Just ordered this Megabass Bottom Slash rig off of flea bay. Can't wait to rig it with an M-Pack Shad, Magnum Fluke or a swimbait.

You should give that thing some cheeseburgers! Get a little meat on its 'bones"

Looks cool, but can I be honest?  I can't think of a single place I would throw it.

36 minutes ago, MIbassyaker said:

Looks cool, but can I be honest?  I can't think of a single place I would throw it.

Any place I would throw a crankbait or a line thru swimbait. 

I like it but as soon as I saw the Megabass name I knew it wouldn't be cheap and I was right!  I'd have a tough time losing that puppy, which I KNOW I would.

1 minute ago, Jaderose said:

I like it but as soon as I saw the Megabass name I knew it wouldn't be cheap and I was right!  I'd have a tough time losing that puppy, which I KNOW I would.

Get you a 4 oz saltwater weight with a big snap swivel on it. When you get hung up, snap the weight over your line & let it go. Most of the time it will knock the bait loose on the first fall. If not, jiggle the rod tip & let it bang against the bait. You can even tie a piece of rope to the sinker & pull it up & let it fall back. I don't loose very many baits & it costs about $3.00!

Big Keitech would look sweet on that thing. 

 

I'm sure open water that thing will do well with a keitech or something on the back, but I can't see that thing not getting snagged on every single piece of cover in the lake.

18 minutes ago, MassYak85 said:

I'm sure open water that thing will do well with a keitech or something on the back, but I can't see that thing not getting snagged on every single piece of cover in the lake.

No more than any other crankbait - maybe even less since you bury each treble in the body of the soft plastic.

6 hours ago, Bluebasser86 said:

Big Keitech would look sweet on that thing. 

 

Great idea too. I started thinking old school & maybe a big Slug-Go.

17 hours ago, 1201vilbig said:

Get you a 4 oz saltwater weight with a big snap swivel on it. When you get hung up, snap the weight over your line & let it go. Most of the time it will knock the bait loose on the first fall. If not, jiggle the rod tip & let it bang against the bait. You can even tie a piece of rope to the sinker & pull it up & let it fall back. I don't loose very many baits & it costs about $3.00!

Up here in the north country, snagging isn't the only way to lose a bait...Northern Pike take more of our baits than snags do by quite a large margin,

5 hours ago, 1201vilbig said:

No more than any other crankbait - maybe even less since you bury each treble in the body of the soft plastic.

Great idea too. I started thinking old school & maybe a big Slug-Go.

Generally though a crankbaits' bill and diving angle help keep it out of snags, bladed jig style baits run more or less horizontally.

1 hour ago, MassYak85 said:

Generally though a crankbaits' bill and diving angle help keep it out of snags, bladed jig style baits run more or less horizontally.

If it does, that's what lure knockers are for. 

I really like it, and I was just going to ask whether one embeds one of the 3 hooks on one or both of the trebles into the lure's flesh. Pretty cool!

 

I think I see this as more for open water but also water close to calling fish out from, say, a cast made close to a long line of vegetation. it'll have flash and vibration both to trigger action. 

 

If a fish flashes at one of these just to bump it, it's going to get hooked up even if it didn't intend to eat it.

 

Regarding whether one can bounce this off of things like other lures designed for that. Time will tell.

 

I'm looking forward to your report after a few times out to tell us how you dialed it all in, how you find it best used.

 

 

Brad

18 minutes ago, 1201vilbig said:

If it does, that's what lure knockers are for. 

True, I actually haven't lost a lure since I got my lure knocker, they pay for themselves quick. 

At $10 each I'm out. Not to mention that, for that price, it doesn't even include the soft plastic bait. That's just wrong. 

For the cost of Megabass it is more than I will spend and I can see me losing it on the first cast in a lot of the places I fish. With a crankbait it usually the bill hitting the cover more than the hooks.

14 minutes ago, Gundog said:

At $10 each I'm out. Not to mention that, for that price, it doesn't even include the soft plastic bait. That's just wrong. 

It's not for everyone. Just like the big swimbaits I throw. 

4 minutes ago, Log Catcher said:

For the cost of Megabass it is more than I will spend and I can see me losing it on the first cast in a lot of the places I fish. With a crankbait it usually the bill hitting the cover more than the hooks.

Lure knocker. 

1 hour ago, 1201vilbig said:

 

Lure knocker. 

Lure knocker doesn't work on pike unless you hit them on the head. Even then you aren't guaranteed to get your lure back. ?

7 minutes ago, Gundog said:

Lure knocker doesn't work on pike unless you hit them on the head. Even then you aren't guaranteed to get your lure back. ?

No pike here. Although I've had big Alligator Gar hit a swimbait. 

I got a plug knocker but if you saw the lake I fish most of the time you would understand.  It's 90 acres of stumps and lay downs.  I do throw cranks in area I can but I get snagged all the time and get back maybe 50-60% of them.  Part of the cost of doing business in this little lake but ooooowweeeeee the fishing be good.