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Friday, October 10, 2025
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Seaguar Report
Seaguar’s New Tactx Camo Braid Packaged with Fluorocarbon Leader
Seaguar not only is introducing Tactx, a new four-strand braided line with a natural camouflage color that reduces line visibility, but will include a 5-yard Seaguar fluorocarbon leader inside each box.
“TactX Braid is complement to our new BasiX fluorocarbon mainline, where we’re supporting the millions of anglers who are either fishing for the first time, getting reacquainted with the sport or managing a tight budget” said Gerry Benedicto, Seaguar General Manager.
TactX is a precision casting braided line with features that make it a perfect choice for everyday anglers. It is engineered to maintain its perfectly round shape and stay firm to minimize rod tip wrapping and wind knots. When spooled onto a reel, it packs tightly without cutting into itself, which also helps reduce dreaded backlashes.
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Garmin Report
Garmin has released its newest g3 cartography update, v2022.0, for BlueChart g3 coastal charts and LakeVü g3 inland maps featuring over 400,000 updates to global chart content, NOAA rasters, high-resolution relief shading, new survey lakes and more.
From boating and sailing, to fishing and deep-water diving, having the most up-to-date cartography on board provides the essential tools needed for a more safe and enjoyable on-water experience. With No. 1 marine mapping from combined Garmin and Navionics data, g3 v2022.0 cartography delivers mariners with the latest coastal charts and inland maps for ultimate situational awareness and peace of mind while on the water.
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Z-man Report
Z-man Chatterbait MiniMax
Everyone is throwing bladed jigs these days so sometimes you need to give the fish a different look and sound.
The downsized Chatterbait MiniMax has a downscaled hex-blade and other componentry, but it has the punch to handle big, tough smallmouth, spotted and largemouth bass.
Turbo-boosted by a thumbnail-sized ChatterBlade, the new ChatterBait MiniMax Compact Bladed Jig is balanced out with a high-grade 2/0 black nickel hook, dual molded conical trailer-keeper and premium wire-tied silicone skirts. Echoing the trademark ChatterBait sound and action on a higher-frequency scale, the MiniMax features Z-Man’s patented direct head-to-blade connection.
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Z-man Report
New Z-Man Hella CrawZ
Z-Man made fishing fans happy this week by delivering fresh packs of Hella CrawZ to outdoors retailers across the continent.
The new 3.75-inch Hella CrawZ gives anglers a compact, versatile crawfish-profile jig trailer, flipping bait and so much more. The bait’s appeal, in part, resides within its 10X Tough ElaZtech composition. Unlike other craw-baits that tip over and die on the vine, the Hella CrawZ’ buoyant pincers float up and hover in full menace mode. The slightest twitch of the line or faintest underwater flow activates its claws, which wave and flap in the current.
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Strike King Report
Strike King Rogue and Catawba Polarized Sunglasses
Strike King is back with a new lineup of eyewear, delivering new styles with the Rogue and Catawba polarized sunglasses.
The super hydrophobic top coating of the Rogue lens stops condensation from absorbing into these 100% polarized optics, keeping the angler’s vision free from water obstruction, while several subsequent layers of the lens shed dirt and debris. Most critically, seven separate layers provide anti-reflective defense to fight glare from the sky above, as well as from the surface of the water below. The result is a cleaner, clearer, higher level of subsurface vision, precisely what is most important to the serious angler.