I've been posting your message for years: soft plastics have the most potential uses than any lure made. Hundreds of photos in hundreds of posts I've made have illustrated this. Glad to see you've discovered uses for the Stinger tail as well as the others. You may want to try a candle-flame union of different parts (examples in my posts). No one is saying hybrid lures are superior to anything bought but that many will catch fish as well as if not better than anything sold. I find lure variety and various presentations preferable to using the same thing year after year.