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Ground venison is a dense, rich, and creamy delight. Properly prepared, venison is a lean, high protein meat. Many wrongly argue that it’s so lean you need to add fat to it. Ground Venison, in any form, is filling, not fatty...

Shortly after moving to the Metro Detroit area I was introduced to a completely different kind of fishing; trolling with planer boards. The combination of the multi-line spread and success it more than often yields, left me fish smitten.

The most ubiquitous lure. What is it? I'm willing to wager, even if you haven't done the research, and even if you are new to the sport, you know what it is. It’s the Spoon. Simple and elegant, it comes in all shapes and sizes; in casting, jigging, in trolling, and in flutter; in every color and pattern you've ever seen or can imagine.

What flasher analysis tells us about fishing lures generally, and in particular, about the prowess of the trolling spoon is this. Trolling spoons, like flashers, are designed to attract fish. Trolling spoons, like flashers, are available in an assortment of color combinations and patterns. Trolling spoons, like flashers, come in various lengths, widths, cupping and contours that produce predictable, yet distinguishable movement from other trolling spoon designs. It makes perfect sense then, that a particular physical design, and therefore specific pattern of movement, for a particular trolling spoon would also result in different outcomes. Just as flashers do.

My Grandmother Jane owned a farm where a small crick split the property and flowed out to Bear Creek. By eight (8) years old I already had my own vocation, cleaning barn stalls and bailing hay. It was during one of these summer weeks spent at the farm that my love and admiration for Trout fishing began. 

By the fall of 2021 our sales throughout the US and Canada had started to pick up to the point where revenue that wasn't being pumped back into purchasing raw materials and the like, could be used to buy a gently used trade show booth to be retro-fitted with our brand’s logo and colors. So that’s what we did. We scraped up enough money to put together a very clean looking expo presentation and pay the exhibitor fees and hotel room costs, and got to work.

I’ve unintentionally fallen in rivers trying to cross at the end of November getting cute while chasing whitetails. I’ve accidentally tipped canoes in March when the banks were still full of snow and you have no choice but to finish the hour journey down stream to the next closest launch site. I’ve intentionally jumped through holes cut through 20 inches of ice in January and all in the name of charitable giving. The first thing that happens when submerged in waters...

The Catch: Pike and Musky Mania My 10 year old Nephew caught his first (and second) Musky recently. His Musky, also i...

This all begs the question: What is the best moniker for those of us who call the rust belt home? Are we ‘Industrial-Midwesterners,’ ‘Post-Industrialist-Ferriers,’ ‘Hopelessly-Dystopian,’ ‘Sprite-like-Reboundinites,’ or are we simply Rust Belters? Whatever your predilection, we have the economic erosion of the post industrial era in common. To that end, we should celebrate with a ‘tighten your belt and suspenders’ moniker of our own.

Niches get Britches. The reason HangryBrand exists, our original ‘Why,’ was the direct result of this passion for chasing Spring Brown Trout. Allow me to explain. In a world where it’s not uncommon to catch one (1), maybe two (2) Browns over the course of an eighth (8) hour outing, we needed to find a way to land more of what many consider to be the most challenging species of freshwater fish to catch. Enter stage left, the Custom RIFT™ (Rise Increment, Fall Tolerance) trolling spoon.

“I don't want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a career. I don't want to sell anything bought or processed, or buy anything sold or processed, or process anything sold, bought, or processed, or repair anything sold, bought, or processed. You know, as a career, I don't want to do that.”                                                                                              - Lloyd Dobler

The HangryBrand 7-in-1 Tin Pack™ is the quintessential versatility lure re-envisioned: Pop, Pitch, Flip, or Flutter, it’s great for amateurs and experts alike. The oldest and most prolific fishing lure on the planet just had its first breakthrough in over 100 years! Make that several breakthroughs.