Gear Roundup: New & Noteworthy Fishing Gear

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Rambler Tested Tough

One of the original Yeti Rambler products, holding 18 ounces of either hot or cold beverage, has been in the boat and on the bank for going on five years with In-Fisherman Editor In Chief Doug Stange—a few dings but still going strong. Yeti’s current Rambler product is the 18-ounce HotShot Bottle, 18/8 stainless steel and double-wall vacuum insulated, so it’s puncture and rust resistant. A leakproof 360° HotShot Cap makes sipping beverages easier than with the earlier design.

$30 | campsaver.com

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Next Generation Sunglasses

Smith Hookset sunglasses, in Yellow Blue Mirror and Brown Green Mirror, offer ChromaPop and Glass Polarchromic lens technology to cut glare and enhance depth and color perception. Meanwhile, the lenses are UV-sensitive self-tint-adjusting to adapt to changing light, enhancing vision from low light to bright. Medium to large fits. Check many more premium details.

$305 | scheels.com

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Ned Cut-R Worm

Designed for Ned rigging, the Strike King Rage Ned Cut-R Worm is a shortened, 3-inch finesse version of the company’s popular Rage Cut-R Worm, and retains the Rage Tail. The flange on the edge of the flat Rage Tail delivers a fast tail flicker. In 12 color patterns.

$4.21-$8.49 | opticsplanet.com

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Four Season Sleep System

The Born Outdoor Badger Bed 30 provides a comfortable night’s sleep with a modular bedroll system that consists of a 30-inch-wide durable outer shell that repels water. Inside, a self-inflating mattress (80 x 30 x 4 inches) provides comfort and warmth. The Badger Bed is sold complete as the Badger Bed 30—Sierra Bundle with a down quilt and flannel sheets for colder conditions ($825) or as the Badger Bed 30—Baja Bundle ($795) with a synthetic quilt and cotton sheets for more modest conditions. Everything rolls up and packs in a bedroll for easy carrying.

bornoutdoor.com

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Tungsten Chatter

Casts like a bullet, gets to depth fast, the Z-Man ChatterBait Tungsten Elite EVO is a heavy-metal version of their ICAST 2023 award-winning ChatterBait Elite EVO. The jighead is 96 percent tungsten and, with reduced water resistance, cuts through water fast with an off-the rails wandering action, while emitting multiple levels of vibration. Available in 3/8 or 1/2 ounce and 12 color patterns, with oversized 3D eyes.

$15.99 | scheels.com

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Ambient Hoodie

The lightest weight option in their Ambient line of active insulation, Sitka Ambient 75 Hoodie is designed to breathe and keep you warm. Body mapped with 75-g Primaloft Evolve active insulation in chest and arms and Polartec stretch grid for range of motion and breathability under arms and on sides. Two color options.

$279 | sitkagear.com

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Electronics Mounts

From Millennium Marine, Monitor Mounts in two styles, single and double, are of durable anodized aluminum, with heavy-duty stainless-steel hardware to ensure monitors are secure, and a telescoping riser adjustable between 18 and 24 inches. The base swivels 180 degrees, while the mounting plate swivels 360 degrees. Also available in silver and black.

$229.99 (single), $299.99 (double) | millenniummarine.com

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Stars Falling

A dainty delicate dandy of an ultra-thin stamped spoon, body slightly bent concave 3/4 inches long, a red #12 treble hanging, so the package dingle-dangles and trickle-dickles down like a falling star on a lift fall, even more flashing magic added with the addition of a flicker blade on the split ring between the bottom of the spoon body and hook, such tiny blade additions a Snyders Lures trademark. Muchas color patterns.

$4.99 | snyderslures.com

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Let’s Go Fishing

The book, Let’s Go Fishing, published by the University of Minnesota Press in 2016, is billed as “Fish Tales from the North Woods,” but any angler should enjoy the curious compendium of fishing topics: fish festivals and fish boils and fish fries; the wonderful, weird world of our sport, including pranksters, monsters, and female fish impersonators. And much more. Remarkable photos and illustrations. A truly intriguing tabletop companion for winter reading.

$39.95, hardcover, 256 pages, 50 black and white plates, 165 color plates | upress.umn.edu

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Tungsten Marabou

More dainty dandies—from VMC the Tungsten Roach Jig—with a tungsten head so they sink fast and transmit subtle strikes better, beautiful natural flowing marabou almost never stands perfectly still, always calling fish, flowing so naturally and beautifully while being worked, always alive, 1/64, 1/32, and 1/16 ounces, and eight colors.

$6.99 to $8.99 | scheels.com

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