Spawning
baitfish lay approximately 20,000 eggs annually.
Approximately
18,000 will hatch and become YEARLING.
Of those,
half will be consumed by predators.
Approximately
30% will be consumed as juveniles.
In the end,
less than 15% will survive to spawn.
YEARLING are
abundant.
YEARLING are
simple to corral and easy to catch.
While
scouting Lake Hartwell in Greenville, SC for the upcoming 2015 Bassmaster
Classic, Elite Series pro Stephen Browning put LIVETARGET'S Yearling to use.
"As an
angler, a key to matching the hatch is to remember that not all baitfish spawn
at the same time of the year, so the sizes of the baitfish vary," said
Browning. "This lure can mimic hatch throughout the whole year. I don't want
to give out too many secrets; but I think that the jerkbaits will definitely
play a big role."
COLOR
SELECTION
Browning elaborated
on choosing the color for his Yearling. "I try to determine my color by
water clarity," he stated. "In dingier waters, I lean to the
chartreuse hues. In water that is extremely clear, I incorporate some of the
translucent colors. The key is to apply the lure to the body of water that
you're going to fish. A fish won't be able to make true eye contact with a translucent
lure in dingy, stained, muddy or off- colored water."
Gary Abernethy
of LIVETARGET further examined the color schemes unique to the Yearling design.
"The Yearling lure is built around the actual anatomy of tiny, hatching
baitfish. This includes definition of both reflective and translucent areas on
each individual fish built into the baitball motif on each lure. This extreme
definition provides multiple "flash points" that help make for the
unique appeal in the BaitBall lure family. Colors to
this "match-the-hatch" detail provide the angler ways to make the
lures more effective across the various water and weather conditions that they
encounter in daily fishing conditions.
Suggestions:
CLEAR
WATER/BRIGHT SKY
·
Pearl/Natural
·
Silver/Black
·
Pearl/Violet
Shad
LIGHT
STAIN/WIND & CLOUDS
·
Pearl/Olive
Shad
·
Gold/Black
·
Pearl/Violet
Shad
COLORED
WATER/CLOUDY DAYS
·
Blue/Chartreuse
Shad
·
Chartreuse/Black
WHAT IS A YEARLING
The Yearling
spawned from the LIVETARGET BaitBall family of lures,
touting some of the most life-like lure patterns ever created.
"It is designed
out of the anatomy of the hatchling with underdeveloped eyes and translucence
in the body of the fish," explained Abernethy. "True to the LIVETARGET
core principle, we didn't just reduce the size of the eyes, put them on the
lure and call them Yearlings, we actually changed the anatomy (the size, the
appearance) of the fish themselves."
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