Strike King pro James Niggemeyer shows off the new KVD 8.0 squarebill crankbait that was introduced this week at ICAST 2014 in Orlando. (Photo credit Lynn Burkhead)
By Lynn Burkhead, OutdoorChannel.com
For a company with the long history and sterling reputation of Strike King, you’d think that sooner or later the Tennessee -based lure maker would come to an ICAST show and rest on its laurels.
Think again. Because a visit to the company’s display booth in Orlando at the 2014 ICAST Show finds yet another wave of lure making innovation about to hit the shelves.
That wave of new baits is headlined perhaps by the mega squarebill that Strike King is introducing this week, the KVD 8.0 that checks in as a much larger “big bait, big bass” lure that still retains the line’s erratic hunting motion, silent running, and cover deflecting...