05 / FRESHWATER / HARD WATER
A jerk through eight inches of ice is still a jerk. Jigging spoons and vertical iron for panfish and walleye when the lake goes solid.
ACME
Six bucks of chrome-plated brass that catches everything with fins. Cast it, jig it, troll it — the Kastmaster doesn't care about your technique, it just flashes and fish show up.
TROUT MAGNET
Twenty crawdad bodies and eight long-shank hooks in a kit that'll outfish live bait on pressured trout streams. The wobble fall is the whole presentation.