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Pats/other crankdown i can use thats loud about a foot or a few under the surface. Let it float up, pause, few twitches, then a fast crank down and they will normally hit it, or a slow wake. Try a long deadstick with a few twitches then a long deadstick. This time of year i almost primarily fish at night, they will be slamming topwater then seem to stop some days but it is mostly just they want it at a different speed, slower or faster. I've been throwing some hudds or jig like baits ill fish like I'm stroking a jig and get bit but I haven't hooked up on any of those because I am not the best soft bait fisherman.

youll learn to weed out the collectors, flippers and fisherman. probably already have. some individuals here buy em like they psyched to use em only to sell em for "funds that came up" when a lot of the time its bs when thats the excuse.

i mean they are probably one of the best glides on the market imo and im not a huge 316 guy, just such a versatile bait. the only ones that compete cost as much too, og 250's, hinkles.

glad to see you catching some fish. not bad at all

yes and no... he adds the plastic pads which decrease the amount of swing in the joint making it more of a glide bait rather than a 2 piece wake.

how you think i keep all them fire lyrics in my brain

Been testing a bait from a buddy on the forums mr Mike H. I was talking about how I had really been looking for a gill wake bait aside from a shellcracker and he showed me what he had and asked me for some fishin it and to get some indepth feedback and even tweak the bait if needed. Bait came and it looked amazing, great paint good knock to it, lexan tail similar to the wake jr or shellcracker style. What I love the most is its made of a hard foam material. On my first outing I got a few followers and a fish nose it without opening his mouth, the fish were interested. I noticed with how far apart the joints were and the tail section barely hard room for it move and clack like the wake jr, shellcracker, etc. This made the bait's tail have swim pretty much straight in the water with the lexan tail acting like a rudder of some sort. It swam great at a medium and fast retrieve, especially with its high float tune. Bait was meant for choppy water which it does great in. Can crank down about a foot maybe 2 on a burn with lighter hooks. I proceeded to make some changes as the bait didn't swim too well on a slow retrieve, the large gap in between the joint seemed to just catch water or air or something that didn't allow it to move and swing very well on a slower retrieve. After pulling the pin and tightening the screws a few different times next to the pool I found the right spacing for it to swim well at all retrieves, and the bait never blows out. Decided to try adding a soft tail too, made a small extra hole above the center one for the original lexan tail. Used a wade hogg tail, savage gear 8" trout tail, and then a cut down slammer tail, which is what I currently use on the bait and love it. The extra wobble at the end is great and it also takes a bit less clack out of the bait with the soft tail instead of that hard tail. I love how versatile it is, I can change to quads or 3x st56 to make it a low float, or leave on some lighter hooks for higher float. I can change the tail if i want more of a twitching bait when the nights are slow and thats how the fish want it, or if i want more clack. After all that I went out and tried it before work at an urban pond and a small nature pond behind it. Had a 2# fish or so guarding fry come right up to the bait multiple times and nipped at the tail but didnt care much. Went to the backpond to have a 3-4# fish I saw cruising blowup on it but not catch a hook, was pretty sweet. Took it out the next night for a late night session, 10:30pm-1:30am, full moon overhead, man it got munched, 8 blowups on it but none stuck or caught a hook long enough for me to even hookset or feel weight. The next night I tried again, same conditions but went earlier before the moon came up, 9:30-12:30 that night, and got on some decent-good fish, catching what I call my PB smallie, roughly 19-20" is my guess and it weighted 3.21 lbs. Was super pumped. Caught a lot more 2# smallies and 3-4.5# largies on her on a straight retrieve sometimes random twitches. The fish were so aggressive that they would almost unscrew the screw eyes to the hooks and I went home, took them out, dropped some gorrilla glue in each hole and around the base of the screws after i screwed them in and they are good to go! Here's some of the fish from that night, and hope to post some better ones soon. Just wait for more . got big plans for this bait.

no offense buddy. just not easy to to tell from these pics. its a good fish bud. tryna keep it positive...

2-3 . not a bad one bud. run it

Where around tahoe you catching bass at?!

Way to go Don!

i dig it.

No bass in Tahoe. Stampede Reservoir has a few smallies but theres little to know bass fishing in the area. Best bet would be trolling something on a downrigger DEEEEEP for big lakers at donner or tahoe.

Have only seen one post from you in Got 'em lol.

Try contacting Scott first, maybe he can help before you have to try and do it yourself. He has really good customer service.