Fish bit the strangest things!

[Spoonminnow]

As many of you know from some of my posts, I like modifying soft plastic lures and testing them in local waters.
Yesterday I took the claw from a 3" crawdad grub and attached it to part of the body of other lures. I didn't expect much just looking at it in my hand, but man did it catch fish!






Part of the success using the lure and other soft plastics was the 1/24 oz jig head that worked well in water 3-7' along a 50 yd stretch of shore. No other areas I hit had fish present which I found normal considering the weird year and above average rainfall. But using this design?!! The action in the water did reveal a nice twitch of the claw at the slowest retrieve.

Other modified lures allowed me to catch 43 fish in 5 hours.

Here are a few of the others:
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Variety is the spice of fishing IMO and it came through on what should have been a very difficult summer afternoon.

[KyTyer]

That claw makes a great looking tail.Good job.

[SuperDave336]

I still have a ton of my dads bass fishing plastics. I'm planning on modifying and following these steps as well as producing some jelly jigs. Very inspiring. Thanks for sharing.

[skeetbum]

Good job on the baits, unusual works best sometimes as they haven't seen it before. And I'll take a couple of dozen of those yellow perch. YUMMY!!!

[zig zag]

now you started something ----- all the plastic jig companies are gonna start making the claw jig

[trypman1]

Sweet!

[SKs Crappie Catching Adventures]

Gotta call that one "The Claw"......LOL

Nice catches....

[Nutbush]

That black claw looks like my #1 go to bait for bluegill: beetlespin!

[Jamesdean]

These look AWSOME!!!! glade they worked out real good. Just goes to show what a little imagination will do....catch Fish, and lots of them...Congratulations on a job well done, and thank you for sharing with us less imaginable....lol.

[Spoonminnow]

As usual it's my great pleasure sharing with gents such as yourself that are open to new ideas and appreciative of efforts posting photos that prove a point or two or three, etc, etc. LOL
Crappie.com is my favorite fishing site with its superb moderation and members.
Thanks again. More to follow.

(But I'm sure some lure companies aren't too happy especially when it comes to recycling lures via modification.....)