I went out to play with the new ragetail baits yesterday morning. First I tried the baby thumper, texas rigged on a 4/0 hook with a 1/8 oz tungsten bullet weight. I took a picture of the first fish, and caught a couple more close to the same size. I'm sure I'll get some bigger fish on this bait as well. It looks like it will be a great shakey head worm and a nice drop shot worm too.

Next I rigged the ragetail shrimp on a 3/0 superline hook with a 3/8 oz tungsten flippin weight and pitched it to the edge of some shoreline vegetation. I caught a couple fish on it but then I noticed some splashing way back in the grass and knew it was toad time. Unfortunately, I set the hook too quickly on most of the toad fish. I caught a couple fish around a pound and a half, but missed some nicer ones. I also caught a couple with a texas rigged craw.

The shrimp is really cool, I can't wait to try to fish it some other ways. I played around with it in the aquarium before I went out to get a feel for how it would act with different weights and hooks. With a 5/0 superline hook in it, it almost suspends- it sinks very, very slowly. With a 4/0 superline hook in it, it floats with the tail touching the surface and the front slightly submerged. With a 3/0 superline hook in it, it floats completely horizontal on top of the water. I can't wait to try it on a carolina rig, with a smaller hook so it floats up above the weight. It looks like it will be a great drop shot bait as well. This elaztek stuff is crazy. I don't understand how something so tough can be so flexible. I rigged and re-rigged the same bait over and over while I was playing with it, and I couldn't even tell that it had been pierced by a hook. You can stretch these things to more than double their length and it just snaps back with no apparent stretching or distortion. I hope more ragetail baits come out in this kind of plastic. Rigging it was a challenge at first, because it's kinda hard to 'texpose' or skin hook this kind of plastic until you get used to how it acts. I can't wait to fish it some more. The bass didn't seem to care that it was designed for saltwater.

That's terrific ETB    If you ever wear out the head of the shrimp...just cut the front half of the body off and thread it on a small jig as a trailer...a jig has never had it so good        

Can't dip in JJ's though, will make a mess 

Big O

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Thanks for the warning about the JJ's.  I didn't have any with me, but I probably would have tried it next time.   

Great pics and nice report on the new baits! I've been itching to get my hands on these.

Steve when did these things hit the market? I really thought that the SK facebook page said they weren't coming out until Fall.

I'm going to go get some of those shrimps and thumper worms. The minute I saw those shrimp I thought "jig trailer!"

Awesome Etb!  Can't wait to give them a try myself.

My next plastics order will be all rage tail after looking at the toad swim, d**n

Nice!

J.

I cant think of one rage product that doesnt catch fish! Nice fish!