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Curly Tail Lure Guide: How to Fish Them, Best Rigs & When They Work What Are Curly Tail Lures? Curly tail lures are one of the most effective soft plastic fishing lures for perch, bass, trout, pollock, and other predatory fish — especially in cold water, clear conditions, or heavily pressured venues where fish stop reacting to aggressive presentations. They’ve been around for decades, but they still catch fish because they solve a problem that many modern lures… Curly Tail Lure Guide: How to Fish Them, Best Rigs & When They Work
Discovering the Best Fishing Lures for Bass: A Guide for Enthusiasts Hello Fishing Fans, I hope this post finds you well and ready to cast your lines! Today, let’s dive into the exciting world of bass fishing and explore some of the best fishing lures available, especially focusing on the fantastic brand HANDING. When it comes to catching bass, selecting the right lure can make all the difference. HANDING offers a wide variety of lures that are designed to attract bass effectively. Their attention to detail and commitment to quality ensures that these lures are not only effective but also durable, making them a great investment for any angler. Some popular options from HANDING include their vibrant crankbaits and realistic soft plastics. These lures mimic the movement and appearance of natural prey, making them irresistible to bass. Additionally, HANDING’s innovative designs incorporate features that enhance their visibility in the water, allowing you to attract more fish. It’s always a good idea to experiment with different types of lures to see what works best in your local fishing spots. Whether you’re fishing in a lake or a river, HANDING’s lures will help you maximize your chances of a great catch. I’d love to hear your experiences with HANDING products or any tips you have for using lures effectively. Happy fishing, everyone! Fishing Lures
Paddle Tail Lures for Ultralight Fishing: What They Really Do (And How to Actually Use Them) How to Fish Paddle Tail Lures Paddle tail lures are soft plastic lures built around one simple idea — a tail that kicks and pushes water. That movement creates vibration that fish pick up through their lateral line, which is why they’re so effective for covering water and finding fish quickly. In ultralight fishing, they’re easy to fish, but after this guide you’ll see they’re much more than… Paddle Tail Lures for Ultralight Fishing: What They Really Do (And How to Actually Use Them)
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Fanatik soft plastics: product review (plus a few photos from a recent high country mission)
Fanatik soft plastics: product review (plus a few photos from a recent high country mission) One nice thing about having a fishing blog is that, from time to time, we are sent a bit of gear to review. We have always been completely honest about this, which I think is great in terms of maintaining a sense of independence and objectivity. It allows us to be really critical of certain things, while others may be wedded to certain brands, product lines, contracts and allegiances. The latest… View On WordPress
Soft Plastics - Loozer There’s something kind of…tidal/oceanic about this. Steady, full of dark currents, a little bit threatening. Some really great, rough-textured (and sometimes grunge-heavy) guitars as the song goes on, lots of layers of interesting instrumental sounds in general, also: very cool vocal (and you can sing descant over it in places!), something Music Theory about the melody. I’m back to feeling uncharitable, don’t tell the Music Supervisors about this, today I want TV writers to be accountable for their crimes , no trying to…wash them out to narrative sea via the rolling waves of this song! (art from here .)
Soft Plastics — 5 Dreams (Paper Bag)
5 Dreams by Soft Plastics Soft Plastics is Carey Mercer’s new band following the dissolution of Frog Eyes a few years back. At the time it seemed improbable that such a prolific and vociferous songwriter could staunch the soliloquies flowing out of him, even if the last couple of Frog Eyes albums hinted that a reinvention may help to spark some fresh fire in his belly. Pickpocket’s Locket and Violet Psalms redirected Mercer’s eloquence into more instrumentally eclectic territories, which continues on 5 Dreams . As in Frog Eyes, Mercer is joined in Soft Plastics by Melanie Campbell on drums, plus Shyla Seller on synths. There’s bass from Terri Upton and Collin Cowan, J.P. Carter on trumpet, and Campbell’s drums are often pitted against Josh Wells’ electronic rhythms. “St Tosh the Actor” is one hell of an opening salvo; typically for Mercer, the lyric sheet reads like Shakespearean verse, offering up plenty of vivid yet cryptic imagery, delivered in his distinctive theatrical tenor. The words never let up, their intensity matched by the distant squeal of Mercer’s guitar and Carter’s noble, declamatory trumpet. (Speaking of Mercer’s guitar, Frog Eyes often had his Telecaster steering the ship from the front, rattling away the whole time; Soft Plastics offers it a back seat for many of the songs.) As well as being the most structurally sophisticated song on 5 Dreams , “St Tosh” is also one instance in which Wells’ electronic rhythms can be distracting — on first listen, the shakers that start to swish around the stereo field during the song’s expansive middle section feel a little out of place. Much like “Claxxon’s Lament” on Carey’s Cold Spring , “A Flower in a Glove” on Paul’s Tomb: A Triumph , or “Bushels” on Tears of the Valedictorian , “St Tosh” casts an imposing shadow over the rest of the album. Elsewhere, Mercer returns to a more guitar-centric sound on “The Party’s Still On” and driving single “Rope Off the Tigers.” “Here’s Where the Sun Was” and “The Angels” foreground a surprising palette of electronic loops. And “I Dreamed of Cold Clean Green Seas” is eerily abstract, like a poem set to glitchy sound effects. For a songwriter who packs so much into his creations, it’s no surprise that Mercer makes it hard to get a full measure of 5 Dreams ’ narrative gist, even after multiple listens. Approach these songs however you choose, and they’re sure to shift evasively, compelling you to follow. Tim Clarke
Soft Plastics Interview: Collapse and Imagined Renewals
Photo by Angela Fama BY JORDAN MAINZER The dissolution of beloved Victoria, BC indie rock band Frog Eyes didn’t mean the end of Carey Mercer, Mel Campbell, and Shyla Seller together. Months after Frog Eyes’ stunning conclusion, May 2018′s Violet Psalms and a farewell tour, Soft Plastics was formed. The new trio, born from Mercer’s morning writing exercises in a dream-like state (“between sleeping and waking” reads the description on Bandcamp ), formed a thematic grimy underworld buoyed by a variety of genre influences. Their debut album 5 Dreams was released earlier this month, and it continues where Frog Eyes left off simply and importantly because of its instrumental cohesiveness yet boundless creativity. Almost 8-minute opener “St. Tosh the Actor” juxtaposes a shuffling beat with discernible trumpet. The beatific and ambient “I Dreamed of Cold Green Seas” shimmers into the concise pop of “The Party’s Still On”, which leads into the yelping wooziness of “Spartacus Please”. The penultimate “The Angels” is a waltz that leads into the epic “Wyld Thyng”, which combines acoustic guitar and electronic percussion, synthesizers, trailing electric guitars, and horn flutters. Tying it all together are Mercer’s beguiling lyrics that seem to reference the commonalities between his created world and where and how we live today. I asked Mercer some questions about the record over email, and his answers were as wondrous as the record itself. Since I Left You: Soft Plastics shares both band members and collaborators with Frog Eyes. Why does this band represent a new phase for you? Carey Mercer : Names are so important. A name is an empty vessel to fill with meaning. The last name had run over with meaning, which is a way of saying its meaning was done. A name change & abandonment of the songs from the last project leaves me feeling free and breezy. SILY: What were you hoping to externally communicate, if anything, with this project’s debut record? CM : I was not trying to communicate anything, I was working automatically and watching the dream-structure of roughly five situations or settings work themselves out. SILY: For 5 Dreams , was it important for you to work with people you had worked with before? CM : I live in a relatively middle-sized city, and an unliveable city. The sidewalks aren’t chock a block full of musicians. I also am persnickety and occasionally crotchety. I wanted to find people who had stuck it out, who had committed. I remember 10 years ago, touring with this insufferable band of Brooklyn youngsters, and the drummer bragging that he had made a graphed up power point presentation to his family as to why drumming in this band was a better fiscal move than going to business school. Oh, if I was a violent man…he would have had a throat punch to go with his graph. That world is over. Good riddance? SILY: Did anything specific inspire the lyrics, themes, and overall world of 5 Dreams ? Or was it more of a general mood or feeling? CM : It is both a general mood and feeling as well as having specific ecological and political themes of collapse and imagined renewals. SILY: While the instrumentation on the record is dense, your vocals seemed to me to be more forward in the mix than I’ve ever heard from you. Was that a conscious mixing decision? If so, why was that important to you? CM : Hunh, I thought the opposite. That’s fascinating to me: the myriad ways we all hear. Seeing is much more homogeneous, but hearing so much more mystical. I went back to a dynamic microphone, the legendary [Electro-Voice RE20]; maybe by forward you mean “less diffuse” and more concentrated. I think a condenser microphone, the usual go-to for vocals, catches more of the room and is more ambient, like a open back guitar cabinet. It is less concentrated. SILY: Every song on the record has a consistent palate of instruments, and even those that don’t appear on every song appear on at least half the album. Do you think this gives the record a coherent aesthetic? CM : I hope so. SILY: Why did you decide to bookend the record with its two longest tracks? What was the inspiration behind the sequencing in general? CM : Sequencing is a dark art, and I think that means something that requires skill but cannot be taught or even explained, except to say for vinyl you try and put your quietest or most spacious sound at the end of the record because the grooves get smaller. And I think you try not to have too many songs in the same key in a row. For me: Does it feel like a journey? SILY: You open “Andre” by singing, “This town’s a fascist collective / And that’s why I live alone.” To what extent is this line inspired by the real world? CM : It is the “what is”, to our collective horror. SILY: On "I Dreamed of Cold Green Seas”, you reference the titular characters of the closing track, “Wyld Thyngs”. Who are the wyld thyngs? CM : Creatures in nature unbound by law or civility. SILY: “The Party’s Still On” is probably the most concise pop song on the record, right in the middle. Is it like a palate cleanser, or divider between halves of the album? CM : Yes. SILY: On “The Party’s Still On”, you sing, “Does anybody believe the pure shit that falls naked from my tongue?” Could this line, too, exist outside of the world of the record? Is it self-deprecating? CM : I am by nature a compulsive exaggerator, amplifying truths for pleasure. SILY: When in your life were you first aware of the story of Spartacus? The Kubrick film? CM : Yes, totally. I watched it with my son when he was 9 years old: Ivan’s suffering as Spartacus’ eyes shine brilliance in the darkness of his crucifixion had a marked impact on me. SILY: In "Rope off the Tigers”, you sing, “Rope off the tigers / They’ll spill the tea” and “They’re on bad E”. The reasons given for holding back the predators are that they’re misbehaving. To what extent is this song and the album in general humorous and surreal? CM : But, I can’t answer this question without undermining the humorous and surreal aspects of the record, Jordan. SILY: What’s the inspiration behind the title of the record? CM : Having what felt like five dreams over and over again. SILY: What’s the inspiration behind the album art? CM : Our friend Jason Wright drew it whilst in Norway on an artist’s retreat. I “see” the record as the moments after a huge drench down, glimmering pools abound, the world is silver gelatin. The image is the record is the image is the record. I see an angel in there. SILY: Are there or were there plans to play these songs live? What about live streams? CM : Yes, all of that. We were sprinting in March to get our set together for an April concert. SILY: I read that you’re already working on new music. Would this be a Soft Plastics project? How similar or different is it to the music on 5 Dreams ? CM : It is different in the sense that the writing was fairly automatic. Automatic enough, that I felt impressed by myself, by my subconscious or whatever fuels image clusters while we sleep. Thanks Jordan. 5 Dreams by Soft Plastics
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