Maniac, welcome buddy, and i'm the same way with perfect plastics game hawgs. they are my all time QB. i've gotten bit reeling fast, yo-yoing, twitching and crawling, deadsticking, you name it, it's bad to the bone. i trim em down as they get torn up and still catch fish big and small until it just won't fit on a hook anymore. it's replaced my baby brush hog because its a tad thicker/heavier (but not as bulky as the regular brush hog) and is petroleum based so it slides through cover well. all colors produce. HOWEVER, the zoom magnum finesse worm is really starting to give the game hog a run for its money. the secret is combining a standard worm retrieve with a soft jerkbait retrieve so it darts around on the bottom with frequent pauses... that worm is almost designed for that....this has caught me more bass in the past year than i can remember.