Gear Roundup: New & Noteworthy Fishing Gear

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Comfort and Mobility

Convenience, comfort, and mobility are standard Yetti fare in their Single-Axle 17-foot Hydraulic Lift Houses, offering spacious comfort in a design that’s easy to tow, settle into position, and maintain. Check floorplans and details, plus pricing for three 17-foot models and a new 21-footer at yettioutdoors.com.

Nessie

The Berkley PowerBait Nessie, voted Best New Softbait at the most recent ICAST show, is a soft-bodied glider, at 5, 7, and 9 inches, providing a bigger profile to start the visual process that attracts big bass, pike, and walleyes. Stabilizing fins keep the bait running true. The hinged body provides realistic action, and a range of colors allows anglers to match the hatch. Nessie is a slow sinker.

$7.99, $9.99, and $12.99, for 5-, 7-, and 9-inch models, respectively | purefishing.com

Heavy-Duty Knife

The Rapala R12 Lithium Heavy Duty Fillet Knife delivers more torque, faster cutting, and 80 minutes of hard duty on a charge, in a design that’s easy to hold with less hand fatigue. An LED illuminates cuts with a 7.5-inch blade.

$137.49 | scheels.com

Mobility and Power

E40 power augers from Eskimo deliver 40V of electric power in a series of augers weighing as little as 13.5 pounds. Workhorse power, mobility, and a variable-speed trigger deliver smooth cutting performance all day long, in 8- and 10-inch and steel and composite cutting options.

$479.99 to $599.99 | scheels.com

World-Class Rods

Fenwick World Class Freshwater rods are built to be the finest tools an angler can put into play for bass and walleyes, with 48 new casting and spinning rod lengths and actions covering every primary tactical approach. The rods are exquisitely light and supremely sensitive, built from 36- and 40-ton graphite with titanium guides and zirconia inserts. Rod handles offer full-length grips for the best blend of feel, balance, durability. And much more.

$419.95 to $504.95 | purefishing.com

Merino Base Hoody

The Merino Base Layer Hoody by Vertx offers amazingly light and comfortable base construction, a marriage of superior Vertx garment design with unique 37.5 Technology. Fabrics with 37.5 Tech work with your natural microclimate to capture infrared energy, evaporating moisture to keep you cool, or reflecting it back to keep you warm. You’re fresh and dry all day long in clothing with anti-itch properties, exceptional breathability, and wrinkle resistance. Also check the Base Pants.

$119.99 | vertx.com and thirtysevenfive.com

North Country Smoke

Smoke on the Waterfront: The Northern Waters Smokehaus Cookbook, is a celebration of stories and traditions from Northern Waters Smokehaus in Duluth, Minnesota, bringing to life North Shore cuisine and Third Coast culture, with recipes ranging from smoked Lake Superior fish to Minnesota Pulled Pork. University of Minnesota Press, 208 pages, jacketed cloth.

$34.95 | upress.umn.edu

ChatterBait Elite

The Z-Man ChatterBait Elite EVO, voted Best New Hardbait at the most recent ICAST show, has Z-Man’s direct head-to-blade connection and hex-shaped ChatterBlade, along with a new hybrid molded split-grip and wire trailer keeper. The hook is a 5/0 heavy-duty needlepoint in black nickel. The baits have detailed painted heads and oversized 3D eyes, while stainless-steel blades are available in painted and glitter finishes. Comes in 3/8- and 1/2-ounce sizes in 12 color patterns.

$9.99 | scheels.com

The Crosby

Ideal footwear for wheelhouse fishing, Irish Setter Crosby is lightweight and waterproof with a slip-resistant rubber diamond-tread outsole, and a comfy memory-foam footbed. The safety toe protects from auger blades and more.

$229.99 | scheels.com

Delta Float Suit

The Icearmor by Clam Delta Float Parka and Bibs are designed with MotionFloat Technology to provide buoyancy assistance in the event of breaking through the ice. The soft-touch waterproof fabric is lined in heat-retentive long-nap. There are YKK 2-way zippers and Scotchlite reflective piping for safety in low-light conditions.

$229.99 bibs, $229.99 parka | scheels.com

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