How about this?

[jolicious]

Did someone say wake baits???

[Sore Thumbs]

I've got a Deps just like that. They make a ton of racket

[motoman]

12 hours ago, jolicious said:

Did someone say wake baits???

I love me some Buzzjets; but I tried a batch of knockoffs and they were a bust.........I must have gotten 10 duds.:-(.........they looked great; painted up nice.........but wouldn't perform anything like the Deps.:-(

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(Nice paint jobs on those also!:-)

[Bill Babler]

I have tried everything that this old boy can think of to make the Buckeye attractive to our TR lake bass, and have just not found a way to get it done.  It is fairly lite and throws ok, but the very wide slow wobble just does not get-er done here.  Yes, you can catch one a stick at times, but this bait no longer comes out of my box, and for that matter is now hanging in the shame on me area of my tackle room.

[rps]

I caught 1 fish in three serious tryouts - and those were days when they were taking other baits. I have 3 new to me baits I will try next year. One is the Spro BBZ1 rat, one is the Rapala wake minnow, and the last is a Megabass I Jack.

[Bill Babler]

1 hour ago, rps said:

I caught 1 fish in three serious tryouts - and those were days when they were taking other baits. I have 3 new to me baits I will try next year. One is the Spro BBZ1 rat, one is the Rapala wake minnow, and the last is a Megabass I Jack.

Refer  back to my upper bull shoals post on the Rat.  It is not an everyday topwater and it has to be fished dead slow, but it will for sure catch them.  Maybe a very good flooded shoreline bait and a cedar top bait.  Pricy, but effective.

[Quillback]

1 hour ago, Bill Babler said:

Refer  back to my upper bull shoals post on the Rat.  It is not an everyday topwater and it has to be fished dead slow, but it will for sure catch them.  Maybe a very good flooded shoreline bait and a cedar top bait.  Pricy, but effective.

I have a Rat or two, just never fished them that much as the Dog Walker and Plopper were working so well earlier this year.  I have to set aside some time for it once the TW bite gets going again, seems like it's a bait that ought to draw in a few big bites.

[m&m]

1 hour ago, Bill Babler said:

Refer  back to my upper bull shoals post on the Rat.  It is not an everyday topwater and it has to be fished dead slow, but it will for sure catch them.  Maybe a very good flooded shoreline bait and a cedar top bait.  Pricy, but effective.

Bill, I agree with your evaluation on the Rat and the flooded shoreline.

Mike

[Bill Babler]

Mike, it worked really well for me one day this summer on Middle Bull Shoals, when the water was in the bushes.  I just swam it from shore out and down the small lanes.  I had been throwing the Pooper, but they were just not having it and changed to the Rat.  Totally different action and just flat life like.  They hammered it.