If you are interested to meet Patrick Sebile and discuss the A Band Of Anglers investment campaign, he will be Friday, April 1st 1:30-5:30PM at well known Cape Cod fishing & outfitters tackle store Goose Hummock, located 15 Rte. 6A, Orleans, MA 02653 - Tel (508) 255-0455 

Anyone joining will receive a lure prototype hand signed!!

Goose Hummock website

Ocean Born lures

Hyperlastics lures

Saturday 2nd & Sunday 3rd, April 2022, Patrick Sebile will be at Kittery Trading Post, a leading Fishing and outdoors retailer, located in Kittery, Maine.

Patrick will be on his tank to demonstrate the underwater action & movements of his artificial lures Saturday at 9-10AM & 5:30-6:30PM, and Sunday 1-2PM.

These will be 2 great days for any investor or person interested to invest in A Band OF Anglers to come meet him to discuss about the campaign and the company itself!

Kittery Trading Post Fishing Fest 2022

The Loader Minnow Jerkbait from Engage features patent pending technology that outperform other jerkbaits in your tackle box thanks to its unique bill that offers a thinner but strong bill, allowing for great action and confidence it will hold - the best of both worlds!!

The Loader Minnow jerkbait utilizes a thin double anchored stainless steel metal lip, which provides an erratic darting action that won’t break when fishing over hard structure like rocks and logs and is definitely more resistant against impact than regular ABS made thin bills.

This unique bill also creates flashes that are well known to attract fish from Bass to Redfish, Trout or Pike. 

This lure suspends when paused so anglers can fish it fast or slow depending on the mood of the fish and stay in the strike zone. Complete with two sharp treble hooks and covered in a highly detailed paint job, the Loader Minnow is the most erratic and durable jerkbait currently available on the market.

Several videos about this lure: 

Loader Minnow presented to Tackle Warehouse

the Engage Loader Minnow

Loader Minnow 360 degrees view

ICAST Show 2021: Patrick Sebile's Loader Minnow

Buy this lure online:

Tackle Warehouse - Loader Minnow

After 2 years of pandemic and most public fishing shows canceled since early 2020, 2022 is bringing things back to normal.

Anglers are delighted to come back visiting popular shows across the country, where they can see new fishing lures and tackle presented to them by the brands or on display for sale at retailer's booths.

That is equally a great feeling for all the industry professionals who were eager to be back, boots on the ground and face to face with the many thousands avid anglers looking for a talk about a technique, a fishing tip, or buying the latest lure designed to be thrown at super long distance.

Since the show season got started, Patrick Sebile and the A Band Of Anglers crew have been on the road every week-end, demonstrating the range of 6 brands, 42 lures and more than 800 references to everyone interested - not only on pegs and explaining the techniques and uses for each model, but also thanks to TheMightyFish.com tank, in real action in the water, and through seminars.

The Bassmaster Classic in Greenville, Atlantic City Boat show, New England Saltwater Fishing Show in Rhode Island, Saltwater Fishing Expo in Edison have all been great, some beating previous attendance records!

Two more shows are to happen soon, the Connecticut Fishing & Outdoors show in Mohegan (March 25-27), and the Fishing Fest & Spring Hunt Event at Kittery Trade Post (April 2-3) where Patrick Sebile will appear to meet anglers. You are welcome!!

The Rota-Shad allows anglers to catch fish using our unique Rota-Move action. 

When jigged at the right cadence and amplitude, this twin lure rotates 360 degrees as long as the cadence continues, creating flash and swings while the angler gives a minimum jigging action to the rod tip - something both truly unique and very efficient especially when fish aren't active feeders. 

Very snagless thanks to hook points turned inward, this lure mimics 2 baitfish moving and feeding alike which creates a lot of water turbulence and a unique 3D visual effect that attracts fish from around, by simple curiosity or eagerness to eat such a prey. The Rota-Shad can be used in a wide range of situations from ice fishing, crappie fishing in brushes, walleye around a rock pile or suspended largemouth bass - and more. 

A few videos here below about this lure:

Rota-Shad presentation by Patrick Sebile

Rota-Shad on Monster Bass website & special video

Find the Rota-Shad on our website:

Rota-Shad range

The Dartspin™ Pro is a very versatile and advanced engineered soft plastic bait. 

Its body can be rigged many ways - on a weedless swimbait hook, jig head, Texas Rig, Carolina Rig, football jig, drop shot, inline treble hook, or a super strong and compact single hook for big fish - while the willow leaf blade adds flash and vibration. Great as a trailer bait on swimming jig, rubber jig, spinnerbait, buzzbait and others! 

In our Hyperlastics lures, the word "Pro" means the lure is hand painted, for a more realistic finish than injected colored soft plastics.

This is currently our best-selling model.

It can be used pretty much for all fish species from Bass to Tuna, and be fished as well in fresh and saltwater. It is made of long lasting Softough material.

A few videos here below about this lure:

Dartspin 7''

3 new Pro colors added to the Dartspin Pro range

how to rig Dartspin on Jigheads

how to rig Dartspin on Widegap hooks

Find the Dartspin on our website:

Dartspin range

Patrick Sebile is the only lure designer there to have 2 of his creations, through 2 different brands (A Band OF Anglers' Ocean Born & SEBILE Innovative Fishing) be part of this selection that also includes power house brands such as Shimano, Megabass or Savagear: 

"Ocean Born Flying Pencill

I credit Nick Honachefsky for this one.  The Fisherman’s NJ/DE Bay field editor handed me a couple of these heavyweight pencils in the fall which I left in the console of my truck.  During the fall into winter run at the Jersey Shore in 2021, there were multiple occasions when wheeling and diving birds over fish were just a tad out of reach for my favorite big woods; the 4-1/8-inch, 2-ounce Flying Pencill model 110SLD did the trick, making its way from console to plug bag for those distance casting situations.  No, it’s not a typo, the trademarked Flying Pencill with two L’s – for LONG distance I guess – has been engineered for longer casts, and can be worked on top with steady retrieve and twitched as you would a traditional pencil, but it also boasts a swimbait style action on slow or medium retrieved; the SLD model can also be jigged, making this a unique boat or beach offering that has a bit of versatility in many different situations you’re apt to encounter on the striper grounds.   –JH

Sebile Magic Swimmer

About a decade ago I wrote a story about regional striper lures, at the time, certain lures just stayed inside certain regions despite their effectiveness on stripers. In the decade since, social media has given anglers reach that would’ve been impossible at any other time in striper fishing history. As a result of our viral society, all of the methods I wrote about in that story have found mass appeal all over the coast. But there’s still one plug that doesn’t seem to get any play outside of the place where its ‘magic’ was discovered. The Sebile Magic Swimmer (now made by Berkley) went from oddball on the shop wall, to reputed striper slayer in a matter of a few weeks during the summer of 2008. That all happened in the Cape Cod Canal and it really hasn’t left the rocky embankments of the Big Ditch. Let me tell you, it works, everywhere stripers swim. Whether you’re crawling it through boulders in the night surf or ripping it at warp speed through a bunker blitz, the snakey-swim of this three-piece swimbait has convinced big stripers – inside and outside the Canal – to eat; and it’s not going to stop working any time soon. –DA"

read the full article on The Fisherman magazine march 2022 here.

At the height of the fall run, big schools of peanut bunker gathered off the east end of the Cape Cod Canal, where migrating striped bass and bluefish feasted for almost two full weeks. In this episode, Kevin Blinkoff and Chris Megan chase blitzing stripers and blues in Cape Cod Bay with lure designer Patrick Sebile. 

Watch "Fall Run Stripers and Bluefish | Cape Cod Bay" episode here

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The famous French magazine specialized in fishing travels included the news about our crowdfunding campaign (page 8) in its February/March 2022 issue (#151), as well as articles about new fishing tackle from A Band Of Anglers (page 22) and a big presentation about the strongest and meanest fish to catch in the World's waters for which they interviewed famous anglers including Patrick Sebile, who named 3 fish species (Pages 52-62):

Le Magazine des Voyages de Peche #151

"Patrick Sebile, fishing & tackle design legend, invites you to discover and invest in his new fishing lure company, A Band Of Anglers.

A Band Of Anglers designs and sells innovative fishing lures and tackle to catch more and bigger fish consistently. Our patent-pending technologies improve the swim action, performance, and durability of lures. We are tapping into a massive, growing community of anglers who are passionate about fishing who are eager for top quality, great fish-catching, fun to use, and innovative products."

To read the magazine click on link below:

The Angler Video Magazine February 2022 - pages 14/15

"French born Sébile, now a US citizen living in Florida, created ABOA after leaving Pure Fishing in 2017. He began his career in 1976, working with Mepps and Mister Twister, and then came to the fore by creating Sebile Innovative Fishing in 2004, selling the business to Pure Fishing in 2010.

During his career he has amassed 43 different IGFA world records, appeared on nearly 200 magazine front covers, written seven books and featured on numerous TV shows."

read the entire article here:

Sébile offers investment opportunity in A Band of Anglers

Ken Duke of Fishing Tackle Retailer Magazine features ABOA's StartEngine campaign in its print issue sent out on February 7.

"A Band of Anglers Is on StartEngine

Have you ever wanted to own a tackle company…or even just a small part of a tackle company? I’m not talking about a tackle shop, where you sell fishing products. Many of you reading this are already in that position. You’re the critical connection between manufacturers or distributors and consumers. I’m talking about owning a company that designs and manufactures fishing products that are then distributed to retail shops and eventually sold to anglers all over the world.

For most of us, owning part of a tackle company has not been a practical option…until now.

A Band of Anglers, Inc., the company started by legendary tackle designer Patrick Sébile, is looking for investors. ABOA is the parent company of Engage (core gear lures), Hyperlastics (soft plastic lures), Ocean Born (saltwater baits), Spooltek (concealed leader lures), and Up ‘N’ Down (vertical lures). It’s also the official distributor of Xorus lures in the Americas.

Sébile and his partners will be using the online crowdfunding platform StartEngine to gather capital for their continuing efforts. The global pandemic, supply chain issues, and other challenges have presented stumbling blocks for ABOA—and nearly every other tackle manufacturer—but they report a bright future with plenty of inventory available for 2022.

If you’re involved in the fishing tackle world, or even if you’re simply an avid angler, you’re already familiar with Patrick Sébile. He’s one of the most accomplished anglers and decorated tackle designers in the history of our sport. The French-born tackle pro (now a U.S. citizen living in Florida) has been inventing and creating fishing products since he was just eight years old. He created Sébile Innovative Fishing in 2004 and sold the company to Pure Fishing in 2010, working for the tackle giant until just a few years ago.

Sébile’s creations have won 24 major industry awards (in the U.S., Europe, and Australia) and have sold tens of millions of units worldwide. In 2007, he accomplished what many believed could never be done. He “swept” the lure awards at ICAST that year, winning both Best Hard Lure and Best Soft Lure. More recently, his Hyperlastics Dartprop Pro SK won Best Freshwater Soft Lure at ICAST 2020.

His skills as an angler have naturally informed his talents as a tackle designer. Sébile has caught 783 different species of sportfish in 71 different countries. He holds or held 43 different IGFA world records. He has appeared on the cover of nearly 200 different fishing publications and been featured in over 1,000. He has hosted or appeared as a guest on more than 200 television fishing programs, written seven books on fishing and authored more than 800 magazine articles.

If you think of most celebrity anglers, their renown is usually limited to one country. Sébile is truly a worldwide angling and tackle design star.

“A Band of Anglers was born of the passion I have for fishing,” Sébile explains, “but it’s not just my company. It’s something I want to share with other like-minded people who love the sport. Opening it up to investors of all levels and from all over the world is a natural next step, and I’m very excited about where it will take us on this journey.”

To get there, ABOA has enlisted the online services of StartEngine.com, a crowdfunding platform offering public access to private investments—like ABOA. If you’re familiar with Kickstarter, you may know it’s a crowdfunding platform for creative projects that offers nonmonetary rewards. With Kickstarter, patrons get no equity in the efforts they support.

But StartEngine, which launched in 2015, is different. Patrons are actual investors and get equity in the projects.

Kevin (“Mr. Wonderful”) O’Leary, the well-known investor and star of the television program “Shark Tank,” is a shareholder in StartEngine and a strategic advisor to the company.

A Band of Anglers is valued at $7,790,000 in this crowdfunding round with individual shares at $5 and a $200 minimum investment. Investors can access the ABOA offering on the site right now.

You can learn more about this investment opportunity on StartEngine.com. The site contains lots of information about the company, including reasons to invest, the size and prospective health of the sportfishing market, the intellectual property behind some of Sébile’s designs, and more.

It obviously remains to be seen if crowdfunding will be the path to the kind of financing that ABOA seeks, but if it works, two things are certain. First, other companies will try it. Second, it will help to revolutionize the way we look at and think about equity and ownership in the fishing tackle market.

Extraordinarily well-funded private equity firms have changed the outdoors and tackle industries in recent years, starting with YETI. Those kinds of investments and ownership structures have led to impressive growth, but often with the goal of “flipping” or re-selling the company to another private equity firm in three to five years. Crowdfunding of the type sought by ABOA may be a route for financing the large-scale production of tackle and giving small investors a stake in the operation without replacing the leaders, founders, and principals that started it.

ABOA believes that crowdfunding is the future of industry financing. What’s more, they like the fact that their investors will be building the brand and growing the business every time they catch a fish on or recommend a product made by ABOA.

Become a Shareholder of Patrick Sébile’s Fishing Tackle Company TODAY!      "

Here also is a direct link to this issue, see page 27:

https://online.fliphtml5.com/bejob/uaez/

It is my pleasure to announce that I promoted Barry Stockhaus to VP of Sales at A Band Of Anglers.

Barry and myself have been working together for the past 25 years through 4 different companies: Mepps/Mister Twister where we met first, then he became General sales manager of my previous company SEBILE, next like myself he joined Pure Fishing in 2010 and won the award of Salesman of the year - the worldwide most coveted award in the fishing tackle leading company -, and finally joined ABOA September 1st 2020. 

Time matters to build the best team to successfully grow a business, and given the great job Barry has done, it was just a natural fit for him to get his new title - and the responsibilities that goes with.