8 minutes ago, Hook2Jaw said:

It does.  I believe I'm about to unload my '17 PA14 and switch to an Old Town Predator, though.  I need some hands free reverse, and from what I can tell the knife of a hull on the Predator is faster than Hobie's offerings.

 

Well, maybe not the Revo 16 or PA17.

Nothing is a fast as a Revo 16, I suppose.

 

And, Hobie appears to have solved the reverse riddle. Just saw a video of how the new drive rotates 360 degrees and its flippers push up and out of harm's way if they encounter something . . . like an unseen log.

 

Alas, Hobies are really testing the limits on price. Oldtown Predator PDLs got a price cut, didn't they, for this year? And, the Predators are super vessels. They are a heck of a value, for sure.

 

Brad

7 minutes ago, 12poundbass said:

Motorguide just introduced their new trolling motor, with a price you might be interested in, plus it says you can hook any brand electronics to it. This is a true cable steer with anchor mode. 

Motorguide just introduced their new trolling motor, with a price you might be interested in, plus it says you can hook any brand electronics to it. This is a true cable steer with anchor mode. 

That sounds perfect, if the price is more affordable and they don't fall to bits.

3 minutes ago, Tim Kelly said:

That sounds perfect, if the price is more affordable and they don't fall to bits.

From what I read the Tour starts at $1399 and the Tour Pro starts at $2299. They are offered in 24 and 36v. 

That's not significantly less expensive than an Ultrex is it? Was hoping they'd manage to drop the price a bit better than that, they'd steal a big share of the market if they did I would think.

 

3 hours ago, Junger said:

I just watched the BR/Garmin Facebook livestream

It's available for replay on our Facebook page. Thanks for watching!

1 hour ago, J Francho said:

Those big boy boats.  I'd prefer the option of a 360 drive on my Compass.

 

I think the Predator is around 90 pounds unloaded.

1 hour ago, Brad Reid said:

Nothing is a fast as a Revo 16, I suppose.

 

And, Hobie appears to have solved the reverse riddle. Just saw a video of how the new drive rotates 360 degrees and its flippers push up and out of harm's way if they encounter something . . . like an unseen log.

 

Alas, Hobies are really testing the limits on price. Oldtown Predator PDLs got a price cut, didn't they, for this year? And, the Predators are super vessels. They are a heck of a value, for sure.

 

Brad

 

Right now they come with a 300 dollar Hummingbird. 

On 7/6/2019 at 5:34 PM, cgolf said:

Anyone know when the Mag Menace will be available? Really hoping they add more colors to the Menace, smoke Purple and Baby Menace, Smoke Purple and Motor Oil Red. 

 

Also any other Rage releases other than the Ned stuff?

Saw on their FB page a Rage punch bug coming out. Kind of looked like a ribbed Menace. 

 

The Lunkerhunt topwater spider looks interesting. The short video they had on instagram showed it definitely had a unique action. It is pretty out of the box thinking, which means someone will point out this was tried before;)

Just caught the new Rage Ned baits on TW and have to say I am disappointed in the prices. It seems all the new Rage baits are 6.99 (Googan Prices) from the Ned baits to the Punch bugs and the magnum menace. I hope the Menace, baby menace and standard structure bugs don't go up as well. I will stock up on Black Friday, but wow to the prices. I guess if people pay it the companies can charge it. If they push up much higher, I will have to go with other options.

29 minutes ago, cgolf said:

Just caught the new Rage Ned baits on TW and have to say I am disappointed in the prices. It seems all the new Rage baits are 6.99 (Googan Prices) from the Ned baits to the Punch bugs and the magnum menace. I hope the Menace, baby menace and standard structure bugs don't go up as well. I will stock up on Black Friday, but wow to the prices. I guess if people pay it the companies can charge it. If they push up much higher, I will have to go with other options.

If they can't out price the real deal Zman stuff that works perfectly as it does then there's no point.  I've been using the same 8 pack of Zinkers that I cut in half for my Neds for the last year and a half.

1 hour ago, moguy1973 said:

If they can't out price the real deal Zman stuff that works perfectly as it does then there's no point.  I've been using the same 8 pack of Zinkers that I cut in half for my Neds for the last year and a half.

hard to beat the long lasting  quality of Zman.  I can usually get zman stuff around $3 these days.  

 

Before all this marketing of the Ned rig and before zman TRDs where easily found or available,  I was purchasing a set of jig heads for a little over a dollar and a pack of yum stickbaits for $3.  I was killing bass with that combo.  I still have tons of both in stock.  I use the zman stuff almost as much, but I like the soft hooks of the jig heads better.  The zman hooks are short, but they will break on you.  I have lost a lot of fish because the hook is broken off.  

2 hours ago, cgolf said:

Just caught the new Rage Ned baits on TW and have to say I am disappointed in the prices. It seems all the new Rage baits are 6.99 (Googan Prices) from the Ned baits to the Punch bugs and the magnum menace. 

A lot of the soft plastic prices are crazy these days...especially when some days you only get a 12oz fish out of each bait.  But the trade off is less fish in regards to the cheaper baits a lot of days.  

10 minutes ago, JediAmoeba said:

A lot of the soft plastic prices are crazy these days...especially when some days you only get a 12oz fish out of each bait.  But the trade off is less fish in regards to the cheaper baits a lot of days.  

i saw this when Lucky Craft first came out, once companies saw some people would pay the extra, brands like Rapala and others suddenly got more expensive. Chatterbaits now that the Jackhammer took off, most new offers are over 10 bucks. Now it is starting in soft plastics. While I understand it, it is frustrating, and does cap what some/many folks/kids can purchase.

The Daiwa Neko worms are one of my favorites to throw but holy crap are they soft...if you throw it a bunch of times or cast too hard it may rip off the hook.  And at .75 cents a worm they get expensive.  Honestly, worm fishing can be more expensive than fishing 25 dollar jerkbaits a lot of days.  Especially in my land of infinite pickerel.

 

It seems the standard price for good plastic worms is approaching that range.

TackleWarehouse has the ICast products up on their page now.

 

https://www.tacklewarehouse.com/icastordering.html?from=icast&utm_source=front_page&utm_medium=banner&utm_campaign=190710_icast_video_coverage&utm_content=new_product

1 hour ago, JediAmoeba said:

The Daiwa Neko worms are one of my favorites to throw but holy crap are they soft...if you throw it a bunch of times or cast too hard it may rip off the hook.  And at .75 cents a worm they get expensive.  Honestly, worm fishing can be more expensive than fishing 25 dollar jerkbaits a lot of days.  Especially in my land of infinite pickerel.

 

It seems the standard price for good plastic worms is approaching that range.

Softer than a senko? 

Those new Tatula 100s......man. Is the Flip/Pitch spool as close to a Tat100SV we are going to get? Love that matte grey look too!

https://www.tacklewarehouse.com/catpage-G7.html?from=basres

 

6 dollars for a 3 pack of weights.  Weights that are pretty much guaranteed to be lost after each fish.  Yikes.  

On 7/10/2019 at 10:16 AM, pondhopperNJ said:

Softer than a senko? 

They seem to me to be in all the colors I have tried.

My fishing buddy left this morning going to ICAST. Can't wait to hear about what they have coming out

So far I’m most excited about the bigger rapala brat. The brat shape is very close to the threadfin we have and the bigger new profile should be lights out this fall. 

On 7/3/2019 at 8:04 AM, punch said:

The 13 Fishing "Pathfinder".. weedless spook? I just see a whole lot of missed fish personally. It looks like the hook is not 'fixed' though and can swing down? 

 

 

This is a really cool bait but I think it's too expensive. If it holds up well it might be worth it.

15 hours ago, cgolf said:

Just caught the new Rage Ned baits on TW and have to say I am disappointed in the prices. It seems all the new Rage baits are 6.99 (Googan Prices) from the Ned baits to the Punch bugs and the magnum menace. I hope the Menace, baby menace and standard structure bugs don't go up as well. I will stock up on Black Friday, but wow to the prices. I guess if people pay it the companies can charge it. If they push up much higher, I will have to go with other options.

This is why I've switched to a lot of YUM baits. Everyone else is pushing their prices up, meanwhile I can still get a pack of YUM plastics for 3 or 4 bucks. Now with them releasing some of their other popular baits in 30 packs, icing on the cake man. They're even making one of my favorite jig trailers in one of my favorite jig trailer colors now.

8 minutes ago, Bluebasser86 said:

This is why I've switched to a lot of YUM baits. Everyone else is pushing their prices up, meanwhile I can still get a pack of YUM plastics for 3 or 4 bucks. Now with them releasing some of their other popular baits in 30 packs, icing on the cake man. They're even making one of my favorite jig trailers in one of my favorite jig trailer colors now.

I too have a fair amount of Yum products and the Crawbug has caught the most fish of any lure I own. Go figure since it really doesn’t have any action but still catches a ton of fish. I will use the Menace till it gets its price raised to 6.99, fingers crossed it doesn’t, and only buy them on Black Friday like I do now. The other baits in the Rage line I have go tos that are similar. Just a bummer with the prices on some of the stuff I am seeing early on TW. Thought the Storm glide bait would be cheaper too, oh well. 

The axis cranks from 6th Sense look interesting.

That Hobie 360 drive is the bees knees! I might have to start saving if they release it in the Outback.