swimbape Posted August 2, 2018 Report Share Posted August 2, 2018 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. carlsbadbassin89 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cascadekiller Posted August 2, 2018 Report Share Posted August 2, 2018 (edited) damn you got a big head Edited August 2, 2018 by cascadekiller Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swimbape Posted August 2, 2018 Author Report Share Posted August 2, 2018 44 minutes ago, cascadekiller said: damn you got a big head how you think i keep all them fire lyrics in my brain cascadekiller 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bassbass Posted August 2, 2018 Report Share Posted August 2, 2018 That bait looks nice Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoshPerkins802 Posted August 2, 2018 Report Share Posted August 2, 2018 Well i read the whole thing. Just to say i did. Its cool you used so many different tails. And that the ROF can be adjusted so easily. Wonder how it would do in different temps. Cool bait. And even better fish. Congrats on PB Smallie! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike h Posted August 2, 2018 Report Share Posted August 2, 2018 Great feedback. Thanks for the help getting it dialed in. I’ll be working on a soft tail for it. Seems to be the right combo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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