Z-Man’s tremendous responsive Tungsten ChatterBait® Elite EVO™ shreds bladed jig benchmarks
Geologists name it a uncommon steel, an intriguing factor that reveals super-power like properties. Rivalled solely by diamonds in hardness and excessive melting level, tungsten yields distinctive lure belongings and quite a few bass-catching benefits. Almost twice as dense as lead, tungsten is a real heavy steel, affording lure smiths the advantages of constructing smaller, extra compact profiles that heft and solid like little bombs, sinking fast, reacting immediately and monitoring perpetually throughout the strike zone.
Concepted and chiseled to delve deeper within the water column and emanate its personal vibrant sound spectrum and vibration, Z-Man® has refined its first pure tungsten bladed jig. Approaching luremaking perfection, the brand new Tungsten ChatterBait® Elite EVO™—progeny of the 2023 ICAST award profitable ChatterBait Elite EVO—is ready to excite angler-observers at ICAST 2024.
Constructed with a 96-percent tungsten head, the Tungsten EVO is wired to chop via water quick, searching bites with its off-the rails wandering motion, whereas singing to bass on a number of ranges of vibration.
Leaning on its compact dimension with diminished water resistance, Z-Man’s unique, low-center-of-gravity head sculpt options quick-start motion and different particular results. “The brand new, smaller tungsten head was sculpted to maneuver with a knuckleball impact, selling simple searching motion,” notes Z-Man Director of Product Improvement, Jose Chavez. “It’s constructed with a blunt nostril and streamlined prime and aspect sculpting, so when the lure tries to wander, it could actually accomplish that freely and erratically.”
“I didn’t assume a bladed jig might get any higher, however Z-Man’s new Tungsten EVO fishes with a responsiveness and sensitivity that each one anglers have to expertise,” notes Z-Man professional Stephen Browning, among the many prime ChatterBait tacticians of all time. “The smaller, extra compact tungsten head presents much less resistance, too, making it immensely castable, even into the wind.
Browning’s observations on jighead dimension and efficiency reveal extra benefits of Z-Man’s new tungsten device. “The largest distinction is that this lure’s vibration,” he believes. “Like the unique EVO, the tungsten model begins vibrating the moment you wind the reel deal with,” he observes. “However the heavy steel head additionally produces a sharper, crisper vibration.
“To me, the magic lies within the intense, acute sound that comes from the blade cracking the strong tungsten head because it pulses forwards and backwards. The tungsten jighead produces a special, distinctive sound that sends key suggestions straight to your rodtip, and bass get tremendous zoned in on it.
“Z-Man’s delicate tungsten head additionally retains you in tune with the lure and what it’s doing underwater. However most significantly, it’s a superior transmitter of bass bites,” believes Browning. “I’d even go as far as to say the lure’s sensitivity helps you gauge strike aggression or lack thereof, permitting me to regulate and adapt my retrieve accordingly.
“It’s like the primary time I threw a tungsten bullet weight after fishing lead weights for years. Each time it hit one thing, it felt like a chunk. Identical cope with this lure. It simply responds faster; has a shaper darting, searching motion; falls quicker, so whenever you juice it with pops of your rodtip, the lure counters immediately. Zip-zip-zip. All that, and also you get the constructive suggestions of the lure’s vibration, proper as much as your fingers.”
The driving pressure behind each Z-Man ChatterBait, a trademarked hex-shaped ChatterBlade® oscillates freely and vibrates boldly, because of its direct blade-to-head connection. Stainless-steel blades on the Tungsten ChatterBait Elite EVO sport metallic plated, painted and next-level glitter-coated finishes for distinctive mild refraction and sturdiness.
Transferring from head to hookpoint, the Tungsten EVO contains a fully personalized 5/0 heavy responsibility, black nickel hook, expertly outlined by Browning himself. “A barely longer shank creates a stronger pivot level, simply transferring and releasing the lure if it will get hung in wooden,” notes Browning.
To hook and maintain bass even higher, Browning barely upsized the barb, and nudged it again ever so barely towards the bend. “Adjusting barb dimension and place provides me extra management over an enormous fish with out worry of shedding her on a bounce,” he suggests.
Akin to final yr’s ICAST award profitable ChatterBait Elite EVO, the brand new tungsten variant wears Z-Man’s unique three-tiered trailer keeper. This new hybrid “split-grip” trailer keeper design eases rigging and holding energy, particularly with ElaZtech® trailers like the brand new ChatterShad™.
“The EVO’s keeper system consists of each a molded and a wire trailer keeper on the hook shank,” says Browning. “The molded portion of the keeper ‘opens the gateway’ on the trailer’s head, whereas a separate wire keeper and second molded collar locks it tightly in place. It’s the neatest answer for effortlessly rigging and gripping ElaZtech or another ChatterBait trailer.”
Set to reach at retailers in August, the heavy steel Tungsten ChatterBait Elite EVO sports activities two sizes—3/8- or 1/2-ounce—in twelve pro-driven coloration patterns. Sturdy wire-tied silicone skirts provide additional flare, undulation and longevity, coloration matched to every hydrodynamic jighead, full with outsized 3D eyes. An upgraded line tie presents additional insurance coverage. MSRP $15.99. For extra intel, go to www.zmanfishing.com or see it in motion on the 2024 ICAST present, sales space #4808.
About Z-Man Fishing Merchandise: A dynamic Charleston, South Carolina primarily based firm, Z-Man Fishing Merchandise has melded vanguard fishing deal with with expertise for almost three many years. Z-Man has lengthy been among the many trade’s largest suppliers of silicone skirt materials utilized in jigs, spinnerbaits and different lures. Creator of the Unique ChatterBait®, Z-Man can also be the famend innovators of 10X Powerful ElaZtech® softbaits, among the many most coveted baits in fresh- and saltwater. Z-Man is among the fastest-growing lure manufacturers worldwide.
