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Cut & Retie

Ep. 171 - Japanese Asbestos Tackle Craft

Cut & Retie

Joe Cermele

Sports, Wilderness

4.9697 Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2026

⏱️ 109 minutes

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Summary

This week, bass historian, Ken Duke, connects the mob to the worst bass lure ever made, we compare ascots and aloha shirts, slip a sneaky snake into the ICAST show, and learn why nobody on Lake Biwa uses the helicopter lure. 

Transcript

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0:00.0

If the movie Roadhouse was a fishing reel, it would be the new third generation Cabo from Quano.

0:07.0

For more than 20 years, Cabo has been synonymous with punishing monster fish in the harshest environments from the beaches to the canyons, and I can tell you from experience, the new Cabos go harder than ever.

0:19.0

Sealed to IPX8 standards, sand, sand nor salt nor grit is getting inside the high-strength

0:25.6

aluminum body while the CFX-200 carbon fiber drag system is designed to take years of torture.

0:32.6

I fully expect my new Cobbos to hit like brass knuckles season after season for a long time.

0:38.9

So if you're ready to take a swing with a tough, dependable sidekick, visit quantumfishing.com.

0:50.5

Ken, you have a copy of asbestos tackle craft in the collection or what?

0:55.4

I'm horrified to say I do not.

0:57.3

Oh, man, that's a good one. You got to get that one.

0:59.9

I thought I had almost everything, Joe. This is a disappointing moment for me.

1:05.1

He believed that this guy was all mobbed up, that this guy was a gangster.

1:10.0

Living in South Florida,

1:11.3

had the pool, had all the fancy cars,

1:13.1

had the girls in bikinis out by the pool.

1:15.2

And someone had sold him on the idea,

1:18.2

a biologist apparently,

1:19.6

that the bulk of a bass's diet was dragonflies.

1:24.6

Go to I-Cast, Joe, walk up to a big company booth and have it like under your coat

1:30.0

and reach out and hand it to the designer.

1:32.8

Can I show you my sneaky snake? Yeah. Yeah.

1:35.0

Yeah.

1:36.2

Come on, man. Got to retry that. You know that's never going to work.

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