Insect Crossbreeds with Urchin

DAIWA and Evergreen bring the masterfully tuned Flutter GIZMO 1.5″ stateside to introduce a high-action creature and urchin hybrid to North American bass anglers

FOOTHILL RANCH, CA (August 11, 2026) – The dropshot category has built its stellar reputation on the backs of foundational profiles, classics like straight-tail worms, small minnows, and slender plastics that have caught bass across the globe for eons. These now timeless shapes have proven their worth by gliding and undulating, establishing the dropshot as standard operating equipment. But true progress happens when a category builds upon its rich heritage, evolving to offer fish a completely fresh dimensional look that commands their curiosity.

Dropshotting is reaching its next era. Anglers can now complement their traditional setups with a striking new profile crafted to maximize the presentation’s potential.

North American bass anglers now have direct access to a highly specialized Japanese design philosophy with the arrival of the Flutter GIZMO. This release marks a distinct tactical leap for vertical and deep-water presentations, combining an intricate insect silhouette with the multi-appendage engineering that has made the dice bait category an absolute phenomenon.

AMBER SHRIMP

Introduction to Dice-Style Bait Architecture

Traditional finesse setups rely on subtle, fluid movements to fool fish. The Flutter GIZMO builds beautifully on that foundation by introducing an entirely unique visual footprint. Serving as Evergreen’s new introduction to the highly effective dice-style category, this ultra-finesse soft bait packs critical action into a compact, 1.5-inch footprint.

While established finesse plastics are deliberately streamlined to minimize water resistance, this insect-inspired architecture features a multi-sided profile engineered to intentionally catch water from every angle. This design excels at generating immediate micro-vibrations with the slightest rod movement to seamlessly transition from traditional, streamlined profiles to a high-disruption, localized presentation.

Flutter Wing Dynamics and Kinematics

To amplify this downsized presence without adding unnatural bulk, the Flutter GIZMO utilizes a specialized fluttering design integrated with strategic wings. As the bait interacts with water currents or rod twitches, the wings capture resistance and displace water in a distinct, rhythmic cadence.

This configuration regulates how water flows across the entire profile to ensure a tight, delicate shaking action that supports a natural presentation. The secondary wing geometry stabilizes the bait’s lateral posture, keeping it perfectly suspended and preventing it from rolling over or dragging unnaturally.

Dropshot Dominance and Presentation Control

Dropshotting is a presentation engineered for absolute positional authority. By placing the weight at the bottom of the rig, dropshotting provides total depth control by operating entirely vertically over fish that might be holding deep or locked to isolated structure. The Flutter GIZMO is designed specifically to capitalize on this vertical alignment. When rigged on a dropshot hook, the high-durability PVC body sits perfectly horizontal and suspends flawlessly in the water column.

Once the bottom weight anchors the rig, the unique architecture allows anglers to utilize distinct mechanical techniques to match the mood of the fish:

Vertical Dropshotting Over Deep Structure: Anglers drop the rig vertically to gain absolute positional authority, allowing the bait to suspend horizontally right in the sightlines of fish just off or locked to the bottom.

Tight-Line Shaking: By shaking the rod tip on a completely taut line, the specialized multi-sided body and novel insect-like wings catch water resistance to produce immediate micro-vibrations and a high-frequency buzz from the appendages without lifting the weight off the bottom.

Slack-Line Dead-Sticking: By leaving the bait motionless on a semi-slack or completely slack line, the material reacts exclusively to ambient underwater currents, which allows the Flutter GIZMO to slowly settle on its own with a delicate, lifelike flutter that mimics vulnerable forage.

Current-Driven Drifting: In areas with currents, this approach allows the natural flow of the stream to activate the appendages automatically, regulating a rhythmic, tight shaking action entirely on its own.

Maximizing the Jighead for Bottom Tactics and FFS

The versatility of the Flutter GIZMO truly shines when paired with a light ball jighead, opening a playbook for both traditional bottom-contact fishing and forward-facing sonar (FFS). When rigged on a ball head, the bait maintains its signature horizontal posture on the drop, while the active wings provide enough water displacement to track cleanly on electronics.

When the action shifts to the substrate, the jighead combination transforms the Flutter GIZMO into the definitive finesse bottom-contact tool. Hopping, dragging, or subtly shaking the bait along the floor mimics a foraging aquatic insect or craw, scenarios where the fine rubber legs deliver a constant micro-quiver even when the bait is at rest.

High-Durability PVC Compound Formulation

Power-finesse situations demand a soft plastic compound that stays buttoned down through hard skips, heavy cover, and multiple violent strikes. The Flutter GIZMO is molded from a premium, high-durability PVC design. This structural formulation allows the ultra-compact bait to maintain its precise shape and wing alignment under rough use. It threads onto light-wire finesse hooks straight and locks securely into place to eliminate the constant tearing and slippage common with delicate soft plastics.

The Wrap

“Traditional finesse plastics are built to slide cleanly through the water, but the Flutter GIZMO carves out an entirely new category of localized visual disruption,” said DAIWA Field Marketing Manager, Chris Martin. “This bait is engineered specifically to excel on a dropshot rig, relying on its high-action wings and durable PVC design. By combining Evergreen’s meticulous Japanese design standards with a unique dice-style profile, we’ve created a progressive dropshotting tool.”

SHINE PEARL

MAGICAL BAIT

MOEBI SHRIMP

SECRET SMOKE

FRESHWATER SHRIMP

Flutter GIZMO FEATURES:

• Dedicated drop-shot rig engineering
• High-action flutter design with integrated wings
• Premium JDM Dice-style bait architecture
• High-durability PVC composition
• Compact, water-catching profile

SPECIFICATIONS:

• LENGTH: 3.8 cm / 1.5 inches
• TYPE: Dice-Style Soft Finesse Trailer
• COLORS: Shine Pearl, Moebi Shrimp, Freshwater Shrimp, Secret Smoke, Magical Bait, KO Shrimp and Amber Shrimp
• QUANTITY: 3 per pack

MSRP $18.99

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