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His global pursuit of predator species has had profound effect on his lure development, too. While the majority of today’s lure makers have their crosshairs on bass and bass fishermen during design, Sébile focuses on the characteristics of the targets of predator fish by mimicking baitfish movements, capturing strike-triggering stimuli, approximating common color patterns and sheens, and solving many of the common conundrums of lure design. His Magic Swimmer captured atte