Introducing the revolutionary new helicopter lure invented by nine-time bass angler of the year Roland Martin. It's so irresistible fish attack on site and
So versatile it can perform perfectly in salt water or fresh
Surface or deep
Its movement grabs the fishes attention its colors set it apart as prey
Its sound provokes the attack and its scent triggers the strike unlike any other lure ever invented Roland Martin's
Helicopter lure is actually four lures in one. It's a weedless buzzbait. It's a spinner bait. It's a deep water jig plus
It's a weedless plastic worm
But first let me finish telling the folks how the helicopter lure actually targets the top three
Irresistible impulses that makes the big fish bite the first major reason why a fish bites is reflex action
Just like a cat pouncing on a mouse whether you're surface fishing or going deep
The helicopters unique spinning motion causes the big ones to strike on reflex. Oh son
Now the second reason why a fish bites is plain and simple hunger just like you and me the
Helicopters distinctive shape and movement and its irresistible scent make it stand out from any other prey in the water
So it grabs the fishes attention and the fish grabs in gotcha
And the third most important reason why a fish bite is one we can all understand at one time or another
Anger the helicopter lure invades the fishes territory and annoys it with its appearance and rotating motion
Plus it gives off a continual buzzing sound that drives the fish mad
Wham reel them in son
Well, congratulations folks on the purchase of your helicopter lure
I'm Roland Martin and this is my co-worker and an inventor of the helicopter. Mr. Fred Ward from Phoenix, Arizona
Fred, you know, you and I have been doing lures for a long time. This is the hottest thing ever, isn't it?
It is it is and it's gonna be it's gonna be really fun for us just to show you how to use this star gun thing
Well, you know a lot of people think that the helicopters just simply a buzzbait and that's what Fred and I want to talk about
right now. There's five or six applications of it and five or six things
You have to watch out for so that you won't have any trouble fishing a helicopter now
We've used this fairly large swivel on this lure and let's just show them how to rig it up to start with
I like to come through the head of
the worm part
I'm going to call it a worm head
Come through there about a half an inch and when you go a half an inch you twist it and come right out the side
Okay, you just pull the whole thing down Texas style and pull it up on the shoulder of the hook
Now you notice that that hook has a shoulder. That's really important. That's a lot of people just don't understand
There's another story right there. Let me push it on up now watch when it goes see the shoulder right here
This little shoulder the bottom of this part has to go right on up over that now
Okay, watch it. It's gonna go right on up over and now see the shoulder
Right through right you can see how the shoulder is popped out now
That keeps it from coming off
See now I'm going to turn the thing around and turn around the other way now the hooks coming out now
I just kind of gauge where the hooks going to be I just look at the bottom of the of the lure and say okay
I want it to come through right where it's coming through now
And I'm just going to come right in that area and turn it sideways and hook right smack through the whole thing
Perpendicular to the axis of the lure and come up where now the hook point is laying
Flat against the plastic and it's flat against the plastic and that makes it
And it's flat against the plastic and that makes it weedless now
If you really want to have one more weedless application
And if you really thrown in heavy weeds and logs like Fred and off and I often do I actually bury the hook point at
That point I bury the hook point right there show me how you do that. Okay, let's get a real close
There's the hook point. There's the hook point now
I'm gonna pull the plastic over the hook point and just let it rest right there
So about a sixteenth of an inch of plastic is now hiding that hook point
So now it can go right over long and I just hold it just hold the legs here now
Now watch what happens when the fish takes it see this will be pushed and that lure see the hook just pops right out
Now that's the advantage of this wide gap hook you can use about any hook, but this is a fairly thick
Shank right here worm and so by using a fairly wide gap hook that means when they depress it
There's more hooking space
in fact, there's like a half an inch of hooking space between the body of the the worm part of the
Body of the lure and the hook point so that half inch makes hooking a lot easier
So now to rig it back up again straight. I just put the hook point just barely in there
Well now this is a properly rigged helicopter without any weight, but Fred
There's a lot of application for a weight
Why don't you show them how how the weight works and they're gonna get some of these nail weights and that's solid lead right solid lead
And it's but you know, it's soft cut at different lengths
You can you can cut it differently, but it but it's gonna come in the kit
So you're gonna have some of these what we do is there's a little hole in the back of the helicopter
And it's real easy to insert all you do is just stick it right in the little hole and just keep pushing and pushing
Until it goes right on up in there now this will really help the lure to helicopter
It'll go a lot more faster on the rotation rotation will be quite quite quite severe
But it's also without amount of weight and that's only an eighth of an ounce
That'll enable the lure to work ten say ten foot depths
One of the things is that when you get a little breeze in your face
You need that extra eighth of an ounce you need that extra eighth of an ounce
To cast into the breeze and that really helps now also speaking of the weight this lure these helicopters are designed for both
Spinning and casting tackle Fred uses more casting than I do. I use more spinning tackle. They're both excellent
However, we might mention line size for a second talking about the 12 pound line is about the lightest that I'd want to fish
How about you? I?
Think 12 pound is the absolute least that you want to be 14. There's there's there's there's more than one reason for that
Well, really super light line is so light. It has no tensile strength
Corrosionally at all. It will just twist even though you have the best swivel in the world. You have ten swivels
It's still the little tiny light line six and eight pound test line has the ability to twist
So I recommend 14 pound test line and 14 to 17 pound test line
the way that it's been the most productive is to throw this bait out and
In in shallow water and retrieve it in short
Spurts of maybe five or six feet and then stop. So you're just pulling it along just well
Well, I like retrieving and then I like keeping my rod pointing, you know right at the lure
I don't like my rod way over here out of position in case one strikes
I like my rod pointed right at the at the bait and I just keep it coming and then I'll stop it
You know Fred little boat trails like this in Florida where they're just two or three feet of water
That's a perfect situation in the middle of the day for say fishing the helicopter like a plastic worm
Just let it down the bottom. Just lifting it up keeping your rod tip high
Watching your line just like you do a plastic worm watching for the line the strike
You know watching the line hit now you're you're out West you're out say in the Phoenix area
You fish the helicopter deep as a worm a different way
Well, you know the way we do it out there is to is to throw it out
You know, maybe in school fish for example, and if they're not school fish just along a submerged island or on the shoreline
And then let it get right on the bottom now. We're not talking about having my many weeds out there
We don't have a lot of the adding more weight to right
So sometimes I'll add a split shot or something to it
But or I'll put the little the little stick weight in the end of it
But but what we'll do is just barely barely crawl it along on the bottom
But one of the things that maybe we haven't really clear made real clear is that you know
It is necessary to set the hook in other words when you get a strike whether it's on the surface or a little bit deeper
Or even on a worm you need to give a good hook set. You just can't just keep reeling
I think the biggest analogy my wife Marianne probably said this
Fishing the helicopter is as much like fishing a plastic worm as you can get
So in other words, you need a heavy stiff rod like you'd fish a plastic worm with you need pretty stout line
Like you'd fish a plastic worm with and when they take the helicopter whether it's on top
In intermediate as a jig or as a worm you have to treat it like a worm
You have to treat it like give it line and let your rod get straight. For example
I'm gonna demonstrate the proper way of hooking a fish now
Okay
I don't care how he hits it
No, whatever mode when I get to strike and I'm reeling it no matter what happens and I'm reeling along I feel the strike
I don't instantly set the hook. It isn't necessary. No what you do. They don't let it go
I just I just kind of reel it down
He doesn't let it go and then I set the hook with my rod straight. I really get some power
And that is like fishing a plastic one. That's right. Well, in fact, we'll show them on on the video camera
We show them on the lake this application of of this slightly submerged application of the of the helicopter
Take fish Fred get them get them and then when we do stop it we can just you know
when I stop it like if it's by a tree or a bush or a log then I let's let it you know, let it helicopter down and
And generally a strike will either occur there or when you you know when you start it back up
but but the main thing is that it's not necessarily a buzz bait is to throw that bait out and
Let it just come along out of the water very much similar to we do a spinner bait
We've been doing spinner baits for years that way the weight of this swivel and hook
And helicopter will make it slowly
Helicopter on the way down to make it be a faster helicopter in a rotating lure
We want to add weight and so what kind of weight do you recommend the little nail weight a little nail weight?
Okay, it's a great weight and and we'll show you how to apply that a little bit later to this bait
And it helps it to cast farther like if you're casting into the wind
It'll help you to cast it farther and it also helps it to helicopter if you're going to helicopter
You know like seven or eight feet deep which is also very very effective to do that, too
Now and that's perfect size you spoke a line to us the biggest biggest nemesis of the helicopter might be
Might be perceived as line twist now Fred
We've been fishing for about 15 minutes
And let's see if we have any line to it now see you have just a tad because what what's happened is some foreign particles
Just a little teeny bit of foreign grass not much
Just it's hard to see that is just a little bit of just a tad of grass there
But that little bit of grass is enough to mess that swivel up. You know and I almost had to purposely do that
I went way down the bottom, but you see
It just came out by itself using once once you clear it now
Here's the here's the secret of clearing the line twist once once once he's removed the debris, and he's tested the swivel
He's tested it to see if it's got 15 or 20 revolutions like that
It does now make one or two casts and it'll all come out
That's right, and and now after he retrieves it it should be like mine mine is all
Perfect, and there's no line twist in mine. I'll test mine first. No line twist let it go see there's not
It's not twisting at all the line is just laying in a big loop. It's perfect. No line twist
Let's just check Fred's line see if there's line twist here. You just take a little bit pull it back together
Well, there's a little teeny bit of line twist
He still has some but after about one or two more casts that should that should eliminate also
Another way to eliminate line twist when it happens he's Fred's holding his rod up in the air like this and letting that last part
You know look see this is why I went back. I never got all of the weeds off. Okay. There's another week
There's another little piece week and that little piece of weed
We'll do it and that is probably about right now now you make it one or two more casts
And let's check them out
I'll make another long cast out there if a fish doesn't bite it on the way in
We don't want to fish this cast because we'll mess up our whole deal about line twist. Okay, get it in there
Don't do we get away from that fish?
Okay, now now, let's see. Let's see if I have a line twist. I don't think I have I don't have any line
No line to it
So that's how you eliminate it
But now sometimes when you make a cast in a muddy water or sandy banked areas
the swivel can land and get a grain of sand that you can't see and
the only way to get that out is to take the swivel and kind of rock it back and forth just a little bit and
It'll just fall right out on its own and then just test it
Just spin it again. If it spins those 15 or 20 or 30 times that is perfect and you'll never have line twist
But you have to keep mending and watching and paying attention that swivel because that's the key to to keep in line twist
But Roland, you know it
Even though the slur comes through many many types of vegetation
Almost all baits that we use anywhere. No matter what there you have to tend the line. You have to tend everything
It isn't like it's something unusual
We just want to make sure that you're fully satisfied and you know how this slur functions
Because the biggest complaint I've seen with people that don't know how to handle line twists as they say it twists my line
And the first thing I do is look at at their swivel and their swivel is messed up
You don't have to oil the swivel
But you do have to make sure that the little
Filamentous algae the blue-green algaes and the green algaes that are so prevalent in a lot of the southern waters
Don't that none of that algae gets wrapped on the chair that you can pick it all out and pull it all apart
But if you clear the swivel
Hook it right and use 14-pound test line or better. You'll never have any trouble with line twist. Absolutely not
Now remember folks these were shot live on location as they actually occurred there's one I've got one helicopter son
Oh boy, what a fish. Oh, he's got it way to go way to go boy
He's got it he's got it he's got it
Well, this new helicopter lure. It's got some great top water action on it. Just then I had a coup to go after it
Rowan, what about those toothy critters in the salt water?
You know, I haven't I haven't had much application on that
Well, you know, let's just take say take pike or or some type of a fish like that
I just take like a number six wire or some fairly
Small wire and I'll just go through it and twist
the line about six times
Twist just about six times like this and we do what they call the haywire twist and then do a barrel roll
About four or five times and when you finally and this stuff this wire is pretty neat to work with you
Finally bend it up like this hold it with your finger and twist it around like this and it breaks right off even now
I've broken the line. It's all just a straight straight shot deal
So now I can make another loop of the front up here do it the same way
And so I have about a six or eight inch piece of 30 or 40 pound test monel stainless steel wire leader
Yeah, well even sharks probably won't bite now speaking of sharks. Let's do another thing
Let's get some 200 pound test leader like this and let's go right through the head of the thing and just run that thing
Right down and now what I'll do watch this. This is really slick take a big treble hook great big treble hook like this
It's harder to do and I might have a little bit of a hard time with this but twist this over
This is real heavy-duty wire
and now
See if I get it right. It's hard to twist really works. This really yeah, but I'm almost need pliers
I'm this is such heavy leader that it's it's going to be hard to do. But anyway twist it around
five or six times
This is really heavy-duty stuff and now when I finally have it twisted enough. I
Bend that tag end up. I
Like this. This is remember. This is 200 pound test leader
But you break it up and make a little section right here to twist it with and now I rotate it. Oh
Boy, it's hard to do
I'm gonna have to almost take my pliers
And rotate it around this way and it broke right off broke right off even so now you have a real nice twisted wire now
Take your helicopter and slide it right down over that pull that thing right up in there put the legs in between put the legs in
between
the tips of the hook like this and
Now I have a super rig for big huge kingfish big huge
Barracuda giant sharks and all those big toothy critters that are out there in the ocean
He's got it. He's got it. He's got it. Got the helicopter. Oh, he's got the helicopter
No, it's a big tarpon a big tarpon
That's fishing boys
Being there will work now before I go any farther the swivel needs to go on this loop now
That's not hard. You can take your o-ring and open it up and put your little swivel right there
Over the o-ring and now the other end of the line goes to the swivel and now the whole thing swivels with the swivel up here
Because the treble hook is down here. So that is a little bit different. You need a treble hook
You need some heavy leader, but it'll certainly work on those big toothy saltwater fish
But it might work better than any other lure you've ever used in that shallow water
I've got hundreds of big toothy sharks and Barracudas on this look absolutely wonderful snooks snook
But you don't need big leader for strong
Let's take them to the lake and show them some more features
Lily pads represent one of the best types of cover for bass and the best things for fishing helicopters
there's 30 or 40 species of
Lily pads around the country and as the helicopter hits those little open areas in between the pads
It rotates and of course it swivels down and helicopters down in little holes
It swivels and spins even across the little pads themselves and I can work it much like a jig
But much like a buzzbait at the same time that a helicopter and little holes and just keep it on the top or I can
Just use it as a buzzbait
I can just reel it steady all the way across the lily pads and just keep it coming pay
Just put my rod right at the lure and just and just helicopter it just right across the surface like a buzzbait
Now I can go a lot faster of course the lure is weedless so I could really come cranking across there and sometimes you want
A lot of speed coming through pads like this
because the fish are just on an ambush point like these lilies and
Real fast high-speed buzzing action sometimes really gets them angry after three or four casts in the spot like this
I'll say well
Maybe there's not a fish there because I should have made them angry the anger
Reflex is really really a big point here when you find a small patch of weeds like this make three or four fast casts
To it if you don't get a strike well, then move on
Well, you know Fred we've shown them how to hook the helicopter on the hook
We've shown them the different places to fish it. We showed them how to set the hook
You know I guess all I can say now you've got to go out there and try the helicopter
Because it's going to produce more and bigger fish for you
I don't care if you're fishing from Connecticut to California this will produce more big fish for you than any other lure
You've had in a long long time, so good luck get them get them just go get them