anyone used these types of baits yet?  i picked up a couple of packs in the 3 in.  are they any good?  besides dropshotting, what other ways can i fish this lure.  thnx for any tips and advices.  

I absolutely love them on a Texas rig, darter head or the best way for me is the split shot rig/Carolina, I fish them pretty often and I also flip with the 4-6 inch reapers

May I ask what brand reapers you bought, where you bought them

I threw an Evolve Vibra grub the other day t rigged just to see how the action was, and I was pretty impressed. I can see these being a smallmouth magnet when the bite turns on. I have the 3" version, but I hear the 4" has even better action. TW sells these if you're interested.

bmlum415: we just had the fred hall show in long beach and i saw these custom handpours at the fisrhermen access booth.  they are made by a company called preferred plastics.  

TNBassin': cool.  i will look into TW and see what they have to offer.  

thnx guys

You don't hear too much about reapers anymore! Great bait for flippin & pitch'n.I still have them so now I can get them out of my bait cave. I forgot all about them,I will have to give them a bath.

Original made by Harold Ensley. I met him on a plane returning from Canada. He always promoted his reapers tails as a multi-species fish catcher. They originally were used as a leech imitation . They make good jig trailers as well.

If you're from Cali have you ever heard of keeper custom worms or pro worms, they make the best hand pours on the market IMO, I use their reapers along with iovino ones and occasionally the vibragrub, as for jig trailers spotted bass seem to love them more than pork trailers for me.

If you hook them with the tail flat and no weight they do a nice glide on the fall.

The original Reaper looks more like a straight ribbon tail worm. The Reaper from the west coast was introduced by Western Plastics, a hand poured 3" grub that has a 2 1/2" long flat tail about a 1/2" wide tapering to 3/8" with a round end. The name Reaper was trade marked and all the hand pour makers had to change the name; sweepers etc. the reaper craze topped out around the late 90's. However... They are still being used and come in 3", 4", 5" and 6" cow tongues. Roboworm, Iovino Products, Western Plastics, Uptom's Customs and a few others.

Smoke with a variety of colored flakes and blood lines are still very effective in the smaller sizes and darker colors in the larger sizes. All the finesse light line presentations with light wire hooks are popular for the smaller sizes and traditional worm rigs for the larger sizes.

Tom

thnx guys, im going to do more research on this type of bait and also check out different brand.  

by far the best is the Evolve Vibragrub. One of the few products that lives up to everything the company hypes it up to be. Awesome flutter while swimming and on the fall. I go with the smaller size on a small darter head for smallies and the larger size rigged a variety of ways for largemouths