Avalonjohn44

I'm stumped. I'm searching google and ebay, and finding nothing.

LOL. When they are schooling, my cousins and I used to catch them on nothing but a hook with a piece of surgical tubing on it in south jersey. Some days we would catch and release a hundred bluefish.

My favorites are 'Tanago', Cracked Limetreuse, and they have a dark Midnight blue that is very cool. I just got the Ito Tennessee Shad, which is similar to the Tanago color, but with more yellow. Can't wait to chuck it in.

I have three packs of the 4.75 inch baits, but haven't used them yet. They are almost too pretty to drive a hook thru... Anyone used them yet? How are they? How is the durability? How do you like to rig them?

All are expertly done and beautiful. All will catch fish. If you want some that will Slay the bass, get the Cyclone Crank bait. One of my top 5 all time favorite lures.

I didn't know they had a swim bait, but I have used their soft jerkbaits, their Charm Assassin Trick Worm style baits, and their Eager Beavers. I swear by the charm assassin. It is a great floating worm, like a trick worm with one tapered end. I fish it a bunch of ways (t-rigged, weightless, and shaky), and have had some great success on it.

I usually rig mine weightless with a wide gap hook, with the point exposed. I find that on a fluke I miss a lot if I bury the point of the hook. I like to fish it in a bunch of ways but my favorite is to walk it just below the surface for a while, then just let it drop, all the way to the bottom. I get most of my strikes on the fall, or after I lift it off the bottom again. My favorite color is shad/alewife which is gray with a dark back.

Has anyone had problems with the eyes falling off? I haven't opened mine, but if they are like the King Shad, then they eyes are glued with some really poor glue.

Cultiva Tango Dancer in Chrome/Blue Cavitron Buzzbaits Megabass Anthrax Bagley Bang-O #5 Spintail Heddon Torpedo (the big one, not the tiny torpedo unless you want to catch 400 sunfish)

The ones I stocked up on a few years ago sink fast because of the bulky leadhead on them. I file it down so I can get a slower retrieve. I also lose a tiny bit of weight by removing those very annoying wire weed guards. It helps, and has not hurt casting distance too badly.

Very odd bait, I've never seen it before but it reminds me of (though I know it's not...) the Anthrax... I like your white-out job on the pic.

I heard that it turns invisible the moment you put it in water.

Never heard of that one... Must resist the monkey...

I find them at Gander and BPS. Gander has the Yamamoto version, and BPS carries the Kinami Version called the Palm Tree, but it is the exact same lure, just different packaging. Gary Yamamoto let his son clone the bait and put his name on them, but they are identical.

I love Cavitrons also. I also have a black and red Booyah that just rocks. Other booyahs suck for me though... I am really partial to inline buzzbaits like the Uncle Bucks one with a bucktail skirt. I think for quantity the inline is best, but for big ones, the traditional buzzbait is best.

Wow, all I can say is good work. Yup, a cooper loor bubble frog. Some people called them Cooper Loopers... I got one a few months ago as part of an ebay auction, and have only just found out what it was. I think I'm gonna put it in a case... Was it the clue, or did you already know about the lure? Do you have any good links further identifying it? Oh, and it's your turn!

Things I do that I thought up: -I use a sharpie on a lot of my cheaper cranks, sometimes just add a red lateral line or a gill. -I have used a nail polish sharpie to put eyes on the bottom of a couple of johnson spoons. I stole this idea from a TV show. -I carve notches from the backs of a zoom super flukes with a razor blade to make the back tail wobble. -I have melted square lipped crankbait bills to point down to make a shallow bait into a wake bait. Things I do, or plan to do, from reading here: -I plan on coloring a couple of my clear crankbait lips blue, there was a post on it recently. -I have sliced the ends of a senko to give it a slightly different quiver (it didn't seem to matter). -And now I'll add a split ring to a spoon.

I was getting worried that nobody was paying attention... No sir. I could not find this lure on google, but finally found it on ebay a few days ago... It was listed With a Lazy Ike lure, and the pair went for about $30... I emailed the guy that won, and he filled me in on the lure's name/history/etc...

If you're talking Senko Style, then Pumpkin Seed, if you're talking Bang-O lure/Rapala Long Floater, then I like the good old black shad pattern.

I'm a cranker, so I would throw a big balsa square lipped bait up against all of that wood. Then work it over with something slower on a texas rig, or even a weightless soft plastic.

I don't find the gunfish to be the easier of the walking baits. The sammy is good, but expensive. For cost and quality I like the Cultiva/Owner Tango Dancer. Great looking bait (very similar in look to the sammy), it has owner hooks, and you'll save $5. They crop up on Ebay fairly frequently.

Go to Walmart and buy 1 Bandit footloose 1 Bandit 100, 1 Bandit 200, and 1 bandit 300. 4 cranks for under $20, 4 different depth ranges, they are great baits, and you'll have enough left over for a soda and candy bar up at the register...

Wow, no guesses? I'll give you a hint then, part of the lure's name includes the word 'lure' though they spell it 'Loor'...

Awesome, thanks!

That technique is one of the reasons horny toads are cool. Over all, I like other frog/toad baits better (cane toad, sizmic toad), but only the horny toad has that quick gliding descent that looks like how a real frog dives. It is almost kind of like the action that was promised with the flying lure, only in this case it works... I get more fish on the glide with a horny toad than I do buzzing it...