Man I’ve thrown the Yamamato Uni, the Hags Prickly Pear, and the Berkley Maxscent Moeba on three different lakes up shallow and over suspended bass.. in green, black, and red.. light weight and 3/8oz weights.. I can’t trigger a bite to save my life.. What gives? lol

All the hype and marketing makes it sound like a "magic lure". There's no such thing.

2 hours ago, Lottabass said:

All the hype and marketing makes it sound like a "magic lure". There's no such thing.

you got that right.. Seriously though how are you guys catching fish on these things.. I know people are.. I’ve done the jerk, jerk pause retrieve.. i’ve tried it all.. it just doesn’t click with me yet for some reason…

About the only real luck I’ve had with them is on an inchi wacky jighead with a pop/sink retrieve - and mostly dinks hitting it. Had a few on a dropshot and a couple hit it dead sticking it weightless, but definitely not enough to warrant the hype for me.

Tried it on a few lakes, only real success was on a grass lake, fished with a 3/0 flipping hook, 3/32oz tungsten nail, baitcaster, retrieved like a jerkbait or soft fluke. Jerk.... jerk jerk..... jerk. Fish around docks or other hard structure seems to be key as well.

What’s the deal? They’re supposed to like the micro organism the bass we’re eating as fry and now they still react to the shape?

I resisted long enough but I just caved and ordered a prickly pear...we'll see.

On 6/22/2026 at 2:33 PM, 10,000 lakes Bassin said:

What’s the deal? They’re supposed to like the micro organism the bass we’re eating as fry and now they still react to the shape?

No idea but it moves water and recoils unlike anything else after its twitched. I watched a small bass follow it up to the side of the boat, take a nibble of a single tentacle, then inhale the whole thing, so there is something enticing there. I've also seen fish turn tail and run as soon as they see it 🤷‍♂️

I've been fishing it almost like a jerkbait, pretty aggressive snaps and the pause depends on how deep I'm fishing it.

Keep at it! Not sure what it is that drives them crazy, but the bass on my lakes inhale it. I’ve got to imagine this run will only last a year or so before they wise up.

I fished it on a belly weighted swimbait hook 1/8 ounce for two trips and haven’t got a single bite. It also got snagged very dry easily around cover. I will keep trying it though.

Thought these would work just not any better than other baits. Fished for about 2 hours from the shore earlier and caught three. They were the 3 biggest LM I have caught all year 4.5, 6, and 5lbs. Surprised the hell out of me. I fished them just like a tube with a 1/8oz flick shake head. I definitely need to pour some more flick shake heads with bigger hooks though.

Allen

On 6/22/2026 at 3:45 PM, MassYak85 said:

I resisted long enough but I just caved and ordered a prickly pear...we'll see.

I have been avoiding going down that rabbit hole. 🙂

Good Luck! I hope you get into some fish.

2 hours ago, Dooger said:

I have been avoiding going down that rabbit hole. 🙂

Good Luck! I hope you get into some fish.

Dude - this ruined me. In the last 72 hrs I have purchased the following:

3 - Coike Fish M

4 - Hags Prickly Pear

3 - Yamamoto Uni

2 - skinny bear stand em ups

Various rigging options to include the freak-o rig.

Many different hook options from Decoy, Owner, Ryugi, Hayabusa and Gamakatsu

I’ll post pics when my last package shows up.

Monkey Fed.

Bought mine from Alixpress $1.79 for 2 baits.

Allen

I fiddled with one a little bit this evening (5150 Aton Bomb), tossing it weightless into some stickups - got a couple dinks and a foul tempered green sunfish for the effort.

Next experiment is going to be putting it on a light (1/8 oz) free rig and dropping it down some steep banks.

I've been fishing mine on a shaky head and dragging it on the bottom. I've got a few fish on it but I wouldn't call it a confidence bait just yet.

I have somehow resisted the bait monkey on this one. I've had a lot of luck threading silicone into my soft baits for finesse applications, however. Maybe one day I'll buy a dice or urchin bait but not while they're this expensive.

I am sold on urchins. However, fish don't jump into the boat either.

Its a bigger fish bait. I havent caught a bass under 2lbs with it and most of my big fish this year are with them.

I fish it with the most success around laydowns, docks, seawalls, and heavy grasslines. Docks especially and I need slightly cleaner water for the lake to get them to work and draw fish. A small jerk jerk pause with some sinking almost like a jerkbait or fluke presentation meeting a wacky senko. Honestly, its fished like a fast wacky rig for me.

I have been rigging 19/20mm urchins with a #1 vmc hybrid short shank and a small 4mm silicone tube keeper like used for small neko rigged worms as a hook keeper. I weight then with a mushroom shape neko weight or a jewel baits freak'o rig. Weights between 1/16 for shallow and around snags/grass up to 1/8 for a little deeper fish. 3/32 is my most used.

I guess the big question is…What’s the best way to rig theses baits?

Treble hook,Frog hook, shakey head

I got a Yamamoto uni I’m going to try. Once I figure out how I want to rig it.

Any pictures?

6 hours ago, Dooger said:

I guess the big question is…What’s the best way to rig theses baits?

Treble hook,Frog hook, shakey head

I got a Yamamoto uni I’m going to try. Once I figure out how I want to rig it.

Any pictures?

I have had decent success with several methods. I will not use a treble/quad hook anymore because they swallow this bait. You are going to hook the tongue/gills and no need to kill a fish. I will try the 2/0 frog hook whenever they are available again. The Core Tackle Dice Rig is pretty good for TPE baits. It does not hold a plastisol bait well for me. For the bigger baits, I have been using the Mag Shrooms Weedless jig head because it has a 6/0 hook (and a weed guard). Plus it has a great keeper for TPE baits. For those that bought the 1st batch of the 6th Sence Abstract (me), apparently there was a problem with the plastic formula where they did not hold their shape (mine). My understanding is if you contact Customer Service, they will replace them with the updated formula that they are selling now.

Big Swimbait thanks

Very informative post!

I wasn’t aware that treble hooks would be a problem…I’ve never fished the bait.

I see frog hooks are mostly out of stock. Maybe better off buying a frog for the hook.

Will check out the Zman hooks.

One morning on my way to the lake I noticed a cat toy laying on the rug that looked almost identical to the urchin except it had a jingle.

I thought perfect, an urchin with a built in dinner bell.

Took it to the lake and tried it T-rig, Neko, drop-shot, Shaky head and even as a buzzbait trailer...... nothing 😞

I was literally about to post about using the Uni when I saw this post. I fished the Uni today for about 3 1/2 hrs. Boy was it Hot, I think I had 3 nibbles. I did catch the elusive stick fish on it. I guess I’ll just keep trying using it.

I've been fishing poop/mushi baits a long while. And these are just an extension of those and I've been fishing these for a good bit, too.

And I have to say, I think the Coike Shrimp is the best in the family. It just gets bit more..and with more conviction. No faffing around with any special hooking arrangement, either. Just an EWG. The many appendages are positively buzzing on the drop. Watch a video and see. Can fish it a variety of ways, dropshot, Texas, Weightless, Jika, etc So from the Coike family, this is the one I prefer.

I also prefer the Tiemco Hedgehog over a Coike, too. Much more versatile. Great topwater! And it should be since its based on the excellent Wild Mouse topwater. Again, EWG hooks. Extremely flowing arms. Has a pin tail which makes it more traditional. I like the "Baby" size that takes a 1/0.