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Evers on the I-Slide
Elite Series pro Edwin Evers talks about the new I-Slide from Megabass. The I-SLIDE performs smooth “S” swimming motion under steady retrieve, and communicates lure action feedback to angler at all times. Positive feel of the lure’s motion becomes a clear advantage in strong currents and stained water.
See all the new Megabass here.
A New Level of Bass Attraction
ORLANDO, Fla. – Even though it’s fabricated from plastic, metal, glue and a multitude of other composite materials, the basic function of an effective bass bait is to imitate something existing in nature that causes a bass to want to bite it. It appeals to either a fish’s instinct to eat, or its instinct to attack and defend.
Not satisfied to rely on BBs, beads and blades – longtime “noisemakers” utilized in bass baits – Livingston Lures revolutionized the world of hard baits in (YEAR) with the introduction of Electronic Baitfish Sounds (EBS) ™ technology, which produced the sound of an actual baitfish in distress thanks to an advanced circuit board and smart chip built into each bait. The “smart bait” was born.
The revolution continues in 2014-15 with the introduction of the Team Livingston line of baits, and the ability to “program” your bait with even more natural fish-attracting sounds, thanks to the new ELECTRONIC BAITFISH SOUNDS (EBS) MULTITOUCH™ system.
“The original EBS gave us the ability to attract fish by producing the sound of an actual distressed baitfish’s gill plates flaring, which was mind-blowing to most anglers – our new EBS MULTITOUCH™, though, puts an even more powerful tool in an angler’s hands because it produces not one but three different sounds that fish hear in nature,” says Livingston’s lead bait designer Robert Castaneda, the inventor of EBS. “This allows you to match or adapt to the conditions of your very specific fishery beyond just the look and action of your bait. It dramatically enhances your ability to attract fish.”
EBS MULTITOUCH™ operates the same as original EBS (contact with the water closes a circuit between the line tie, hook eyelet and sound-producing circuit board), but it also allows the angler to change the sound emitted underwater from EBS™ Original (gill plate compressions) to EBS™ Craw (snapping shellfish) to EBS™ Shad (panicked/fleeing shad) to a fourth “silent” or “stealth” setting with no baitfish sounds. To change sounds, the angler simply immerses the bait in water for 5 seconds to activate MultiTouch™ and then touches two contact points (the line-tie and front-hook eyelets). Once the angler has the desired baitfish sound, he/she simply releases the contact points.
“The sound menu on the Team Livingston EBS MultiTouch™ baits is really simple to operate,” says 2013 Bassmaster Elite Series Angler of the Year Brent Chapman. “A few quick seconds, and you have a bait that’s customized to the conditions. It’s just a great tool for anglers everywhere.”
NEW FOR 2015 – THE TEAM LIVINGSTON LINE: Livingston’s new EBS MultiTouch™ technology will be available in the Team Livingston series of baits introduced last week at ICAST. Consisting of the Howeller DMC, Howeller DMC SQ, Howeller DMC Plus, Jerkmaster 121, Walk N Pop 77, PrimeTyme CB 1.5, PrimeTyme CB 2.0, PrimeTyme SQ 2.0, School Master, Deep Impact 18, Walking Boss, and Walking Boss Part II, Howeller Deep and Howeller Deep Plus. Team Livingston baits are all designed with premium components (stainless steel split rings, advanced rattles, etc.) and all come with Daiichi 4x Strong hooks.
FOR MORE INFO: Log on to www.livingstonlures.com, follow Team Livingston on Facebook (www.faceboook.com/LivingstonLures)
Project-T 2014 Episode 2 “New Zillion-TWS”
Meet the N2 from Denali
How do you improve upon perfection? The original Noirwood Series rods were some of the lightest most sensitive rods on the planet, designed to meet the toughest challenges day in and day out. Elite Series pro Chad Morgenthaler introduces the N2 Series and explains how the best just got better.
The Moments within a Moment
Everyone has had it happen and more than likely more than once. A moment that you will never forget or one that seemed time just stood still. Whether it was a near death experience, the birth of a child, a hole in one on the golf course, or something that had you pinching yourself just to make sure you weren’t dreaming, it has happened at some point in your life. Think back to one of those times, hopefully a good memory, and try imagining that it happened 5 or 6 times in the same day. That is a feeling that I experience every time I fish in a tournament. Sometimes bad, sometimes good, but it always happens. Part of becoming a great angler is learning how to manage these moments. You have to try to put something bad that happened totally out of your mind while you’re still competing that day. You have to resurrect good feelings from the past to get you motivated. You have to bring back bad memories during time off to decipher what went wrong and what you can do to avoid it from happening again. So basically you forget something, bring it back up, then forget it again, then eventually repeat the process. This can leave you with a headache and in search of a psychiatrist, but it works.
As a good example I’ll talk about the BASSfest event last month. I had about a million of those “time standing still” moments, half good, half bad. I can’t explain every individual moment because I would have to write a book but I will go into a couple. The second day on the Chick at BASSfest I was pumped. I had a bad first day but I knew I had the spots to catch a 30lb bag of fish. The current was supposed to rip all day the second day which was what I needed. At 3pm I had zero fish, and I was due in at 3:45. I was about 15 minutes away from the check in location. Around 3:10 the current started ripping and I caught a 6lber a 4lber and two 2lb fish on four casts. By the time I had a chance to make my fifth cast it was 3:30 so basically it was my last cast. I knew that if I didn’t leave as soon as I retrieved this cast, fish or not, that more than likely I would be several minutes late. I made a super long cast and started cranking. Not 5 turns on the reel a fish loaded up on the crankbait, creating one of those “moments within a moment”. Time was running out so I brought this fish in much faster than I would have liked to. It jumped once and I could see that it was hooked very well so I just kept her coming to the boat. Long story short, I tried to boat flip her to save time and ended up breaking the 4lb fish off after it landed on the back deck. To make matters worse it then proceeded to flop back into the lake before I could grab it. Talk about a terrible feeling, being one fish short of a limit and catching fish every cast, losing one on my last cast and having to leave.
Knowing I hadn’t made the cut, I tried mentally preparing myself for the second chance event. I took every single thing out of my head except for the task at hand. The events that day are the moments in my life that I will never forget. Grabbing 25lbs of fish, one at a time, in that setting, with people around me watching, still gives me goose bumps. I remember every single millisecond of that day. Time stood still, and I repeatedly made sure I wasn’t dreaming. Someone made the comment that this second chance event was the “losers tournament” and it might be the case, but I sure was the happiest loser on Earth that day.
Moments, good or bad, never need to be totally forgotten. After all, life wouldn’t be fun if everyday is the best day of your life.
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