Where are you getting urchin baits? Everything on TW is unavailable.

I have 2 Fullcast and would like to hit the water with more than that.

Thank you for your help!

28 minutes ago, Lottabass said:

Where are you getting urchin baits? Everything on TW is unavailable.

I have 2 Fullcast and would like to hit the water with more than that.

Thank you for your help!

I had to go to the Tik Tok shop and Aliexpress.

I'm thinking of manufacturing a lure that looks like a pineapple. In Junebug. I expect to become rich, regardless of whether it catches bass.

1 hour ago, Lottabass said:

Where are you getting urchin baits? Everything on TW is unavailable.

I have 2 Fullcast and would like to hit the water with more than that.

Thank you for your help!

Local Dicks Sporting goods

Local tackle shop

I like that Tiemco Hedgehog. Looks like it could be the ticket. I guess just finding any would be the hard part.

Copperstate Tackle has the Prickly Pears and Atom Bombs in stock.

Our local convenience store/gas station has some too, so I’d definitely check nearby tackle shops.

I still can't tell, even from these comments, if it works better than any other soft plastic. Sure looks neat though. May need to try.

2 hours ago, Swamp Girl said:

I'm thinking of manufacturing a lure that looks like a pineapple. In Junebug. I expect to become rich, regardless of whether it catches bass.

The Coike Bug Bomb may have beat you to the punch :)

23 hours ago, Big Swimbait said:

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.

Yes - I did the treble rig and was catching them for sure - then I noticed the lure rolling in them a bit, and once I had a second in the tongue, I stopped. Since, have not lost many going to a weedless 2/0 wacky hook or playing a weedless wacky jig head (14-22 mm urchins). Have been getting perch on them too, which is a fun accident

I'm working the Hedgehog on a jika, just because :)

2 hours ago, Rucksack said:

I still can't tell, even from these comments, if it works better than any other soft plastic. Sure looks neat though. May need to try.

Better? Sometimes. Worse? Sometimes. Same? Yes! :)

@Dooger - I have been using a CORE Tackle Hover Rig for the 13mm/17mm size urchin - it is simple to use and has worked well - just slide the urchin on to the hook (thru the existing hole in the urchin) and push it up on to the weight (the Hover Rig has a build in weight) - I then slide a silicone stopper (I use an earring stopper) over the hook and against the weight (I will look to take some pictures and post them) - similar to @Big Swimbait I had fish inhaling the treble hooks very deep and did not want that happening so I switched to the single hook Hover Rig and it has worked great

7 hours ago, Lottabass said:

Where are you getting urchin baits? Everything on TW is unavailable.

I have 2 Fullcast and would like to hit the water with more than that.

Thank you for your help!

Alixpress and Amazon are a lot cheaper.

Allen

@Dooger and @Big Swimbait - not a great pic, but the best I could do - this is the CORE Tackle Hover Rig with the 17mm urchin on it - it has worked very well for me but YMMV

I have only had 13mm/17mm urchins so I cannot speak to how it would work with bigger urchins

I don't know, but if you want to stay ahead of game, I would be willing to sell you two helicopter lures glued together for $150.

6 hours ago, WaskaCrank12 said:

@Dooger and @Big Swimbait - not a great pic, but the best I could do - this is the CORE Tackle Hover Rig with the 17mm urchin on it - it has worked very well for me but YMMV

I have only had 13mm/17mm urchins so I cannot speak to how it would work with bigger urchins

Thanks for the picture!

Believe it or not I do have some Hoover rigs. I believe 1/8 oz I will have to experiment .

My friend just today was fishing one with a Zman Shroom Pro head. He said he missed quite a few fish. But caught a solid 17.5” smallie . He usually fishes for the big girls.

I have saw it mentioned that frogs hooks are hard to find.

I think that Walmart sells frogs for $3.00. Probably one of their frogs would donate its hooks towards the cause.

I lost a fish M on a freak-o rig yesterday. I like the freak-o rig, but once through the fish M plastic, the hole is “wallered out” (an Alabama term) and the bait can slide right off. Rigged up a skinny bear with a 1/8 vmc hybrid swimbait jig head with screw lok and it ain’t going nowhere!

21 hours ago, Dooger said:

I have saw it mentioned that frogs hooks are hard to find.

I think that Walmart sells frogs for $3.00. Probably one of their frogs would donate its hooks towards the cause.

The hooks are pretty decent in those frogs. My local Walmart is missing several frogs now and I suddenly have several hookless frog bodies laying around in my garage. I'm doing the nail weight/worm rattle/heat shrink around the hook and shoving the whole thing through the middle of the urchin. Not sure why other than maybe because the hooks probably tend to stay pointed up and have a little more clearance, but I've seemed to have a little better hookup ratio with them than I was getting with a treble.

On 7/4/2026 at 8:15 AM, Rucksack said:

I still can't tell, even from these comments, if it works better than any other soft plastic. Sure looks neat though. May need to try.

@Rucksack Don't want you to miss out if the urchin ends up making a game changing difference for you. I'm in Chicagoland, so maybe the ecosystems, fishing pressure, amount of anglers fishing urchins is not as nuts as it is in your area.......but I've never experienced the immediate consistency with catching larger and more largemouth in tough conditions, or any conditions for that matter. My experience has been exclusively with the 19mm Hag's with a size 1 skin hooked BKK Spear 21 and 3/32 oz nail weight. Sinks about 3 feet per second. Mostly using like a jerkbait and doing different jerkbait techniques, cadences, and pauses depending on how they're reacting. Pressured ponds and on the water in shallow and relatively deep summering areas. I have a 14 year old nephew and his fishing friends I've turned onto this as well. Since he has youth on his side, he's catching more than me........ and has used this exact setup/technique that's clearly a game changer in our waters, him and his friends are catching significantly more and larger fish in their ponds and on-water boat action with parents. Not trying to provide specific recommendations, just giving context to my experience.

I’m waiting for Allen to develop a weighted single and treble hook specifically for urchin style baits. It’s what he does.