Fish Sniffer On Demand Digital Edition 3803 Jan 17- Feb 1 2019 | Page 11

Jan 17 - Feb 1, 2019
VOL.38 • ISS. 3
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Mack’s Lure Gear That WILL Help You Catch More Fish!
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Gary
Miralles, formerly
of Shasta Tackle
and now part of
the Mack’s Lure
Team is one of the
top lure designers
in the trout fishing
world. Here we see
Gary holding up a
jumbo Lake Shasta
rainbow that he
fooled with two
of his trademark
creations, the Sling
Blade Dodger
and Hum Dinger
Spoon!
presents
Yes, Wedding Rings Are Still On Menu…
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Mack’s Lure has really
gotten behind the half
ounce Hum Dinger and are
offering the spoons in some
hot new colors like the vibrant
finishes seen here. Magnum
Hum Dingers are deadly tools
for hooking big trout when
trolled from 3 to 4 miles per
hour. They are also great
casting lures.
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Sling Blade dodgers are
among the most versatile
blades available to trout and
landlocked salmon trollers. Run
straight out of the package they can
be trolled quickly and offer minimal
drag. Author Cal Kellogg runs six inch
Sling Blades most of the time and the
watermelon pattern blade shown in
the center here is one of his favorites!
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The Mack’s Lure Ball
Troll Downrigger Attractor is a
major innovation on the ball troll
concept. The Mack’s device is
designed to work at a nearly
vertical angle and armed with a
downrigger release so you can
attach your line directly to the end
of the attractor.
re you familiar with the extensive
line of trout and landlocked salmon
gear that Mack’s Lure offers? Sure,
Mack’s Lure is the company that makes
the iconic Wedding Ring Spinner. You
know that. I think pretty much everyone
interested in hooking trout
and kokanee salmon knows
that, but as deadly as Wedding
Rings can be there is a lot
more to the Mack’s Lure line
than snelled spinners.
In reality, when Mack’s
Lure and Shasta Tackle
joined forces a few years
back, Mack’s became one of
the nation’s foremost manu-
factures of trout and salmon
weapons. Let’s take a look at
some of the cornerstone tools
from Mack’s that you should
have in your tackle kit for
2019 as well as a new product
or two!
Magnum Half Ounce Hum Dingers
The cool kids are all power trolling for
trout these days. They are rigging up with
spoons and trolling anywhere from 2.5
to 3 plus mph. Yet the fact of the matter
is that today’s speed trollers aren’t doing
anything new.
“The best trout lure in my entire line up
is the Hum Dinger and if you want big
trout the half ounce model is very hard
to beat,” Gary Miralles told me more
than a dozen years ago. “The problem
I’ve always had with the Hum Dinger is
the fact that people don’t fish them fast
enough. If you take a Hum Dinger and
troll it from 1 to 2 mph it will catch a few
fish, but that’s not what the spoon was
designed for. To really hook fish on small
Hum Dingers you want them moving from
2.5 to 3 and with the half ouncer you can
run it all the way up to 5 mph. I developed
the Hum Dinger to trigger reaction strikes
and to do that it has to be moving quickly.
When I first started fishing half ounce
Hum Dingers seriously it was a leap
of faith. When you hold one of those
spoons in your hand it looks big and feels
extremely heavy. Troll it slow and it has a
lethargic action that isn’t very appealing,
but crank up the speed and that lure comes
to life and literally screams, “FRIGHT-
ENED MINNOW”!
For years’ magnum Hum
Dingers were only offered in
a few different colors and the
only color I ran was nickel/blue
glitter. I caught a lot of trout
on that spoon, including a few
rainbows in the 4 and 5 pound
range. That color choice made
sense because I was fishing
lakes where the dominant
forage was threadfin shad.
These days, the team at
Mack’s Lure, working hand in
hand with Gary Miralles have
recognized just how deadly
magnum size Hum Dingers
are and they’ve responded
by offering an expanded line up of 11
different finishes that encompass both
baitfish colors for “matching the hatch”
and wild bright colors for situations when
you want your lure to really stand out.
In 2019, I’ll still be running my tried
and true nickel/blue glitter Hum Dingers
in clear water situations, but I’m going
to be adding silver/blue (better known as
Captain America), black/white (basically a
dark shad pattern) and glow trout (a dandy
looking rainbow trout finish).
For situations that call for bright patterns
I’m going to play with glow fire tiger
and red, which is an extremely bright red
bordering on blaze orange.
While most guys think of magnum Hum
Dingers as trolling lures, you can also cast
them. Fire them out at lakes that feature
big trout and retrieve them quickly with
some added twitches and pauses and you’ll
soon be yelling, “FISH ON”!
Sling Blade Dodgers
They say imitation is flattery. If that’s the
case the Sling Blade is the world’s most
flattered dodger, since a seemingly endless
FISH SNIFFER
HOW – TO
by Cal Kellogg
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