Daiwa T.D. Minnow 1053SP

Japan Market Find - sourced directly by Wilder's Fishing & Supply Co. from the Japanese tackle market during a sourcing trip in 2026.

Specifications

• Length: 50mm
• Weight: 3.2g (1/8 oz.)
• Type: Finesse Jerkbait
• Action: Tight Quick-Return / Rattle
• Buoyancy: Suspending
• Dive Depth: 1.2–1.8m (4–6 ft.)
• Hooks: Original Trebles

Condition Notes

• Lure: mint
• Packaging: near mint - showing some minor signs of aging and handling marks

Description

The T.D. Minnow 1053SP is the smallest and most refined model in Team Daiwa's legendary TD Minnow series - a 50mm suspending minnow specifically developed to target bass that suspend above weeds and structure, using a weight oscillating system to deliver outstanding casting distance in an ultralight package. On a pump retrieve it suspends in 2–3 metres of water, and the packaging instructs anglers to concentrate carefully during the pause - as bites most often come at the moment the lure stops. Its tight, quick-return action performs best in clear water and has made it equally celebrated as a trout bait across Japan's crystal-clear mountain streams and rivers. Produced at Daiwa Seiko Co., Ltd.'s Higashikurume, Tokyo facility and discontinued after a production run that established the TD Minnow as one of Japan's most consequential suspending minnow platforms - predating and directly influencing the genre of finesse suspending jerkbaits that would dominate Japanese bass fishing for the following two decades.

The A-1 colourway occupies the first position in the TD Minnow 1053SP's original colour sequence - confirmed by product code 04815255 as the flagship colour of the series - presenting a chrome body with vivid blue lateral stripe detailing and a green dorsal, imitating the holographic, metallic flank colouration of a small Japanese river baitfish in the manner of the chrome-sided baitfish patterns that have proven consistently effective across Japan's clear-water bass and trout fisheries.