The DTX Minnow is a revolution in trolling minnows, featuring the Nomad Autotune, Diamond Armor, Gorilla Through Wire and Hydrospeed advanced design technology.

The DTX Minnow is a revolution in trolling minnows, featuring the Nomad Autotune, Diamond Armor, Gorilla Through Wire and Hydrospeed advanced design technology. Deep, fast, straight guaranteed. The DTX Minnow has raised the bar in trolling minnow performance and features the Patented Autotune System.

The unique body shape design, creates a distressed baitfish swimming action and the concealed Hydrospeed belly eyelet, allows faster trolling speeds, than conventional tow points. Combined with the Nomad designed Autotune tow point and bib system, this lure just keeps swimming deep, straight, and true, first time every time, no matter how many bites it takes.

The Autotune system was designed over years of testing, by Damon Olsen and is a revolution in lure technology, that will be applied to all deep diving lures across the Nomad range into the future. The Autotune design provides for 2 key features maximum diving depth and the ability to ensure the lure always swims straight.

Bibbed minnows have traditionally been made with an eyelet fixed into the bib of the lure. It is impossible to control the manufacturing process, to ensure that this fixed eyelet design is always perfectly centered and the fixed wire eyelet is not bent. Therefore, virtually every type of bibbed minnow made with a fixed wire eyelet in the bib, will occasionally either not swim straight out of the box, or will fail to swim straight after one, or a few fish. The eyelet is either not straight to start with, or becomes distorted during use. The Autotune system developed by Nomad Design has eliminated this problem. The design eliminates problems during manufacturing and ensure that no matter how many fish you catch, the lure will keep swimming straight. During testing Nomad Design had lures that had caught over 50 fish and had been worn through from Wahoo and Dogtooth teeth to the point of the lure body filling with water, but the lure kept swimming perfectly.

The DTX Minnow with Autotune will always swim straight, first time and every time, no matter how many fish you catch.

The other key feature of the Autotune system is the amazing diving depth that can be achieved. The ability of the system to perfectly centre itself every time on the bib, means that the tow point can be designed to be as far back on the bib, as possible, effectively just forward of the point where the lure becomes unstable and wont swim. However, having the tow point as close to this point of not swimming is what achieves maximum diving depth, but it can only be done with a perfectly centered tow point. Traditional fixed eyelet trolling lures are unable to position the tow point this far back on the bib and have to allow room for error in the manufacturing process.

The DTX 165mm Minnow can be trolled at speeds up to 12kn and will reach a depth of 9m, when trolled at 6-8 knots with the ideal leader and rigging. Ideal for the toughest predatory fish like Tuna, Wahoo, Mackerel and Mahi Mahi, the DTX Minnow is your first choice in Bluewater trolling lures.

Key Features of the DTX Range

• Autotune System Technology – Developed over years of R&D, the Patented Autotune System gives the lure the ability to perfectly centre itself at the tow point, delivering 3 key benefits, the ability to ensure the lure always swims straight, increasing diving depth and increased troll speed
• Hydrospeed Belly Eyelet The concealed tow point allows the lure to be trolled much faster than a conventional lure.
• HD ABS System – An extra strong white plastic, for overall strength and durability
• Diamond Armour – Internal mesh system, for transparent colours, with clear ABS, designed to dramatically increase strength. The internal diamond mesh grid pattern, creates an internal framework to strengthen the body of the lure, making it far less likely to be crushed, or cracked by large predators.
• Gorilla Through Wire – This through wire system has the wire bend around a set of extra plastic supports internally, making the wire less likely to separate from the lure body, and ensuring ultimate strength. The through wire is also welded at both ends, to ensure you never lose that big fish.
• Terminal – Heavy duty BKK hooks and terminals

Technical Characteristics

• Length: 16.5 cm
• Weight: 92g
• Depth: 9m
• Action: Deep Diving
• Hooks: BKK 7/0 Inline Singles
• Uses: Trolling 3-12kn