Lure ID help!

[Hawg]

I found this lure a while back. I put new hooks on it and it turned out to be an absolute fish catcher. I put the red paint on it under the eyes. 
 

I have no idea what it is. There's a bunch of look-alikes. It sinks relatively fast doesn't have very good action, but give it a twitch and they hammer it. I used it recently and caught a bunch of huge bluegill crappy at a neglected farm pond and huge bass came up and smacked it while I was pulling it out of the water wrapped around a branch and broke me off. The color is slightly purple, even though it looks gray in the pictures.

 

I estimated to be about 2 1/4 inches or between 55 and 60 mm.

 

 

[Lvn2Fish]

[Lvn2Fish]

Just now, Lvn2Fish said:

First thought was an older XPS bait . Looks like it’s an Ozark Trail . The color listed in the image is wrong though . 

[Hawg]

35 minutes ago, Lvn2Fish said:

First thought was an older XPS bait . Looks like it’s an Ozark Trail . The color listed in the image is wrong though . 

lol I looked for 2 hours and forgot about Wally World. That's it!. The one I used was good at least.
 

With mass production lures I'm guessing I should buy five to increase my chances of finding a good'n heh.

 

Thanks!

[tjm]

Maybe five and maybe fifty to find another great lure.

It may be the only one of that model that does catch fish like that, I once had a  Rapala that simply caught fish anytime that I use  it a dozen species from sunfish to pike, never tied it on that it didn't take a fish almost immediately. Eventually I lost it and none of the couple dozen that I bought of the same model and color ever worked as well.

I think that some times it's the imperfect lures that work. Mine may have had the lip on crocked or the hooks placed slightly off center, or something else odd that caused it to be so effective. I'll never know but if all that  model worked like that one did, it would be the only lure used.

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1 hour ago, Lvn2Fish said:

irst thought was an older XPS bait .

That’s what I thought too.   I had a vision 110 like that.  It just flat out caught fish that other ones didn’t.   
 

A big wig at Ping told me golf pros would hit up to 10-15 different drivers to get “the one”.  Sometimes more.   He said out of 10 drivers 2 are great, 2 are poor and 6 are somewhere in between.  Relative to each other.  Even though theoretically they should be identical.  

[Hawg]

1 hour ago, tjm said:

Maybe five and maybe fifty to find another great lure.

It may be the only one of that model that does catch fish like that, I once had a  Rapala that simply caught fish anytime that I use  it a dozen species from sunfish to pike, never tied it on that it didn't take a fish almost immediately. Eventually I lost it and none of the couple dozen that I bought of the same model and color ever worked as well.

I think that some times it's the imperfect lures that work. Mine may have had the lip on crocked or the hooks placed slightly off center, or something else odd that caused it to be so effective. I'll never know but if all that  model worked like that one did, it would be the only lure used.

I gave up on collecting the old imperfect wiggle warts. Prices are too crazy now. Those Spro Rock Crawler 55s work well in every color I've used so far but one...