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Spring 2025
how you fish it. The Drip Swimmer has a similar profile but a small boot tail for an excellent, subtle swimming action.
The Unrigged CullShad is their popular swimbait with more options for different hooks and rigging. You can use a weighted swimbait hook with a belly slot for the hook, allowing weedless rigging for fishing around cover.
The new Bottom Hopper colors include Blue Craw, Green Pumpkin Blue Fleck, Green Pumpkin Candy, Green Pumpkin Green, Green Pumpkin Magic, Green Pumpkin/Watermelon, Morning Dawn Red Flake, Redbug, Watermelon Magic, and Watermelon Seed.
Jack is the name of the newest Berkley hard bait, a lipless crankbait with tungsten weighting for longer casts and a unique sound. The bait’s loud rattles and strong vibration call fish from a long distance, and its thinner back side makes it great for ripping through the water column. It will be available in three sizes and 21 colors.
The popular Stunna jerkbait also got some new sizes and colors. It will now be available in a 100mm size. The standard 110mm size now comes in two deeper divers: the 110+1 and 110+2. The seven new colors are Nebu, French Pearl OB, Baja Wakasagi, Blue Vapor OB, Stealth Minnow, and OG Blue.
KITS
One more unique thing Berkley unveiled at ICAST was a series of kits. They include collections of different baits and some meant to give you everything you need to cook your catch or to serve as a great gift for the angler in your life.
Starting with the Haul of Fame Kits, a collection of hand-picked baits for different categories that fit in a 3700 Plano box, the kits include crankbait, topwater, frog, and swimbait versions.
The Angler Essentials Kits include a tool kit with a scale, scissors, pliers, and a microfiber towel. The plier kit contains two pliers: superline cutters and a microfiber towel. The Catch’ N Cook Kit is just like it sounds and includes a fillet knife, rubber mat, towel, and knife sharpener. The Swigs for Bigs Kit would be a great gift, including Slobberknocker and PowerStinger baits and two great-looking Berkley tumbler glasses.
It’s another year with some great new products from Berkley. The team continues to add more great baits, accessories, and fishing gear every year. They have embraced current trends, built products for them, and filled the gaps with new colors and sizes of their best-selling items. •
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