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Anyone have any opinions on this bait. Seems like this one is extremely hard to get your hands on and I think this may be a great bait for these florida cold snaps. It seems the hyper herring could be used like a giant jerk bait and thats exactly what i'm looking for. Pointers and megabass are too small for my liking.

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I had one, sold it to Greg Ross and now wish I still had it. I had the SS model and I was not as experienced as I am now. I was unable to find applications for it without fear of losing it.

 

That is not the case now and would LOVE to have that bait back, especially for the price I sold it to him.

 

I think the bait sinks a little too fast to be used as a big jerbait, honestly. If you could weight a floater HH, that would likely serve you better to get that suspending action.

 

Not a huge review, but hope that helps some.

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Speedbead,

appreciate the info man! I wasn't sure how fast it sinks, I'm trying to gather information from the video on 316. It looks like the bait has a tighter wiggle to it which I really like as sometimes that kills em around here for me. I also liked the erratic action when jerked. I was thinking of some areas I fish that that technique with longer pauses as it sinks (maybe too fast now as you said) would get crushed. Can't blame you for not throwing it where you could get hung up.

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I have done really well on this bait.. Have caught 2 of my top five fish on this bait.. I have the slow sink, floater and fast sink. I have two different Billed models in the sink rate,

 

The Slow sink..

I cast it out, count it down and slow retrieve.. it stays at the depth you started reeling most of the cast (until you crank it up towards the boat) In the spring I was getting a lot of bites on the slow sink around structure and deflecting it off submerged stuff like a rock wall in one lake (this has produced multiple 5s) and submerged timber in another (this has produced a 6+) I don't do anything fancy with the retrieves, these bites are bone shaking like the fish is hungry and wants to eat it (as opposed to enticing the bite by erratic flashes)

Both LM and Smallies have pounded this bait. There is a much better stick then I in Seattle area that pounded the crap out of football sized smallies with this bait.. (Can't remember his name right now)

 

The fast Sink

Was a killer for me last year (10) in the fall and winter.. I would beam it out, let it sink to the bottom and work it back dragging on the bottom.. Again nothing special on the retrieve.. just a super slow grind and snapping the rod tip up when it hits something on the bottom.. Poked a nice pig for that lake off a deep shell bed crawling this bait.. The other guys were out fishing me on the same bed with c-rigs and deep cranks, but I caught the lunker and maybe the biggest one they have seen caught out of this lake at the time.

 

Floater..

Killer for working over early season submerged weed beds or structure.. I like cranking it down, twitching it and then letting it float almost back up and cranking it down again.. I have had fish taco this bait when cranked down (like cranking down a Slammer)

 

One of my favorite baits from Mickey for sure..

 

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Wow, Nice fish for up north! The hyper herring looks legit! I have so many places and techniques I want to try this bait. :lol: Dont know if I'll drag the bottom with it though! Even if I had an army of them, it's too bad because it's a successful technique! Also I've noticed alot of gators in the area I'm at sitting on the bottom in about 4-7 fow and I'd hate to have one of them snatch it.

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Wow, Nice fish for up north! The hyper herring looks legit! I have so many places and techniques I want to try this bait. :lol: Dont know if I'll drag the bottom with it though! Even if I had an army of them, it's too bad because it's a successful technique! Also I've noticed alot of gators in the area I'm at sitting on the bottom in about 4-7 fow and I'd hate to have one of them snatch it.

 

Like real gators or Muskie/Pike (they work on the Pike and Muskie as well) I have fished this bait with both 80lb seagur floro leader and the TyGer knottable leader and have not seen any real action loss..

 

Just bring at least 2 lure hounds out with you.. you will get them back..

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Do you think the bill of the bait deflects off rocks,wood, and other snags keeping the hooks from snagging better than an non billed bait? I've had a heavy floater BA snag on rock then I give it slack and it just floats and pops lose.

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Do you think the bill of the bait deflects off rocks,wood, and other snags keeping the hooks from snagging better than an non billed bait? I've had a heavy floater BA snag on rock then I give it slack and it just floats and pops lose.

 

Yes I think you get a second from when it hits something to lift the rod up to get the bait over it.. whole submerged Trees suck in the baits and are the hardest to get back, but that is where the 6'r came from... I have also snapped the bill setting into bessy only to realize it was the top of the rock wall.. with a hard bottom and the typical structure I'm usually able to work it over the stuff... unless my hips don't listen to my brain and I set the hook when the baits hits something (other then a bite) and I bury into the stump or tree trunk..

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Real Gators, this area I'm in holds some giants, not california giants but def some DD bass. It's so infested with gators I'm surprised there's even bass in there. At least where I've caught bigger bass seems to be less occupied by gators.

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Real Gators, this area I'm in holds some giants, not california giants but def some DD bass. It's so infested with gators I'm surprised there's even bass in there. At least where I've caught bigger bass seems to be less occupied by gators.

 

 

Damn... use a net.. wouldn't want to be slow lipping a basskie only to have my hand bit off.

 

Are you fishing FL? Don't they have a big golden shinner bit down there? I know there are some HH in golden shinner

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Yes, south Florida. True, I never lip bass here, never know what's lurking beneath!! If there small I lift them into the boat with my rod, actually all of them I do this, unless it looks like a BIG BASS I don't care if they fall off. I guess, I should find out what a 15 pounder looks like in real life.

 

Alot of people use live shiners here I think? on guided trips?? I have never tried this myself but it seems some big bass are caught this way.

 

That HH is an elusive bait, either there is not many out in hands of people, or they are good at keeping it on the down low!!

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Wow, Nice fish for up north! The hyper herring looks legit! I have so many places and techniques I want to try this bait. :lol: Dont know if I'll drag the bottom with it though! Even if I had an army of them, it's too bad because it's a successful technique! Also I've noticed alot of gators in the area I'm at sitting on the bottom in about 4-7 fow and I'd hate to have one of them snatch it.

 

Like real gators or Muskie/Pike (they work on the Pike and Muskie as well) I have fished this bait with both 80lb seagur floro leader and the TyGer knottable leader and have not seen any real action loss..

 

Just bring at least 2 lure hounds out with you.. you will get them back..

 

A few years ago I had a 11 Northern Pike summer day in CT working the HH like a jerkbait and also know a Mass Cape LM guy that caught a early spring LM that was 8lbs even. Great bait.......

80lb crimped seagur floro leader with 65-80lb braid is my set-up for the Pike.

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Do you think the bill of the bait deflects off rocks,wood, and other snags keeping the hooks from snagging better than an non billed bait? I've had a heavy floater BA snag on rock then I give it slack and it just floats and pops lose.

 

 

i fish it in the kelp and the thing is almost as weedless as a swim jig because the bill hits whatever it runs into and lifts the back of the bait up and over what would snag it. It has extreme drawing power on a straight retrieve because of how much water the bill pushes. Definitely a great bait that's sort of a sleeper to many.

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