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Hah....nah my fishing is certainly not THAT bad.

Hmmm...this has me thinking now. I wonder how a rattlesnake worm would look on this rig.... I wonder what it would be like, if you scaled it up, using a heavier jig, and something like the tail end of a 7" senko..... I wonder what it may be like using a chunk of the Zoom mag finesse worm.... I wonder if I were to put an egg in the ground, would I grow an eggplant.... Hmmm

I put all my hooks in a styrofoam cup, and with a magic marker, I write on the side of it - "Hooks"

My newer deep crank that Im liking is the 6th Sense 250 md. But its more like medium-deep, rather than you know, deep-deep. But, great bait.

Are you using topographical maps for the reservoirs that you fish at?

Refresh my memory...what all are you defining as "useful structure?"

Yeah....I agree also.

Ok, so the question is something like this......You cast a certain bait, retrieve it.....Bam, you catch a fish....bringing it in, then he jumps, and throws your bait, fish is lost. What do you do next? Do you cast the same bait in the hopes he'll grab it again? Do you cast something different? Is it just pointless to try and get that fish back onto the hook, a second time? Bear in mind, this is not a "missed strike." This is a caught fish that throws the hook.

Ok, well since we have disagreements going on here, let us know what you thought about them.

Perhaps we all should. Then we can all see and compare.

Well....these were on a weighted swimbait hook. They were the same.

I just went down to the pond to test them both again just to make sure, and the results were the same. I saw no difference at all between the two brands, even at the slowest of retrieve speeds. Even at a dead fall, and as well at a slow bottom crawl.

Well, I cant imagine what youre seeing that's different than mine.

I surely did...and yes, even at ultra slow speeds, the Tail Slapper still matched the Keitech nicely. Even for the 4.8 size.

I just tested these two(4.8) in the water today, side by side, and let me tell ya... Yes indeed....the Tail Slapper is absolutely every bit of an equal to the Keitech Fat swing impact. It performs just as good, or rather, great, with more durability and nearly half the price. With these, I will probably never buy another Keitech Fat again, unless the Tail Slapper doesn't have the color Im looking for.

It was just a graphite framed, reel from a Pinnacle Extant combo I got at Dicks two years ago. Its been getting the job done, but it is entirely outclassed by this Lews reel. Honestly its probably outclassed by most reels.

Compared to my old crappy reel....this thing is a monster. Sure everything about it is great, smooth, nice, and all other forms of positive adjectives. yadda yadda yadda BUT what caught my attention was this....I step down to the pond, to test it out by casting a frog. I go to cast, and well, this 'machine' unexpectedly used what was my normal cast swing, and flung that frog all the way across the pond until it splat down well up onto the opposite bank. I mean dude, that frog got fluunnnggg. Whoa.....my older reel never did THAT before. Im gonna need to start fishing this pond length-wise. Good reel.

3/8oz...better bouyancy. Basically the same thing everyone else has said.

Really? How so? Ive never seen any of my chatterbait/Magic Shad rigs do anything that looks like "Swimming wide." Im having difficulty visualizing this.

Agreed....They have a lot of products that that I like, including the Fin-S Fish, Swim-fish, Grubster, Ribster, Swimming Ribster, Hellgie, all in varieties that will satisfy everything from panfish to big game saltwater fish. I haven't given the SLuggos a good try yet, but I do like the 4.5" Sluggos as a good shiner immitation.

Yeah Ive used the Magic shad as well, but I only rate it as - OK. Sure it works good, and I don't knock it, but its in inherent design is that of a swimbait, and that shaking blade takes the cool swimming action right out of the bait, leaving that trailer to only vibrate instead of swim. It doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me to put a trailer on there that loses its action that it was designed with. but I'll still use them anyway. The Fin-S fish however, is offered in a wider selection of sizes, from something like 2.5" - 10", and by comparison, in a spectacular variety of great color patterns. I tried with both the 5.75" & 7" sizes. It looks equally great on a bladed jig, as well as a scrounger.

Id imagine, if it has the "awesome hunting action" then thats a surefire way to tell you do have an older model.

do you have a preference, or do you see any significant differences in presentation, between a bladed jig whose blade attaches directly to jig eyelet...orrr, attaches to the jig via a split ring. I wonder how it would be to attach a blade like that to a keel-weighted swimbait hook. Hmmmmm.

Today I tested rigging a few Lunker City Fin-S Fish on a chatterbait. I used both the 5.75" & 7" specimens of various colors, and well, yeah. They all looked great. I like Lunker City's wide assortment of great colors, and teh wiggle imparted by the chatterbait really does a good job at bringing those colors out, and bringing the flash out. Liked it.

The Blue/Silver with scales, looks like a Crippled Herring, jigging spoon.