skeleton acts like rebar in concrete, giving the lure the tensile strength to withstand anything but a direct chomp from the biggest, toothiest fish Bland Designs

I’ve sent an email to Ben about getting a pack or two of these for a review. Fingers crossed!!

via PopSci