{"title":"Evergreen: Japanese lures and chatterbaits","description":"\u003ch3\u003eEvergreen, a Japanese bass specialist\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEvergreen International\u003c\/strong\u003e is a Japanese fishing tackle brand. It is based in Osaka. The brand designs lures and rods, mainly for bass fishing. It also works on light saltwater fishing, with the Poseidon rod series. In freshwater, its bass rods are split between the Combat Stick and Kaleido lines.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIts range of \u003cstrong\u003elures\u003c\/strong\u003e covers every layer of the water. It includes crankbaits such as the Combat Crank series, lipless baits and jerkbaits. Evergreen also designs topwater lures such as the Showerblows, swimbaits and soft plastics such as the C-4 Shrimp. The \u003cstrong\u003eJack Hammer\u003c\/strong\u003e chatterbait, built with Z-Man, is part of the range too.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eDesign driven by tournament fishing\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvergreen sums up its approach in one idea: the water comes first. Each model is tuned by tournament anglers. Toshifumi Kikumoto has designed the brand's rods for decades. Katsutaka Imae, Morizo Shimizu and Brett Hite are also part of its teams.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis approach shows in several design choices:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eCombat Stick rods, stiffer than the soft bass rods of the 1980s.\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eThe Combat Stick Orion series, a full rework of that line.\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eA flat head with a low center of gravity on the Jack Hammer.\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eA thin stainless blade, set low enough to strike the head of the lure.\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Jack Hammer shows this method well. Brett Hite and Morizo Shimizu, two anglers from the Bassmaster Elite circuit, followed its development. The groove under its head guides the blade. As a result, the lure starts to vibrate from the first turns of the reel handle.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSince 2015, Daiwa has distributed Evergreen lures in the USA and Canada.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[],"url":"https:\/\/rodhouse.com\/en\/collections\/evergreen.oembed","provider":"Rodhouse","version":"1.0","type":"link"}