Leave it to Shimano once again to come up with some of the most exciting new fishing products.

The company in recent years has probably introduced the
most innovative products in the industry, including Butterfly
jigs and rods that began a tuna-jigging revolution, and Lucanus jigs that reinvented bottom fishing with lures.

Looks like the company has done it again.

Shimano is introducing the Terez series of rods and
Waxwing Lures.

Terez Rods

Terez is an incredibly extensive series of boating rods
meant to be fished with braided line for many types
of fishing, mostly in saltwater.

The rods, both spinning and conventional, are specifically
built for the heavy loads that braid is meant to handle, but in
a light rod that matches the small reels built for braid recently.

Fishing with braid and the small reels has become increasingly popular, so the rods seem perfect timing.

They pretty much cover the gamut of fishing for all types
of saltwater species.

Terez Rods come in 24 models in different sizes, a total of 165 rods, all available in five different colors.

“Whether it’s casting a sardine to fish boiling just outside the chum line, dropping a bait in your trolling pattern to hook a sail, or throwing a popper to surface crashing tuna, there’s an ideal Terez rod for the situation,” Robby Gant, from Shimano’s product team, said.

In other words, the models include rods built for pitching bait and popper-lure fishing.

Models are also built for fishing the Waxwing Lure, and those models are discussed below.

“And knowing how anglers think,” Gant said, “they’ll come up with a good number of uses for each rod, depending on the waters they fish.”

A New Jersey tackle shop owner recently told us customers bought the rods for tuna chunking, white marlin fishing and tilefishing, for example.

Terez rods, except the ones built for Waxwing Lures, are
built from the Shimano TC4 blank, featuring a double, inner, horizontal layer of T-glass, a material that's “advanced, dynamic,” the company said, and inner and outer spiral
layers of high-modulus graphite.

That makes for a small diameter that is durable yet “crisp,” lightweight and sensitive, Shimano said.

The rods come with Fuji TK Guides, featuring an angle that prevents braid from tangling like its prone to do on guides.

The rod colors provide a “wow” factor, Gant said.

The colors are bold for a rod and are ones the company determined are the "most prominent," Shimano said, on
boat hulls: Aqua, Emerald Green, Fighting Lady Yellow, Pearl White
and Sunset Red.

Suggested retail prices range from $199.99 to $279.99.

Check out a video on Terez rods from Jose Wejebe from TV’s
The Spanish Fly.

Click here for recommended uses for the Terez models..

Visit Shimano’s Terez Rods Web page.

Terez Waxwing Rods

Nine of the rods are specifically built to be fished with Waxwing Lures, and come with the same Fuji guides to prevent braid from tangling, and are available in all five colors.

Terez Waxwing Rods are built from Shimano’s C4S blanks, high-modulus graphite, wrapped in four layers, at a 90-degree angle.

They’re made to powerfully pull in a fish without losing rod sensitivity,
and are designed with special action to cast Waxwings long distances, and work the lures enticingly.

The Waxwing Rods are meant to be fished with PowerPro Vermilion Red braid that virtually disappears in waters, and adds to the action
of the rods and Waxwing Lures.

Visit Shimano's Terez Waxwing Rods Web page.

Waxwing Jigs

Waxwing lures are
jigs that are meant to be cast and retrieved to catch fish in the upper levels of the water column.

The name comes from plastic wings at the top and
bottom of the lure, difficult to see in the above photo,
but they're there.

The top wing makes the jig swim in a zig-zag motion,
and the bottom wing prevents the lure from rolling.

Two models are available: the smaller Waxwing 88 Boy,
88 millimeters long, and the larger Waxwing 118 Jr.,
118 millimeters long.

They come with a double hook with a wire-through construction, and are available in 14 colors.

Suggested retail prices are $17.99 for Waxwing 88 Boy and $19.99 for Waxwing 118 Jr.

Check out a video on Waxwing Jigs.

Visit Shimano’s Waxwing Jigs Web page.

Anglers might’ve thought Shimano would be hard
pressed to keep introducing such innovative products.

But these products apparently continue the
uncommon trend!