AT A GLANCE

SPECS

LENGTH

68 mm

WEIGHT

8.0 g (#8 hooks) · 8.5 g (#6 hooks)

TYPE

Topwater pencil bait (one-knock rattle)

DEPTH

Surface

HOOK

BKK SPEAR-21SS #8 · FANGS-62 UA #6

A-PEN 68

Name: ADUSTA A-PEN 68
Brand: ADUSTA

From Lake Biwa to Osaka Bay: a one-knocker pencil bait that works in any field.

EFTTEX 2026 Best New Product Award · Hard Lure

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COLORS

COLOR 016

TERMINATOR (BONE)

PERFORMANCE

ACTION & DESIGN

A one-knock sound that carries over 50 metres

To produce a loud sound from a small body, ADUSTA specially designed the metal materials inside. A tungsten ball collides with a larger steel ball, producing a hard, high-pitched metallic click: the loudest single-knock sound of any material combination ADUSTA tested.

That sound lets you search wide stretches of shallow water and pull predators up to the surface from deeper water.

Long-distance casting with a weight-transfer system

A large tungsten rattle ball keeps the A-PEN 68 flying in a straight line without wobbling, so you can reach fish far beyond the range where they would notice you.

The mechanism that creates the one-knock sound doubles as a weight-transfer system. At the moment of the cast the balls sit at the rear, maximising centrifugal force and initial speed; in flight they shift to the centre, stabilising the lure's posture all the way to the target.

Pinpoint accuracy, even on a baitcaster

In topwater fishing, accuracy decides everything. With its centre of gravity towards the rear during a sidearm cast, the A-PEN 68 follows a stable trajectory and lands exactly where you aim. Its high specific gravity, 8 g in a 68 mm body, makes precise casts possible even with a baitcasting reel.

Dog-walking and skating in one pencil

Walk-the-dog when you know where the fish are, or skate it to cover wide shallow flats. Advanced anglers can use half-twitches to steer it like a baitfish cornered against cover, or trigger intentional dives and panic actions that mimic small fish scattering under a boil.

Two hook sets: bass and saltwater

The A-PEN 68 comes rigged with BKK SPEAR-21SS #8 trebles for bass fishing. A second set, the larger and highly corrosion-resistant BKK FANGS-62 UA #6, is included in the package, so you can switch to saltwater and black sea bream (chinu) topwater fishing straight out of the box.

DEVELOPMENT

FIVE YEARS IN THE MAKING

Downsizing a legend without compromise

The A-PEN 90 is defined by its legendary casting distance and its high-pitched one-knock sound. Downsizing it while keeping all of its strengths proved far more difficult than ADUSTA imagined: simply shrinking the body makes a lure that cannot be cast on a baitcasting reel.

The goal was pinpoint accuracy to hit the tightest spots, an aggressive presence that provokes predators into striking, and casting distance that defies its size. Achieving all of this without compromise took five years of development. The result is not just a smaller A-PEN, but an ultra-light one-knocker engineered for baitcasting tackle.