I really want to try these baits they look so good. Has anyone tried these. I want to know if they work or if im throughing money away???? :-?

bought a pack of the shad, love the action but havent gotten a bite on it yet...not a whole lot of time on the water with it though.  I need to try the frogs too.

I bought the Rage Tail toads with great expectations.  I love fishing toads.  And the Rage Tails looked awesome.  I rigged them with a 5/0 Owner wide gap hook with the little corkscrew - just like I do with Zoom Horny Toads.

This is what I discovered:

1) It is harder to slip those Rage Tails thru cover than the Horny Toads

2) The Rage Tails work best "buzzed."  They do prodice more action than the Horny Tpad when buzzed.  However, when slowed down, mine rolled on their sides, and one all the way over on its back.

3) The plastic SEEMS harder than the plastic in the Horny Toad.  It seems much harder to push a hook through and I missed three hook sets on three strikes - which is HIGHLY unusual for me and Horny Toads.

I know a lot of thought went into these, but I don't care for them.  I'm sticking with Horny Toads, which perform and produce very well for me.  

Hmmmmmmm.........I guess to each is his own.

I greatly prefer them to the zoom's.  As Micro said much more action(commotion) when buzzed.  The plastic probably is a little harder but not to the point of having any hookset problems.  Not sure about the slipping through cover issue, but I have fished them several times without noticing any real negatives.  

In my experience they tend to roll LESS than the Zoom's, so go figure.  Also, the Zoom far outshines the Rage as a subsurface lure.

All in all i've probably fished these on 20 outings or so and am pretty confident that it will be the only toad in my bag this year.

I have used both the Rage shad and the Rage toad and was impressed with them.  Caught a couple of nice fish on the shad including a nice 4-pounder.  Didn't get to fish the toad enough to produce anything but I was impressed with its action in the water and I know it would have caught some fish if I had had more time to fish that morning.  I liked them so much that I went out last weekend and bought a pack of the Rage craws that I intend to try out this weekend.

Don't waste your money on the rage craws especially if you fish any structure like rocks or timber/wood. The craw appendages are made like crap and they break off very easily. Definately won't be able to use them for multiple fish.

The action is great but the bait is built so that the body is solid and nicely designed but the more important parts are very weak. This is from my observation on a river system with substantial current and lots of breaks. It may work better on a lake??? I'll let others chime in.

Was gonna add them to my smallie arsenal but I'll stick to the centipede type plastics, senkos and tubes for smallies.

I really had a blast with the Rage Tail shad last time out. After catching a few bass on it over a few different holes, I made a move into an area that was holding a large amount of shad. I started throwing the RT shad around and immediately hooked up but it was a white bass. Me and my partner ended up catching probably 40 - 50 white bass , a couple smallmouth and a couple largemouth in that one area and blew right thru 4 bags of Rage Tails. Well worth it.

All in all i've probably fished these on 20 outings or so and am pretty confident that it will be the only toad in my bag this year.

I'd give you mine, but I already gave them away. I tried all five in a bag and the only time they performed as I expected they should was when buzzing them over the water. Otherwise, they all rolled onto their sides or in one case all the way over. Not good performance IMO. Seems like everyone of them had one leg heavier than the others.

Nevertheless, I managed to get several strike and saw one bass pick one up.  I set the hook and yanked the hole frog out of its mouth.  The hook was still in the frog like I just put it there.  

I never had that problem with Horny Toads or Yum Buzz Frogs.  

Don't waste your money on the rage craws especially if you fish any structure like rocks or timber/wood. The craw appendages are made like crap and they break off very easily. Definately won't be able to use them for multiple fish.

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Your kidding right!!??  Those things last forever unless a fish happens to rip the butt end real bad.Any swimming craw bait is going to have the claws break if a dink grabs it too.

The paca craw for instance is a very superior bait,but try to get it to last more than maybe 2 fish.The Yum aint bad either,nor is the berkley,both of which seriously lack action compared to the rage,and both suffer from breaks really bad.

I have caught uo to 15 fish flipping with these on one bait and uo to 4-5 on average.This bait is superb for durability,and is the finest I have ever used for pitching cover and or dragging across rocks and structure.

Used the rage trailers on the jig and they worked great.Only problem was i went through a bag in one day. Only got one fish out of some of them.Seem to tear easy,maybe it was the bag.

I'm a huge fan of the rage tail craws, shad, and toads. All have produced well for me and I haven't had any problem with any of the lures tearing up. I fish heavy grass, timber, boulders, and rip-rap in lake-type settings, and I've gotten at least a few fish per lure. I highly recommend them...especially the shad. This thing is starting to replace buzzbaits in my tacklebox.

Hey Brian, tried the shad today and used them weightless with a #5 wide hook, they did rip the water up, put'em on texas rig and slowed down some, they did pretty good. Are you having most succes with them wieghtless?

I picked up a pack of smoke and pearl, is them the only colors on the shad?

Ive fished the Rage Tail Craws and the Rage Tail Chunks. Both worked simply incredible for me, definetly an amazing bait. Only problem I had was as everyone stated, the claws tear pretty easily. But this won't get me to stop buying them because the action is great/catch rate is great. I just wish someone will invent a craw/trailer in the future that has the same action and claws don't rip easy at all.