WHAT IS IT?
Strike King Carolina Chrome
WHAT SETS IT APART?
Strike King offers the Carolina Chrome color in several of its popular soft plastic forms: Blade Minnow (4.5-inch), Caffeine Shad (4- and 5-inch), Swim’n Caffeine Shad (4- and 5-inch) and Rage Swimmer (2.75-, 3.25-, 3.75-, 4.75- and 5.75-inch). Strike King uses the same plastic from which the Rage and Perfect Plastic lines are created and loads them with large silver chrome flakes. This allows the baits to catch light from practically any angle and create intense reflections that mimic baitfish.
HOW DO I USE IT?
While their lateral lines do a lot of the location work, bass are largely sight feeders that are genetically wired to respond to shimmers, glimmers and flashes of light. The reason is simple: That’s what baitfish look like — or, at least, the momentary glimpse a bass catches when light reflects of scales. Chrome color hard baits have played off this truth for years, but Strike King now adds this option to its soft bait lines with its Carolina Chrome option. Highly effective in clear water, when light travels farther, this new color mimics the look bass are used to seeing.
HOW MUCH?
$6.99
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ANGLER’S INSIGHT:
Strike King’s new Carolina Chrome pattern should prove impactful in multiple scenarios, including shad spawns and blueback herring spawns. While some of these baits can pull solo duty, this visual appeal will really dress up your moving baits, such as swim jigs, underspins, bladed jigs, spinnerbaits and buzzbaits. Elsewhere, it looks like a 4-inch Caffeine Shad in Carolina Chrome would sit well on a Damiki rig. And, while umbrella rigs are not allowed in Bassmaster tournaments, a set of Rage Swimmers in the Carolina Chrome color would get plenty of attention.