Headbanger Spitfire 6-1/2"
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The Headbanger Spitfire 6-1/2" brings the patented Headbanger invention to big-water topwater fishing — wakebait, propbait, and swimbait combined into one surface bait built to pull trophy pike and musky to the top.
Why anglers fish the Spitfire 6-1/2"
- Big-water surface bait — topwater, wakebait, propbait, and swimbait in one
- Larger prop, bigger wake — more spray and commotion to call trophy fish up from depth
- Transparent Action Lip — big wakes and splashing at speed, superior snakelike action at a crawl
- You control the action — slow it to a wake or burn it across the surface
- Rigged with heavy-duty VMC 7266 #1/0 trebles for big-fish hooksets
When and how to fish it
Prime time is warm water over shallow structure: weed flats, rock bars, and river mouths where pike and musky hunt high. Use faster, splashier retrieves in wind and stained water; switch to a slow, subtle wake on calm evenings. Explosive surface strikes are the whole point — keep reeling until you feel the fish.
THE SEARCH FOR SOMETHING DIFFERENT
For a long time, Swedish artist and passionate angler, Dan Lestander, was looking for a long-casting lure that also moved with a pattern that didn’t repeat itself like traditional lures did. After he realized that no such lure existed and the desire for it grew too strong, the only solution was to start experimenting on his own.
He started thinking about how he could create a lure that interacts with its element, water, in a way that would imitate a real wounded and stressed prey much more accurately than what had previously been achieved. He spent more than four years putting in a ton of effort into finding the key to making the lure behave in the way he had envisioned. Using his skills as a professional sculptor, he constructed over 50 different prototypes, handcrafted and handpainted, to test his theories.
The result of his discoveries was a revolutionary construction that made the lures behave in a way that he never could have dreamt about. Soon he found himself with a number of ideas of different lures that could be created with this, now patented, technical construction. These lures are what we are now creating and sharing with you.