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Friday, October 10, 2025
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Garmin Report
ECHOMAP UHD2 Chartplotter
Garmin announced new ECHOMAP™ UHD2 series chartplotters that offer anglers premium features like Ultra High-Definition sonar, preloaded Garmin Navionics+™ mapping with an included one-year subscription to daily map updates, wireless networking for data sharing and support for Garmin’s award-winning LiveScope™ live-scanning sonar.
Available with a 6”, 7” or 9” bright, sunlight-readable touchscreen display with keyed assist, anglers can easily control and operate the functions they depend on for a successful day on the water, including zooming in or out on the map or quickly toggling between different sonar views.
“The ECHOMAP UHD2 series has the power and functionality to meet the demands of today’s angler,” said Dan Bartel, Garmin vice president of global consumer sales. “They’ll know the water better than a local thanks to our best-in-class sonar and mapping which come preloaded in the new units, and revel in the lightning-fast map redraw speed and convenience of the ECHOMAP UHD2’s all-in-one design.”
Best-in-class sonar
For crystal-clear imaging of fish and structure, the new ECHOMAP UHD2 chartplotters are available bundled with an Ultra High-Definition GT54UHD or GT56UHD transducer that provides brilliant ClearVü™ and SideVü™ scanning sonar images and amazingly clear CHIRP traditional sonar. Garmin offers the choice of 16 vivid color palette options, so it’s easier to distinguish fish and structure based on the user’s preferences and fishing conditions. These plotters are also compatible with Garmin LiveScope, so anglers can see real-time sonar imagery of fish and structure below and around their boat up to 200’ down.
Must-have mapping for boating and fishing
Pinpoint the perfect honey hole or navigate to the next destination with enhanced situational awareness thanks to the built-in Garmin Navionics+ U.S. inland mapping or coastal charts. This all-in-one cartography solution features vibrant colors and a streamlined interface, plus a one-year subscription to daily map updates to deliver superior inland or coastal coverage from the world’s No. 1 name in marine mapping.
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Freedom Tackle Report
Ultra Diver Shad
The all-new Freedom Tackle Ultra Diver Shad and Ultra Diver Minnow from American Baitworks are designed to dive deeper than most similarly-sized lures.
The Ultra Diver Shad is a deep-diving crankbait while the Minnow version is a jerk or trolling bait.
Both have a forward-weighted and cloverleaf- shaped bills to help create radical deflection off structure and ensure they stay at maximum depth for longer periods of time.
The crankbait has a seamless one-piece bill design and sonic-welded body to help it last through even the most intense battles. It has premium black nickel hooks and is available in a 3.25 and 2.25 sizes and several popular colors.
Ultra Diver Minnow
The Minnow version is built with a 3-piece sonic-welded body, an integrated one-piece bill, and premium VMC black nickel hooks. The durable lure is offered in 3- and 4-inch sizes and several popular Minnow-style lure colors.
For more information, visit www.americanbaitworks.com.
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Ever Green IR Finesse Jig
Known for their extraordinary bass-catching abilities, there’s just something special about rubber-skirted jigs. Pitched, flipped, dragged, or hopped, they simply catch fish.
Enter the Ever Green IR Finesse Jig, a rubber-skirted jig.
It has a radical new take in rubber-skirted finesse bass jig design. The lure is a cross between a football-head, round head, grass jig, and sim jig to ply bluegill and crawfish inhabited waters.
The head is perfectly rounded to drop straight, deflect of structure, and crawl linearly on bare bottoms like gravel and sand. The head’s line-tie is at a 45-degree angle, which accommodates direct line to your rod tip for better feels and control. The intended line-tie angle also assists successful hooksets. Its custom long-shank hook is sharp and unbending. The IR Finesse Jig also features a significant wire bait-keeper to fortify plastic trailers, while a single and double rattle holder on the base of the head allows for an audible addendum for mimicking crawdad “clicks”.
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Freedom Tackle Report
Speed Freak Spinnerbait
If you like to fish your spinnerbaits fast, the new Freedom Tackle Speed Freak is the answer.
Run it as fast as you want with this keel head spinnerbait designed to keep its head down and stay down on those super-speed retrieves. The new Speed Freak Spinnerbait can achieve high-speed retrieves because of its unique down-winged head design that slices through the water while also creating downforce with the bait.
The head design is finished with a two-barb super sticky bait keeper that is fully integrated with our premium black nickel hook – sized matched for the spinnerbait weight which, is size-stamped directly on the head. The head design also relies on a proprietary collar to increase skirt flair.
The other key to the Speed Freak’s performance is the patent-pending Kilter blade which allows for an erratic action from the bait and the skirt that guaranteed fish haven’t felt before with an absolutely unique vibration & flash!
Compact and Full Frame versions are available in multiple sizes and colors.
Visit www.americanbaitworks.com for more information.
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Picasso Lures Report
Picasso Shakey Vibe
Picasso Lures announces the release of the new Shakey Vibe inspired by Lake Guntersville, Ala. Guide Lonnie Cochran. The Shakey Vibe would best be described as a combination of a shaking jighead and bladed jig, though it is at its core a finesse option for anglers.
Cochran said that the idea came to him as he was reading an issue of Bassmaster Magazine. “I was looking at one of their illustrations and saw a worm standing straight up off the bottom with what I thought was a blade on the nose,” he said. “After I put my reading glasses on, I realized it was a bullet weight lying on its side, but the idea stuck with me.”
Cochran said he picked up the phone and called Terry Monteleone, co-owner of Picasso Lures and told him what he was looking for, he was met with silence. “I thought that the idea must not be any good, because the only word I got was ‘okay’,” said Cochran. “But he called me a couple of days later telling me he had something for me to try, and we were on the way.”