Warning: You Might Get Your Arm Broke!

[roadwarrior]

RW, these guys love you!!.....the minute you mention the Kreature it is all of a sudden the bait everybody wants to use.

I deleted too much of your post.

I fish them like a spinnerbait, steady retrieve with an occasional twich. Weightless or not, this is "killer" for me!

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[McNasty]

Ive had alot of luck with the Kreature in the streams.  I fish it really slow, T-rigged, bead, 1/8th oz bullet(I could probably go weightless).  Ive found that any size LM wear it out but only the bigger SM will offer at it.  Watermelon/red flake is my money color.  I never thought of rigging it backwards,  think I'll give it a try tommorrow.  Later!

[BirdNestBen]

Thanks RW so much for your post... this is a lure I've never fished with... look forward to trying it out....

There are a lot of perch in this pond and I've only caught small bass... but it just looks too fishy not to have a Lonestar Lunker in it....

I'll keep ya posted on my progress......

[Micro]

I'm going to try that.  The parts of my main lake I like the best have about 1-2 feet of relatively clear (if tea colored) water.  Everything below that is thick algea.  Getting anything into that algea results in a snot covered lure.   I have to stay in that 1-2 foot strata or I won't catch fish.  I fished GYCB swim senkos and Zoom 10" ribbon tailed worms (fished slowly like a swimbait) and was pretty successful.  I had some creatures with me.  I wish I had tried them now.  

[roadwarrior]

To stay in that narrow depth range, I would fish them weightless,

for sure. The action is similar, but the bait will float down rather

than sink quickly. You can definitely keep it out of the gunk most of the time.

8-)

[rondef]

Good job Kent. I bought some of those creature baits and have yet to use them. I guess I now have a reason to break them out and use them to catch some lmbs.

By the way I am still looking at getting down to Tennessee sometime this year to visit my daughter in Memphis.  I hope your offer to fish with you still stands when I finally make it  down there.

[fishfordollars]

Good job RW. The ability to adept has made a great day out of an awful day to the ones that have that ability.

congratulations!

[roadwarrior]

By the way I am still looking at getting down to Tennessee sometime this year to visit my daughter in Memphis. I hope your offer to fish with you still stands when I finally make it down there.

I'll take you the "secret pond".

8-)

[MNGeorge]

Hey RW,

What is the minimum water temperature you would use this "swimming Kreature" presentation?  Thanks.

[Micro]

I tried this today.  First I tried it weightless.  I texposed rigged it with the frilly end forward so the arms and paddles trailed.  No luck.  Almost no action to speak of.  The curly arms just lamely dragged along and didn't wave at all.  If I reeled it fast enbough to get some arm action, it came to the surface.  No surface hits.  

Then I tried it with a pegged 1/8oz bullet weight.  That kept the bait under, but still next to no arm action.  

It looks to me that the body inhibits the arm action since they trail along side the body.  The faster I reel, the harder they press against the side.  

Not impressed with the kreature for this technique.   Any advice on this, RW?

Next I tried a GYCB DT H Grub (root beer/green).  Rigged frilly end forward with the 1/8 oz pegged bullet weight.  MUCH better.  The arms on this bait trail off the end and have action at any speed.   I got one hit and one bass by a dock with this technique.  

Good tip, RW.  I just didn't have any luck with the Kreature, but the DT H Grub worked reasonably well.  I'm looking forward to trying it again in the pads here shortly.  

 

[Big-O]

Look out for the Space Monkey!!!!!

Big O

www.ragetail.com

[roadwarrior]

I tried this today. First I tried it weightless. I texposed rigged it with the frilly end forward so the arms and paddles trailed. No luck. Almost no action to speak of. The curly arms just lamely dragged along and didn't wave at all. If I reeled it fast enbough to get some arm action, it came to the surface. No surface hits.

Then I tried it with a pegged 1/8oz bullet weight. That kept the bait under, but still next to no arm action.

It looks to me that the body inhibits the arm action since they trail along side the body. The faster I reel, the harder they press against the side.

Not impressed with the kreature for this technique. Any advice on this, RW?

Next I tried a GYCB DT H Grub (root beer/green). Rigged frilly end forward with the 1/8 oz pegged bullet weight. MUCH better. The arms on this bait trail off the end and have action at any speed. I got one hit and one bass by a dock with this technique.

Good tip, RW. I just didn't have any luck with the Kreature, but the DT H Grub worked reasonably well. I'm looking forward to trying it again in the pads here shortly.

Hmm...

You must be retrieving too fast. I had an average outing this morining on a pond that has been completely taken over by the snot grass. Six in three hours, four little tournament bass, 3-4 lbs, but two nice ones!

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[Davis]

Same thing with me Micro.

Almost like the arms were getting caught on the body.

Slow, fast, weightless....not a fan.

Like the Flappin Hog much more for a kreature type bait from GYCB.

[roadwarrior]

Same thing with me Micro.

Almost like the arms were getting caught on the body.

Slow, fast, weightless....not a fan.

Like the Flappin Hog much more for a kreature type bait from GYCB.

Pay attention:

Slow retrieve with an occasional twitch. The bait performs perfectly.

I fish the Flappin' Hog as a trailer or on a Shak-E2, but that is a completely different presentation.

8-)

[wagn]

Been away at a cabin for a week, and on 2 of the 7 days i fished, the only action i got was on this kreature bait, or twin tailed grubs. I fished them weightless and twitched em in slowly. Neither the smallies or the bucketmouths could seem to resist it.

Another great bait to add to my arsenal

[Micro]

Pay attention:

Slow retrieve with an occasional twitch. The bait performs perfectly.

8-)

He said slow.  So did I.  I fished it the way you said.  Perhaps I got a bum bag of creatures.  But I got next to no action out of those arms.  It was like dragging a wad of dark green toilet tissue though the water.  The arms just trailed and did next to nothing.   Only when I sped up the retrieve did they do anything, and then not by much.

I turned one around with the frilly end trailing and that was even worse - no action at all.  The arms just seemed pinned to the sides and the ends seemed to be inhibited further by the paddles just below them.    

The Hula did better.  But even that didn't produce the action I had expected.    

[The_Natural]

Only RW can make a thread about a bait that becomes 5 pages...he's got some serious influence around these parts!  I'd take that as a compliment  

[Btech]

It seemed to work for me Slowly the arms moved when jerked Vertically but not so much horizontal .  Although rigt now is cold out so i am doing more Vertical work that Horizontal seems to get the best reaction ..

Still no fish this year though ... And 15 days in ... Im hurtin.

[SuperNewbie]

... try flukes you cant really go wrong with flukes or the new gycb flappin hawg II  

[SkilletSizeBass.]

Roadwarrior, I followed a link to this previous post and have a question you might be able to help with. A local lake I fish has lots of bottom growing weeds, not the snot-grass type, but heavy in some areas. I've considered trying a floating worm with maybe a real small weight, to get the bait just under the surface, or in the upper part of the weeds, not in the thicker weeds on the bottom. Do you think this Kreature bait would work in this situation? This Kreature bait looks neat and nice and chunky.

[roadwarrior]

Yes, that's the point: Texas-rigged and weedless. The Kreature is

a perfect substitute for a swimming jig and doesn't have an exposed

hook!

8-)

[SkilletSizeBass.]

Thanks Roadwarrior, I'll order me a couple of them and try it out this spring.

[catchnm]

Got a good deal a while back on Ebay for some of these GYCB Kreatures. Wound up with two bags each of the Black/Blue, Watermelon Seed, and the Pumpkin Seed colors. I always have fished them weightless, tentacles back, and slow rolled or really SLOOOOW hop and drop. Never even thought about rigging them backwards and weighting them a bit and then slow rolling. Will be doing this next time I'm out though. My honey hole has grass just like what has been described, up from the bottom and reaching to just under the surface. Good edges to this stuff too. Best bait has been the Baby Brush Hogs. Rage Tail Baby and full size Craws too. Thanks for a good tip guys.

BTW - On the Kreatures, I dip the bottom half of the tentacles on the Pumpkin Seed ones in the chartreuse Spike-It.........it's killer!

[kikstand454]

not to in anyway hijack this post....

but in that situation that alot of you are saying your in.... why arent you throwing a lightly weighted paddle tail? i mean... thats what i would do.

imma check out these creatures though... i think i have a little spot that they would work great at!

[Tallent88]

I love zoom baby brush hogs when they don't bite anything else its great! fish it slow, fast or with a shakey head great product last way longer than gyb, but they still seem to hold on too it until you set the hook I prefer baby over the regular brush hog becouse when they wont bite its just seems to be the perfect snack size!