I wanted to post this because this style of lure has loaded the boat for us time and again fishing in Canada for smallmouth bass. I suspect in any nothern waters it will work just as well. I refer to them a Red Fish Magic style baits since we use not only the branded version from Strke King but construct our own versions from Slayer components and Mission Fishin jigs to name a few. We discovered the effectivenss by accident back in 2005. I left in a hurry for the Canada trip and had maybe 20 of the Red Fish Magic baits in my duffel from a saltwater trip a few weeks before. Tying one on just to see if it would get hit resulted in fish right way. Loads of them! in fact since we started using the bait we have landed walleye, smallmouth, largemouth, pike and musky. Some of the last two have exceeded 40lbs. Quite a lure and a real sleeper in northern freshwater.
