Slam-A-Mander: A Lure For Catching Giant Bass

Texas is having its best season in many years for truly gigantic bass.

O.H. Ivie has not only cranked out a new lake record 17 plus pounder but also numerous fish weighing more than 13 pounds. Other lakes including Sam Rayburn and Houston County have also given up legitimate giants.

Reports of mega bass spread like wildfire, increasing fishing pressure in dramatic fashion.

Savvy anglers know this is when they need to try something the bass on their lakes haven’t seen, and that pushes the bite button on giants.

Enter The Slam-A-Mander

The Slam-A-Mander from FishLab Tackle is such a lure.

It is a heavy cover swimbait designed for targeting big bass.

With a heavy tail kicking action,the Slam-A-Mander can be fished several ways including a classic swimbait presentation on a swim jig, vibrating jig or weighted swimbait hook. The salamander-like profile also excels on slower stop-and-go presentations. Texas rig, Carolina Rig or Tokyo Rig as well as many other presentations.

“This bait has so much action,” states Mike Bennett, Product Development Manager. “We wanted to create a salamander style bait with a true swimming action to draw in huge strikes, and I think we accomplished that.”

The FishLab Slam-A-Mander is available in three sizes, 4 ½”(5pc), 6”(4pc)and 7” (3pc) sizes and is available in all of the popular forage colors such as Watermelon, Green Pumpkin, GreenPumpkin/Brown Bottom, Purple/Brown Bottom, Brown/BlackBottom, Black/Blue, Watermelon Candyand Albino.

Justified By Science

These lures appeal to what scientists call the “gape-width factor”.

That’s a fancy way of saying largemouth bass can and will eat anything they can fit in their mouths. And once a bass gets of trophy proportions, they often switch their feeding habits from chasing and killing dozens of shad to eating one or two large prey items a day.

And the Slam-A-Mander has Texas bass fishing history to back it up.

For years, anglers would fish live water dogs, which are a large tiger salamander larvae, to catch extra large bass on lakes like Fayette County, Fork and Houston County.

Now anglers have a “water dog’ realistic enough to mimic the real thing and versatile enough to use with methods bib fish have not seen before.

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