Saturday, I caught fish on every bait I threw.  not many fish, and none were big.  in general fishing sucked.  

 

but I took the buzzbait out for the first time.   right out of the package.   it casted way better than I expected.   standing in a boat, up high, it's easy to get it to come right up and buzz.   it was my only attempted bait that was fish less.  one bass smashed it, but it didnt hook up.  

 

BUT:  that thing makes a racket!!  it squeaks loud!  even working it slower it still made noise.   I cant wait until I get my first fish on it!  I bought the jet-black version.  I think I need a light colored one as well.  

 

you all know I am a buzz bait rookie, but I think I started off with a good version.  

It's the old story "you have to let the fish tell you."  I have had days when the squeaker got smashed but other days they wanted something less aggressive. But if I think I will be on a buzzbait bite, it is always tied on. It has been very durable for me, also.

Do you use a trailer with these?

14 hours ago, woolleyfooley said:

Do you use a trailer with these?

Yes. Most often a Spunk Shad.

I've heard good things about the Teckel. I believe it's a copy of the old RI squeaky dolphin that they discontinued for some reason. 

Didn’t people used to take regular Buzzbaits and modified them to make them squeaky. 
Even heard,(don’t remember where) about a angler that put it on the car mirror or antenna and drove around with it until it started squeaking. 
 

1 hour ago, GRiver said:

Didn’t people used to take regular Buzzbaits and modified them to make them squeaky. 
Even heard,(don’t remember where) about a angler that put it on the car mirror or antenna and drove around with it until it started squeaking. 
 

Yes that's true. We use to rough up the wire with a file and soak them in salt water to try and get them to rust. I'm not sure it actually made much difference.

I blew mine around with a leaf blower.   it worked a tiny bit.  

this one is loud.

6 hours ago, rangerjockey said:

I've heard good things about the Teckel. I believe it's a copy of the old RI squeaky dolphin that they discontinued for some reason. 

always thought that ri and teckel were working out of the same "playbook". the swamp donkey and the tekel frog were dang near identical, the kick knocker and the vixen, and then the dolphin and whatever buzz bait tekel had going 15 years ago. they all looked/worked so similarly.
 

Same lure designer.

11 hours ago, GRiver said:

Didn’t people used to take regular Buzzbaits and modified them to make them squeaky. 
Even heard,(don’t remember where) about an angler that put it on the car mirror or antenna and drove around with it until it started squeaking. 
 

I’ve heard that as well. Also heard of people using sand paper to rough up the surface to make it more squeaky. 

16 hours ago, GRiver said:

Didn’t people used to take regular Buzzbaits and modified them to make them squeaky. 
Even heard,(don’t remember where) about a angler that put it on the car mirror or antenna and drove around with it until it started squeaking. 
 

I bought a used Lunker Lure buzzbait that came with a lott of lures I bought off of Ebay a few years ago.  I don't know what the original owner of the bait did to make it squeak, but it was the loudest buzzbait I have ever heard.  It sounded like a thousand mice were swimming at the same time.  That bait caught bass when no other topwater bait would.  It was a sad day when I lost it.