HABANO, THE LONG WALK

After long time of development, and with some friends helping me in experimenting it, tha Habano is finally born; the name come from the most classic of Cuban cigars, to which resembles for it shape.

It's a singolar lure; I developed the first specimen several years ago, but it has always been in the shadow of other models whose sperimentation I thought more interesting. Its shape is very classic, a common one, a thing that I don't like a lot for my lures. For this reason it has touched the water only in special and difficult conditions when other lures failed; but this way it has permitted many catches to salvage bad days in many parts of the world...

..... from the difficult GTs of the Red Sea...

... to some good jack crevalle in cuban waters....

... but I've to thank Mr Caranx for stimulating me to perfect further the lure....


Finally a very versatile lure has seen the light; shape is classic but his heart is not; it can be dogged in the traditional WTD style, but is balanced to obtain different movements, from subsurface jerking, to fast immersions and jumps out of the water with sharp twitches of the rod.
Three were the original sizes:
Habano 200, 20 cm and 105 grams,
Habano 160, 16 cm and 70 grams,
Habano 130, 13 cm and 45 grams,
everyone with oversized closed through wire and swivels of extra heavy pound test; in reality I developed a small 110 size ( 11 cm, 30 grams ) dedicated to seabass but strong enough to tangle with strong tropical critters too .... smaller 90 and maybe 70 sizes are now under testing and will be ready for the autumn.

A prey of Habano 110: