 Lindy NewsLine - Winter 2008
WHEN THE WEATHER GETS COLD, THE FISHING GETS HOT!
Scraping the windshield. Shoveling the sidewalk. Temperatures so cold the rafters pop and the garage door groans. YAAAAA-HOOOOOO!!! Ice fishing season! Time to whip out the wintertime woolies and waddle on down to your
favorite tackle store to stock up on all the latest and greatest ice gear
from Lindy®…or shop for everything you need right here. We’ve got a bunch of brand new products for 2008, and they’re
all designed to help you put more fish on ice this season.
 Here's some great ideas for the season. Get some for yourself… and don't forget all your ice fishing buddies.
If the fish are finicky and want to be spoon fed, serve ’em up a tasty
morsel on a new Rattl'n Flyer Spoon - the lethal break-through jigging spoon hybrid! These little guys come
in 6 flashy Techni-Glo colors, and feature a super-sharp Bleeding Bait™
red treble hook. They definitely put a little more wiggle in your jiggle.
 Lindy X-Treme Conditions Fish Handling Gloves give you maximum comfort handling fish on the ice. Made with Hipora SuperFabric®, a miracle fabric that repels water, keeps hands dry and warm, and simultaneously breaths.
If you’re a panfish fan, first on your list is the Lindy Grub Getter™—
an ingenious little bait box that separates your maggots and waxies from
their bedding with one quick shake. And speaking of panfish, you’ll want to check out our Munchies®
Tiny Tails™. They’re soft, they’re chewy, and just the right size to tempt
those hungry slabs.
And here’s another Lindy innovation your frozen fingers will thank you for:
our new Thill® Gold Medal Supreme™ floats. The clever, easy-on/easy-off
X-Change™ line attachment system lets you rig the float for fixed-depth or
slip-bobber fishing, with no fumbling and no retying.
These are just a few of the ice fishing offerings we have in store for you this
season, so unplug the truck, turn the defrosters on high, and get on down to
the tackle shop and check ’em all out today! |
EVOLUTION OF A FISHING LURE – LINDY’S RATTL’N FLYER SPOON
If I were asked (as an owner of Lindy Tackle Company for 28 plus years and it’s current Board Chairman) to list my favorite Lindy fishing products, one might expect a page or two of favorite products. Realistically, I could settle on just three: the NO-SNAGG sinker developed by Ron Lindner, the Lindy Fish Handling Glove (brought to the company’s attention by another owner, Dave Maiser), and lastly, the Lindy Rattl’n Flyer Spoon for ice anglers.
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The Rattl’n Flyer Spoon evolved from our original Lindy Techni-Glo Flyer. This was a horizontally oriented spoon with wings that upon being jigged moved in a circular path beneath one’s ice fishing hole. Tony Kellin, one of our in-house sales managers, as well as a diehard Flyer Spoon user, came up with the idea to convert the Lindy Techni-Glo Flyer from the horizontal mode to a vertical mode with wings that would maintain its gliding action, incorporate a brass rattle, and finish it off in Techni-Glo colors. Along with Ted Takasaki, Lindy’s President, a non-lead formulation was incorporated into the new design.
Ted asked me in January of 2006 if I would try out some Rattl’n Flyer Spoon prototypes. They varied in configuration, as they were prototypes. So I found myself on a good perch bite a couple of days later and decided to try one of the prototypes. Not only did my catch rate continue unabated, but also the fish were larger. I was able to repeat this same scenario during the rest of that ice-fishing season.
By the fall of 2006 we had decided to introduce the Rattl’n Flyer Spoon at the start of the 2007-2008 ice-fishing season. The spoon needed a “face lift” and Ted came thru with holographic and Techni-Glo color schemes that gave the spoon that “wow” factor.
 During the course of the 2006-2007 ice fishing season, select ice anglers, including Dave Genz, Ernie Olson, Brian “Bro” Brosdahl, Kevin Winkler, Jim Hudson, and yours truly put the Lindy Rattl’n Flyer Spoon thru the ringer. Dave Genz, for example, discovered during a deep-water perch bite on North Dakota’s Devils Lake, that the unique glide out movement of the spoon on slack line led to no line twist. So he started tying the Rattl’n Flyer Spoon direct to his line with no swivel.
He, Kevin Winkler and others got into a combination crappie, perch, bluegill, and small mouth bass bite on a couple of north-east Minnesota lakes over the course of two days and had the pictures to back up their statements. A couple of weeks later I joined Dave and Kevin on a couple of lakes in the Detroit Lakes area of Minnesota as we used the Lindy Rattl’n Flyer Spoon on bluegills and largemouth bass on one lake as well as bluegills, perch, crappies, and largemouth bass on another lake the next day.
The Lindy Rattl’n Flyer Spoon comes in three sizes (1/8, 3/16, and 1/4), six brilliant holographic Techni-Glo enhanced color schemes, brass rattles, a non-lead (eco-friendly) composition, and the ability to be tipped with the live bait of your choice (minnows, eurolarvae, waxworms, etc) or soft ice plastics (Lindy’s Tiny Tails). Finally, it incorporates a unique glide out action on a slack drop that covers more water and elicits more attracting features to prompt a bite. It’s an ice-fishing spoon that should be in every ice anglers’ tackle box.
Is it the “ultimate” ice fishing spoon? I’ll let you decide that. As I stated at the beginning of my article it’s one of my top three Lindy products: the NO-SNAGG sinker, the Lindy Fish Handling Glove, and the Lindy Rattl’n Flyer Spoon. Check them out on the Lindy website (lindylittlejoe.com) and then head over to your favorite retailer to stock up. |
Genz on Spoons
By Ted Takasaki and Scott Richardson
Fish slow down in cold water and a slow approach is often needed to catch them in the dead of winter.
But, it’s a different story at first ice or just before ice out, according to Dave Genz, who has long been considered the father of modern ice fishing. Walleyes are still hungry early on when water is relatively warm and filled with oxygen, and they get excited as spawning time nears. Fast tactics like ice spoons are the ticket.
“At early ice, they’re still feeding up. They slow down in January and February. But they become more aggressive again as the water warms near spring,” said Genz, a member of the Lindy Fishing Tackle pro team and organizer of the Ice Team. “Spoons seem to be much more effective then.”
Active walleyes are drawn to a spoon’s flash in clear water. Some spoons like Lindy’s new Rattl’n Flyer Spoon add sound to their attraction, a big factor in the “golden hours” before sunrise and just after sunset when walleyes are on the move, he said. Sound also helps predators locate a bait in dark or dirty water or at night.
Genz believes the addition of sound to the spoon’s bag of tricks is as big a breakthrough as the introduction of Techni-Glo colors was just a few years ago. ... read more »
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