It shakes, rattles and rolls, but more importantly, it catches fish from top to bottom. With decades of jig designing experience in his wake, legendary lure maker and Lonnie Stanley did it again. He
turned an ordinary swimming jig into an extraordinarily versatile bait
that duplicates the enticing action of a crankbait, the vibration of a
spinnerbait and the weedless penetration of a jig.
“The New Stanley Swimming Jig is a jig with spinnerbait vibration and crankbait versatility,” Stanley said. “A
bait for all depths, people can run it two inches below the surface or
along the bottom in deep water by varying the speed of retrieve or the
angle of the rod.”
Equipped
with a weed guard and a rattle, the new Stanley Swimming Jig
incorporates a front shaker (or chatter) blade. With the blade in
front, it somewhat resembles an in-line spinner, but the blade doesn’t
revolve around a central wire. Instead, the flat blade, more like a
crankbait lip, creates wobbling that looks like “a whole lot of shaking going on.”
“The blade shakes the whole bait,”
Stanley said. “It makes the bait wobble back and forth, moving a lot of
water and giving out a tremendous amount of vibration. People could
configure it in any number of different ways just by changing or
removing the trailers. With a large worm as a trailer, it looks like a
snake running through the water. It works great with a pork frog, a
split-tail or a curly tail grub.”
In different configurations, anglers can use
the new Stanley Swimming Jig in many different ways. Waked just beneath
the surface, it attracts bass feeding in the shallows. Let it drop and
it falls to the bottom like a dying baitfish. People can also slow-roll
it along the bottom to catch fish from the surface to the depths.
“If someone held a rod high and ran a
3/8-ounce jig medium fast, it would run about three inches below the
surface,” Stanley explained. “Lowering the rod or slowing the retrieve
makes it run deeper. If the angler stops reeling, the bait will sink to
the bottom. Dropping the rod tip, a person could run it at a slow to
medium speed just off the bottom.”
Protected
by the weed guard, the new Stanley Swimming Jig can go where few
spinnerbaits or crankbaits can venture, into the lair of the beast.
Anglers can run these baits through lily pad patches or fallen trees.
They can work them through sunken brush piles where lunkers lurk.
“Using it with a weed guard,
people can throw it around the grass, through the grass or in the brush
piles,” Stanley said. “It runs through branches of fallen trees or
around stumps and rocks, anywhere. Someone could drop it next to stumps
and let it fall to the bottom.”
During
early spring, the jig could tempt bass that congregate off the ends of
points or around deep rock piles, ledges, humps or other deep cover.
Then, an angler throwing a new Stanley Swimming Jig could follow creek
channels as bass move toward shore. In the shallows, run these baits
through the thickest cover like a weedless crankbait or just under the
surface. From top to bottom, it works in any application or situation.
“People can work it in many different ways,”
Stanley said. “It runs through the lily pads, clicking back and forth.
When the blade contacts vegetation, it quits moving. As soon as it
leaves the grass, the jig starts moving again. When
the bait runs across deep holes in vegetation, an angler can drop it to
the bottom or vertically jig it next to standing timber or drop-off
edges to find bass in deep holes.”
The new Stanley Swimming Jig comes
in three sizes, 1/4, 3/8 and 1/2 ounce. It also comes in 10 proven
fish-catching colors with either nickel or gold blades. If people wish,
they can change trailers to make infinite color combinations.
For high res photos contact Ken Chaumont 936 876-5713.
kenchaumont@fishstanley.com
email: press@fishstanley.com
website: www.fishstanley.com
Stanley Jigs, Inc. / P.O. Box 1327 / Huntington, TX 75949.
