The Latest Skirt Fashions

by Russ Bassdozer

This shows and tells product photos, product descriptions and information for the lure models and colors that are (or have been) available at BassdozerStore.com. Not all models and colors shown are currently available, and exact specifications are subject to change.

Note: Some of the following configurations may not all be currently in stock. Some may be sold out at this time. Please check online at www.BassdozerStore.com for current availability of specific items below. Thank you for your business.

The Latest Skirt Fashions

Give all your jigs, spinnerbaits and buzzbaits a fresh, exciting new look with these replacement skirts!

There are somewhere around 100 skirt styles that are (or have been) available at BassdozerStore.com. The selections include Hole-In-One skirts, standard banded skirts, EZ skirts with or without tails, thin strand skirts, half size finesse skirts, 7" pike skirts and wrapped skirts. No, we don't always have every single color or style in stock, but there's always plenty of variety to choose from. Please enjoy!

Hole-In-One Replacement Skirts

5" Hole-In-One Skirts. This is the ultimate skirt style for complex baitfish patterns since the strands can't wiggle out of place. Each strand on these skirts are sandwiched and glued between an outer band and an inner core hub. That permanently and perfectly locks every strand in their original positions. The strands cannot shift out of place, jumble the colors up or all pile over onto one side or the other. You cannot end up with a lopsided skirt. It always maintains its coloration and symmetrical strand balance. So when you want to represent a small baitfish or complex color pattern that has distinct back, side and belly colors, the Hole-In-One skirt more realistically simulates and maintains a small baitfish or complex configuration. The strands stay perfectly in place and can not move out of place, even through lots of rugged use. The back, belly and side colors stay exactly where they should be, and that helps preserve the baitfish-like color patterns.

But that's not all. The inner hub has flanged edges that gives a permanent bloom or flare to both sides of the skirt where the strands come off the hub. There is a flare or 'puff' on both sides of the skirt where it comes off the core. Many anglers favor this flare of the Hole-In-One skirts. They feel it gives the skirt a plumper, livelier appearance and a bouncier wriggling action than a standard flat-banded skirt.

Hole-In-One are 5-1/4" inches long. They're usually banded off-center to make one shorter and one longer side. Usually, the long side is put on facing forward, but you have a choice how you want to put it on, and it is fun to experiment. They have from 44 to 50 strands. They are made using some of the best skirt material in the world. It is super soft for pulsating breathing skirt action.

Alewife ~ Hole-In-One Skirt. A favorite choice wherever alewives or blueback herring are found. The alewife is a baitfish species in the shad family. Alewives occur naturally in Atlantic tidal rivers and have been stocked in many other bass waters. The alewife looks a lot like the blueback herring and where both occur in coastal rivers, distinguishing the difference between the two species is difficult. Alewives tends to be lighter green grayish/silver on top and are silvery white on bottom. The alewife is also called the sawbelly because of a ridge of sharp serrated scales on the edge of their bellies.

The dorsal or back of this alewife skirt is a green chartreuse with black scales. Both the sides of the alewife skirt are white with silver. The belly strands are also white silver but tipped with pale chartreuse to add a tinge of lower fin and tail accent coloration.

Black Chartreuse ~ Hole-In-One Skirt. Beginning in the early seventies and still to this day, black chartreuse (with orange belly) is the top-selling bass crankbait color of all time, says legendary crankbait designer Lee Sisson. Top anglers who have seen and done it all with crankbaits the past thirty years, they keep coming back to this basic black chartreuse color, says Lee.

Now this famous black chartreuse crankbait color is available in a skirt for spinnerbaits, buzzbaits and jigs. This skirt is patterned after the black chartreuse Bagley crankbait that Takahiro Omori used to win the 2004 Bassmaster Classic.

Same as a black chartreuse crankbait, this skirt will work day or night. Even on the darkest nights, when nothing else is effective, slip this skirt on a jig or spinnerbait with a bulky black trailer plus one (or two) nunchukus rattle straps slipped on the hook shank.

This color is very popular in Europe. More North American anglers should give it a try.

Bleeding White Shad - Hole In One. New for 2009! A great attractor color. Bright snow white with blood red and black barred swatch to attract strikes. Try the red swatch on the belly or on the back of the skirt, and see if it makes a difference from day to day.

Blue Chartreuse ~ Hole-In-One Skirt. One of the most popular crankbait colors these days. Now available in an incredible skirt color.

Try Gary Yamamoto's chartreuse pepper (color #156) soft plastic baits as trailers with this skirt.

Bluegill ~ Hole-In-One Skirt. One more of our most popular and productive patterns. The one that everyone's been asking for! Now available in the Hole-In-One version.

Brown Sunfish #2 Skirt. Sunfish are present everywhere bass are, and they are a staple food in bass diets. You read and hear a whole lot more about shad, shiners, minnows and such, but don't let that fool you. Bass eat sunfish all the time everywhere. Half brown pumpkin with green metal flake. Half dark orange pumpkin with green metal flake. Wholly good! Top this skirt off with a watermelon pepper soft plastic trailer to complete the sunfish illusion.

Brown Sunfish #3 ~ Hole-In-One Skirt. Fishing magazines and common wisdom say that jigs and jig colors imitate crawdads. What's seldom mentioned is that such jigs and jig colors equally imitate sunfish. Sunfish are basically cover-oriented critters. They hug tight to grass, tucked in brush, rocks or whatever other forms of cover that, coincidentally, crawfish also favor. So whenever you toss a crawfish-colored jig, keep in mind it can equally imitate a cover-loving sunfish too. This Brown Sunfish #3 color, like many of our skirts with sunfish, bluegill or craw in their names, imitates both bass food types - sunfish and crayfish. Try a watermelon pepper jig trailer with this skirt.

Chartreuse Shad ~ Hole-In-One Skirt. Reliable sources say chartreuse shad is the most popular and most productive hardbait color sold in North America by renowned Japanese hard bait vendor, Lucky Craft. Here is my interpretation or artistic rendering of Lucky Craft's famous color in a spinnerbait, jig and buzzbait skirt pattern. It has a smoky blue/gray back, a milky blue pearl belly with hints of a pale chartreuse tail. Whether on a crankbait, jerkbait, topwater or now in a skirt, chartreuse shad is a great all-around producer under a wide variety of water coloration, clarity and conditions.

Chartreuse Shad Flash ~ Hole-In-One Skirt. The dorsal or top half of this skirt is a smoky green. The belly or bottom half is milky white pearl with a blue blush to it. Finished off with a swatch of sparkling chartreuse crystal tinsel strands.

Chartreuse White Blend ~ Hole-In-One Skirt. Who says you can't breath new life into the old colors? This pattern breaks up and blends your traditional chartreuse white skirt in a way you've probably not seen it before. Please enjoy!

Chartreuse White Bone ~ Hole-In-One Skirt. Great attractor flag color. Take your classic chartreuse white skirt and splash the tail tips with a fish-attracting rusty orange dye to entice more strikes. The concept being used to deliver strike color accents or 'flags' of color intended to incite strikes. It is not unlike a matador going into the bull ring carrying a red cape he flags to entice the bull to charge. That's a similar premise behind the flags of color carried on this skirt. That's chartreuse white bone. Bass bang it.

Chartreuse White Flash ~ Hole-In-One Skirt. Back by popular demand! You really can't see the brilliant silver hologram strands in the photo above, but the close-up shows it nicely.

Dark Table Rock Shad ~ Hole-In-One Skirt. In recent years, color patterns with names like Lavender Shad, Purple Haze, Purple Thunder, Sour Grape and Table Rock Shad have become popular and productive colors in jerkbaits and crankbaits. However, it's not too common to see a spinnerbait color along these lines. Now here's a stunning Table Rock Shad skirt color for spinnerbaits and jigs too. They come in two versions - pale and dark. The dark version (shown here) is often preferred by anglers in stained water. On the dark version, the top half of the skirt is a smoky blue gray brownish purple. The belly half is pearl chartreuse with a blue sheen to it.

Dragonfly ~ Hole-In-One Skirt. Great for buzzbaits! Whenever you see those 747-sized brown bombers buzzing around the water's surface, give this dragonfly color skirt a try on a spinnerbait, buzzbait or jig.

Fire Tiger ~ Hole in One Skirt. Several leading crankbait manufacturers say fire tiger is their top-selling crankbait color. Not just for bass, but for walleye, pike, musky and other game fish, fire tiger is one incredible crankbait color.

When it comes to spinnerbaits or buzzbaits, however, most anglers have never used a fire tiger skirt. Don't make their mistake. Start a fire. Toss the tiger.

Rarer still, have you ever seen a fire tiger jig? For pike, yes, but it is almost non-existent as a bass jig color. Yet a fire tiger bass jig can excel under the conditions cited below.

As far as what it represents, well, what does an all black, all white, all chartreuse or chartreuse/white spinnerbait or buzzbait represent? Look around at the bait next time you go fishing. You won't see too many all white, all black, all chartreuse or chartreuse/white critters spinning or buzzing around the lake. On the other hand, fire tiger looks remindful of a perch or sunfish.Suggestions as to when best to use a fire tiger skirt:

• Cold water, early season, pre-spawn through post-spawn. Fire tiger skirt works great all the way from ice-out (early spring) through post-spawn (early summer). You will find some of the largest female fish aggressively hit this color from pre- through post-spawn even in gin clear water - or murky water. In fact, under any water conditions this time of season.
• Anytime you are around thick grass. No matter what season it is, fire tiger can be a most productive color in dense vegetation. Vegetation blocks bass from getting a full view of lures, but even partial glimpses of a bright fire tiger skirt are all that grass bass need to see to blast it.
• Muddy or heavily-stained water. Fire tiger also excels in muddy, murky or clouded water, whether it is dark, green, brown or copper-colored water.
• Windy Conditions. Fish can get fairly aggressive when the wind blows, and an aggressive colored bait like fire tiger will entice wind-driven bass best. Whenever the wind blows, try a fire tiger spinnerbait kept a foot or two below the wind-smeared surface chop - and prepare for savage strikes.

Ghost Minnow ~ Hole-In-One Skirt. Japanese lure vendor Lucky Craft is one of the best brands of hard baits in the world, and Ghost Minnow is one of Lucky Craft's best colors. Here is my interpretation or artistic rendering of Lucky Craft's famous color in a spinnerbait, jig and buzzbait skirt pattern. Hold one of these up next to a Lucky Craft hard bait in Ghost Minnow color, you will see how swell the skirt matches the hard bait color pattern. Whether on a crankbait, jerkbait, topwater or now in a skirt, Ghost Minnow is a great all-around producer especially in clear water having good visibility/clarity and clear sky conditions.

Gizzard Shad ~ Hole-In-One Skirt. The dorsal or top half is a smoky blue color. The belly or bottom half is milky white pearl with a blue blush to it. This skirt has that pale blue sheen which is an innate tone almost always appearing on shad. Especially in mid- to late summer, shad may exhibit a more pronounced blue appearance than at other times of the year. However, shad may show at least some sign of an iridescent aqua or pale metallic blue tinge at any and all times of year. So don't hesitate to use this outstandingly productive skirt all year long.

Try Gary Yamamoto's blue pearl w/silver (color #031), blue pearl hologram (#239) or daiquiri ice (#237) soft plastic baits as trailers with this skirt.

Gold Shiner Flash ~ Hole-In-One Skirt. These skirt strands have highly-reflective gold and pale green crystals that light up and shine in clear water. A matching swatch of crinkle flash Mylar is tied in, and the pattern is topped off with a golden black fish scale accent. There's a lot more green and gold sparkle in this skirt in the water than the photo can show.

Green Alewife ~ Hole-In-One Skirt. Most popular in mid-Atlantic region. This is one in a series of alewife skirt colors that are regional favorites of anglers from the Potomac River or Washington DC on down through the Virginia states, Kentucky, the Carolina states and Tennessee. It's also a universal baitfish color that will work swell anywhere you try it. There currently is or has been standard Alewife, Pale Alewife, Olive Alewife and now this Dark Alewife in the series so far. They are all basically the same productive pattern, with slight variations in the green back color. All produce as handsomely as they look.

Green Pumpkin ~ Hole-In-One Skirt. One of our most popular and productive skirts! We don't need to say too much about green pumpkin. It's the #1 soft bait color for bass. Now it's a "must-have" jig skirt color! Two different green pumpkin colors are blended into this skirt. The two tones add dimension, texture, and contrast - all good, fish-attracting qualities to have in this highly productive skirt. Has rattle ear band.

Green Shiner ~ Hole-In-One Skirt. In late summer and early autumn, water color often tends to become greener and so do shad. Plus this time of year, baby bass begin to muster in huge schools of green-backed young-of-year bass. Shad start to muster also in early fall, and can be so green at this time that many anglers often mistake the green shad for baby bass. But that's not all! This universal baitfish pattern also imitates the common shiner found in Florida and many other states, the emerald shiner found in the Western US, and many other green, silver and gold minnows or baitfish. Pale green-barred back is frosted with pale green reflective sparkles (hard to see in photo). Has flashing silver side sparkles, and the belly has reflective gold and pale green flakes. Overall, a lot shinier in the water than in the photo.

Green Shiner Flash ~ Hole-In-One Skirt. Imitates the common shiner found in Florida and many other states, the emerald shiner found in the Western US, baby bass, green-hued shad. alewife or herring, and many other green, silver and gold minnows or baitfish. Pale green-barred back is frosted with pale green reflective sparkles (hard to see in photo). Has flashing silver side sparkles, and the belly has reflective gold and pale green flakes. The finishing touch is a gold and green reflective hank of Krystal Flash. Overall, a lot shinier in the water than in the photo.

Hendrix ~ Hole-In-One Skirt. It's called Hendrix because it's just a fine purple haze. Hendrix is also known as the Tilapia Bacaruto color since originally, this skirt was designed to be imitative of tilapia found in Mexican waters, in particular Lake Baccarac, but it's universal in that it may match many different baitfish and truly will work anywhere that baitfish-scrounging gamefish are found. Looks even better in person than it does on the computer screen.

Herring Bone ~ Hole-In-One Skirt. A blue-barred back with a bone white belly. Herring Bone is also known as the Tilapia El Cuchillo color since originally, this skirt was designed to be imitative of tilapia found in Mexican waters, in particular La Presa El Cuchillo, but it's universal in that it may match many different baitfish and works anywhere. For example, it just as easily imitates blueback herring in the Southeast USA. A great color for clear or lightly-stained water.

Hot Fire Tiger ~ Hole-In-One Skirt. Pike, muskie, even walleye and zander anglers are well aware of the preference those species often have for hot versus natural colors. Yet the lesson about hot colors still hasn't been learned by most largemouth and smallmouth bass anglers. There are many situations when a hot fire tiger jig, spinnerbait or buzzbait will catch bass better than anything else, but bass anglers seldom use them. Believe me, they work!

Machete Shad ~ Hole-In-One Skirt. Just a real solid skirt that works well anywhere. Machete is what threadfin shad are called in Mexico because the threadfin's belly is so thin and sharp, its belly looks like a machete blade, and originally, this skirt was designed to imitate threadfin shad found in Mexican waters. Yet it's universal in that it may match many different baitfish. Anglers who like this skirt also like my Gold Shiner skirt too. Some say the Machete Shad works a little better in darker water under cloudier skies whereas the Gold Shiner excels in clear water under bright skies. However, it's often found that both Machete Shad and Gold Shiner may work quite well most any time you try them.

Natural Frog ~ Hole-In-One Skirt. Great around lily pads and pond scum. Hollow rubber frogs and soft plastic toads have become a recent trend for fishing thick grass the last few years. Hollow frogs are often nudged or bounced along with the rod tip in order to impart some semblance of natural movement. Soft plastic toads are often kept moving, reeled or "buzzed" slowly across the surface of a congested grassy area. Many of these lures are colored to resemble natural frogs and toads - and so is this frog /toad colored skirt that's perfect for buzzbaits, spinnerbaits and jigs fished around lily pads, grass and frog filled areas. It's Natural Frog.

Pale Alewife ~ Hole-In-One Skirt. The alewife is a baitfish species in the shad family. State fisheries managers have stocked alewives in many bass waters, and it occurs naturally in Atlantic tidal rivers, running up them to freshwater to spawn. The alewife is also called the sawbelly because of a ridge of sharp serrated scales on the edge of their bellies.

The dorsal or back of this alewife pattern is pale green with black mottling. The sides of the alewife skirt are white with silver. The belly strands are also white silver but tipped with pale chartreuse to add a tinge of lower fin and tail accent coloration.

Pale Herring ~ Hole-In-One Skirt. Imitates blueback herring, alewife or sawbelly, and Sacramento hitch (an important bait species for big bass in California's Clear Lake and Sacramento watershed fisheries). The back has a pale green chartreuse with black scales. The sides and belly of the skirt are milky white with pale green glints and pale blue glimmers. The black band represents the black gill spot on herring.

Pale Table Rock Shad ~ Hole-In-One Skirt. In recent years, purple-backed color patterns with names like Lavender Shad, Purple Haze, Purple Thunder, Sour Grape and Table Rock Shad have become popular and productive colors in jerkbaits and crankbaits. However, it's rare to see a spinnerbait color along these lines - until now. This stunning Pale Table Rock Shad skirt goes great on spinnerbaits and jigs too.

The back of the Pale Table Rock Shad pattern is a smoky blue gray brown purple. The sides are milky white tinged with purple iridescence and black pepper. The belly strands are pale chartreuse with glitter.

Pearl Blue Chartreuse ~ Hole-In-One Skirt. Blends half snow white with silver, half pearl blue with silver, plus a slender swatch of chartreuse with silver. The chartreuse accent swatch can be spun around 180 degrees to be used on the back or belly of the skirt. Sometimes it may seem to make a difference to fish which side the chartreuse is on. If fish are not hitting it solidly, spin the chartreuse to the other side and see if that makes for better strikes. Of course, some anglers just personally prefer it on one side versus the other. Either way, it's good.

Plemmons ~ Hole-In-One Skirt. Favorite in the southeast and mid-Atlantic regions. This skirt color is styled after a balsa crankbait color called Plemmons. It is most popular on crankbaits used in the mid-Atlanitc region of the USA, say from South Carolina and Tennessee and on up toward DC or so. Now Plemmons is available in a spinnerbait, buzzbait and jig skirt that's every bit as fancy and effective as the original balsa crankbait color pattern.

Pond Frog ~ Hole In One Skirt. Frogs are likely  to be found anywhere you've got lily pads and weed beds buzzing with bugs (a frog's favorite food). Being amphibious, they spend part-time in the water, and part of the time on land. So frogs don't stray far from the shoreline. Anytime you're fishing near shore, and you hear a frog croak, those are the very places to use this frog imitating skirt on a spinnerbait, buzzbait or jig. Sweeten the offering with a white double tail grub to mimic kicking frog legs or add a green/white soft plastic toad, plastic chunk or frog-shaped trailer of any kind

Purple Haze ~ Hole-In-One Skirt. Dark smoky purple back. Pearl blue silver belly with a swatch of shimmering pearl tinsel for flickering sparkle.

Rainbow Trout ~ Hole-In-One Skirt. Works swell even where there are no rainbow trout. Sometimes less can be better, meaning the rainbow trout pattern here is less gaudy than what you typically see in rainbow trout paint jobs. Most rainbow trout colors accentuate the pink too much. In this version, the pink is toned down to a pearlescent ruddy pink haze infused into every single strand. Each green or white strand has ruddy pink pearlescent in it, so the pink is not a separate color, but an ingrained part of the green and white. Sometimes less can be better, as in this stealthy and stylistic new rainbow trout pattern.

It's also a great color during the spring shad spawn when shad exhibit dark-striped, contrasting body colors in order to attract and signal other adult shad to mate.

Spot Special Flash ~ Hole In One. One of our legendary skirts decked out with new black/chartreuse band and sparkling pearl crinkle tinsel. This translucent skirt has a lot of glimmer to it, multi-color crystal flakes, and that see-through bubblegum color that spotted bass find so special. But don't stop there, smallmouth and largemouth go after this skirt like kids in a candy store.

Threadfin Shad ~ Hole-In-One Skirt. Just add water and watch this legendary threadfin shad pattern come to life! One of our 'classics' tricked out with a new black/chartreuse band to better imitate the distinctive shoulder dots on shad. The dorsal or top half of this skirt is a smoky green. The belly or bottom half is milky white pearl with a shimmering reddish pink blush to it.

Threadfin Shad Flash ~ Hole-In-One Skirt. Our best version of the popular threadfin shad color. One of our 'classics' tricked out with a new black/chartreuse band to better imitate the distinctive shoulder dots on shad. The dorsal or top half of this skirt is a smoky green. The belly or bottom half is milky white pearl with a shimmering reddish pink blush to it. Plis a swatch of reflective, matching Krystal Flash. This skirt's a proven killer everywhere and a favorite of Lake Mead Las Vegas anglers.

Tilapia El Salto ~ Hole-In-One Skirt. This is one of four skirt patterns designed to imitate baitfish found in Mexican waters. First, the Tilapia El Salto pattern matches the gold-hued tilapia in El Salto. The other two Mexican tilapia colors are Hendrix (aka Tilapia Bacaruto) and Herring Bone (aka Tilapia El Cuchillo). And fourth, the Machete Shad skirt was designed to imitate threadfin shad found in Mexican waters. All four of these skirt patterns, however, imitate many different baitfish found many different places throughout the world. So give then a try anywhere you fish!

Watermelon ~ Hole In One Skirt. This skirt combines two highly productive watermelon colors into one outstanding skirt. Has rattle ear band.

White Pearl Flash ~ Hole-In-One Skirt. Forty-four strands of reflective white pearl cover a thin swatch of reflective twisted Mylar hologram fibers embedded underneath. Depending on your mood or that of the fish, you can position the Mylar filament section on the back or the belly of your bait. Bass will belt it eagerly either way.

Yellow Belly Bluegill ~ Hole-In-One Skirt. We've taken one of our most popular and productive skirt patterns - bluegill - and improved it with a sunfish yellow belly!

Standard Banded Replacement Skirts

Give all your bass jigs, spinnerbaits and buzzbaits a fresh, exciting new look with these lure skirts!

5" Standard Banded Skirts. These are your tried and true type of silicone skirts with rubber band collars to hold the skirts together. These are made using some of the best skirt material in the world. It is super soft for pulsating breathing skirt action.

Approximately 5-1/4" total length. All standard skirts have 44 to 50 backward- and forward-facing silicone rubber strands, making 88 to 100 individual loose ends. That's a lot of skirt.

The retainer band is put off-center to create one short side and one long side. Usually, the long side is put on facing forward, but you have a choice how you want to put it on, and it is fun to experiment.

On a standard skirt, with repeated use, the strands will wriggle around slightly and may shift position under the band. Of course, this simply doesn't matter when it's a single color skirt theme.

When you have two or three closely-matching colors, it can be a good thing for the strands and colors to move around and commingle. It causes a well-blended color pattern which may often be desirable.

Black Blue Stripe Skirt. New for 2009! Alternating stripes of black and royal blue, all with bright electric blue metal flake.

This is no ordinary black blue skirt. This black blue beauty has the perfect blend of reflective blue foil to add a lifelike shimmering flash. Royal blue tips add the perfect contrasting kick of blue tip color.

Try Yamamoto's various black with blue (color #'s 021, 520, 523, 904) soft plastic baits as trailers with this skirt. There are some times I desire to throw black blue jigs in clear water (such as pre-spawn through post-spawn) and I tend to use Yamamoto's color #214 (smoke with black, blue and gold flake) as a black blue jig trailer color under clearer water conditions.

Black Blue Flash Skirt. A flashier variety of black blue. Each strand is heavily foiled in a non-descript, irregular pattern on both sides with lustrous metallic blue foil flash. The blue foil is laminated in an irregular swirling pattern. The blue foil constantly glistens in a fluid manner as the skirt strands ripple whenever moved. The blue flash flutters in a shimmering illusion.

Great to use at night. It also excels at dawn, dusk, on dark mornings, overcast days or when the wind smurs the surface so much it reduces light penetration below, or when the wind creates a mudline - throw them the black blue flash!

>From top down: Comparison of our black blue, black blue red and black red colorss.

Black Blue Red Skirt. Bass love black blue lures as much as they love black red.  So we've united those two great colors into one. Shown in close-up photo at right: Black Blue (top) plus Black Red (bottom) are combined into a single supercharged Black Blue Red (center) skirt color! Photos tend to exaggerate the red more - but in reality, there's the same amount of blue and red metal flake, blue and red metallic foil print and blue and red tail tips. Both blue and red are equal in the skirt, but you may influence the overall lure color balance by choosing either a black blue or black red soft plastic trailer, and you may pluck out a few of the black blue or a few of the black red strands to modify the skirt to your particular liking.

Black Brown Craw Skirt. Friends and customers often ask me, "What's the best jig skirt color?" This is it! It perfectly mottles and blends the two best jig colors in history - black and brown - frosted with a fine green shimmer. The result is a black brown jig skirt that excels with any or all of the most productive jig trailer colors - black, brown, green pumpkin, watermelon and junebug trailers all match perfectly. Don't forget chartreuse trailers for the smallies. They're all options trailed behind the mottled black brown craw skirt. It is one heck of a productive jig skirt. Has silicone rattle ear band that's more durable, longer-lasting and won't deteriorate like latex band.

Black Neon Skirt. Black red skirts like this tend to be favored by anglers who fish delta, bayou, swampy or brackish estuaries/rivers along the Atlantic, Gulf or California coastline. European bass anglers also heavily use black red skirts. Otherwise, the average angler hardly uses black red skirts today - but it wasn't always so. As little as fifteen years ago, it was even money whether an angler would claim a black blue or a black red jig worked best. There were many anglers who favored one versus the other. Then somehow the black red jig all but disappeared. Who knows why? Black blue has become the most popular jig color worldwide. This is compounded by the irony that, in the late 1990s, jig flipping legend Denny Brauer rose to the top of the bass fishing world and dominated top pro tournaments by adding a black neon (black with red glitter) flipping tube to his flipping jig regimen. Still to this day, black neon is the number one flipping tube color. Yet a black neon flipping jig skirt has never become popular, and the black red jig skirts of old are long gone. If you think that flipping a black neon tube works swell, wait until you try this black neon skirt - for jigs, spinnerbaits and buzzbaits. You may rediscover why many old timers favored the black red skirt over black blue. Maybe you will too!

Black Red Flash Skirt. To see this in person, the metallic red foil is far more reflective and flashier than the picture shows it. Sure to be a favorite with bass anglers across Europe or anywhere there's a delta, brackish water or estuarine bass fishery in the USA.

Bleeding Ghost Shad Skirt. This skirt color appeals to all bass species, largemouth, spotted bass and smallmouth hit it hard! It's based on the clown color so effective as a hard plastic jerkbait color. The skirt is mainly strands of pearl blue with silver flake plus a swatch of chartreuse with silver flake and red tail tip. You can position the chartreuse red swatch on top or bottom to see if it makes a difference in how often or how solidly fish strike it. What fish could resist?

Brown Pumpkin Skirt. New for 2009! A rich, earthy brown ideal for deep smallie lakes or tannic-stained waters.

 Has silicone rattle ear band that's more durable, longer-lasting and won't deteriorate like latex band.

Brown Purple Skirt. Winning Western pros have thrown brown purple jig 'n pigs forever. Always have. Always will. Now here's a great nondescript, natural-looking skirt that Western jig wizards will love.

Half purplish brown on the back and half brownish purple on the belly. If you're not getting solid strikes that way, rotate the skirt so the purple's on the back, the brown on the belly, and see if that turns the trick.

Super drab. No flash, no fancy, no dinks, just kickers. It's a mighty handsome brown purple skirt.

This dark, nondescript skirt can be dressed with any black, brown, purple or watermelon trailer, either pork or plastic. To narrow down a few favorite trailers for this skirt are: 1) brown pork under any conditions 2) a dark smoke pepper in clear to stained water or 3) a dark green pumpkin pepper under dark conditions soft plastic trailer.

 Has silicone rattle ear band that's more durable, longer-lasting and won't deteriorate like latex band.

Brown Purple Stripe Skirt. New for 2009! Alternating stripes of deep brown and deep purple, all with purple metal flake.

Brown Sunfish Skirt. Most bass lures are designed to imitate shad, shiners, minnows and crayfish. What's often neglected is that sunfish are present everywhere bass are, and they are a staple food in bass diets. You read and hear a whole lot more about shad, shiners, minnows and crayfish, but don't let that fool you. Bass eat sunfish all the time everywhere. One serving suggestion is to use a watermelon pepper jig trailer to complete the sunfish illusion.

Brown Sunfish #2 Skirt. Half brown pumpkin with green metal flake. Half dark orange pumpkin with green metal flake. Wholly good! Sunfish are present everywhere bass are, and they are a staple food in bass diets. You read and hear a whole lot more about shad, shiners, minnows and such, but don't let that fool you. Bass eat sunfish all the time everywhere. Top this skirt off with a watermelon pepper soft plastic trailer to complete the sunfish illusion.

Bubblegum Skirt. Chances are you've never seen a skirt quite like this. It's half pale pink with sparse purple flake, plus half pale orange. Every strand is infused with pale green flakes. Give it a try. You will not be sorry.

Chartreuse White Skirt. Who knows why chartreuse white works so well on spinnerbaits, but it does. Several of the sport's top celebrity anglers have made their legendary careers by throwing chartreuse white spinnerbaits. The color does not truly resemble any natural bait, but if you had to limit yourself to only one spinnerbait skirt color to throw, this is "the" number one most popular and productive spinnerbait skirt color in history. Works equally well in clear, stained and muddy water.

Chartreuse White Silver Skirt. Half chartreuse. Half white. All heavily-glittered with a glimmering silver scale sheen effect. The soft, seductive shimmer of the silver sparkle doesn't come through on the computer screen, but it's a very soft, almost liquid-like silver shimmer all throughout the skirt, Much more subtle and life-like than a harsh flash, it's just a glimmer. The black rubber band on this skirt mimics the black spot that shad show on their shoulders behind their gill plates.

Copper Rain Frog Skirt. The strands are a nice weedy green color, heavily infused with pearlescent micro-particles that give a ruddy reddish, pinkish, orangey or lustrous coppery sheen to the skirt, depending on the amount and angle of ambient light. The sheen tends to bend the green into a brownish. The sheen tends to come and go, and each strand emits a bit different sheen from the others, causing a constantly changing or shimmering effect. Looks like warm summer rain drops rolling off a green frog's back. That's why it is called "rain frog" and there's really nothing else quite like it. But that's not all! There's a thinj swatch of twisted metallic copper Mylar on the belly. The camera makes it look like there's more Mylar than is really there. Even still, you can thin out some of the copper Mylar. It will still be a full size skirt.

Dark Green Perch Skirt. Popular in northern states. Matches a yellow perch or a Great Lakes goby. This is a little darker twist on my Green Perch color skirt. It's only half green perch strands, and the other half is dark green pumpkin. Both halves have black pepper flake in them. The pattern is finished with a swatch of  neon gold-glittered black fish scale strands for perch-like flash The green perch and dark green perch are seldom-seen jig colors, but perch-eating bass in North America and Europe just love them. You will too! Works great on spinnerbaits also.

If you fish clear water, you owe it to yourself to try this skirt. It's that good.

Green Brown Craw Skirt. The black cross-hatching helps give this skirt a crawdad look. The ample green flakes and green glitter glisten and flicker under water.

Half black-barred brownish green-flaked strands on top. Half unbarred brownish green-glittered strands on the sides. The camera makes the orange belly strands appear out of proportion. Only 10 (out of a total 50) strands are black-barred orange. You can easily pluck a few of the orange strands out of the skirt when you use it, if you so desire.

Try Gary Yamamoto's smoke root beer w/green & copper (color #236) soft plastic baits as trailers with this skirt, but you can use any basic black, brown, green pumpkin or watermelon trailer with this skirt.

Green Perch Skirt. Popular in northern states. Matches a yellow perch or a Great Lakes goby. Exceptional producer on smallmouth! Most people who see this color may never try it. Pity the fools. It's their mistake. The khaki olive green color is kind of a cross between watermelon pepper and chartreuse pepper - and it catches a ton of fish. It has a golden black fish scale accent. Some people favor the gold black swatch on top, others like it on the belly. Fish will hit the skirt either way.

Try Gary Yamamoto's clear w/gold & silver (color #168) or translucent hot pink merthiolate (#320) soft plastic baits as trailers with this skirt. There's something about combinations of green and pink that bass like. It is why lures in rainbow trout colors work so well. It has nothing to do with rainbow trout. It's due to the contrast between green and pink combined in a bait.

 Has rattle ear band.

Green Pumpkin Skirt. One of our most popular and productive skirts! We don't need to say too much about green pumpkin. It's many anglers' favorite soft bait color. Now it's a "must-have" jig skirt color too!

Nice dark green for duty in low light, at daybreak, in the evening (ideal for those weekday after work tournaments), and at night. Great for dirty water - or clear.

Two irregular print patterns - both black bars and spots - are imprinted onto this skirt. It really gives a broken-up and non-descript looking pattern. It gives a great mottled crawfish, baitfish or panfish look to this skirt.

Green Pumpkin Blend Skirt. It was tough to decide which green pumpkin color we liked better, and the fish seemed to like them both very much. So we blended them into one awesome skirt. The contrast is hard to see in the photo, a little easier to see in your hand, and is heightened under water. The two tones add dimension, texture, and set each other off - all good, fish eye-attracting qualities to have in this handsome and productive skirt.

 Has rattle ear band.

Green Pumpkin Gold Flash Skirt. This is dark green pumpkin mottled with black bars and spots, plus a swatch of neon gold-glittered black fish scale strands for flash. The camera really highlights the gold, but note there are only 5 strands of gold among 44 strands of dark green pumpkin. That little extra flash and contrast can be the perfect touch to spark more and harder strikes at times. Give it a try.

Green Pumpkin Olive Skirt. One half dark green pumpkin. One half dark olive green. Both halves heavily peppered with mottled black bars and spots. This is just a great natural color.

Two irregular print patterns - both black bars and spots - are imprinted onto this skirt. It really gives a broken-up and non-descript looking pattern. It gives a great mottled crawfish, baitfish or panfish look to this skirt.

Try Gary Yamamoto's smoke root beer w/green & copper (color #236) soft plastic baits as trailers with this skirt.

Herring Skirt. Imitates blueback herring, alewife or sawbelly, and Sacramento hitch (an important bait species for big bass in California's Clear Lake and Sacramento watershed fisheries). The back has a pale green chartreuse with black scales. The sides and belly of the skirt are milky white with pale blue glimmers. The black band represents the black gill spot on herring.

June Bug Bluegill Skirt. Great for muddy lakes and rivers. This color resembles a bluegill sunfish. It has a multi-color black and purple appearance with superfine red neon and plenty of shiny blue foil and purple foil for flash. Goes great in dark stained to muddy water environments - or anywhere that bluegill exhibit that dark purplish appearance.

Many anglers mistakenly feel flash doesn't matter in dark water, low light or at night. Nothing could be further from the truth. Flash is often attractive in the right proportion, even in the darkest conditions. That's why this skirt is so heavily sparkled with blue and purple glitter. Try anything black or try Gary Yamamoto's cinnamon w/purple (color #221) soft plastic baits as trailers with this skirt.

Olive Brown Craw Skirt. One half dark olive pumpkin. One half brown crawdad color. Both halves heavily black peppered with mottled black bars and spots. A truly great natural color skirt.

With the two tone skirts, there's no strict rule or requirement to have one or the other half as the back or belly color. True, it seems more natural to present a dark top, light belly. Yet there are days when twisting the skirt around 180 degrees caused fish to hit harder. Who knows why, but if you are getting weak hits or half-hearted bumps on a multi-colored skirted lure, try to turn the skirt colors upside down and see if it doesn't make a difference. It may not look "right" to you, but there are days when this simple trick convinces fish to strike more solidly.

Olive Cinnamon Skirt. One half olive green. One half light cinnamon brown. Both halves heavily peppered with mottled black bars and spots. A honey of a clear water color.

Olive Pumpkin Skirt. Dark green olive pumpkin heavily black peppered with mottled black bars and spots.

PBJ Flash Skirt. Peanut Butter Jelly ("PBJ") first became popular as a laminate color in soft plastic lures in Southern California many years ago. The color had practically been forgotten until a resurgence the last few years. PBJ has recently been rediscovered as a "new" jig color. PBJ jigs have spread smoothly across the Southeast and Northeast USA. But PBJ never looked anywhere near this good until now! This new PBJ Flash skirt sticks to the roof of bass mouths. The photo here hardly does this color justice. The brown skirts are HEAVILY foiled on both sides with lustrous purple foil. The purple foil is laminated in an irregular swirling pattern. The purple foil constantly glistens in a fluid manner as the skirt strands ripple whenever moved. The purple flash flutters and practically drips off each strand in a liquid-like shimmering illusion. The photo hardly shows this metallic sheen. Try Gary Yamamoto's cinnamon w/purple (color #221) or smoke pepper (#150) soft plastic baits as trailers with this skirt.

Peanut Butter Jelly. New red rattle ear band for 2009. Try it and it you'll stick with it! PBJ first became popular in soft plastic lures in Southern California many years ago. It has recently been rediscovered as a jig color in the Southeast and Northeast USA. But PBJ never looked anywhere near this good until now! Two different shades of brown strands sandwiched with purple with superfine red neon. Goes great as a spinnerbait skirt too. Try Gary Yamamoto's cinnamon w/purple (color #221) or smoke pepper (#150) soft plastic baits as trailers with this skirt.

Ghost Shad Skirt. The blue blush infusion in this pearl white skirt does not always come across in photos, but the blue blush shows up underwater, as does the silver sparkle you can see. This pearl blue silver is arguably one of the best "white bait" soft bait colors on the planet (such as Gary Yamamoto's color #031 for example) and is now available in a beautiful spinnerbait, buzzbait and jig skirt.

White Ghost Shad Skirt. Half snow white with silver flake. Half pearl blue with silver flake makes a great skirt for any occasion.

Rain Frog Skirt. This color looks like warm summer rain drops rolling off a green frog's back. That's why it is called "rain frog" and there's really nothing else quite like it. The strands are a nice weedy green color, heavily infused with pearlescent micro-particles that give a ruddy reddish, pinkish, orangey or lustrous coppery sheen to the skirt, depending on the amount and angle of ambient light. The sheen tends to bend the green into a brownish. The sheen tends to come and go, and each strand emits a bit different sheen from the others, causing a constantly changing or shimmering effect. Fantastic for clear to stained water.

Rusty Green Craw Skirt. A matching blend of three colors. All three are heavily mottled with black bars and spots which mesh the pattern together. Half mottled green pumpkin on top. Half mottled rusty brown. Plus a swatch of mottled fire red on the belly. This is a real crawdad-looking skirt color for jigs. It works equally well on spinnerbaits.

Rusty Red Craw Skirt. Some years ago, whether it was seven, eight, ten years back, ripping red lipless rattling crankbaits through grass in springtime was "discovered" in Texas. It was big news. The average angler was unfamiliar with the whole concept of red crankbaits. Even to this day, many anglers in other states still have not tried it. They still consider red baits to be a Texas phenomenon. Truth is, any angler anywhere in the world who has the gumption to try it, he or she will see that red crankbaits work at any latitude or longitude, especially from late winter through late spring, but also year-round.

Now the red craw phenomena applies to jig and spinnerbait skirts too, thanks to this custom-crafted blend of mottled red and black craw pattern with hints of rusty brown in it. You can't go wrong using a black pork or black with red flake soft plastic trailer with this skirt.

Overall, it is a great color for night, dirty water or dark conditions year-round.

However, it's not just for dirty water only. From pre- to post-spawn, even in the clearest water, bass can't stand to see red jigs or red spinnerbaits. They almost can't help but smash them!

Shad-A-Delic Skirt. The perfect shad match. New clear silicone rattle band for 2009. Oh yeah, baby! This shad pattern skirt in a special blend of three groovy Shad-A-Delic colors. It's half fine glittering silver. The other half metallic pearl white. These two halves together make the perfect shad sandwich! Topped off with strands of black fish scale accent. Only 10 (out of a total 50) strands are black fish scale. So if at times you may prefer a plain silvery white skirt, you can pluck the black fish scale strands out of this skirt, and it is still a full size skirt. In that way, it's kind of like getting two skirt color choices in one. That's Shad-A-Delic!

Smallie Special Skirt. Smallies go ape for it! Bold attractor color. Yes, largemouth, smallmouth and spotted bass do have differences in behavior and habitat. Especially when two or more of these species coexist in the same body of water, the differences between them become more obvious. When only one species of bass is present, it tends to overflow and command all possible bass niches, but where two or more bass coexist, their particular preferred behavior and habitat emerges, and they tend not to overlap each other. When it comes to lures and tactics, it's not as markedly different as habitat, meaning the many ways and baits to catch one kind of bass (size being equal) tend to catch all three bass types fairly well. Yet there are triggers and hot buttons that each bass species has, and one of them is color. This Smallie Special skirt infuriates smallmouth. It will have no trouble catching largemouth and spotted bass either, but the Smallie Special skirt gives ape fits to smallmouth. The color pattern is deceptive, since the hot chartreuse and blazing orange are so overpowering. Although it looks like more, there are only ten orange and chartreuse strands. There are forty snow white strands. So it is 80% white and 20% chartreuse/orange. That equals 100% dynamite on smallmouth bass.

Spot Special Skirt. This translucent skirt has a lot of glimmer to it, multi-color crystal flakes, and that see-through bubblegum color that spotted bass find so special. But don't stop there, smallmouth and largemouth go after this skirt like kids in a candy store.

Super Silver Shad Skirt. Super shiny just like a shad! Shad are among the shiniest meals a bass is ever likely to eat - and so are these dazzlingly brilliant skirts! Half silver foil fish scale imprint. Half bright silver hologram. These skirts are so shiny and flashy, the bass may need to wear sunglasses.

Triple Chartreuse Skirt. Not one, not two but three blended tones of chartreuse abound in this skirt. It's impossible to tell the three apart from the poor photo quality, but you'll smile in appreciation when you see the rich triple chartreuse skirt tones "turn on the electricity" under water. First, there's chartreuse with an elusive milky blue sheen. Second, bright pearlescent chartreuse. Third, a swatch of black-peppered chartreuse with orange fire tips to incite bass to bite. Many anglers sagely opt for chartreuse in dark, dingy or shadowy water or in dim daylight conditions. Chartreuse also excels anywhere thick grass or thick cover of any kind obscures full view of a lure. A brief and partial glimpse of bright chartreuse gets noticed by fish in such sight-blocking situations. And then of course there are the hard-fighting smallmouth. For some unknown reason, smallies relish chartreuse better than other lure colors.

Warmouth Sunfish Skirt. Matches a green or brown sunfish or crawfish. Whether you call them warmouth, goggle-eye or red-eyed bream, this small member of the sunfish family is an aggressive feeder. It likes to lurk around brush, rubble and weedy areas in which it can hide, waiting to ambush any prey that comes past. In turn, the warmouth is hunted and preyed upon itself by bass. Bass eat many more sunfish than most anglers realize.

A warmouth's markings are generally blotched and mottled, with a brassy brownish green back, yellowish olive sides and belly, just like this imitative skirt. Warmouth are widely-found across the country, and this skirt imitates not just warmouth but many sunfish species, crayfish and plenty of other critters bass eagerly eat. So don't be afraid to toss a warmouth skirt at any bass anywhere. It's a winner!

Try Gary Yamamoto's smoke root beer w/green & copper (color #236) soft plastic baits as trailers with this skirt.

Watermelon Skirt. Looking for a plain watermelon pepper skirt? Here it is. One of the top-selling soft plastic lure color in the world is now a great color for jig skirts. Sometimes plain and simple really may be better, especially if it's this nice watermelon skirt color.

Watermelon Blend Skirt. We weren't quite sure which watermelon color that we (or the fish) liked the very best. They both worked so well, it was really kind of hard to tell, so we blended them both into this one outstanding skirt. A number of tournaments have been won with this skirt on jigs, so give it a try. It's our best (actually, two of out best) watermelon colors.

Watermelon Candy Skirt. In soft plastic lures, watermelon candy has been a wicked clear-to-stained water color in the southeast USA and south central states for many years. Now for the first time, watermelon candy is available in a skirt. Just like the tried and true soft plastic bait color, this skirt has the desirable translucence so you can see through the watermelon color, and glistens with ample purple and metallic green flake. It's an instant classic skirt color!

Watermelon Candy #2 Skirt. Bright green watermelon strands heavily infused with tons of metallic pale purple micro-glitter. The purple glitter is shinier and permeates the skirt far more than photo can show. This bright green, sparking purple skirt attracts more attention than drab watermelon skirts. Because of its higher visibility, this bright watermelon candy excels in thick grass.

Watermelon Candy Blend Skirt. Craw or sunfish, you've got it on with this watermelon candy blend. This skirt color homogenizes the four primary colors of most all jigs: 1) black, 2) brown, 3) purple and 4) green in a single skirt. In this way, no matter what jig color a fish may have a hankering for, it's in here. It's not one or the other jig color, but all four of them at once! Best of all, the four colors are commingled so closely that they appear as "one cohesive color" instead of four separate ones. This is achieved by very close matching of the green, brown and purple tones in order to infuse into each other like the colors of a watercolor painting bleed into one another. The pervasive black barred and spotted mottling is the "icing on the cake" that binds and meshes the pattern into a cohesive singular theme. So it's not black, brown, green and purple any more. It's the power of all four in one.

Watermelon Candy Stripe Skirt. New for 2009! Alternating stripes of pale watermelon and dark watermelon, all with copious green and purple metal flakes.

Watermelon Chartreuse Skirt. Watermelon pepper is the top soft plastic lure color in the world, and a lot of anglers go through the effort to dye the tips of watermelon soft baits with bright chartreuse dye, thereby adding a shot of contrasting color. Now here's the same great color for jig skirts. This skirt combines a full 44 strands of mottled watermelon pepper (actually, 22 strands each of our two best watermelon colors) with a swatch of chartreuse pepper strands to add that desirable accent color and vivid contrast.

Watermelon Red Flake Skirt. This is a hot, hot color in soft plastic baits. It ranks among the top-selling soft plastic colors worldwide. Watermelon red works equally well as a jig skirt - and even on a spinnerbait! By all means try a matching dark green pumpkin or watermelon red soft plastic trailer - and it's dynamite with a basic black plastic or pork trailer.

Two irregular print patterns - both black bars and spots - are imprinted onto this skirt. It really gives a broken-up and non-descript looking pattern. It gives a great mottled crawfish, baitfish or panfish look to this skirt.

Watermelon Red Belly Skirt. This is a hot, hot color in soft plastic baits. It ranks among the top-selling soft plastic colors worldwide. Watermelon red works equally well as a jig skirt - and even on a spinnerbait! This skirt is mainly watermelon with black and red glitter plus a thin swatch of red and black barred belly strands. Try a matching dark green pumpkin or watermelon red soft plastic trailer - and it's dynamite with a basic black plastic or pork trailer.

Two irregular print patterns - both black bars and spots - are imprinted onto this skirt. It really gives a broken-up and non-descript looking pattern. It gives a great mottled crawfish, baitfish or panfish look to this skirt. Has silicone rattle ear band that's more durable, longer-lasting and won't deteriorate like latex band.

Watermelon Two-Tone Skirt. One of the top-selling soft plastic lure color in the world is now a great color for skirts. This two-tone skirt combines half dark green watermelon pepper plus half pale green watermelon pepper. So now you can use two tones of one of the world's best soft plastic colors at the same time in a jig skirt - and on a spinnerbait too! Believe it or not, watermelon is an incredible spinnerbait color - but 99 out of 100 anglers may never try a watermelon spinnerbait. Will you?

Two irregular print patterns - both black bars and spots - are imprinted onto this skirt. It really gives a broken-up and non-descript looking pattern. It gives a great mottled crawfish, baitfish or panfish look to this skirt.

White Bone Skirt. Bass bang it! Bright white with blaze orange attractor flag. Take your classic 100% pure snow white skirt. Then splash the tail tips with a fish-attracting rusty orange dye that incites more strikes. The concept being used to deliver strike color accents or 'flags' of color intended to incite strikes. It is not unlike a matador going into the bull ring carrying a red cape he flags to entice the bull to charge. That's a similar premise behind the flags of color carried on this skirt. Throw the white bone to bag the big dawgs.

White Pearl Skirt. One hundred percent pure white pearl skirt with a highly reflective metallic pearl sheen. Good in clear, stained or dirty water and at night too.

White Shad Skirt. The belly half is light, almost white silver pearl. The top half is a little darker (but still light) white silver pearl. The strand colors appear a little flat in the photo or in the hand, but when immersed in water, they glisten with a lustrous sheen.

EZ Skirt Replacement Skirts

Give all your bass jigs, spinnerbaits and buzzbaits a fresh, exciting new look with these lure skirts!

EZ Skirts. These same skirts are used on several name brand lures. The EZ Skirt manufacturer only offers a limited number of factory-defined color patterns. So you'll see many of these same EZ Skirt colors repeated on various lure brands.

The skirts are named 'EZ' because they are so easy to get on and off a jig, spinnerbait or buzzbait . The skirts stay firmly in place. Striking fish really can't pull the skirts down easily (if at all) and the skirt strands are looked permanently and perfectly in position. So the appearance can't get wrecked. Strands layered in baitfish patterns can never get jumbled up or out of kilter.

Each EZ Skirt style has 70 silicone strands (each 2-1/2" long) that all billow backward. It has a light, airy, "full yet sparse" look. The strands are locked permanently in place by a small rubber center hub that creates a perfect "umbrella" profile. Because the strands are locked in place, the different colors (fixed in five strand increments) do not move out of place or get mixed into each other. So if a skirt has different back, side and belly colors, the colors are permanently locked in position.

These have very good action and lots of wiggle in the water. The skirt looks square cut in the back, but when they're moving in the water, the ends of the skirt tips pull together nicely into a point like the tapered tip of an artist's paintbrush. Because the "bloom" or bend where the strands come off the hub puffs out so much, it constantly flexes backward, making the strands wriggle actively. It's a very lively action skirt. There's a good amount of shimmy, squiggle and breathing pulse the skirt displays on the retrieve.

When paused, such as when a jig rests on bottom, the strands spring open like unfurling a picnic blanket, presenting the jig trailer in the middle.

Which is Better? People often ask which skirt style do I like better - the standard skirt or the EZ skirt? I like them both. I like the standard skirt for a bulkier flipping jig for example. I like the EZ Skirt for its sparse billowy appearance. It is ideal for clear water. There is a lot more see-through effect on the EZ Skirt which breaks it up more and blends more naturally into the background.

A few of my favorite EZ Skirt applications are:

• The EZ Skirt goes nicely on a hidden head spinnerbait since fish get a great glimpse of the baitfish-shaped spinnerbait body hidden beneath the billowy skirt. This skirt lets fish more clearly view the attractive fish-shaped hidden weight belly.
• On a swimming jig or finesse jig in clear water with a soft plastic trailer, the sparseness of the EZ Skirt style really shows off the soft trailer body underneath, letting fish get a good peek-a-boo glimpse of the full trailer shape beneath the billowing skirt.
• I like buzzbaits dressed with an EZ Skirt. They present beautifully on buzzbaits and have an incredible wriggling action, plus the fact that bass can't easily pull them down. A buzzbait needs to be cast a little different than and more forceful than a spinnerbait or jig. standard skirts can pull off the lead collar even just from casting a buzzbait with the standard skirt band. A standard style skirt, once you catch a couple fish on it, just does not stay in place on a hard cast or when a fish grabs at a buzzbait but misses, a standard skirt often gets pulled down the hook. On the other hand, the EZ Skirts stay in place.

Black ~ EZ Skirt. Basic black is always in fashion, even with fish!

Black Blue ~ EZ Skirt. A mighty fine fusion of black and blue. This skirt is a fusion of black with reflective blue metallic foil print, black with blue glitter metal flake, and black with blue fire tip strands. Keep the landing net handy with this one. It's a favorite of big bass everywhere.

Black Red ~ EZ Skirt. This skirt is a fusion of black with reflective red metallic foil print, black with red glitter metal flake, and black with fire red tips.

Black White ~ EZ Skirt. A great color that's one half snow white. The other half has a swatch of smoke with silver sparkle and another swatch of darker smoke on the shoulders with a black back. This color doesn't have the spiff and sparkle of some other fancier skirts, but it is a top producer of fish, and isn't that what it's all about?

Bleeding White Shad ~ EZ Skirt. Five blood red strands are laced in with swatches of white silver, clear silver and white silver hologram. Many anglers start fishing with the red strands positioned on the belly - or you can turn the skirt around and use the red swatch on top of the back. Bass slobber over it either way.

Blue Holo Shad ~ EZ Skirt. Thin blue back with silver hologram sides and belly. This skirt starts off with a reflective blue metal foil print blue back section (ten strands). Then there are two different silver hologram sections (fifteen strands apiece) down each side. That's a total of sixty hologram strands, one slightly more silver, the other slightly more clear, but both hologram.

The hologram finish refracts (separates) sunlight (or any ambient light) into the full spectrum of many individual colors. The colors being refracted constantly change and sparkle as the skirt moves through the water. The primary colors refracted are pale glimmers of purple, blue, green and chartreuse. The holographic colors reflect the present water and light conditions and also provide the illusion of excited baitfish that are "flushing" and emitting color signals.

Bluegill ~ EZ Skirt. Killer color designed by Kevin Van Dam. KVD's been on TV using this Bluegill color in top tournament competition. It's not just a jig color either. KVD was shown on TV using it on a spinnerbait to imitate tilapia. And as its name implies, it mimics bluegill and sunfish as well as it does crawdads. It's just a fantastic skirt color, one of the best.

Chameleon Craw ~ EZ Skirt. This bait color is nicknamed "dirt" in parts of Texas. It's five strands of dark brown with red and fine gold flake, alternate with 5 strands light brown with green and fine gold flake. There are seventy strands in all, in 14 alternating sections.

Chartreuse White Gold ~ EZ Skirt. Alternating swatches (five strands per swatch) radiate all the way around this skirt. Both the chartreuse and white are dusted with superfine metal flake. There are seven swatches of bright chartreuse with glistening gold dust alternated with seven swatches of bright white dusted with silver.

Chartreuse White Star ~ EZ Skirt. When it comes to spinnerbaits and buzzbaits, it's tough to do better than a chartreuse white skirt, and the color pattern you see here is one of the very latest and best. The seventy strands are super thin cut and so super soft. Alternating swatches (five strands per swatch) radiate all the way around this skirt. There are seven swatches of bright chartreuse alternated with seven swatches of bright white. Both the chartreuse and white are impregnated with superfine silver metal flake. Is this the best chartreuse white skirt ever built? Until someone shows me one better, I say this here skirt's pretty close to perfect.

Dark Chartreuse White ~ EZ Skirt. A traditional chartreuse white skirt, the most popular and productive spinnerbait and buzzbait skirt color ever, accentuated with a chartreuse black fish scale stripe to induce more aggressive and more focused strikes. This goes great especially in stained water, with the black/chartreuse stripe offering exceptional contrast against the white strands.

Fire Perch ~ EZ Skirt. A classic color with hot lime green shoulders and black back both with reflective green foil print on them. Fluorescent chartreuse sides and a fluorescent orange belly. This is probably the closest any silicone skirt has come so far to looking like a crankbait paint job. It's a bold, strike-provoking pattern to use anywhere, but especially across the northern states and lower Canada, where this skirt mimics young-of-year yellow perch - a favorite snack of northern bass.

Gold Hologram ~ EZ Skirt. Two different gold hologram patterns, one slightly more solid, the other slightly more clear, but both hologram alternate every quarter of this skirt in dark-light-dark-light hologram fourths to complete the full circle.

The hologram finish refracts (separates) sunlight (or any ambient light) into the full spectrum of many individual colors. The colors being refracted constantly change and sparkle as the skirt moves through the water. The primary colors refracted are pale glimmers of purple, blue, green and chartreuse. The holographic colors reflect the present water and light conditions and also provide the illusion of excited baitfish that are "flushing" and emitting color signals.

Green Brown Pumpkin ~ EZ Skirt. Two of the best bass bait colors worldwide are green pumpkin and brown pumpkin. Many anglers may ponder the question, "Should I be using brown or green?" Well, ponder no more. With this skirt, you'll be using both green pumpkin AND brown pumpkin in the same bait at the same time. There are seventy strands in all, in four alternating quarters of green and brown pumpkin pepper. Try it with the green on top and bottom, or give the skirt a half-twist to try the brown on top and bottom. Either way, it works whenever bass prefer green OR brown, you've got it!

Green Pumpkin Pepper ~ EZ Skirt. The number one soft plastic bait color in the world, and it is every bit as productive as a skirt color. Seven swatches (five strands per swatch) of slightly darker green pumpkin pepper alternate with seven swatches of slightly lighter green pumpkin pepper for a perfect coloration all the way around this skirt.

June Bug Black ~ EZ Skirt. A classic purple and green junebug color scheme with black. Seven bands of black (five strand per band) alternate with seven bands of june bug with emerald sparkle to complete this incredible skirt.

Sexy Shad ~ EZ Skirt. These are the new for 2009 EZ Skirts that everyone's been scrambling to get. Sexy Shad is a Kevin Van Dam color concept that since 2008 has taken the bass fishing industry by storm. This skirt has 20 strands of steely blue on top, 5 strands of smoke on each shoulder, 3 strands of bright yellow as lateral lines on each side, and a 35 strand white belly. That's 71 strands in all. Every strand (except the yellow) has some element of pale orange micro-glitter infused in it, giving a barely perceptible coppery sheen to the entire skirt.

Silver Hologram ~ EZ Skirt. Two different silver hologram patterns, one slightly more silver, the other slightly more clear, but both hologram alternate every quarter of this skirt in dark-light-dark-light hologram fourths to complete the full circle.

The hologram finish refracts (separates) sunlight (or any ambient light) into the full spectrum of many individual colors. The colors being refracted constantly change and sparkle as the skirt moves through the water. The primary colors refracted are pale glimmers of purple, blue, green and chartreuse. The holographic colors reflect the present water and light conditions and also provide the illusion of excited baitfish that are "flushing" and emitting color signals.

Smallie Special ~ EZ Skirt. Our popular smallie special color, now in an EZ skirt! This is a bright attractor color that largemouth and spotted bass love just as much as smallmouth. Try the chartreuse/orange swatch on top or on bottom. Some days it seems bass like it better one way or the other. If you're not getting the hits or solid hook-ups with the way you are using it, just spin it around 180 degrees and see if it doesn't get more or better strikes that way.

Smokey Shad ~ EZ Skirt. Another great color pattern designed by Kevin Van Dam. Upgraded for 2009 with the trailing baitfish tail strands. KVD's been on TV using the Smokey Shad color in top tournament competition. Especially in clear water or when fish won't hit standard colors, when fish want a subtle skirt color, that's when KVD goes to the Smokey Shad - and so should you. The back is smoke pepper, giving way to smoke with blue hologram sides, a clear white with fine silver glitter on the lower side sections, and a swatch of blood spotted strands for the belly. What truly perfects this skirt is the trailing baitfish tail strands in clear with fine, pale purple hologram glitter.

Texas Craw ~ EZ Skirt. New for Bassdozer's Store, but its been a popular and dependable jig color pattern over the years. Black back, brown sides and chartreuse belly, all with green metal flake. It's a color that bass pro Denny Brauer always uses and recommends for flipping jigs. Works great in dirty water or at night.

Watermelon Flash ~ EZ Skirt. A broad swatch (twenty strands) of watermelon pepper, two side sections (twenty strands apiece) of greenish pumpkin with heavy green metal flake, all topped off with a swatch of pumpkin with bright green metal foil print. Turn the reflective green flash on top first. If need be, turn it 180 to put the green flash on bottom. This simple twist is so easy to do, and it can make a big difference in the number of solid strikes you get.

White Gold Hologram ~ EZ Skirt. Sections of pearl white, creamy pearl gold, clear with gold and a broad swatch of gold hologram are locked perfectly in place on this skirt. Turn the pearl white color on top first. If that's not superb, do a 180 to turn the gold hologram on top. Either way, it works as good as gold.

White Silver ~ EZ Skirt. A sturdy workhorse of a white with silver dust. This is your classic bright white skirt all aglisten with an elegant, thick frosting of fine silver sparkle all over.

EZ Skirts with Tails ~ Replacement Skirts for Bass Fishing Lures

The long, trailing tail section adds the finishing touch to the standard EZ Skirt.

The easy on, easy off EZ Skirt usually consists of 70 silicone skirt strands, each 2-1/2" long, that are permanently bonded onto a core retainer hub. As a result of this unique hub mounted strand design, the 70 skirt strands project out from the hub at a 90 degree angle creating a perfect umbrella shape and when these 70 strands are bent back by water pressure, they have a pulsating action like no other skirt on the market.

In addition, there are now 21 more strands, each 4" long, that trail our behind the skirt to form a tail. These tail strands are also permanently bonded onto the core retainer hub. The trailing tail really heightens the allure of the EZ Skirt.

Best of all, the great-looking EZ Skirt with Tail fits quickly and stays in place on your favorite spinnerbait, buzzbait or jig head. The tough silicone molded hub provides a tight, secure fit to any lure collar, yet allows for easy and quick replacement in just a few seconds.

The tail makes a little bigger, bulkier target for a little better size bass!

Black Red ~ EZ Skirt with Tail. This skirt is a fusion of black with red glitter metal flake, black with reflective red metallic foil print plus five fire red strands. Try with the red strands on the belly - or on top. Bass belt it either way.

Bleeding Shad ~ EZ Skirt with Tail. The picture says it all! It's a great skirt color. Five blood red strands are laced in with swatches of white silver, clear silver and white silver hologram. Many anglers start fishing with the red strands positioned on the belly - or you can turn it upside down and use the red swatch on top of the back. Bass slobber over it either way.

Blue Herring ~ EZ Skirt with Tail. This stunning and productive skirt color has been pulling in fish on herring-filled rivers and lakes for a long, long time, and it's now available in Bassdozer's Store.

Blue Chartreuse ~ EZ Skirt with Tail. One of the most popular deep-diving crankbait colors. Use it on your deep-running spinnerbaits and deep water jigs too!

Bluegill ~ EZ Skirt with Tail. One of the hottest skirts on the water. Now even better with the tail! This killer color designed by Kevin Van Dam. KVD's been on TV using this Bluegill color in top tournament competition. It's not just a jig color either. KVD was shown on TV using it on a spinnerbait to imitate tilapia. And as its name implies, it mimics bluegill and sunfish as well as it does crawdads. It's just a fantastic skirt color, one of the best.

Gold Shiner ~ EZ Skirt with Tail. Mimics many baitfish from gold shiners to shad, herring, gold tilapia and more! Swatches of pearl white, creamy pearl gold, clear with gold and a broad swatch of gold hologram are locked perfectly in place on this skirt. Turn the pearl white color on top first. If that's not superb, do a 180 to turn the gold hologram on top. Either way, it works as good as gold.

Limetreuse ~ EZ Skirt with Tail. Looks a lot like a grasshopper, caterpillar or other big insects that often get blown into the water in large numbers from out of trees and brush on blustery days.

Sexy Shad ~ EZ Skirt with Tail. These are the new for 2009 EZ Skirts that everyone's been scrambling to get. Sexy Shad is a Kevin Van Dam color concept that since 2008 has taken the bass fishing industry by storm. This skirt has 20 strands of steely blue on top, 5 strands of smoke on each shoulder, 3 strands of bright yellow as lateral lines on each side, and a 35 strand white belly. That's 71 strands in all. Every strand (except the yellow) has some element of pale orange micro-glitter infused in it, giving a barely perceptible coppery sheen to the entire skirt.

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Smallie Special ~ EZ Skirt with Tail. Our popular smallie special color, now in an EZ skirt! This is a bright attractor color that largemouth and spotted bass love just as much as smallmouth. Try the chartreuse/orange swatch on top or on bottom. Some days it seems bass like it better one way or the other. If you're not getting the hits or solid hook-ups with the way you are using it, just spin it around 180 degrees and see if it doesn't get more or better strikes that way.

Smokey Shad ~ EZ Skirt with Tail. Another great color pattern designed by Kevin Van Dam. Upgraded for 2009 with the trailing baitfish tail strands. KVD been on TV using the Smokey Shad color in top tournament competition. Especially in clear water or when fish won't hit standard colors, when fish want a subtle skirt color, that's when KVD goes to the Smokey Shad - and so should you. The back is smoke pepper, giving way to smoke with blue hologram sides, a clear white with fine silver glitter on the lower side sections, and a swatch of blood spotted strands for the belly. What truly perfects this skirt is the trailing baitfish tail strands in clear with fine, pale purple hologram glitter.

Half Size Finesse Jig Replacement Skirts

Finesse Skirts. These are half-size skirts with the short and fuzzy forward-facing stubble. These are made of the same silicone material and have the same number of strands - 44 to 50 strands - as standard skirts but are exactly half the length of standard skirts. The strands are locked in place with a thin clear application of silicone adhesive sandwiched in between an inner core collar and outer band collar. It's hard to see there's any glue, but it's there, which is especially important to lock and keep the short hair ends from slipping out. The strands can't hardly move or get pulled out of place. The outer band has ears to optionally accept plug-in rattles. Rattles not included.

Shown left to right: Brown Purple; Watermelon Candy Blend; Peanut Butter Jelly; Black Brown Craw; and Black Blue Flash.

 Has rattle ear band.
Black Blue Flash ~ Finesse Skirts.

 Has rattle ear band.
Black Brown Craw ~ Finesse Skirts.

 Has rattle ear band.
Brown Purple ~ Finesse Skirts.

 Has rattle ear band.
Peanut Butter Jelly ~ Finesse Skirts.

 Has rattle ear band.
Watermelon Candy Blend ~ Finesse Skirts.

Thin Strand Replacement Skirts

Thin Strand Skirts. All dimensions - length, width, height - are proportionally less than standard skirts. It is made of the same silicone rubber as standard skirts but in terms of height (the thickness) of the material, it's made from a thinner or flatter sheet of rubber to begin with. Each stand is cut much thinner, and there are usually 60 thin cut strands per skirt. The length is shorter - only 4" compared to the 5-1/4" length of standard skirts.

Some anglers say the thinner strands have more action or movement. Whether that matters to fish, no one can prove. It's true these skirts are lighter and more airy than standard skirts. The main reason I use them at times is not because of any difference in action - but because of the dramatic difference in size.

When you need a spinnerbait, jig or buzz bait - just smaller - the overall smaller profile and miniature nature makes Thin Strand skirts ideal for downsizing situations.. And therein lies the major benefit of these Thin Strand skirts. All the proportions are balanced to be smaller. It's not a standard skirt clipped shorter - it's an overall smaller skirt in every proportion, and that makes it perfect for pressured fish, wary or cautious fish, clear water and for smaller waters like ponds, streams and tanks.

Sometimes you see spinnerbaits where the blades are made smaller, the wire arm is reduced size, and the head weight mass may be hidden beneath the skirt - all to give the illusion of a smaller spinnerbait. Little's been done to reduce the bulk of the skirt however, until now. The Thin Strand skirt truly let's you compact and condense down the key strike zone - the skirt - on spinnerbaits and buzzbaits.

Thin Strand skirts go great on finesse jigs too. They really show off the all-important jig trailer. On delicately-balanced swimming jigs, the perfect placement of each strand, plus the overall lighter, thinner skirt does not affect or influence the upright balance of a swimming jig as much as bulkier standard skirts that could make a swimming jig run lopsided.

Each strand is locked perfectly in place with a thin clear application of silicone adhesive sandwiched in between an inner core collar and outer band collar. It's hard to see there's any glue, but it's there, which is especially important to lock and keep the strands from getting pulled out of place. The inner collar is flanged on both ends to make the bloom-like flare you see where both sides of the strands flare off the collar.

Chartreuse Shad ~ 4" Thin Strand Hole In One Skirt. Reliable sources say chartreuse shad is the most popular and most productive hardbait color sold in North America by renowned Japanese hard bait vendor, Lucky Craft. Here is my interpretation or artistic rendering of Lucky Craft's famous color in a spinnerbait, jig and buzzbait skirt pattern. It has a smoky blue/gray back, a milky blue pearl belly with hints of a pale chartreuse tail. Whether on a crankbait, jerkbait, topwater or now in a skirt, chartreuse shad is a great all-around producer under a wide variety of water coloration, clarity and conditions.

Top: Full size 5". Bottom: 4" Thin Strand. Both Hole In One.

Chartreuse White Blend ~ 4" Thin Strand Hole In One Skirt. Who says you can't breath new life into the old standby colors? This pattern breaks up and blends your traditional chartreuse white skirt in a way you and your bass probably haven't seen it before. Please enjoy!

Top: 4" Thin Strand. Bottom: Full size 5". Both Hole In One.

Thin cut skirt (top). Full size skirt (bottom).

Sexy Shad ~ Thin Cut Skirt. This skirt has well-defined, contrasting colors. The top half is smoke gray with black fish scales and pale blue glitter. The lower half is milky pearl blue. The belly is pale chartreuse with a pale blue sheen. This skirt is a great producer in stained water where the more defined contrast of this skirt helps bass zero in on it.

It's also a great color during the spring shad spawn when shad exhibit dark-striped, contrasting body colors in order to attract and signal other adult shad to mate.

Full size skirt (top). Thin cut skirt (bottom).

Smallie Special ~ Thin Cut Skirt.

Full size skirt (top). Thin cut skirt (bottom).

Triple Chartreuse ~ Thin Cut Skirt.

White Pearl ~ 4" Thin Strand Hole In One Skirt. Works great any time, especially whenever white-bellied baitfish are present. Pure white pearl skirt has a highly reflective metallic pearl sheen and silver flake. Good in clear, stained or dirty water and at night too.

Bluegill ~ 5" Thin Strand Hole In One Skirt. This is the stunning bluegill color that everyone's been asking for in the thin strand version. Now it's here! Has rattle ear band.

This particular skirt is made of the same silicone rubber as standard skirts but in terms of the thickness of the material, it's made from a thinner or flatter diameter sheet of rubber to begin with. Then each stand is cut much thinner, and there are usually 60 thin cut strands per skirt. The length on this skirt is the same - 5" as a standard skirt. It is not shorter, but the strands are thinner and flatter, and more numerous (approx. 60 vs. 40 strands) than a standard skirt.

Some anglers say the thinner strands have more action or movement. Whether that matters to fish, no one can prove. It's true these skirts are lighter and more airy than standard skirts. The main reason I use them at times is not because of any difference in action - but because of the difference in profile and water resistance.

The thinner strands are more streamlined, more fluid in the water, and many anglers like them for Wisconsin-style swimming jigs or for deep-running smaller profile spinnerbaits. Reason is, on a swimming jig, the thinner skirt lets the swimming jig balance more perfectly, the skirt profile is more sheer or finesse-like - and that's often what anglers seek in a swimming jig skirt - a sparser appearance and more subtle profile. The thin cut skirt provides that.

On delicately-balanced swimming jigs, the perfect placement of each strand, plus the overall lighter, thinner skirt does not affect or influence the upright balance of a swimming jig as much as bulkier standard skirts that could make a swimming jig run lopsided.

The same can be said for a finesse style spinnerbait or a deep-running spinnerbait. The streamlined skirt with thinner strands has a smaller overall look and less water resistance.

5" Thin Strand Hole In One (top) compared to full-size 5" Hole In One (bottom).

5" Thin Strand Hole In One (left) compared to full-size 5" Hole In One (right.

Hole-In-One Hub Technology. This may be a little confusing, but both the Bluegill Thin Cut and the full-size Bluegill Hole In One, they both have hole in one hub technology. So the Bluegill Thin Cut is a hole-in-one skirt too. Each strand is locked perfectly in place with a thin clear application of silicone adhesive sandwiched in between an inner core collar and outer band collar. It's hard to see there's any glue, but it's there, which is especially important to lock and keep the strands from getting pulled out of place. The inner collar is flanged on both ends to make the bloom-like flare you see where both sides of the strands flare off the collar. A lot of anglers favor this flared bloom to the skirt, feeling it gives more action as opposed to the traditional flat, straight banded skirt.

These skirts are Hole-In-Ones, which means the strands are sandwiched between an inner core hub and the outer retainer band.

Hole-In-Ones are ultra high quality and you don't have to worry about the skirts slipping off or the rubber bands failing like with standard banded skirts.

Best of all, the Hole-In-One causes the skirt to flare or bulge out on both sides of the band. Many anglers feel that flare gives more bounce or action to the strands.

Some of the skirts below are your normal, full-size Hole In One skirts, and others are thin strand Hole-In-Ones.

To explain the difference between thin strand and full size skirts:

• full size skirts are 5" long and have approx. 40-44 thicker strands. These are what's usually used for bass.
• thin strand skirts have approx. 60 thinner strands total. Thin Strand skirts may be 4" or 5" long.

Thin strand skirts, whether 4" or 5" long, present a streamlined, smaller profile and aren't as bulky as your full size skirts.

Because of their compact appearance, thin strand skirts go great on your smaller size jig heads or smaller spinnerbaits.

Comparison of full-size 5" (top) and 5" Thin Strand (bottom). Both Hole In One.

Green Pumpkin ~ 5" Thin Strand Hole-In-One Skirt.

Comparison of full-size 5" (top) and 5" Thin Strand (bottom). Both Hole In One.

Watermelon ~ Thin Strand Hole In One Skirt.

7" Pike Skirts for BIG Jigs, Spinnerbaits and Buzzbaits

These 7" skirts are of a similar style to our standard size Hole In One skirts. They feature long, big, wide strands, bulky profiles - and are made of silicone rubber.

They are seven inches long with forty-five "double wide cut" strands. They are ideal for pike fishing and for trophy largemouth bass.

Black Blue~ 7" Pike Skirt.

Green Pumpkin ~ 7" Pike Skirt.

Fire Tiger ~ 7" Pike Skirt.

Chartreuse White Bone ~ 7" Pike Skirt.

Rainbow Trout ~ 7" Pike Skirt.

Size Comparison to Standard 5" Skirts

Examples below of:

1. Full Look. All strands end evenly. A little shorter and bulkier.
2. Layered Look. A little longer body and tail effect. more like a big baitfish.

You may achieve either of these looks by rigging the skirt with the short hairs to front (layered look) or with long hairs to front (full look) when you put it on a jig, spinnerbait or buzzbait.

Wrapped Skirts

Wrapped Skirts. These may look a lot like the old time rubber skirts, but they're not. These wrapped skirts are a brand new skirt type for 2007. It is a brand new style of silicone skirt that has all the good properties of living rubber - but it's made of a new generation of super-silicone material.

This new super-silicone is a soft and supple material that has a non-stop wriggling, swimming movement even on slow speed retrieves.

It has the lively action of living rubber but won't fade, it won't get old and brittle.

Three layers of super-silicone material are used. All three layers can be the same or different colors. All three layers or "wraps" are of this new and lower durometer (softer) super-silicone material.

• First, the innermost underlying core strands are wide, flat spears with pointed ends, just like the old time rubber
• Next, two consecutive but separate wraps of thin-cut strands are rolled or wrapped on top

The two slim outer layers and one wide inner layer are all of this new and different durometer softer super-silicone.

The super-silicone layers are wrapped around or onto a solid hard silicone center hub or core. So the skirts are easy to get on or off lures thanks to this sturdy inner center hub part.

Before the strands are sliced, the material is in sheet form. Both the thin-cut strands and wide-cut spears are made from the same sheets, in many colors, but none with glitter or flake. The super-silicone material is so thin that glitter flakes are too thick to put into the sheets.

The next two pictures show the skirts "inside out" so what you see on the "outside" here are the wider spearpoint strands. On a lure, these wider spearpoint strands would belong on the inside of the skirt.

Wrapped skirts are three inches long. When put on a lure like a spinnerbait, buzzbait or jig, these wrapped skirts are as long and as full as standard skirts.

Skirts go on lures so that the strands fold back or bend back over the hook. Water pushing against the bent-back strands are what causes the intense swimming motion.

To feel these skirts, they are lighter, more airy, more quiver, stretchier, softer, more rubbery than standard silicone skirts. They have a more active wriggling swimming motion than standard silicone skirts. Perfect for spinnerbaits, buzzbaits and jigs. Why not give them a try?

Black ~ Wrapped Skirt.

Black Red ~ Wrapped Skirt.

Chartreuse ~ Wrapped Skirt.

Chartreuse White ~ Wrapped Skirt.

Citrus Shad ~ Wrapped Skirt.

Green Pumpkin ~ Wrapped Skirt.

Green Pumpkin Black ~ Wrapped Skirt.

Pumpkin Chartreuse ~ Wrapped Skirt.

White ~ Wrapped Skirt.

Rattles for Skirts with 'Mouse Ear' Bands

Note: Rattles do not come with any skirts. Rattles sold separately.

These rattles can be attached, removed and reattached quickly and easily to any skirt in Bassdozer's Store that has the "mouse ear" sockets on the skirt band.

These rattles plug securely into the "ears" on the skirt bands, and can be removed just as easily.

We carry three different colors of rattles. The clear, red and black rattles are the same in every way except for the color.

They go perfectly with the skirts, jigs, spinnerbaits and buzzbaits that have the "mouse ear" bands in Bassdozer's Store.

Items in photo not included with item for sale.

Rattles are worth trying since they can be a great strike enhancement in dark water, in dense vegetation or at night. There are times in crystal clear water it may seem rattles can make a difference too. Rattles can quickly and easily be plugged into or removed from the two ear sockets on a skirt band, so you can easily switch between having rattles or not.

Bassdozer says:

• "Some - in fact all - of the skirt photos do not do justice to the skirts. From the camera lens to the computer screen, a lot of the hues, fine glitters, foil flashes and complex color tones do not come through in these photos. You really need to see these beauties up close and personal to be truly impressed by the rich details."

• What about material? There are two well-known skirt materials: 1) silicone rubber (simply called 'silicone') and 2) latex rubber (often called 'living rubber'). Each comes in thin to thick cut strands. There are square and flat strands of latex, round extruded strands of latex and even silicone-coated latex versions. Those are just a few quick examples to illustrate the different versions of silicone and latex skirt material. Overall, 90% of commercially-manufactured spinnerbaits, buzzbaits and jigs have silicone skirts. There are still some manufacturers who use latex, but they tend to be small, local manufacturers, mainly for jigs.

  As for me, I am a big fan of silicone skirts. They have an almost unlimited variety of vibrant colors and glitter flakes that are not possible with latex rubber skirts. Over the years, continuing advancements in silicone skirts have included more natural appearances, baitfish scale patterns, barred and spotted patterns, as well as reflective chrome foiled finishes and holographic appearances. It's the visual and almost unlimited colorful aspect of silicone, along with transparent and metallic flake or foil colors, that gives silicone an edge.

  Nevertheless, a notion persists among anglers that somehow latex may have better properties than silicone. Anglers constantly debate whether latex rubber or silicone rubber is a better skirt material. As with many debates in fishing, whether scent attractant works or not, whether lure color really matters, no one has yet given conclusive answers to such questions; nor has anyone proven whether latex rubber or silicone rubber skirts do or don't catch more fish than the other. All I can say is, in my experience, I have experimented exhaustively with both latex rubber and silicone skirts. I've not come across one bass yet that would hit one but not hit the other material. What I mean is, the difference in what a fish thinks of the material, is negligible. Therefore, I opt for silicone skirts over latex rubber simply since silicone stores better before and after use, is more readily available with more colors, glitters and foils, and is easier to put on or get off a jig, to name a few advantages of silicone. I am not alone on this either. Increasing popularity of silicone skirts continues to this day, whereas latex rubber appears to languish in today's marketplace. Comparatively few lures are made with latex rubber today. It's the same as the debate for pork versus soft plastic trailers on jigs. Now I love pork, and I am of an age to remember when there were only latex rubber skirts and only pork before silicone skirts or soft baits had been invented. So there was nothing else but latex rubber and pork back then. But over time, I have proven to my satisfaction, there's no advantage to using latex rubber or pork. Let's take pork first. It doesn't store well, has limited colors compared to soft plastics, and those are some of the same disadvantages of latex rubber versus silicone. Latex rubber does not store as well and color is limited compared to silicone. We may debate forever whether pork has more action or latex rubber has more action. But while the pundits debate away, I'll take silicone skirts and soft plastic trailers every time, and catch more fish with them. That's just me. As for you, you'll need to decide for yourself and go with your own preference.

• What's in a Name? Don't get too hung up on the specific baitfish names hung on each skirt pattern. Quite simply, we've got to call them something, so species-specific names are tacked onto different patterns such as Machete Shad, Tilapia El Salto, Gold Shiner, Pond Frog, Blueback Herring, Alewife, Bluegill, Brown Sunfish, Warmouth Sunfish, Black Brown Craw, Brown Green Craw, Rainbow Trout, Threadfin Shad, Green Perch, Dragonfly and more. I also have skirts named for bass species, such as Spot Special for spotted bass and Smallie Special for smallmouth. Don't get too hung up on the names. Spot Special and Smallie Special will catch all bass and other gamefish species. So if you fish someplace with only largemouth and no spots or smallies, don't hesitate to give Spot Special or Smallie Special skirts a try. You may be surprised at the results. Likewise, if you fish somewhere there are no rainbow trout, you just may find the Rainbow Trout skirt to excel there! Also, most pelagic, open water baitfish have darker backs, silver and/or gold sides and white bellies. So any skirt colors with names like Machete Shad, Threadfin Shad, Gold Shiner, Blueback Herring or any dark-backed, gold or silver sided skirt pattern may imitate most any pelagic baitfish anywhere. Also, any skirt named for a bluegill or craw may equally well imitate a bluegill and/or a craw, a perch, goby, sculpin or any other dark-colored bottom-oriented baitfish. So don't think just because a skirt has a specific name, that's not all it can be used to imitate. It's just that we've got to name them one thing or another. A pattern like Pond Frog could have just as easily been named Baby Bass. So don't get too hung up on the names.
• "Don't be afraid to pluck out some of the strands to adjust the color balance or reduce the fullness. Sometimes fish prefer a sparser skirt appearance."
• "When fish are hitting your spinnerbait, buzzbait or jig, but not getting hooked, they're telling you your skirt color is pretty close to what they want - but something's still not quite right. One of the easiest things you can do is turn the skirt upside down. Keep in mind the fish may at times be striking or reacting to the lure from below, as the lure is falling through the water, they see the bottom of it. At other times, they may be hitting from above, as a lure comes to rest on bottom, they react to the top of the lure. If you are getting hits but not hooking up, do a complete 180 with the skirt. It may look odd to you, but it could be just right from the fish's perspective. It only takes a split second, and if it doesn't work, you can always turn it back the way you started."
• "When some varieties of silicone skirts are freshly made, you may notice a faint motor oil type smell from them. Usually, anglers do not get skirts so fresh from the factory. Usually, it stems from the process that imprints fish scale patterns or imprints holographic foils on a skirt. Within a few weeks of being manufactured, the odor disappears as the silicone skirts fully cure, and the odor becomes undetectable. if you do detect such an odor, it is generally a good sign in that the skirt is brand new and at its peak of performance action and durability. The odor does not affect fish. They bite brand new fresh skirts, odor and all, even better than they bite older stale skirts."
• "When some varieties of silicone skirts are freshly made, the individual strands can appear more slender, thinner than you normally see skirts. Usually, anglers do not get skirts so fresh from the factory. Since each individual strand appears thinner, the entire skirt appears like it has less fullness than normal. It is generally a good sign in that the skirt is brand new and in the prime of its suppleness, flexibility and performance. Within a few weeks to months of being manufactured, the individual strands start to plump up and the skirt appears fuller. Also, using the skirt, fishing with it, speeds up the process. Just by using a skirt, it will plump up quicker from being immersed in water."
• "When some varieties of silicone skirts become older, a process which starts almost immediately is the strands compressed under the rubber retainer band stick together underneath where the band exerts holding pressure. The strands get squeezed, and stick to each other under the rubber band collar as if they are glued together. This starts to happen right away, gradually little by little, and there is no prevention for it. The skirt strands get stuck together more tightly the longer they are left unused. They are still okay to fish with, and as soon as you do start using them, the strands will start to uncongeal from each other, separate and unstick from each other naturally within a short time as you fish with them."
• "Most skirt styles (that have two sides to them) are banded off-center to make a short and a long side. Put on a lure either way, to create a matching shorter or longer look."
• "If possible, try to store skirts in original bag to preserve freshness."
• "If possible, do not store skirts with heavier items on top compressing the skirts."
• "For longer life, do not keep in heat, sun or humidity. Ideally store skirts in cool, dry, shaded place."
• "Try wetting a new skirt with water first. This may help you to slip it onto a lure more easily than when it's dry."
• "Usually, if skirt strands are compressed together or crumpled up, try to avoid that, and straighten or fluff them up. However, fresh new skirts tend to uncompress and straighten out on their own within a few minutes of first use."
• "When new, skirts act a little stiff and may tangle a bit. Skirts tend to conform to and behave better with whatever lure they're put on within 20-30 minutes of first use."
• "Once you use a skirt, try to keep actively using it on the same lure. To discontinue use (for a few weeks or longer) or to switch a skirt onto another lure is possible, but tends to shorten its useful life."
• "Remember ,if you get follows or short bites, carefully rotate skirt 180 degrees. It may not look right "upside down" but it just may work!"
• "So why not try a few? Give all your bass jigs, spinnerbaits and buzzbaits an exciting new look with these replacement skirts."
• "Please enjoy!"