Anyone throwing these on the Gamakatsu heavy cover worm hooks in 3/0 or 4/0?

Come spring /  summer time that is what I am coming to be using to punch.   Texas rigged I use a 3/0 ewg hook.

Yeah I've been bitten by the bait monkey the past week so I figured why not stop now and give them a try. I picked up 3 packs of each size 3-4. I typically throw the RI sweet beaver but today I got 4 bags of pit boss' on clearance. Figure 3/0 on the beaver and 4/0 on the boss.

I use the Gammie 3/0 but  you can use the 4/0 too.

If I am throwing a beaver, it's Reaction Innovations or nothing.

I usually throw RI but found some strike king rodents for dirt cheap and coloes i use the most so we willsee how they fair.

That's what I normally use. I was given a few bags by a local tackle shop to try out. Before that I used the flappin' hog. I still do a good bit. It has a ton of appendages.

The D-Bomb is more durable yet has more action than the other beavers mentioned.  I opt for the D-Bomb in most all situations I want a beaver style bait now.

I really like the D Bomb so far. My girlfriends brother gave me a pack of Sweet Beavers in a purple color to try... It will be getting flipped this summer. I have a pack of Ugly Otters to try this summer as well.

When I first wanted to try the beaver baits, I saw an end cap of Havok baits for the first time and grabbed some Pit Bosses and Grass Pigs. My girlfriend actually caught her first bass on a pit boss that was rigged on my rod (all but one appendage was pecked off by bluegill, I was about to change it) while I was re-tying for her (she now knows how to tie a palomar). We traded rods and she tossed it out into the center of a canal run out, drug it along the dropoff and WHAM, three pounder.

She then proceeded to buy herself an array of soft plastics and frogs the next time we went shopping, including a few colors of pit bosses. She still has the torn up pit boss in her little pink tackle box.

I leaned on these style of baits a lot last year. I used Yum Wooly Hog most of the time. I feel that the rings in the bait play a big factor into getting the fish to bite. The wooly hog has bigger rings then what is shown above but same theory I believe. I have thrown other bait that resemble these style of baits but without the rings or smoother bodies and have not had the success that I have had with the ringed body style of baits.   

I'm currently trying to decide which bait I like better between the RI Sweet Beaver and the MB D Bomb, I have caught more fish on the RI, but I haven't had the same conditions to try out the MBs. I will say that I like the feel and looks of the MBs better than the RIs. 

Havocs baits are low quality.  They could at least trim the excess pouring off.  

I'm currently trying to decide which bait I like better between the RI Sweet Beaver and the MB D Bomb, I have caught more fish on the RI, but I haven't had the same conditions to try out the MBs. I will say that I like the feel and looks of the MBs better than the RIs. 

D Bombs keep hook protected better.  Lot more snags with the RI.  

d bomb has an oil coating..pretty sure it imparts extra.flavor on the beaver. keeps bait in mouth longer.

I have had decent success with the Strike King beavers too.  Hard to beat these though IMO.

I have had decent success with the Strike King beavers too.  Hard to beat these though IMO.

those are great baits. the only drawback to them is they are about as durable as a senko.