If you haven't got to see the new Reel N Shad from Mann's I suggest you take a look at it on you tube. I think this is a game changer, it is a fluke with a forked tail that swims like a swim bait but no boot tail, it looks even better than a fluke on a scrounger head. Now, the design is cool but I can see these getting tore up easily but it is a pretty neat design, check it out!

Now that is just plain awesome! OMG.....the freakin' bait monkey hits again. No rest. LOL!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1E_WfihgCXo

Here's a link.. Yes it looks completely awesome!

Now THAT will be KILLER on a Scrounger Head ~ ! 

 

Attention Fellow Scrounger Club Members ~

 

Looks like a Fluke partially split down the middle.  

 

A-Jay

Funny you brought this up. I just got an email from Manns with the same thing. Let's check it out.

Funny you brought this up. I just got an email from Manns with the same thing. Let's check it out.

 OK Well please tell Big Tom I said Hello.

 

 

A-Jay

Wow that looks really cool. I'll grab some as soon as I see them on the shelves. My wife already gave me a dirty look haha

That is pretty sweet! Seems as if they circumvented the need for a scrounger head at all. Certainly a lot from a little!

I'm definitely going to have to give these a try.

I'm thinkin' no Scrounger head required.

 

 

 

 

Funny you brought this up. I just got an email from Manns with the same thing. Let's check it out.

 

That is how I found it!!

Sold! Very cool, that video is great. Short, sweet, doesn't even feel like a commercial. The bait just looks so neat and super easy to use. I'm sure it will be on shelves before I can fish again, and I will pick some up. Go away winter. Go away.

Wow!

Awesome!

Now. ... if only it was elaztech so I could RULE ALL OF COASTAL FLORIDA!

Lol.

I started to post about this bait earlier today. I was pretty excited when I saw the video on YouTube. This would be great for a scrounger or chatterbait!!

I started to post about this bait earlier today. I was pretty excited when I saw the video on YouTube. This would be great for a scrounger or chatterbait!!

 

Ding ding!  Great idea.   Thanks!

I. Need. These.

Who's the feller in the vid?

 

Josh

Who's the feller in the vid?

Josh

Paul Elias from Miss. The ole kneel & reel inventor, lol

I wonder if the Mann's guys are shaking their heads in disappointment when they went out of there way to make a soft plastic with more action than a scrounger and all anyone wants to do is put them on a scrounger... Lol.

Thats the most unique bait design I have seen in years. Lokks great.

I just hope Paul Elias wasn't using the new bait all day because he got skunked the first day.

Mann does that thing look sweet! 

I wonder if the Mann's guys are shaking their heads in disappointment when they went out of there way to make a soft plastic with more action than a scrounger and all anyone wants to do is put them on a scrounger... Lol.

 

That's kind of funny.

 

But for me, the magic of a Scrounger is that it excels on a low & slow retrieve. This new Manns bait when rigged on the stock jighead looks like you'll have to move it along at a pretty good clip to get the same wiggle / vibrating action.

 

So though I obviously have fished the bait, it looks like it will do well hitching a ride on the back of the Scrounger.

 

A-Jay

That's kind of funny.

But for me, the magic of a Scrounger is that it excels on a low & slow retrieve. This new Manns bait when rigged on the stock jighead looks like you'll have to move it along at a pretty good clip to get the same wiggle / vibrating action.

So though I obviously have fished the bait, it looks like it will do well hitching a ride on the back of the Scrounger.

A-Jay

I'm just teasing A-Jay. I simply couldn't resist.

I do agree, it looks like he is moving that at a pretty good clip to get that action.

I fish stained water 99% of the time so scrounges don't really play here, though chatterbaits do. I prefer to bulk them up so fish can find them. In south La, our "finesse" fishing is using a trick worm, lol.

Wow!

Awesome!

Now. ... if only it was elaztech so I could RULE ALL OF COASTAL FLORIDA!

Lol.

I have gotten big into inshore fishing these last two years. I don't use the elaztech saltwater stuff much, but is there any advantage other than the durability? Specks and reds (and Snook, I could imagine) can really tear up some plastics.

I have gotten big into inshore fishing these last two years. I don't use the elaztech saltwater stuff much, but is there any advantage other than the durability? Specks and reds (and Snook, I could imagine) can really tear up some plastics

Durability & Buoyancy!