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The Daiwa Salt Conch Jig is also not offered anymore, says Curt Arakawa, of Daiwa.

Rapala owns Williamson Lures, as well as a number of other fishing brands. Dan Quinn, of Rapala, confirmed that the Raku and Ebi jigs from Williamson Lures are no longer available. Two top manufacturers discontinued production of their slow-style jigs in 2014. After all, the two cephalopods startle predators by changing colors with their special pigment cells. The wacky colors and skirts likely mimic squid or octopus. The color schemes all seem to mimic the Hypercolor T-shirts of the late ’80s that changed color in the sun. The Warbaits Warblade might be the exception - it incorporates a willow blade and a weed guard. Each has a heavy head and some sort of skirted body, and many are rigged with a pair of trailing J-hooks. But there are definite similarities with each of these slow baits. Jigs like the Lucanus, Braid’s Sea Fox and Thumper Squid, Salt Life’s Big Eye Salty, Warbaits Warblade, and Toro Tamer’s Soft Tako all have unique features. Sea bass chew on the tentacles of the baits, slowly making their way up the bait - those small hooks are never detected.” “The small hooks on jigs like the Shimano Lucanus were designed for highly pressured species. “The styles came over from Japanese ­commercial fishermen,” says Doug Rusch, a Shimano sales representative in Asbury, New Jersey.