Anyone Tried One Of These Before? Realis Spinbait 60

[JDM]

DUO is actually building a new finesse technique around Realis Spinbait 80 called "Spybaiting - Silent Capture".

You can see the basics on

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOpBKi9788Q
 

[Old plug]

Nice ad but I know what brings the fish to the bait is the surface action. The concept is nothing new. I build my own on a lathe. They or made from eith light cedar are made from either light cedar or dark cedar. Only paint they have is a couple of coats of poly to shed the water. On eye no fancy colors. They work.

[Al Agnew]

The difference in this bait from the typical prop bait is that it isn't a topwater. It would be interesting to see how well the "spybaiting" technique, which is basically just reeling it slowly near the bottom, attracts fish compared to a swim bait, or swimming a grub, but I'd still be concerned about losing a lot of lures that way. I'm just guessing, but I think that a more suitable technique for Ozark streams would be to reel it a lot more quickly and keep it up close to surface, like a wake bait. I could see that working well as long as that subtle wobbling action doesn't disappear at faster retrieve speeds.

[Old plug]

Al I have never paid $12 for single lure in my life. I am not about to either. I do not believe this thing is some kind of magic. I was told as a young boy when I got all worked up over some lure I seen in Sports Afield that you can catch fish on about anything. I have seen it done. I myself have caught a few bass on a bare hook. I was dragging it over the bottom of clearwater lake in back of a heavy weight searching for hidden brush piles. This was in the days before electronics. They were thinking the hook was part of something to eat crawling over the bottom. Some people fish for fish but I think a lot of people fish for fishermen. The design off this thing makes it appear as very easy to snag up.

[Al Agnew]

I gotta admit I get a kick out of it when people say they'd never spend X number of dollars for a lure. Most, who wouldn't spend $12 for a lure that they'd probably get several years of use from, won't hesitate to spend several dollars a pack for soft plastics which they'll go through several packs in a day if that's what the fish are hitting. Take Senkos, for instance. $7-8 for a pack of ten, and I've watched guys go through two or three packs of them a day. Or Superflukes...$4 for a package of ten at Cabelas, and I've gone through two packs a day when that's what the bass were biting on. For a year I kept all the torn up ones, planning on melting them and re-molding them to make curly tail spinnerbait trailers. Ended up with a minnow bucket about half full of them. Probably close to $100 worth of them in that bucket for one year's fishing.

But I agree with you on this one...unless you fish from some kind of boat and will always fish this lure up close to the surface, you probably won't get several years of use out of it. But I don't mind spending the money for a Sammy that I'll probably wear the paint off of before I lose it, and then I'll just repaint it. Or a Pointer, because you don't lose them very often and they work so well for their intended use. But I won't spend the money for a high dollar deep diving crankbait, because I WILL lose it at some point.

[Old plug]

Yeah i gt about $75 bucks worth of plastic worms right now in my locker.

[RSBreth]

I agree with Al on the cost of plastics vs. hardbaits - but there's another factor - rigging time versus fishing time. I'd rather be throwing a floating minnow bait like a Flat Rap or Rogue Jr. than be constantly re-rigging or changing out torn up flukes. Sometimes the fish don't want anything but the plastics, but if they hit a hard bait I'd rather being throwing it - just more casts in front of more fish.

[Ham]

Doodle socking is a hoot! I think I still have a pole rigged for it. I've been thinking about an Ozark smallie doodle socking trip.

Of note, the Spin Bait are said to fish best on line < 6 lb. soooo you're gonna fish a $13 bait on 6 pound line. Let me know how that goes.

I'm sure it works. I'm sure it will work on TR and BSL. I'm not sure I'm gonna fish it.

[Al Agnew]

I agree with Al on the cost of plastics vs. hardbaits - but there's another factor - rigging time versus fishing time. I'd rather be throwing a floating minnow bait like a Flat Rap or Rogue Jr. than be constantly re-rigging or changing out torn up flukes. Sometimes the fish don't want anything but the plastics, but if they hit a hard bait I'd rather being throwing it - just more casts in front of more fish.

Good point.

[Al Agnew]

Doodle socking is a hoot! I think I still have a pole rigged for it. I've been thinking about an Ozark smallie doodle socking trip.

Of note, the Spin Bait are said to fish best on line < 6 lb. soooo you're gonna fish a $13 bait on 6 pound line. Let me know how that goes.

I'm sure it works. I'm sure it will work on TR and BSL. I'm not sure I'm gonna fish it.

Yep, I agree with you there. At least when the old timers doodle socked, they used heavy braided line!

Oh well, if these things take off, I'll just have to make my own like I did with the Subwalks, and see if I can improve upon the idea.