Projo Sports Blog

By TOM MEADE
Journal Sports Writer

LAS VEGAS - A Mystic, Conn., company has won the top prize for best new lure at North America's largest fishing-tackle show. The company has created a lure that could change sport fishing if it works as the manufacturer claims it does.

The American Sportfishing Association awarded its best-in-show prize to Mystic Tackleworks for the company's BioPulse System, a lure system developed by a team of scientists from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, M.I.T., the University of Connecticut and other research centers. Mystic Tackleworks received the prize on the first day of the International Convention of Allied Sportfishing Trades, a three-day tackle-trade show that ended Friday.

On the outside, BioPulse lures look like other crankbaits and spook-style plugs.

On the inside, lures in the BioPulse contain intricate electrical circuitry and a stimulant-disbursal system. The lures also feel different than traditional plugs. Their backs are rigid, but the bellies are soft to the touch.

"This is not just a lure," says professional angler Gregg Silks, who was a member of the development team. It uses scent, taste, vibration, flash and sound."

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