Northland® Fishing Tackle’s new Tungsten Flat-Fry Fly catches all panfish species, all season.
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BEMIDJI, Minn. (March 8, 2024) – If your goal is to catch lots of panfish, the new Tungsten Flat-Fry Fly fits the bill. Sunfish, crappies, and perch all go crazy for this buggy-looking creation.
While there’s no shortage of marabou panfish jigs on bait shop pegs, the new Northland Tungsten Flat-Fry Fly Jig differs in that it’s built around a tungsten jig head, not lead. In fact, its skeleton is a 1/16-oz. Northland Tungsten Flat-Fry Jig with super-sharp #10 hook, a package that’s dense, gets to fish fast, and casts like a rocket. The jig head shape and materials combo dance on a short hop retrieve (typically under a float), tempting panfish to bite, besides hanging at a 90-degree angle to imitate everything from small fish fry to aquatic insects.
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Designers played around with a lot of different materials, ultimately settling on a tungsten Flat-Fry Fly Jig hook shank wrapped in premium chenille with real feather hackle around the collar and out the tail, which undulate and quiver underwater, just like a real fry or critter, eliminating the need for live bait.
Available in 12 color combinations—including 8 Super-Glo patterns—there’s a Tungsten Flat-Fry Fly for every type of water clarity and situation imaginable—including clear, pressured waters.
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Fly Time with Bro
Panfish expert and seasoned fishing guide, Brian “Bro” Brosdahl, reports, “The Tungsten Flat-Fry Fly jig is kind of bulky, light, and dense all at the same time. Even though it’s tungsten, the hackles give it an interesting, slower rate of fall that neutral, light-biting crappies will inhale.”
As far as the color combos available, Bro likes that a lot of them look like “big, fat, juicy bugs” that panfish gobble without any bait at all. But during cold fronts or negative-feeding situations, Bro says the addition of one waxworm is enough to turn sniffers into biters.
“At 1/16 oz. and with its relatively slow fall, it just triggers strikes at the right time – like you can pitch up and jig over weed tops and cover water where you wouldn’t dare touch bottom. And once you find big ‘gills, it’s game on if you give it subtle twitches or hops.”
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‘Gill Chasing With Nelson
“I like that the soft hackle on the front breathes and pulses. My experience is that movement alone catches panfish. You don’t need to tip it in most situations,” observes panfish expert and angling educator, Joel Nelson.
“Fish it just a little bit faster than other panfish jigs and the Tungsten Flat Fry Fly gets life-like, with that wet hackle moving. It’s pretty awesome: I’ve caught a lot of bluegills on it,” concludes Nelson.
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The Panfish Duo Talks
Tyler and Sara Trampe like the fact that Northland created a tungsten panfish jig with “all kinds of stuff hanging off it so it falls slow.”
Sara remarks: “It’s a great panfish bait, especially for spring fish. All those little movements from the hairs pretty much imitate a bug or tiny minnow.
Tyler adds: “We fished it all season and it rocked during bug hatches—and with that tungsten head, you can see it on your electronics even though it’s small and only 1/16-ounce with a #10 hook. It’s going to continue to get a workout with us. For panfish, the Flat-Fry Fly works when nothing else will.”
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FEATURES: Tungsten Flat-Fry Fly
- Jig sits horizontally mimicking real live fry & small forage
- Flat top & tungsten material reflect sonar signal more effectively for improved sonar sight fishing
- Real feather hackle for extra movement & attraction
- Made of tungsten: 30% more dense than lead – it falls faster, is more sensitive & environmentally friendly
MSRP $6.99 (2/Card)
NOW AVAILABLE
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ABOUT Northland® Fishing Tackle
In 1975, a young Northwoods fishing guide named John Peterson started pouring jigs and tying tackle for his clients in a small remote cabin in northern Minnesota. The lures were innovative, made with high quality components, and most importantly, were catching fish when no other baits were working! Word spread like wildfire, the phone started ringing… and the Northland Fishing Tackle® brand was in hot demand! For 40 years now, John and the Northland® team have been designing, testing and perfecting an exclusive line of products that catch fish like no other brand on the market today. Manufactured in the heart of Minnesota’s finest fishing waters, Northland® is one of the country’s leading producers of premium quality jigs, live bait rigs, spinnerbaits and spoons for crappies, bluegills, perch, walleyes, bass, trout, northern pike and muskies.
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ABOUT Bagley Bait Company
The personality of any company comes from its founder. Jim Bagley was an inventive, fun-loving, passionate fisherman who became one the most respected legends in the fishing tackle industry. In late 2010, Jarmo Rapala and a group of investors bought Bagley Bait Company. As an admirer of Jim Bagley for his attention to quality and of his product ingenuity and innovation, Jarmo initiated significant changes in operations, enhanced production processes and quality control. Now in 2020, Northland® Fishing Tackle, along with Jarmo as its Chief Lure Designer, maintain the legacy of creating premium balsa crankbaits and topwater lures, as well as jigs and spoons for both freshwater and saltwater anglers.
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