Tell me about your success fishing smallmouth with a Luhr-Jensen Speed Trap.  Does it come through rock/rip-rap easily?  Did you find a preference for either the 1/8oz or 1/4oz?  Does it work well at a slow pace?  Thanks

 

oe

I just bought one and have not used it yet . My plan is to burn it around standing timber .

 

I like to hear how others use it too .

In my opinion, speed traps are ok square bills, but I think that Timber Tigers are better.

Didn't think to ask how the Speed Trap cast?

 

oe

4 hours ago, OkobojiEagle said:

Didn't think to ask how the Speed Trap cast?

 

oe

They don't cast well for me. They seem very light for their size. I know they're a popular bait, but they just haven't done much for me and I'm positive I've never caught a smallmouth on one. 

Thanks for the responses.

 

oe

I love speed traps one of my favorite square bills. Pop your rod tip on the retrieve and you can make that bait hunt all over the place. 

I always have a few speed traps in my arsenal. Great baits I fish them just how I would fish any other square bill. They just need some tuning here and there.

On March 30, 2016 at 8:34 AM, Fishes in trees said:

In my opinion, speed traps are ok square bills, but I think that Timber Tigers are better.

Those timber tigers are some weird looking baits I always wanted to try one.

I found that they are light for their size and do not hold up very well to rocks on a bad cast. Shattered two of them hitting rocks trying to fish a shallow rocky section of the Potomac River.

 

Allen

I really like them. I only have the 1/4oz and they are light for the size (~2-1/2"). But they perform very well, even at slower retrieves -possibly bc they are light. Only used them on LM (in veges and wood), but the smallies should like them. Rip-rap can gobble anything, but they shouldn't be any worse than any other. The Timber Tiger does have extra design features in the bill that might help, but I haven't used them.

This bait is not good at all in rocks. It definately sticks fish, but also found it wedged in rocks too easily.

It will always have a special place in my box though, as it landed my first Crankbait bass almost twenty years ago. Will never forget the take, was fishing from a dock burning the bait and saw a largemouth shoot out from under the dock and just crushed if going the opposite way. Still the most violent hit I have ever had. 

Coincidentally I just found a pocket of fish on squarebills today, caught them on a Bandit 100, KVD 1.0, H2O, and Speed Trap,  guess which one did best? I hadn't thrown it in years.