Imagine you抳e never been ice fishing...ever. (Yikes!) Now let抯 make believe that not only have you never pulled a fish through a hole, but you just purchased one of the leading ice-fishing jig manufacturers in the world ?Custom Jigs & Spins.
Man, what a cool fantasy?
For a man named Walt Matan, this wasn抰 fiction, but exactly how his life turned. The year was 1989, and Walt and his father, 揚oppee? literally unfurled the dust-covered white sheets from William Klingbell抯 machinery to see what they had won (bought). Beneath the shrouds were the magical apparatuses that forged the most-sought-after ice-fishing lures ever crafted.
揑t was just before the official purchase of the company when I mentioned to William I was going ice-fishing and wanted to buy a few jigs to figure this ice-fishing thing out ?and, of course, catch fish,?said Matan. 揂nd then William handed me three tiny jigs ?three total; that抯 it. And to this day they are still the three baits I never leave home without.?
What, exactly, were those three must-haves? Custom Jigs & Spins?Rat Finkee, Demon and Rocker to be exact. And in the following video, you抣l hear direct from Walt how that first expedition with those iconic jigs ?and a chance meeting with an outdoor media icon ?helped him grasp the magnitude of those three baits, not to mention the legend of Custom Jigs & Spins.
And if a newbie could catch panfish his first time out, just imagine what the trio of lures can do for an avid ice angler today.
