hey everyone welcome to wendell fishing daryn here and today we are reviewing a monster bass
subscription box check it out so if you're anything like me um i love subscription boxes i
used to have a lucky tackle box and i was bouncing around trying to find a new one i want some of the
best lures out there when i get to go out to go fishing i want to have the best tackle i don't
want to lose the fish so i'm trying to find a box out there that is worth it is it worth it
that's what we hope to find out today i'm going to review it for you we're going to go through it and
you're going to see what actually comes in these boxes and is it a good deal um so let's go ahead
and hop in i was told that this box is kind of a takeover box from straight king and bio baits
so there's going to be a lot of those in here a little bit of information about strike king it's
just one of those iconic brands it's been around for a long time i believe was founded in 1964.
their headquarters is out in collier tennessee collierville tennessee um and interesting enough
it was bought two years later in 1966 by bill spence it was bought for 2 500 pretty crazy right
and so this is a lot we're going to find a lot of strike king in here straight king is owned by lose
which also owns mr crappie also owns if you're a hunter 100 specialties also owns buck bomb
so it's a big big company so let's go ahead hop into this box see what's in here let's see
what's worth it all right what do we got our first thing we got is a sticker so this is josh moody if
you check him out instagram he's got about 4 000 followers and if you can tell he's just chucking
a bass over his shoulders now i don't know a whole lot about proper bass handling but i'm pretty sure
chucking over the shoulders is not part of it but hey who am i to judge to each zone i do love that
they're promoting um kind of catch a release here so pretty cool let's move into the next what do we
got here we have a strike king kvd flat side look at that pretty pretty there let's open them up
so what is kvd um kvd's initials is a professional fisherman named kevin van dam so there is this
beautiful fish lure look at that so the kvd is actually known for not having any rattles
shouldn't hear any rattles there um now this one's actually a slender design uh it's supposed to
kind of produce a thumping action in the water versus that rattle action so pretty neat there
kevin van damme kvd series this one retails i believe for 7.49 all right what do we got next
strike king swinging sugar buzz 3 8 ounce this one retails for 7.99 in the stores
all these are actually made in costa rica so let's go and open this one up
all right so if you're like me you have a variety of these well how this one is
different is that you can see it's on a swivel and it's actually weighted which
is kind of neat so um this is gonna be uh you're gonna get a lot of action as this
as this back end swivels through the water also makes a ton of splash on the top on the top so
pretty neat there also this is gonna help with your hookup ratio because this thing's swinging
back and forth the fish isn't going to be able to throw it as much so um pretty neat i like it
not something i would typically buy in the store but i will definitely fish with it now probably
put a trailer on it have this thing looking like a crawdad flipping through the water pretty neat
all right what do we got next we have a straight king red eye shad
also retails for 7.99 this is the green gizzard shad let's go and open this one up closer look
all right this is a lipless crankbait pretty neat i like it you guys hear that it's uh kind
of rattling there so this one's free floating it's got some 3d eyes you can kind of see
it there um these got vanadium steel hooks so what in the world is vanadium steel hooks well
it's a stronger type of steel it's a steel alloy for instance it's just a combination of steel
if you mix tin and lead together you get solder and if you mix vanadium and steel together you get
vanadium steel so what's important about vanadium steel hooks well they're lighter i don't know
how much that helps but uh they're also stronger they're stronger by about 25 which is kind of cool
and then uh they're more durable so this is a stained steel that's used
in auto manufacturing same steel that's used in buildings bridges heavy machinery tools and now
on your lipless crankbait so pretty cool i like it i definitely fish with this one
what else we got we got the jaylee comeback jig retails for 5.99 let's open this one up
all right i like it i like the color and as you can see here
you see that it's got this flat bottom to it which is great because when you pull this along the
bottom you put a trailer i usually put a trailer some type of crawdad looking thing when it sits
like this on the bottom that means the the claws are up in the air and and basically this is a
crawf crawdad kind of defensive position so it's going to look like a crawdad and it's defensive
i mean that's what it's made to mimic which is kind of nice so i like it i use it i lose these
things all the time in the rocks and then so it's good that's in the box come back jig j lee jordan
lee 2017 bassmaster champion i actually got a chance to meet him pretty cool guy so i like it
what else we got all right we got some daiachi diachi i'm not sure some red bleeding
bait hooks so these are nice size 4-0 um great offset worm hook um i always like red hooks i i
i believe i was told somewhere i read somewhere that fish see a couple colors red is one of them
which makes sense it's got a mimic kind of blood which hopefully will attract a strike from one
of those bass so daiyachi um thatchy is kind of known um i don't really known for i thought
i'm known for saltwater maybe not nonetheless i look forward to trying out what else have we got
all right now we're into the bio baits what is a bio bait so bio baits are made in the usa which is
kind of exciting so that's good um these are full packs and this one is their switchback so all the
bio baits they retail for 5.99 if you're gonna go buy them and what's so cool about these these
are water soluble which is kind of neat because for anything like me i lose a ton of them i say
i fish a lot of wacky worms and i lose them all the time and i just think there's probably a ton
of these laying all over the lakes well these are going to biodegrade 99 faster than the industry
industry standards so pretty cool switchback um probably using those soon what else we got
we got the bio bait leeches i love dark black baits so we have a lot of muddy here and a lot of
muddy water here where i fish and i love fishing with black baits so i love leech this is gonna
be a great to put on a a drop shot and kind of finesse bait so i look forward once again 5.99
made and manufactured and formulated here in the united states so the cool thing about this
is that all the bio baits are actually infused with fish oil um and the leech this one particular
has 20 20 percent more of that fish oil and uh so who knows we'll see what happens i'll fish
it whenever i get on the drop shot and show you how it does all right there's more it keeps going
we have another full pack of what they call the stinko's once again 5.99 i love this color
kind of a green pumpkin color this is my go-to number one this is what i fish with catch the bass
like crazy so i look forward to checking this out using this one and so that is the box if
you can kind of see the box here give some tips about when to fish in the spring summer
fall winter what to use kind of neat it's kind of fun just learning learning learning learning
so another reason i bought this box because if you sign up for a three month subscription um there's
always some type of special that they're running on monsterbass.com and so um they're running a
get six free hard baits and so i signed up for them and these are them so i got three mc65s
these are kind of sweet check them out pretty colors we have the
uh crank crawl the bluegill the sexy shad is what they call it um so three three baits
from vicious vicious fishing i don't know a lot about vicious fishing i know they're kind of new
to the scene here a little bit but um i got six free of these uh i think they came out in
2006 they're known for their fishing line i was just at rural king and they had a ton of vicious
fishing line i picked up some four pound um to check it out um but i can't find any of their
lures online so this must be something that's new for them so got those and then some vicious
herky jerkys is what they call them so we got three colors here the frosty frosty
the blue heaven and the sexy um color so those are pretty cool look forward to getting those out
there working with those so here's the question is it worth it so i did the math so i added all
this stuff up if you're at all the strike king add the daiachi hooks the bio baits those would retail
for 57.92 give or take so plus tax you're going to be spending 60 on that um and then i added up how
much would it cost for all these vicious fishing all the kind of extras i got on when you sign up
for the three-month subscription box and those would have added up to somewhere i think around
54 so all together you're looking at 114 dollars worth of lures and bait and terminal tackle and
it only cost me 33.33 seriously got all that now you're not going to get the the extras the first
time but essentially you're saving 25 30 bucks every time you get a box and if you're anything
like me you're trying out new things if uh if i was just going out and buying things every
single time i'd be getting fishing the wacky worms every single time so if you go on their
website they teach you how to use this stuff which is pretty cool so hey thank you for joining here
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