Torpedos armed and ready!
When I first said, ‘Matt Fraser’s been getting a tad too close to the lead fumes’ I really meant it!!
The mental giant that is this crazy hook wielding, lead spiting monster has done it again!! With a no holes barred attitude and a ‘I’ll do what the hell I like’ temperament, the cogs churned and the smoke bellowed up and out of the fire and brimstone came the TORPEDO.
If I was to tell you that I like it, I would be lying, cause I love it! But wait there’s more!! I not only love the Torpedo but I love the Fat Torpedo as well!!! After all, how could you not.
These little hunk-a-chunk-a burnin loves (in your best Elvis voice please) do several things better than any other micro weight or enclosed weight jighead system on the market.
Firstly, because of the way the hook is driven into the plastic, the lead is completely concealed inside the bait which allows the fish to consume the whole bait without feeling the exposed lead of a standard jighead. This equates to fish holding on longer and you getting a better hook set!
Secondly, is the way the Torpedo swims. Because the toe point is behind the face of the bait, the small amount of plastic that sticks out ahead of this point creates a ‘bib’ type affair that transpires into some of the most ‘life like’ dieing bait fish action you’ll ever see!
Thirdly, is the ‘Anti-Pantsing’ pointed tip! Anti what?? Anti-Pantsing!! If you’re retrieving your bait and a fish grads a hold of it and misses the hooks, there’s a good chance that the fish will immediately retune to have another crack! That is unless you’ve had your plastic pulled off the keeper and down around the hook bend. Obviously this will make your bait swim around and around is circles and not look like it did when the fish first hit it! This is know as ‘being pantsed’ (pants pulled down). So, Anti-Pantsing is all about keeping your plastic where it should be strike after strike until the fish gets a good hold and you ‘get ‘em on’!!
The Anti-Pantsing part of these jigheads refers to the ‘point’ just forward of the eye.
If you look at this shot you’ll see how the point won’t allow the bait to be pulled backwards. Bloody ingenious!!!! (Told you he was a freak)
Looking at these shots you can see how the same weights differ in the way they’re applied to these baits. Shot A has two 3” Power Minnow in Galaxia Green with both 1/32-oz Torpedo and 1/16-oz Fat Torpedo inserted. Shot B has two 3” Power Minnow in Pearl Watermellon with a standard Bream Pro jighead arrangement also in 1/32-oz and 1/16-oz.
The Torpedo (especially the Fat Torpedo) gives the these baits a lovely ‘semi head down’ spiral drop as apposed to the more acutely angled, ‘straight down’ jighead drop!
Starting at 1/50-oz and ending up at 1/11-oz there's bound to be a weight system to suit all your needs. If you're into ‘finesses’ or clear water spooky fish type fishing or just hate being pantsed, then have a look at these little rippers. They’ll gob smack ya for a week!!!
“Torpedo in tube 1 ready to fire sir”.
Over and out.
Royter.
PS. All the sink rates are listed on the back of every pack of Berkley Nitro jigheads. No more guess work!!! Sweet.
posted by Royter @ 11:35 AM
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