The new Halco  Slidog“Trout Envy” colour is gaining a huge following for topwater addicts. Just about a year now with the compact Godox Ad300 Pro’s matched with the ADS85W soft boxes and I’m thoroughly impressed especially for small tabletop work. Being so light and compact makes them easy to quickly adjust angles when mounted...

Large flat surfaces like found on the Halco Slidog present different challenges in regards to reflection from camera/lens. What does this mean? Well the majority of lure images I see from many companies have a shadow or black line throughout the middle of the lure, that’s refection. Getting it right is where I still...

New colours in the Halco Laser Pro 160 have been released. Getting exposure and focus perfect every time is always my main goal, not only does it produce the highest quality images, but it saves an enormous amount of time. Before even taking the images all the lures are disassembled, wires, rings, hooks etc...

Getting exposure and focus perfect every time is always my main goal, not only does it produce the highest quality images, but it saves an enormous amount of time. Before even taking the images all the lures are disassembled, wires, rings, hooks etc are cleaned and polished to remove any paint and then reassembled...

Creating a lure diving into the water is a bit tricky but add a large super heavy stickbait and then it becomes a real change. The Halco Slidog is heavy, as soon as it hits the water it moves that quick that it’s easy to miss the shot. A few trial runs on getting...

The new Halco “Trout Envy” colour is gaining a huge following especially on the east coast tuna run this winter especially in the Max series but now it’s also available in the Slidog series in all sizes. Large flat surfaces like found on the Halco Slidog present different challenges in regards to reflection from...

    Great to be able to shoot the whole colour range and promotional images all for one series of lures. The new Halco Slidog 105 is the latest in the Slidog “litter”. Large flat surfaces like found on the Halco Slidog present different challenges in regard to reflection from camera/lens. What does this...

When I started shooting all the new Halco lures and colours I was asked to feature the new Slidog 105 as a surface walking image. Easy I thought but I didn’t know that it’s a heavy fast sinking stickbait, all the other stickbaits I’ve shot like this are floaters! Creating a floating lure “walking”...

Creating a lure diving into the water is a bit tricky but add a large super heavy stickbait and then it becomes a real change. The Halco Slidog is big and heavy, as soon as it hits the water it moves that quick that it’s easy to miss the shot. A few trial runs...

The new Halco “Coral Trout” colour is gaining a huge following especially on the east coast tuna run this winter especially in the Max series but now it’s also available in the Slidog series in all sizes. Large flat surfaces like found on the Halco Slidog present different challenges in regards to reflection from...

The new Halco “Coral Trout” colour is gaining a huge following especially on the east coast tuna run this winter especially in the Max series. Several months into using the compact Godox Ad300 Pro’s matched with the ADS65W soft boxes and I’m thoroughly impressed especially for small tabletop work. Being so light and compact...

  Camera: Nikon Z7 Lens: NIKKOR PC-E Micro Nikkor 85mm f2.8D with FTZ adapter. ISO: 64 Exposure Mode: manual Aperture f11 Speed: 1/250th second Notes: Trigger: Godox XPro N AND NIKON WR-10 Lighting Flash: 2 x Godox AD300 PRO with Godox ADS65W.  Trigger: Godox XPro N and Nikon WR-10