{"title":"Hard Baits","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"white-rooster-tail-spinner-lure-1-4-oz","title":"White Rooster Tail Spinner Lure 1\/8 Oz.","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e1\/8 oz in-line spinner in white, with a hackle tail dressed on the treble. Two things are working at once: the blade throws flash and vibration a fish can find before it can see anything, and the hackle keeps breathing even when the lure slows down.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThat makes it a searching lure. Fan-cast it, count it down, and keep it moving — it covers water faster than bait ever will and shows you where fish are holding. White earns its keep in stained water and flat light. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eRetrieve just fast enough to feel the blade turning. Lose that thump and you're going too slow.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Utah Fishing Tackle Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48267558256898,"sku":"SKU08","price":4.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0827\/5089\/8434\/files\/WhiteRoosterTail_4468cb48-ec59-4a05-9c71-32ac0e95170a.png?v=1787961157"},{"product_id":"buoyant-1-4-oz-brown-trout","title":"Buoyant 1\/4 oz. - Brown Trout","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Buoyant is a thicker spoon than most at this weight, and that shape is the whole design: it wobbles wide and slow instead of spinning tight, so you can fish it at a crawl without it going dead in the water. The brown trout finish is a straight imitation — golden flanks with dark spots, the look of a small trout, which is on the menu anywhere trout share water with something bigger. Let it sink to the depth you want, swim it back slowly, and put a sharp twitch in the rod tip every few turns. Most strikes come on the pause right after that twitch.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Utah Fishing Tackle Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48337127276802,"sku":null,"price":4.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0827\/5089\/8434\/files\/browntroutboyant_fcc7cc4f-8aaf-47e4-8293-1f26ba2842a1.png?v=1787966446"},{"product_id":"buoyant-1-4-oz-gold-red","title":"Buoyant 1\/4 oz. - Gold\/Red","description":"\u003cp\u003eGold and red isn't imitating anything, and that's the point. Gold throws a warmer flash that carries further through stained and low-light water than silver does, and the red gives a following fish a specific place to aim, which is often what turns a follow into a bite. This is the one to start with at first light, under heavy cloud, or after a wind has stirred the shallows into color. Same thick body and wide wobble as the rest of the Buoyants, so it holds its action at slow retrieve speeds.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Utah Fishing Tackle Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48337128390914,"sku":null,"price":4.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0827\/5089\/8434\/files\/boyantredgold_618d9878-ceea-45e2-bb81-613d9b8bd25d.png?v=1787965568"},{"product_id":"down-deep-husky-jerk-size-10-gold","title":"Down Deep Husky Jerk - Size 10 - Gold","description":"\u003cp\u003eFour inches, 3\/8 oz, and an oversized diving lip that pulls it down 7 to 16 feet on a cast and holds up to 16 feet on the troll. The part that matters most is that it suspends — stop reeling and it hangs at depth instead of floating up or sinking away. Predators often track a bait a long way before committing, and a lure that stops dead in front of a following fish is what closes the deal. Gold is the finish for chop, cloud, and color, and there's a rattle chamber inside to give fish something to home in on when they can't see far. Two No. 5 trebles.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Utah Fishing Tackle Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48337129079042,"sku":null,"price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0827\/5089\/8434\/files\/DownDeepHuskyJerk-Size10-Gold_659d3e04-937d-4280-9f8d-3c4f929f3424.png?v=1787962911"},{"product_id":"down-deep-husky-jerk-size-10-yellow-perch","title":"Down Deep Husky Jerk - Size 10 - Yellow Perch","description":"\u003cp\u003eSame four-inch body, same 7-to-16-foot dive, same dead-stop suspend — but this one is built to be examined rather than found. Yellow Perch is a barred olive-and-gold pattern, and barred sides are among the most copied markings in freshwater for good reason: they break up the outline and read as a living fish rather than painted plastic. Tie it on when the water is clear, the sun is high, and a flashier bait is drawing follows that won't convert. Two No. 5 trebles and the same internal rattle.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Utah Fishing Tackle Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48337135141122,"sku":null,"price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0827\/5089\/8434\/files\/DownDeepHuskyJerk-Size10-YellowPerch_fd9e1656-2337-494f-a906-28b0b2c0a0c1.png?v=1787962879"},{"product_id":"rapala-dives-to-04-live-bluegill","title":"Rapala Dives-To 04 - Live Bluegill","description":"\u003cp\u003eTwo inches, 5\/16 oz, balsa body, runs 4 feet. The whole DT design is built around one idea: reach the stated depth fast and hold it. The thin polycarbonate lip pulls the bait down almost immediately after the cast instead of making you burn half the retrieve getting deep, so the lure spends its entire trip in the strike zone rather than a third of it. Balsa is what gives it the side-to-side roll you can't get out of a molded plastic body — lighter material, more responsive, still working at slow speeds. Live Bluegill is a natural panfish pattern with dark vertical bars over an olive-gold back. Throw it when fish are keyed on young panfish, and lean on it in clear water where a bait has to look like something specific to get eaten.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Utah Fishing Tackle Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48337160470786,"sku":null,"price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0827\/5089\/8434\/files\/DTbluegill_2876511d-c16d-4976-ad70-0a317ddbde47.png?v=1787961945"},{"product_id":"rapala-dives-to-04-dark-brown-crawdad","title":"Rapala Dives-To 04 - Dark Brown Crawdad","description":"\u003cp\u003eSame 2-inch balsa body at 5\/16 oz running to 4 feet, but this one is meant to be fished into things rather than through open water. A crankbait that runs 4 feet and bumps rock, gravel, and wood deflects off it, and that sudden change of direction triggers strikes far more reliably than a steady retrieve does. Dark Brown Crawdad is the color for that job — a crawfish backing off in a puff of silt is exactly what a fish expects to see when something knocks into the bottom. Run it into cover on purpose. Two No. 6 trebles, hand-tuned and tank-tested before it ships.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Utah Fishing Tackle Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48337161224450,"sku":null,"price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0827\/5089\/8434\/files\/DTcraw_b373a911-b37f-401e-a8fb-180a87303651.png?v=1787961870"},{"product_id":"white-rooster-tail-spinner-lure-1-4-oz-1","title":"White Rooster Tail Spinner Lure 1\/4 Oz.","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e1\/4 oz in-line spinner in white, with a hackle tail dressed on the treble. Two things are working at once: the blade throws flash and vibration a fish can find before it can see anything, and the hackle keeps breathing even when the lure slows down.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThat makes it a searching lure. Fan-cast it, count it down, and keep it moving — it covers water faster than bait ever will and shows you where fish are holding. White earns its keep in stained water and flat light. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eRetrieve just fast enough to feel the blade turning. Lose that thump and you're going too slow.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Utah Fishing Tackle Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48337171349762,"sku":"SKU07","price":4.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0827\/5089\/8434\/files\/WhiteRoosterTail.png?v=1787959313"},{"product_id":"buoyant-1-4-oz-chartreuse","title":"Buoyant 1\/4 oz. - Chartreuse","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eChartreuse is where you go when there isn't enough light for flash to do the work. 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The balsa is the whole reason this lure has outlasted everything built to replace it — a light body starts rolling at speeds a heavier plastic bait can't work at, so you can crawl it past a fish that isn't in the mood to chase. Silver is the original finish and the one to run in clear water and good light, where flash carries and a trout picks it out from a long way off.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eBecause it floats, you get three lures in one. Twitch it on the surface and it fishes like a minnow in trouble. Reel it steady and it runs three to five feet. Stop reeling and it rises, which is how you climb it over a weed edge or a rock — and how you back it out of a snag before you lose it. At an eighth of an ounce it casts like a feather, so keep your line light, use the wind, or flatline it behind the boat at Strawberry or Scofield. Two No. 8 trebles, hand-tuned and tank-tested.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Utah Fishing Tackle Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48413226893570,"sku":null,"price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0827\/5089\/8434\/files\/originalfloatrapala_a78abcb2-e41e-4047-a59a-059cd15c27e8.png?v=1787970647"},{"product_id":"rapala-original-floating-f09-perch","title":"Rapala Original Floating F09 - Perch","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e3½ inches, 3\/16 oz, balsa. Same wounded-minnow roll as the smaller Original, with enough weight to cast on a stiffer rod and enough profile to interest a fish that won't move for something tiny. It still runs three to five feet on a steady retrieve, floats at rest, and backs up over a rock when you stop reeling.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003ePerch is the match-the-hatch color for most Utah reservoirs. 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Two No. 8 trebles, hand-tuned and tank-tested.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Utah Fishing Tackle Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48413288366338,"sku":null,"price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0827\/5089\/8434\/files\/09perch_ff9b8287-f789-448f-81db-02d46409ed41.png?v=1787972253"},{"product_id":"rapala-original-floating-f09-rainbow-trout","title":"Rapala Original Floating F09 - Rainbow Trout","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e3½ inches, 3\/16 oz, balsa. The bigger Original casts better than the F07 and gives a predator something worth crossing a flat for, while keeping the same slow roll and the same three-to-five-foot run. It floats at rest, so a pause lifts it over rock and weed instead of dragging it into them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eRainbow trout is a predator's color, not a trout fisherman's. Utah stocks catchable rainbows into reservoirs all season, and the biggest fish in those reservoirs — brown trout, lake trout, tiger muskie, and the rainbows that outgrew the pellet stage — know it. Fish it where the truck has been: the same ramps and shorelines the plants go in on, in the weeks right after. That silver-blue back with the pink stripe is the last thing a lot of nine-inch rainbows ever see. Two No. 8 trebles, hand-tuned and tank-tested.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Utah Fishing Tackle Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48413288792322,"sku":null,"price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0827\/5089\/8434\/files\/09rainbow_ce3ea20f-cd19-4697-89e8-3d3bce9d64ab.png?v=1787972371"},{"product_id":"cutthroat-rapala-kit","title":"Cutthroat Rapala Kit","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eBig cutthroat spend the day out where you can't reach them from the bank, and they come to you at night. Once the light drops they move up onto shallow flats, rocky points, and the edges of weed beds to hunt — water three or four feet deep that held nothing at noon. They'll work it through the dark and slide back out as the sun clears the ridge. That window, the last hour of night through the first hour of light, is the only time a shore angler and a large cutthroat are reliably in the same place. This kit is built for exactly that window.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe reason both lures float matters more than anything else in the box. You're casting into water you can't see, over rock and weed you haven't mapped, and a sinking bait finds every bit of it. Stop reeling and these rise instead of hanging up — so you can work a boulder field by feel, pausing every time you touch something and letting the lure climb over it. 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Rainbow Trout is the planter imitation. Utah stocks catchable rainbows into these reservoirs all season and the biggest cutthroat in them know exactly what a nine-inch trout looks like — throw it near a ramp or a stocking shoreline, especially in the weeks after a plant.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eRun the snap swivel, and understand which half of it you're buying. The barrel end is along for the ride here — a Rapala rolls, it doesn't spin, so it won't put twist in your line the way a spinner does. The snap is the point, for two reasons. The first is practical: swapping colors at four in the morning with cold hands, by headlamp, is where good sessions go to die, and a snap turns a retie into two seconds. The second matters more than most people think. Tie a knot tight to the eye of a balsa minnow and you damp the very thing you're paying for. A snap lets the bait swing free at the nose, and a lure with room to move wobbles harder at slow speeds — which is the whole presentation here. A loop knot does the same job if you'd rather tie one; the snap just does it faster, in the dark. Black finish, so there's no bright flash riding a few inches ahead of your bait in clear water at first light.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eFish them slow and shallow. Cast parallel to the bank rather than straight out, because the fish are between you and deep water, not past it. Reel just fast enough to feel the bait working, and put a pause in every few turns. Most of your bites will come inside a rod length or two of shore, and a fair number will come while the lure is sitting still. Resist the urge to speed up when nothing happens — the crawl is the point.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eTwo things before you go. Walk the shoreline you plan to fish in daylight first, so you know where the drop-offs and the trip hazards are, and keep your headlamp off the water — a beam across a shallow flat empties it. And check the current Utah Fishing Guidebook for the water you're on. 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