23 hours ago, cgolf said:

i saw this when Lucky Craft first came out, once companies saw some people would pay the extra, brands like Rapala and others suddenly got more expensive. Chatterbaits now that the Jackhammer took off, most new offers are over 10 bucks. Now it is starting in soft plastics. While I understand it, it is frustrating, and does cap what some/many folks/kids can purchase.

Strike King is super proud of their new vibrating jig at $14 a whack.  I don't understand what makes it that much more than the Zman chatterbaits that can be bought for $4 anywhere other than maybe a better hook.

11 hours ago, Bluebasser86 said:

This is why I've switched to a lot of YUM baits. Everyone else is pushing their prices up, meanwhile I can still get a pack of YUM plastics for 3 or 4 bucks. Now with them releasing some of their other popular baits in 30 packs, icing on the cake man. They're even making one of my favorite jig trailers in one of my favorite jig trailer colors now.

Man, I love YUM.  Tons of fish on their stuff and my PB as well.

11 hours ago, cgolf said:

I too have a fair amount of Yum products and the Crawbug has caught the most fish of any lure I own. Go figure since it really doesn’t have any action but still catches a ton of fish. I will use the Menace till it gets its price raised to 6.99, fingers crossed it doesn’t, and only buy them on Black Friday like I do now. The other baits in the Rage line I have go tos that are similar. Just a bummer with the prices on some of the stuff I am seeing early on TW. Thought the Storm glide bait would be cheaper too, oh well. 

I can barely get bit on the crawbug.  How are you presenting it?  Green or brown bass?

13 minutes ago, Hook2Jaw said:

Man, I love YUM.  Tons of fish on their stuff and my PB as well.

I can barely get bit on the crawbug.  How are you presenting it?  Green or brown bass?

Brown bass on rivers. I fish it on a slider head and do apply gel scent to it. I fish it on a rocky stretch loaded with craws. I always intend to try it on a lake, but it always gets lost in the bait shuffle.

7 minutes ago, cgolf said:

Brown bass on rivers. I fish it on a slider head and do apply gel scent to it. I fish it on a rocky stretch loaded with craws. I always intend to try it on a lake, but it always gets lost in the bait shuffle.

Thanks.  I don't have any slider heads, I may try pegging a bullet and throwing them in my local rivers.  Seems like they definitely carry more craws than the nearby ponds I have.  Plus, they're clearer, and it seems with the little action the crawbug produces it's more of a visual stimuli to the feeesh.

 

I've had decent success with them drop shotting and fishing on a small jig head, more often than not swimming them slowly on spinning gear.

19 minutes ago, Hook2Jaw said:

Thanks.  I don't have any slider heads, I may try pegging a bullet and throwing them in my local rivers.  Seems like they definitely carry more craws than the nearby ponds I have.  Plus, they're clearer, and it seems with the little action the crawbug produces it's more of a visual stimuli to the feeesh.

 

I've had decent success with them drop shotting and fishing on a small jig head, more often than not swimming them slowly on spinning gear.

When weeds aren't an issue I have fished them on a ballhead jig with a 1/0 or 2/0 hook. I just find the slider spider head comes through rocks better than most so I stick with that.

On 7/7/2019 at 6:18 PM, Harold Scoggins said:

I hear you. I'm going to start with the jig/blade box and go from there.

Just saw them for pre order at Tackle Warehouse for $49.99 ouch that’ll sting! 

Glad to see Savage Gear have some more rods in their lineup. I have one of their Browser rods amd really like it, especially for the price.