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Home Soft Plastic Reviews Yamamoto Cowboy Review

Yamamoto Cowboy Review

Jason Sealock
Oct 15, 2018

I’ve been fishing with the new multifaceted soft plastic creature bait from Gary Yamamoto Custom Baits called the Cowboy. I say multifaceted because it works well in a lot of presentations and can be modified to work in several more.

Tough but flexible legs that move a lot of water

The legs are very sturdy. They won’t tear up after a few fish. But they still have enough pliability to move water well. The small appendages catch water and move with the slightest shake of the bait.

Yamamoto proven colors

It comes in the many great and proven GYCB colors. I primarily fished Black and Blue, Watermelon Red and Green Pumpkin.

Very customizable bait

You can cut the tails, take off appendages and trim the bait down to change its profile and make it slick through cover easier or add bulk to a jig with the full profile.

You can come up with unique presentation options like this bed fishing bug

I experimented with making the bait really small but still have some flare in the water for things like fishing for bedding bass or fry guarders. Fish that might grab the big tails and not have the hook in their mouth.

I’ve caught some nice ones flipping it

I caught several nice fish flipping the Gary Yamamoto Custom Baits Cowboy.

More solid than most flipping baits and jig trailers

Here is a healthy fish I got out of a bush this spring on the Cowboy. Check out the Yamamoto Cowboy here.

Jason Sealock

Currently working as Senior Advisor to Wired2fish. Former COO and Publisher, Jason Sealock came to Wired2fish shortly after inception in January of 2010. Prior to that he was the Editor-in-Chief of FLW Outdoors Magazines. He worked up from Associate Editor to Photo Editor and finally Editor in Chief of three magazines FLW Bass, FLW Walleye and FLW Saltwater. He set the content direction for Wired2fish while also working directly with programmers, consultants and industry partners. Sealock has been an avid angler for the better part of 40 years and has been writing and shooting fishing and outdoors content for more than 25 years. He is an expert with fishing electronics and technologies and an accomplished angler, photographer, writer and editor. He has taught a lot of people to find fish with their electronics and has been instrumental in teaching these technologies to the masses. He's also the industry authority on new fishing tackle and has personally reviewed more than 10,000 products in his tenure. He has a 30-year background in information technologies and was a certified engineer for a time in Microsoft, Novell, Cisco, and HP. He mostly fishes for bass and panfish around the house. He has, however, caught fish in 42 of the 50 states in the US as well as Costa Rica, Mexico, and Canada and hopes to soon add Finland, Japan, Africa and Australia to his list.

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