Today I wanted to get a new lure and didn't feel like driving 30 minutes to Basspro. So I went to the Sports Authority, and looked around. I bought a bag of Zoom Ultravibe craws in watermelon seed. I caught 17 bass today (largest looking around 6 lbs, didn't have my scale with me), using only this lure on a lake near me that I usually don't have that great of luck on. The weird thing was I was using it on the top like a Horney Toad, and it worked 10x better than a horney toad. It caught more, and it was about 10x easier to set the hook. I only missed two or three. Has anyone else used the ultravibe craw like this?

No, never used them, in fact never heard of them.  Post a pic and I will try to find some.  I haven't caught that many fish in my last 4 trips.

cwb60  

Cool.  Another bait to buy.  Now that you have said it, I realized that I have seen (in creeks not ponds or lakes though) crawfish scoot and flutter along the surface.  Whether it was by accident or because they were being chased by something I dunno.  

I haven't, but now i'm going to try this... thanks

This is what it looks like, you can see it on pretty much any tackle website.

I have used them before without a weight. I was casting them onto some heavy floating duckweed and the Bass were blasting them from underneath. I caught over 20 Bass that day using that method. It was actually several years ago and I don't remember the brand of the Crawdads, but they looked similar to the Zooms. The were brown with chartreuse claws and even had the black flakes like the Zoom in your pic. I still have some of them somewhere. I was fishing Lake A at Tenoroc.

Ive fished them like that with great success. Theyre a great swim jig trailer too.

If you like those, try a pack or two of Zoom's Ultra Vibe Speed Worm on top.  Rig it with a pegged or screw-in 1/8 oz bullet weight and a 4/0 EWG hook.  You MUST rig it with the hook going through the worm's seams(mold marks) and with the 'V' in the tail rigged DOWN!!!  Of course, the worm must be straight.

Now, throw it as far as you can and as you do with a buzzbait, start reeling just before or just as it touches the water's surface and don't stop reeling!  You now have a weedless, subtle, and relatively quiet buzzbait.  The V catches the water as you reel it in and the tail slip/slaps the water with an enticing, natural sounding 'live animal' sound.  Yes, you may get your rod snatched from your clutches 8-).

Color is immaterial IMO but I use their Junebug and their Blackberry colors.

I sometimes 'kill' the retrieve when no strikes have happened and a following Bass may pick it up then.

Dan