Buzzbaits

[buckcreekmike]

As coldwaterfishr said Accent B2. I thought these used to be sold as a bass pro product, at least that is what I remember years back. You can run them extremely slow and they create a good ammount of noise and bubbles at a low speed. I tore up smallies in Canada with these.

[mic]

Yes, there is a chance that you can catch a fish by dangling a hook in the water but not a good chance. If I want to support the economy by paying $8 for a buzzbait that's my prerogative. After all, life's not just about saving a dime or spending one either.

Think I have the correct guy... Spoken by a guy that once used a million dollar machine to make perfect rubber crawdads for fishing.

[Greasy B]

Late last year I inventoried my buzz baits. Threw away old crappy baits replaced the skirts on a few and acquired a few new ones. I now have cheep baits, fancy new bait, baits that squeak and baits that don't. What I don't have is any success. I have one rigged up most every weekend and will continue to do so, not sure why.

[Seth]

Late last year I inventoried my buzz baits. Threw away old crappy baits replaced the skirts on a few and acquired a few new ones. I now have cheep baits, fancy new bait, baits that squeak and baits that don't. What I don't have is any success. I have one rigged up most every weekend and will continue to do so, not sure why.

That's about how I am anymore. Buzzbaits haven't produced that well for me this year but I just can't help but throw one in hopes that I get a big blow up from a lunker bass!

[Guest]

I catch my biggest creek bass every year from August thru October on a buzzbait.

Im worm fishing most of the time, but when the sun gets low, the buzzbait starts humming around.

Vvvrrrrrooooooommmm

[joeD]

Trust me, I have hundreds and hundreds of dollars in jerkbaits that I fish for two or three days in January on the White River. I am by no means immune to buying "stuff." Just saying, there is a complete and forceful industry that wants, no, requires us to buy their "stuff," so we can become better fishermen.

Thing is, the fish don't know that. They live in water. They'll hit a crude lure made in 1920 just as easily as a lure with 10 years of research behind it and manufactured with the latest state of the art materials.

Don't get me wrong. I am not advocating or espousing the theory that "the past was better."

While I quite agree that rods, reels, lines etc. improve on a regular, if not yearly, basis, I cannot say the same for lures, or the fishermen who use these lures. I have asked before, considering all "improvements" in fishing hardware and such, are we better fishermen now, than, say, 20 or 30 or 50 years ago?

Which brings us back to buzzbaits. Really, is one brand or style better than another?

If not, then what's the point?

(It's personal choice Joe, you dummy).

(Oh, Okay. True, Because, if something worked all the time, then there wouldn't be so may lures available, right?).

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[Mitch f]

Vvvrrrrrooooooommmm

How many times a day is the limit that your ears can take of that sound before they fill up.

[Guest]

Joe D,

My biggest was an 8lber caught out of the kings river in sept a few years back.

It was caught on a Herbs Dilly. It's an in line buzz bait with a spoon body vs a lead head.

There ancient, but I found a few online.

Honestly this $13 molix lover buzz is very similar but 3 times more expensive. It's a 1/2oz whereas the Dilly was a 5/8oz. The molix is slightly undersized in comparison but the hook is a 3/0 instead of the standard 4/0-5/0. So it should hook smaller fish that slap at the bait, but still stout enough to land a giant.

[Guest]

Don't get me wrong, I love the nostalgia of older tackle.

In fact, I prefer it over the new fangled stuff. I'm just looking for a bait that fills a need and performs under abuse.