The Large Reveal

New Z-Man® Baits spotlight the 2024 ICAST New Product Showcase

It’s the angling equal of youngsters in a sweet retailer. Which makes excellent sense, given that almost all of us view anglers as children who by no means grew up. If you happen to’ve ever visited fishing’s model of Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Manufacturing unit—aka the ICAST New Product Showcase—you then perceive the attract and the joy.

However should you’ve been blessed sufficient to walk these hallowed aisles, you additionally understand how powerful it’s to see all of it; to truly soak up or perceive all of the cool new stuff organized in a single big ‘sort out field’ of our desires.

New for ICAST 2024, Z-Man has unleashed 13 new merchandise, from ElaZtech® softbaits and ingenius lure techniques to ChatterBait® bladed jigs and choose jigheads and terminal sort out, all geared towards elevating your angling recreation to new heights of superior. Examine the snapshots of latest headliner Z-Man merchandise beneath, every showing reside on the 2024 ICAST New Product Showcase:

ShadtronLT Line-By way of Swimbait (Freshwater Delicate Lure)

A real-to-nature shad profile swimbait, the Shadtron LT incorporates a pioneering over/beneath line-through harness that permits for each high hook rigging with an included single hook or stomach rigging with a treble hook (not included.) Propelled by a rounded, wedge-shaped tail, the Shadtron swims with a real shad movement, activated at a variety of speeds, together with additional gradual retrieves and on the descent.

From Florida’s huge bass lakes to TVA reservoirs and past, the brand new Z-Man Shadtron LT mimics the bass’ most prolific meal on each degree. Accessible in two sizes and charges of fall (ROF)—4.5- and 6-inch sizes in each Gradual Sink (ROF 5) and Quick Sink (ROF 12). Eight lifelike photo-printed and painted by hand coloration schemes had been ascribed by enter from high Z-Man execs. MSRP $12.99 (4.5”) and $15.99 (6”).

Tungsten ChatterBait® Elite EVO (Freshwater Laborious Lure)

Concepted and chiseled to delve deeper within the water column— because of its compact, heavy steel tungsten head— the Tungsten ChatterBait® Elite EVO options the identical award-winning DNA as the unique ChatterBait EVO. A low-profile, high-density 96-percent tungsten head will get down quick, shimmying, looking left and proper and emanating its personal distinctive sound spectrum and vibration.

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. MSRP $15.99.

PrawnstarZ (Saltwater Delicate Lure)

For a Funkadelic day of inshore motion, tie on Z-Man’s new ElaZtech® PrawnstarZ, completely weighted and balanced to take care of an genuine horizontal posture because the bait freefalls and when it sits on backside. The pre-rigged PrawnstarZ excels at an array of inshore purposes: shallow sight-casting to redfish, drifting and freelining for seatrout, dragging backside for flounder, plying oyster bars, docks and mangroves for snook or just hovering beneath a popping cork.

Every PrawnstarZ lure is armed with depraved sharp, 2X Sturdy 2/0 (3.5”) or 5/0 (5”) Mustad® UltraPoint® hooks. Twelve tremendous vivid, hand-painted coloration apps match each water readability and shrimp coloration section, coast to coast. Accessible in 3.5”, 3/16-ounce (2 per pack) and 5”, 1/2-ounce (1 per pack) sizes, MSRP $8.99.

Trout Eye XJighead (Terminal Sort out)

Constructed to carry out on the highest ranges, the Z-Man Trout Eye® X Jighead employs a custom-made 2X sturdy Mustad® 2/0 hook with AlphaPoint® 4.8 know-how for excessive sharpness, on the spot penetration and 10X sturdiness over customary needlepoint hooks. Titan Metal (tS) coating provides 10 instances extra saltwater corrosion resistance over customary black nickel finishes. The elite-grade Trout Eye X Jigheads characteristic outsized 3D eyes, making a discernible strike goal and are adorned with sturdy powder coated finishes and coloration matched eyes. Molded conical keeper barbs grip and maintain ElaZtech® and customary smooth plastic baits tight to jighead. Accessible in 1/8-, 3/16- and 1/4-ounce weights. MSRP $6.99 per 3 pack. Made within the USA by Z-Man Fishing Merchandise & Eye Strike Fishing.

Micro WormZ (Ice Fishing)

Crafted within the USA with Z-Man’s unique ElaZtech® superplastic, the brand new Micro WormZ represents the most recent critter within the refined Micro Finesse system. A vigorous little annelid imitation, the Micro WormZ appeals equally to trout, crappie, perch and sunfish—ice and openwater. (Tip: It’s additionally bait’s killer for tremendous selective bass in bait finesse (BFS) purposes.) 

Delivering unmatched motion, smooth texture, lifelike buoyancy—and the toughness to face up to numerous bites—the multitalented Z-Man Micro WormZ is obtainable in 10 alternative coloration patterns, from Sizzling Chartreuse and Bubble Gum to pure Inexperienced Pumpkin and Yoga Pants, MSRP $4.99 per 8-pack.

For a primary have a look at your complete lineup of Z-Man new merchandise, go to ICAST sales space #4808. Or, for on on-water demo, discover us on the On the Water media expo, 10am to 2pm on Tuesday, June 16). And don’t overlook to rock the vote on the ICAST New Product Showcase!

About Z-Man Fishing Merchandise: A dynamic Charleston, South Carolina based mostly firm, Z-Man Fishing Merchandise has melded vanguard fishing sort out with know-how for almost three a long time. 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 Authentic ChatterBait®, Z-Man can be the famend innovators of 10X Robust ElaZtech® softbaits, among the many most coveted baits in fresh- and saltwater. Z-Man is among the fastest-growing lure manufacturers worldwide.