The (New) Anglers Gift

If you know me and my brother, than you’d know that we haven’t got each other Christmas gifts for many years. It’s been an unsaid, mutual understanding that has been the way for many years, but this year I decided to break the tradition.

My brother is moving to the Midwest, where he will continue his career alongside his blue line family. He always enjoyed his times hunting and fishing in Arizona, but would always tell me that he didn’t have the time or didn’t have the gear, though he always had the desire.

My goal was to change the “didn’t have the gear” excuse. His new living location will not only be a few miles from bass fishing lakes, but incredible ones at that.

I started collecting tackle many months ago; I’d go through my monthly tackle subscriptions and would choose what I wanted to give him. It was a pack of hooks here, a bag of soft plastics there, etc…

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I had a few objectives for this gift. First, I wanted to cover a broad spectrum of bass fishing techniques. Specifically, I wanted to cover Texas rigs, dropshotting, Ned rigs, jig fishing, wacky rigs, and more. Next, I wanted this gear to be as high quality as possible. There’d be no way that I would be able to fill a tackle box of Lucky Craft lures for him, but I wanted to be close.

Months later, I had a decent collection of tackle, but wanted to make a few additions. Specifically, I wanted to add some high quality crank baits – 6th Sense is what I had in mind. This company has some of the highest quality cranks for the money, and it’s what I wanted to finish the box.

After multiple different store visits, I found 6th Sense cranks, and bought 3 for him and 1 for me. This concluded the box of tackle, of which contained the following:

2x 6th Sense Cloud 9

6th Sense Cloud 25

Stellar Jig Company Jig

Booyah Pad Crasher

Booyah Pad Crasher Junior

Cold Blooded Baits Crankbait

BD Series Jerkbait

2x Gamakatsu EWG Hooks

VMC Wacky Hooks

Kitana EWG Hooks

3x Bullet Weights

Pepper Custom Baits Dropshot Weights

Z Man Ned Rig Jigheads

Castaic Buzzbait

Strike King Crank

Strike King Rattle Trap

Savage Gear Bat

Booyah Pond Magic Spinner

Z Man Chatterbait

BioSpawn ExoSwim

Smartbaits Bayou Bug

BioSpawn VileCraw

Bama Baits Worms

Z Man Finesse TRD

Bruiser Baits Toad

Googan Baits Trench Hawg

California Classic Bait Co Grubs

Rage Tail Grubs

Zoom Worms

Roboworm Straight Tail Worm

Big Bite Baits Paddletail Swimbait

Big O’s Eeliminator

And more…


 I hope you all have a wonderful holidays, and a Merry Christmas. I won’t be posting again until post-Christmas, but we will be coming back strong with posts…

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