Is it a new idea?
Short answer
No. Suspending and floating soft plastics have existed for decades.
In detail
What is new is the tournament-level use of a neutral compound on a finesse bait, which is the point at which a material becomes a category order.
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Part of the product record Neutral buoyancy soft plastics: the material trend behind the 2027 baits (Neutral buoyancy). The record carries the tables this answer is drawn from, the fields a factory needs before quoting, and an explicit list of what has not been verified.
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Sources 5 cited
- Neutral Buoyancy Bass Baits Could Be The Next Trend, Bass Lake Roadhouse, 2026-09-05
- Why All The Hate For Forward-Facing Sonar?, Wired2Fish
- Tackle trends and forward-facing sonar, Bassmaster
- UN Comtrade — China export statistics under HS 9507, 2023-2024 (retrieved from the official API)
- Harmonized System heading 9507 (rods, hooks, reels, lures) — US HTS lookup
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