We finally received the long awaited Al Gags Custom lures. They look sweet come in 5 colors and 2 sizes.
For those of you that have not seen these yet you won't believe your eyes when you see it swim.

http://www.capecodtackle.com/Merchant/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=cct01&Product_Code=specials+13

Are they plastic (like the slammer) or wood?
No matter I will be stoping in tomorrow on my way to the boat show. Need to get some stuff.

WOOD

I got mine from Al last night. Very nice stuff. :kewl:

got about a dozen of them wed night....swam them in the river this morning before work......I was skeptical of them before, but all I can say now is WOW, they swim awesome and I know the bass will love tem:D

can't wait to try the "dancer":D

well they sure have a nice look from the pic.

How deep do they swim?

Mike, are they Bliz Gags or Al G Gags? Just wondering...:confused:

The latest from Al Gags, not Bliz Gags or Mambo Gags. RU confused yet? I am. :laughs:

How do they cast, seem light 1.5ozs

Look nice - wonder if the lip will stand up to rocks? Is the lip wood or plastic?
DZ

The lip is made out of lexan so it shouldn't break

Originally posted by fishweewee
The latest from Al Gags, not Bliz Gags or Mambo Gags. RU confused yet? I am. :laughs:

Uhhhh...thanks, FWW....that certainly clears it up :confused:

I think...

I'll be first on my block with a burple and school bus!

I don't know SP we shipped 4 packages to L I today.

curses foiled again! :af:

Mike you have to learn from the Reps.

it doesn't matter how many you ship as long as they go out the same day you get to say "your shop will be the first in your town / state / country to get these" :p

thru-wired?

I met with Al a few weeks ago to test these out before they made it to the shops. My first impression was that they looked to be too light to cast. Well, that thought was squashed on my first cast. I was quite amazed at how far they actually cast. I wasn't using light gear, either, as Al wanted to see how the lure would work with real fishing gear. I had 50# braid and 60# leader and a fairly heavy 9' rod. It went so far on my first cast, Al actually thought I broke off one of his proto's. Anyway, they are through wired and look to be pretty well made. He told me he did some stress tests with them being tied to a cinderblock and none of them failed. They dive to a similar depth of a bomber, but you can also swim them on the surface like a danny with a sexy wiggle. Only time will tell if the bass like them, but I know of a couple already taken on the Thames this week on the smaller version.

Originally posted by Surfpirate
curses foiled again! :af:

Mike you have to learn from the Reps.

it doesn't matter how many you ship as long as they go out the same day you get to say "your shop will be the first in your town / state / country to get these" :p

Danno, call or e-mail me. There are other ways. :hihi:

there here! :happy:

Originally posted by tlapinski
Anyway, they are through wired ... I retract this statement and appoligize to anyone I may have mislead. As was pointed out to me, they are in fact not through wired. :(

as we all found out this weekend right TL:eek:

I also just found out they are not "through wired"...there is a system of wring and according to Al has been put through a series of weight and stress tests...

The 7" or larger of the two sizes of Surf Dancer will soon come out through wired, along with the return of the Gag's Needles & a new Top Water bait that is in development

I am going to put my come along scale setup together this weekend and see just how mych pressure the small Surf Dancer will hold up to

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Originally posted by fishweewee
The latest from Al Gags, not Bliz Gags or Mambo Gags. RU confused yet? I am.
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The Slammer will eventually come under the umbrella of
Bliz Lures...

Why release a lure that is not thru wired only to re-release it in a thru wired model shortly after? It’s kind of annoying to have bought a few of these to try and now realize that I’ll probably want to replace them with the thru wired ones when they come out, just for the additional confidence that the thru wire provides. I’m not whining or complaining since I’m still happy with the ones that I have, it just doesn’t make sense to me.

Originally posted by Clogston29
Why release a lure that is not thru wired only to re-release it in a thru wired model shortly after? It’s kind of annoying to have bought a few of these to try and now realize that I’ll probably want to replace them with the thru wired ones when they come out, just for the additional confidence that the thru wire provides. I’m not whining or complaining since I’m still happy with the ones that I have, it just doesn’t make sense to me.

I agree with you. I just purchased some but I would have waited if I knew there were through-wired coming out eventually. The weighted stress test doesnt give me much confidence in mimicking real-life conditions either. :(