The Full Range of Hematoma Bass Lures – Not Just Soft Plastics
A hematoma is a swelling of clotted blood within tissue – unable to flow or drain out. It’s also one of the greatest creations of Andre Moore, founder of Reaction Innovations. If you’ve never flipped a Hematoma Sweet Beaver into a mat or laydown and caught a giant bass, you’re probably not much of a bass angler. If you didn’t subsequently chuckle when someone asked you what color you used (not quite as funny as Penetration or Dirty Sanchez, but still pretty damn funny), then you take things a little too seriously.
Here are three of my favorite Reaction Innovations lures in addition to the Sweet Beaver in that color:
Of course, as with everything else in the fishing industry, imitation is the greatest form of flattery – so it’s not surprising that other soft plastic manufacturers have jumped on the Hematoma bandwagon. Here are a few examples in different shapes and categories:
And it’s not limited to just soft plastics. If you’re a hard core power fisherman, there are a variety of additional categories to which Hematoma has spread. Here are just a handful:
