I hear about people fishing with beaver lures and the sucess that they have had so I tried them out. Maybe I was doing something wrong but it did not look like the beaver really had any action unless you jerked it. Just swimming it with a stop and go retrieve or jig / shaking it did not give it any life. Can someone explaine how they should be fished, or let me know if that is the purpose of the bait, to be suttle or displace very little water. Thanks.

I rig them with 1/2 to 1-1/2 oz. tungsten weight, pegged, and simply drop in between weeds.  If it hits bottom, give it a little shake, rest, try next hole.

Another way is to rig them on a football jig with an exposed hook in deep water.  Cast them out, let it settle, and work it slowly like a giant version of a shaky head.

I fish a blue Double Wide on a black 1/2 oz GMAN stand-up jig.

That's a big presentation and it works!

8-)

Angler1 the beaver style baits is a glide bait. It does not have a lot of action to the bait itself. There are a few ways to get a little bit more action like spliting the tails or with the Ugly otter you can trim the paddles in different manners . There are also few secret rigs I have seen to make the ugly otter into a really good sunfish imitator.  but for general fishing the beaver does not have a lot of action

I know that iaconnelli (however you spell it) is known to take a powerbait beast in a sunfish kinda color and rig it on a ball head jig so that the hook comes out the thin side of the beaver. Makes it swim parallel to the hook and has a profile like a small bluegill swimbait of sorts - never tried it myself

4/0 hook 1/8oz tt weight. Flip/pitch it up under docks and hang on! When it hits bottom.....1 wiggle then move on!

i flip it mostly with no more than a 1/4oz weight... letting it have most of the action on the fall. the less weight you have the more it glides.

like the rest said its kinda of a fast moving thing. let if fall...bump it... pick it up.

they make pretty good c-rig baits too...................

C rig it. It's all in the glide.

Fish it anyway you like!

I like to fish the Reaction Innovations Sweat Beaver on a 2/0 EWG hook with a 1/4 oz tungsten bullet weight (not pegged). Cast it out and work it like a jig. Another option is to fish it weightless, these baits glide ALOT when rigged weightless.

-Jason

3/4oz TT weight and a 4/0 Gammy EWG hook pitched in the slop!