These Baits Shut Down ICAST 2024!

all right guys just got home from icast 2024 you know lots of cool new products release at icast every year but it seems like this year there was a trend that was definitely predominant and I would say that's uh jig heads and Menace that's just how it is but there's some other cool stuff coming out also and I kind of wanted to give a shout out to some of the companies I'm not sponsored by but nothing crazy really sticks out to me that uh I remember seeing that I'm really planning on ordering so I'm just GNA tell y'all kind of the bait was that sound bad honey okay I'm just gonna tell y'all the new products from my companies that I'm sponsored by cuz cuz I didn't really get to look around icast a ton I walked around one time but for the most part I'm in the booze hanging out with people and talking to my sponsors so I'm going to tell yall the new baits from icast 2024 and one of them probably one of the most hyped bait releases in a long long time obviously this one come from Crush City the crush City booth has been crust City Rapa 13 Booth super packed it always is at I cast I mean there's so much hype around all the baits right now and it's well deserved cuz lot these baits are really really good but from all my sponsors I'm going to tell y'all the the new baits that I'll be using some of the new things that I'll be using from them and the cool thing about icast now remember seeing it back in the day and watching videos on it and learning about the new stuff when now when the stuff that my C sponsor release comes out I've had time to fish with it for a few months so that's one of the reasons they send us stuff is cuz whenever we go to icast we'll actually have knowledge about when they're good why they're good what makes them good and we can actually make you know good videos at icast so we're going kind of go through a lot of the things that I saw icast and I've been using for a few months that I can finally show y'all now so first things first though for my old school rod builders out there that used to watch me back in the day when I built my own rods Fuji has came back out with black guides a lot of people want that it's not a glossy black finish but it's a super dark charcoal finish basically is black like it's pretty much black and everybody wanted that I remember whenever they discontinued the black frames I was at icast that year with them I think I think that was year they discontinued I remember just me standing there how many questions we got about the black guyss so they're back so if you want those you can get those they're also come come in a very inexpensive price point to try to compete with some of the some of the cheaper guides out there so a lot more affordable guides coming from Fuji and also everybody like everybody like the black guides and they're back so talking about guides and rods first thing we get into is the new 13 fishing rods if y'all watch my video very much my videos y'all know how much I like cranking in the winter in the fall in the early spring I love it I live in an area of the country where it's super good you know it's like very efficient way to fish we catch a lot of really really big ones doing it and for a long time I've told y'all that the fake 7ot cranking Rod is a sleeper everybody loves that thing that I I've let use mine I mean it's a really really good rod for very inexpensive well that Rod is going to be discontinued and the one to take its place is place is the oath and I told them whenever they redesign this Rod I said look do not change this blank like don't change if you do anything make it stronger if you want to and in the midsection do not change the action on this tip because that's what I love for throwing these small little baits like the OG tin4 little Bossa baits little square bills stuff like that like I love this bait this rod for cranking those small baits and this is the oath this is effectively the exact same blank just been updated a little bit I've been using it now C some really really big ones on it the 7t cranking Rod it's only 99 bucks so obviously you know prices are going up on everything upgraded the grips stuff like that you know upgraded the re seat that adds a little bit of of C but also it's just a little bit better Rod but still with that Perfect action that I love so feels fishes really similarly to the Fate just feels a little bit better in your hand so the 7ot cranking o phenomenal ride also that $99 price point they're they got 73 medium Heavies they've got a bunch of different types of rodes just that cranking one to me really really stood out when I used it that's what I use all the time now no matter if I'm fishing Elite Series or fishing a lazy man tournament on Saturdays at my local Lake like that's my small small bait cranking Rod so from there we've got kind of the Oaths Big Brother this is the myth this is a spinning obviously 71 medium spinning but these rods are made out of 46 ton graphite they have Fuji alanite guides on them so really premium components you see the updated real all these um grips split grips on all of them the bait casters actually have half cork half Eva and the reason for that is the Eva butt y'all know you slam them underneath the trolley motor bounce Buster you step on them overtime the cork on the bottom just seems to break and chip away so the Eva but it actually gives that Rod more life in my opinion but I don't really use the butt that much except for casting obviously but I really wanted the the cork actual real seat so you can see kind of how the oath is I like that cuz it feels really good when you're holding it but that Eva butt gives you a little bit more durability and then the myth casting is also similar to that but this is a spinning these myths are very very powerful and really really crispy as far as like the fast actions like they get to the backbone really quickly and I I really enjoyed fishing with them I'm going to start using the myth a ton I've already transition from the Envy to a lot more Muses and then now I'm going to start using some of the myth for some of the some of the applications that I feel like their actions and powers are better for so that's a cool thing about 13 I use rods from the very cheapest or I shouldn't say cheapest the most inexpensive rods they have like the oath all the way up to the envy and the Muse and stuff like that because there's actions and powers that I pick up and I'm like man this will be really good for this certain technique and that's what I use because I have confidence in all their products but uh from there that's the main two you know from there we're going to go straight into the height bait the mooch minnow this is one that conell won a tournament on I think wheeler won a tournament on a lot of people have won a tournament on this bait it's been a really really good bait so far lots of hype around it and I know everybody's GNA say G willikers another minnow style bait but this one's a little bit different this one's it actually is unique obviously it's made out of a tpe material super tpe material so obviously it's going to stretch everybody likes that you know other companies call it Altec whatever you want to call it it's a tpe material this is the gizzard Chad color it's the it's it's the most popular color you can see how soft that tail is on this but the cool thing about this tail is it's got two flanges on it and it's very very thin those flanges make it just have a little bit of a cork screw in action like it just kind of wobbles through the water like this with that Tail cuz that then flanges just make it do a little bit it's not near as much as a paddle tail but it's just something a little bit extra when those fish are fallowing it to make it have some action cuz a lot of times those fish see that bait the bait's falling whenever you're life scoping they either bite it or they don't say like 19 times out of 20 they don't 5% of the time they bite it whenever they don't they follow it after they start following it the odds of one of them biting go way low like super low when they don't bite it and they follow it they don't bite it very often after that but whenever you have this action just a super natural action swimming through the water and barely moving I feel like it's made a lot of those fish commit that have been following it now so now like 5% of them bite it on the fall and then while I'm reeling it maybe like another 2% of them will actually commit to it and over the course of a day that makes a big big difference but you can put this bait on Fish with it for a month it seems like cuz it's so durable if you put it on the right hook and and you know super glue it or screw lock whatever you want to do it's a really really good bait and everybody has fing it falling in love with this thing I've had a lot of people come up to me I mean dude this it's like crack going around the Elite Series every like man give me get some of the mooch mows I'm like I'm low dude sorry I've only got a couple left you know that's just kind of how it is out there you know but uh that's that's a joke for sure but uh been a really really good bait they last for a long time too A lot of people think these things are absolutely Ely magical like people love this thing and I I agree it catches them really really good it's just the profile is phenomenal like it's a 3 and 1/2 in thin really good colors minnow style bait they're going to commit to it whenever they chase it so I'm going to save my favorite new crusty bait for last but after that we have a 2 and 1/2 in mayor so this is a this is a cool size you know all the pressure that these Lakes are getting is everything going good Hunter looking at me like uh I'm saying something wrong so all these legs are getting a ton of pressure and we're starting to see smaller and smaller baits catching bigger and bigger fish that's a cutie it's a little cutie for sure this is a green pumpkin disco color one of the new colors I've caught them on this actually really really good in the freeloader but uh cool little bait the 2 and A2 is subtle very very subtle which whenever you're going into a 2 and 1/2 in bait you want it to be subtle like you're not th a 2 and 1/2 in bait because you want a ton of draw Power you throw a 2 and 1/2 in bait cuz you want a them to commit to the bait when they see it so it's still it shocked me I've thrown this on a ball head with a one out hook I threw it on Smith Lake in practice caught some on it it's actually got a still has a good body roll like the four and the and the 3 and 1/2 in mayor like it has a really good body roll or the 3-inch mayor so I'm a big fan of this thing so far caught SW spot M on it haven't got to use it a ton but uh like I said I've only had them for a couple months but definitely CAU some fish on them and I was definitely surprised at the retained action that this thing had dropping it down to a small swimbait the guys out there who've experimented with small swimbaits y'all know how it is it gets to where it doesn't have a lot of those those good properties of a big swimbait this one it's not it doesn't it's not as good as the 4-in mayor as far as body roll but it's still really really good as far as how the size so hyped about this this thing this thing's been really really cool all right I'm going to move my favorite bait we'll get to another one this right here the janitor the cleanup crew pretty fit pretty fitting name cost some fish on this at pck last week um caught some fish on it fish in local tournaments lots of different times I've caught fish on this this year but you can see it's a ni/ drop shot worm you know it's a it's not like a it's not like a robo thin like a regular Robo worm it's a little bit thicker than that which I like you know in years past I always threw the robo fat worm the most and now I've been throwing this one cuz I do prefer it cuz it's got so much action and the colors are just super crisp and clean but really really good drop shot Worm but it also has a place right here for your crossover band or to just NCO rig it it is a phenomenal n worm I've had a lot of people in the industry say that underwater footage of this this is instantly number one or tied for number one with a no worm because the action it has in the water it's just a it just does exactly what a worm is supposed to do as far as laying over and then in the water when it's falling kind of straightening out then laying over I mean it's this this has been a really really good worm I've caught him on a Shaky Head on it the Untamed tackle shaking Ace I've caught him on a drop shot and I've caught him Nico riging it so and if people don't know this all of these baits have a scent on them if y'all haven't smelled it it's a very unique scent man I can't don't remember the name of the scent it's a unique scent whenever you smell these you you know it's a crush City bait but uh anyways that's the janitor multi-purpose everybody knows you know people it's one of the staple baits people keep in their boat a trick worm a floating worm whatever it's got tons of applications like this it is going to come in with thaate it's got more action than a lot of the other floating worms though so now we've got the pig stick this bait is obviously going to be a stick worm everybody throw these all the time stick worm style bait this is probably the softest stick worm on the market like look at that look at how much it lays over this is a bait everybody knows AC Cross City so very very similar as far as movement so this bait is super soft it's the softest stick worm I've ever used and now with forward face and sonar we test it this is the fastest falling stick bait I've ever used as far as how fast it actually falls through the water column and the movement on it I think that these ridges on it actually give it a lot of movement now I'm not telling you that you know it's it's you know the a revolutionary stick Worm but it is a very very good stick worm and since I've been using it I've started picking up other brands less and less and less but now to to be 100% honest with y'all I've been throwing the same brand of stick Worm for like 10 12 15 years I won tons and tons and tons of money on it and it's not something you can just throw away instantly like you don't just make that change instantly but over the past I've had these since to bin this year over the past 6 months I've been using this stick worm more and more and more and more and now I have just as much confidence in this as the other brand stick worm and a lot of times I really do think it has more action so I'm not trying to compare the two or anything like that but when you make a stick worm you know what it's going to get compared to it's just going to you know so that's just how it is so I'm just keeping it real y'all it it's a good bait it's definitely comparable now last but definitely not least this my guy right here this is the crust City Hedgehog did I say that last one was called a pig stick yeah the crust City Hedgehog dude this sucker right here I've C so many big ones on this at home Tuesday nighters Wednesday nighters Thursday nighter Saturday morning tournaments heck we had Monday Tuesday we had Friday Saturday Su yeah all them days we had a tournament actually Hunter family been talking junk didn't they want me to go fish a family tournament so I opted not to go to the local Lake tournament and I went to the family tournament wanted on this dude right here Hedgehog so this is a obviously smaller bit scary he got a lot of stuff going on with him lot of stuff going on this is a 4 inch Hedgehog you know it looks similar to some other creature style baits but it's got these arms up here up front if I'm flipping it around which I've called them like this a lot flipping around docks flipping it undercut Banks if I'm not flipping in heavy cover I do it just like this I haven't Carolina rigged this bait yet but and I don't throw Carolina rig much at all but if I do Carolina rig this I will leave it just like this now when I'm flipping in heavy cover I take these front arms off like this this is what I do I'm just telling you flipping in heavy cover that increases my fall rate Through the Wood and also lets that bait get hung up less going in and out of the wood you know as far as not not that it gets snagged but just there's less resistance so it slides through a little bit better so when I'm flipping heavy cover I flip it just like this whenever I'm flipping light cover I leave those front two arms the biggest thing is you can see these curly legs down here that's going to be the main action well the secondary action is going to be these upside down appendages which in the water they just like vibrate like if you watch them in the water they just vibrate the whole time it's falling the whole time you're reeling it whatever it may be these right here and I mean wheeler told me he said man I think them upside down Pines really really help and I I was kind of skeptical at first but since I've been throwing this thing C so many big ones on it and the lakes that I fish you don't catch a lot of big ones but I've CAU so many four to 5 and2 Pounders on this bait in the past 3 or 4 months it's actually kind of been obsurd like for a flipping bait and I flipped you know full size brush Hogs big jigs all that type of stuff and I right now I have the most confidence in catching a big one around wood on this bait right here so it's been been good this is my go-to flipping bait now on Wheeler this year I weighed in a bunch of fish on this exact same bait if y'all y'all will see the videos eventually and I caught a lot of fish on the Hedgehog where else I kept some on it caught some on it Smith don't think I weighed in the end caught some on it in practice on Pickwick but I didn't throw in the tournament but wheeler Lake I weighed in a I mean a bunch of fish on this probably close to probably weigh in five of the 15 maybe maybe seven of the 15 on this bait so big fan of that now it wouldn't be fair to go to icast 2024 and not talk about a jig head cuz uh they were everywhere I mean you couldn't go to the urinal without finding a dang jig head somewhere along the way you got to wash your hands hey there's another one you got to get some something to eat hey there's another one they're everywhere but this right here has been available in Japan for a while a lot of guys have been ordering this over from Japan I think I heard about this B this head late last summer last summerish I heard about this head for the first time it's Gamakatsu Horizon head now a lot of the guys who are not sponsored by cops who have been ordering this bait from Japan to get over here and use it on the minow style baits and the cool thing about this bait is about this head my favorite part about this head so this is a two Al it comes in a three Al which fits the freeloader perfectly but light weights and that's one thing that's hard to find for jig heads is those light those 330 seconds with with a three Al typically to get a three Al you got to go up to a 3/8 or a half or something or a 3/4 to get a four 5 Al a lot of times this one this is a two w like I said fits good I mean it's a little bit big for the mooch but it fits pretty good for the mooch but uh got the ones got the twos the two actually fits really good in the mooch I haven't thrown this the mooch on this head yet cuz i' I've only had the three Ops I haven't had the two Ops but the two off fits really good for the mooch minow but it's got a flat keeper on top which makes it where when you're throwing those thinner profile baits it's not going to rip it as bad and then obviously it's got the Nano Alpha coated hooks it's got kind of a ewg style hook which I don't like for fishing shallow at all but whenever you're fishing deep or you're vertical on them that ewg hooks them really really well weigh in a lot of fish on Wheeler on this bait on on this jig head with a freeloader and then I call a lot of fish on pck on this jig head with a free loader so it's been a it's been a really really good bait for a lot of people for about a year I've got a bunch of them now a big assortment Gamakatsu is releasing these in America but it just wouldn't be fair to talk about iast 2024 without talking about a Jad so like I said though the cool thing about it is one cool thing about it the packaging is wrote in Japanese I mean you can't tell what nothing is but anyways the biggest part of this like I said they're going to have different packaging for the ones that come over to America eventually but those lighter weight heads like right here we've got you get a 3.5 G which is light I don't know how light it is it's a 4.4 G you get a 5 a 3.5 G with a three Al hook super slow fall with bigger bait that that's the coolest part for me but anyways I think for icast 2024 that was uh most of the stuff sunline has their new sinking braid out it's called all might is that what it's called all might anyways it is actually if you Ed the sunline de braid before the D braid was dense and actually sunk in the water which makes a lot of your baits fall faster act different in current stuff like that well the new all might braid is actually even more dense and sinks a good bit faster than the D braid did so it's the fastest sinking braid on the market it has a I think it's a one I think it's 50% denser than water I believe I think water has a gravity of like one and then this has a gravity of like 1.5 so if Falls faster than any other line on the market be really really cool for drifting and current on St Lawrence River stuff like that getting straight down one one thing though I will say about the all might after using it and I've used the de braid more but I've used the all might it uh go up a pound test that's that's what I would say if you typically throw 12 get 16 if you typically throw eight get 11 you know whatever it may be just upsize a little bit because the diameters are so thin on it that you can get away with a with a heavier pound test and keep that diameter that you are normal used to fishing with so I think that's about it for I cast oh look right here fished a local tournament yesterday guess what we got Hedgehog with teeth marks dog I'm talking about teeth marks on it caught a few on this flipped it over caught a few more on so there you go that's how I flipped it too in the heavy cover so that's the deal but anyways hope youall enjoyed that video just telling yall kind of the things that I'll be using after icast 2024 and got to use a little bit before that so hope you enjoyed the video appreciate it guys pwi lake npfl videos will be out this week hired a cameraman he's been killing it so those videos will be out and we're going to be catching up with the rest of the year so appreciate you guys watching we'll see y'all man Liv scope