{"id":3484,"date":"2017-06-05T08:53:58","date_gmt":"2017-06-05T06:53:58","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-06-05T09:05:49","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T07:05:49","slug":"new-toys-from-rapala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fishbook.co.za\/?p=3484","title":{"rendered":"New toys from Rapala!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Winter is an exciting time for those of us who love spinning in the salt. Not only are the conditions generally good, but the fish seem to be on the move and are keen to feed as well.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Something else that is making this time of year special is the new range of lures and colours that have been introduced to the South African market by Rapala VMC.<\/p>\n<p>The designers and developers at companies like Rapala, Storm and Williamson have been busy coming up with new toys for us spin fishermen. They have come up with some amazing looking lures, they just seem to keep getting better!<\/p>\n<p>Shimano has also introduced some new rods and reels, with the new Technium spinning rods and the Speedcast range both sure to be a big hit, as they are fantastic quality rods, and are very well priced.<\/p>\n<p>The Inside Angling online store is the place to browse and look at the various new products, check out the new colour ranges and the prices. The store is the one place that you can find all the products that we use in making the Inside Angling series, and buy them at your leisure.<\/p>\n<p>Inside Angling has partnered up with Discovery Health, and now you can use your Discovery miles to buy fishing tackle for the first time!&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.insideangling.com\">www.insideangling.com<\/a>&nbsp;to browse the many new products and check out some of the old faithfuls as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winter is an exciting time for those of us who love spinning in the salt. Not only are the conditions generally good, but the fish seem to be on the move and are keen to feed as well.&nbsp; Something else that is making this time of year special is the new range of lures and colours that have been introduced to the South African market by Rapala VMC. The designers and developers at companies like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":199,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3276,"url":"https:\/\/www.fishbook.co.za\/?p=3276","url_meta":{"origin":3484,"position":0},"title":"Gearing up to spin for yellowfish","author":"Craig Thomassen","date":"September 27, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Yellowfish are one of the finest indigenous freshwater fish that we can target with artificial lures. 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