SEBILE Koolie Minnow LL Long Lip ~ Deep-Diving Lure

Koolie Minnow Long Lips are buoyant, deep-diving minnows with wiggling, rolling actions. The design of the strong, bridge-reinforced lip allows a steep dive and an easy retrieve in comparison to other baits of its kind. They may be swam steadily or jerked responsively and they rise free of snags whenever paused. In fact, several aspects of their construction are designed to let Koolies dive deep into snaggy areas without getting stuck.

With a full size range, there is truly a Koolie Minnow LL size suited to catch any deep-dwelling predator on the planet, from the biggest to the smallest.

There are three sizes of Koolie Long Lip (LL) Minnows suited for largemouth and smallmouth bass, walleye and for all small to medium size gamefish.

Size comparison from top down: 118 LL, 90 LL, 76 LL

Model	Size	Weight	Type	Casting	Trolling	Line Test
Koolie Minnow LL 76	3" / 76mm	5/16 oz / 8.6g	Floating	≤6 ft	≤12 ft	4 to 8 lb
Koolie Minnow LL 90	3-1/2" / 90mm	3/8 oz / 11g	Floating	≤8 ft	≤20 ft	6 to 16 lb
Koolie Minnow LL 118	4-5/8" / 118mm	1 oz / 27.6g	Floating	≤18 ft	≤43 ft	10 to 30 lb

Size comparison of 76 LL (bottom) and 90 LL (top).

"On light, medium or heavy tackle, in salt or freshwater, the Koolie Long Lip series is my favorite choice when I want to fish deep water, either casting or deep trolling. Particularly when you have a tidal current or in a freshwater river, the Koolie Long Lip is as easy to use as simply casting it 90 degrees straight out, and let the current work the bait down and around, almost without reeling. Very simple, but oh so very effective," says Patrick Sebile.

"What I like very much with the Koolie LL is that this bait goes really deep for its size without pulling heavily on the rod tip," says Patrick Sebile. "Less water resistance means less pulsation from the lure felt in the rod tip. Due to its unique bridged lip design, there is less feel of the lure throb, and that also increases the angler’s sensitivity to anything - a short strike, grass or debris on the hook, contact with bottom or cover - all are easier to detect since the lip resistance itself is not the overpowering sensation. So you can more easily detect short strikes, bottom, cover, debris and react quicker to whatever you feel making contact with the lure."

Other long-billed minnows do not cast very well because that long lip which causes water resistance to make it dive deeper, it also causes air resistance to make it fall short when cast. No doubt every angler may have experienced this distance-robbing effect with other long-billed baits. Not so with the Koolie LL, thanks to the gap or space between the lure’s nose and the lip, there is less air turbulence created around the lip – which is the reason why the Koolie LL sails so impressively smooth and far on a cast.

Ocean, surf and bay anglers favor the Koolie Minnow LL for Japan's sea bass. In Russia, trolling is the most popular way to use the Koolie LL. In Europe, the most popular way is casting with a steady retrieve just like you'd use a crankbait although at times using sudden, short pauses and/or twitches is the ticket.

In North America, savvy anglers prefer to retrieve minnow baits like the Koolie LL with sharp jerks and frequent pauses. The Koolie Minnow excels when used this way as a jerkbait.

The Koolie LL is buoyant so that it will rise when the retrieve is paused. This makes the Koolie LL an excellent choice to work through deep wood, rock beds, brush, grass or any kind of bottom debris. When paused, it will rise, and that lets it float up and away from any obstacles it may have encountered down there. In comparison, the popular variety of suspending jerkbaits can't back out of snags (they only get deeper into trouble) due to their non-rising nature.

Also, as a paused Koolie LL rises into the open water just above snaggy cover, that instant is a high percentage strike point. It becomes visible and vulnerable to attack as its sudden emergence triggers predators to react quickly before the prey can dart back down into the relative safety and concealment of the bottom cover again.

To sum up, the Koolie LL has a wiggling, rolling action, and dives deeper than other minnow baits of comparable size. It catches fish just like a crankbait when used with a steady retrieve. Also superb to use as a jerkbait with a cadence of jerks and pauses. It may be trolled or strummed in a current. Best of all, it floats up and out of snags, making it a great choice to swim right through thick underwater cover where other lures such as suspending jerkbaits cannot easily be used without snagging them.

Largemouth bass caught casting Koolie Minnow Long Lip.

Striped bass caught trolling Koolie Minnow Long Lips.

Innovative Edged Lips. On Koolie Minnows, the unique lip is edged out away from the lure body. Benefits are longer, smoother casts, easier retrieves, better bite detection and better feel for what the lure's coming in contact with, and deeper dives in long-lipped models. (90 LL shown in photo.)

Snagless Design. Numerous facets of SEBILE Koolie Minnows are designed to avoid snags. The Koolie Minnow's humpback, flattened belly, roll, diving angle and buoyancy function to deter snags.

The long, extended lip contacts bottom. Meanwhile, the nose-down, bottom-probing posture helps hold the hooks above snags.

The humpbacked, highly buoyant body helps the Koolie LL to float back up out of and over snags that impede its forward progress.

The wide, flat bottom helps the Koolie Minnow to push itself off of and to roll itself over snags. The broad bottom serves as a wide shield of protection to help hide the belly hook from snags.