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full, rich colors on baits to be used in salt and

fresh water. The Fire Dye comes in Red, Pink,
Orange, Chartreuse, Blue, and Gold. Only Red,
Gold, Blue and Chartreuse are intended for live
bait.”

Usually, I don’t test products, I get someone from
my test group to give it an independent test and I
can review them. In this case, I asked David

McWilliams and Adam Calcote to test this new
Fire Dye and let me know their feelings. I gave
them a few bottles in Gold and Chartreuse. So,
David followed the directions and dyed a few
minnows (approximately 25). Afterward, they

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By Anthony John Badham

Always fun catching big smallies thru the ice... but they
headed for the Barnett Reservoir in Madison, MS. are not always aggressively feeding and eating
everything in site

“It didn’t take long for us to see the difference. We When the fish keep coming in to look at your bait and
rigged up 8 poles with double minnow rigs and not chomping, sometimes you need a bait a little more
chose one pole to try the Chartreuse minnows. The subtle.... the Yozuri Hardcore Silent Vibe did the trick on

fish weren’t on a feeding frenzy, but we were these very finicky Smallmouth.

catching some the day before. Before we could get
all our poles out, we had a nice size crappie on the
top Bling Minnow. We rebaited with a regular
minnow on the top and bling on the bottom, before
long another fish hit the bottom minnow.”, says
David. “Before long Adam put the Bling Minnows on
his side of the boat, and he wouldn’t share

anymore. It was no doubt, the Bling Minnows on
one pole caught nearly half of our fish. We caught
most of our larger fish on the Blings.”

Adam says, “The Fire Dye is an awesome product.
I’ve tried to dye minnows with Spike-It to no avail.

It’s designed strictly for soft plastics. It kills the All our fish caught on the new St-Croix Custom Ice rods
minnows almost instantly. The Fire Dye is in both 32MF and 28MLXF.... these are sooooo
completely different. If you follow the instructions sensitive!!!

on a quick soak, it only takes about 30 minutes to Thanks, Jean Martin, for supplying us with the best tools
dye 45 to 50 minnows. I sure hope other fishermen in the business Yozuri / St-Croix!!!