Just Landed at ICAST: XZone Stealth Finesse

What's up everybody, this is a cool one. This is from our friends there at Exone, over the border there in Canada, that makes some really cool stuff. As you already know, we saw a lot of Exone plastics here, and for a long time been coming to replacement for a lot of our customers. They're replacing a lot of their traditional plastics, a lot of the Exone stuff over the last few years. Feels like it's been a little bit, so I'm super excited to see the stuff they're launching right now. This is interesting, right? Because we have seen from a lot of the manufacturers that have been waiting for kind of this BFS revolution to take hold, and see a lot more of that finesse baitcaster stuff come to market, a lot of it's been launched in hard baits. Well here we go, we got soft baits coming from Exone, which I'm excited to see. These are just basically their finesse series, obviously doesn't need to be fish BFS style. If you're like me and you grew up using a spinning rod, and you're not scared of a spinning rod, go ahead and fish it with a spinning rod. But if you are in the BFS stuff, this is gonna be baits that are designed with you in mind. We're gonna start off with the stealth tube here. This is a 40/60 split, which I'm assuming means the body's only 40%, 60% of the tentacles there, which is gonna give it a more erratic action. They did kick you out a bunch of sizes, and a little tube jig head for it as well. So these tiny tubes, if you're not familiar with them, have been a staple for Great Lakes Anglers for a long, long time. And now a lot of our inland lakes that we fish that have small, small present, this has become a go-to presentation. And you can imagine why. That's right, forward-facing sonar. Can't do a video without mentioning that, can we? But you got little tube jigs to go with little finesse tubes as well. Like I said, these style tubes are killer. I also wanna point out that all these plastics, I haven't read what it is. They haven't told me what it is yet, but they clearly are a heavily scented plastic. They have a very, very natural scent to them, some sort of like crawfish scent. I can't really put my finger on it. I'll let you know when I know more, but it seems like the boy's up there, an exo and figured out something to do with some really, really interesting scent on this. Next up, you got this little stealth creature. This one's like a brush hog, right? It's very similar to a brush hog. It's got those brush hoggy kind of tails on it. But small enough that you can just put some little finesse spin-in rod-sized hooks in it, and you can fish it, obviously, text-opposed on BFS or in a Carolina rig. I'm sure you can put a nethead on this. I'm sure you can do a whole bunch of different stuff. But basically, one of the most proven fish-catching shapes of all time and a tiny little BFS form. Next, you got, you can't have a finesse series without a little minter, can you? So here's a little minter for you. Exo makes a little ball head that's absolutely perfect for this, that's what I thought of it right away. I actually saw another manufacturer's I-cast release today of a little jig head that would work really well in this as well. So there are jig heads that'll fit with this small minnow, you guys will see them out there. But you can also just notice like this on a drop shot. You all know in the world of minnows I'm not showing any secrets here. But this is awesome that they made one of them. This tiny little size for your applications of finesse fishing BFS stuff. Lastly, you got this crawl right here. Can't have any bass fishing bait series without a crawl, right? So I would love to put this on the back of a little mini micro football jig, but a lot of people are gonna text-opposed this or just fish it. Be honest with you, I've seen these more natural style crawls work really, really well on a little flip shot. So get yourself a little sinker on the bottom like a drop shot with a shorter drop on it with a small little flipping hook in it. And you just stick 'em like that. I mean, you can let it fall to the bottom and pop it up off the bottom and scoot it along on the bottom there. Flip shot works great with these little natural crawls. So all this stuff here from Exone is in their new stealth finesse series. So the packaging looks differently. It's black like this and it's got the little clam shell in there to protect the baits. But check out all this stuff from Exone and go get yourself a BFS rod in real if you wanna try it on a bait cast. (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music)