Catch fish on the strangest shapes!

[Spoonminnow]

I was screwing around with parts of different lures to see what might go together to create a unique action. Craw soft plastics have collected dust in my basement for years but for some reason one claw design caught my attention:


So I fused it to a grub body using a candle flame but had another idea: sprinkle some glitter on a surface, brush on some Mend-It glue for soft plastics and press both sides of the claw on the glitter.

That sucka caught bass and crappie!


A few weeks ago I used this claw design which didn't have much action yet caught fish.


The flatter design flaps, quivers & flashes which in the algae green water I fished yesterday was probably what made fish take notice in water over 8' deep. Got into a group of crappie (more widely dispersed fish but in one area) and caught a dozen before the heat finally got to me.

[Ketchn]

if you think that's a strange shape just wait till you see Bob's Jigs newest item .
its about the wildest thing I ever seen my friend .
hopefully he will post a view of it up
and yes that is pretty odd as a crappie bait but to be sure I used some "crayfish" as you folks call them type a baits for crappie myself .
my largest white and black crappie I know of both ate crawfish shaped baits ...Crazy Angler Crawlerz
cool bait you got there

[Dollfly]

I always enjoy reading about your creations, very interesting.

[trypman1]

Looking good,

[Spoonminnow]

Caught 4species this morning using the craw claw hybrid.

[river scum]

you better carve out a mold to pour some man! very nice job

[Spoonminnow]

you better carve out a mold to pour some man! very nice job

Good thing is that I have in storage over twenty craw worms (40 claws) and a ton of curl tail grubs I'll never use except to make hybrid lures.
But now I've gotten a new appreciation of putting glitter on the surface of different designs that look amazing when retrieved different ways.

[dhaire]

Interesting post. Thanks.


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