Pesky Bluegill And The Rage Craw

[airborne_angler]

Anyone else have issues of getting a bite,setting the hook,only to have your Rage Craw come back stripped of its claws? Had a few occurrences yesterday. On one occasion I had what felt like might be a soft strike,I gave it some tension to determine if it was weeds or not.and it was like a tug of war,I got the bait away from the fish,only to have that fish or another come right back and grab it again.Mustve been a Bluegill or Green Sunfish,because the claws were gone when I finished the retrieve.

[Bluebasser86]

Small bass will steal your pinchers too. I set the hook anyways. I'd rather loose the claws on my bait than pull it away from a light biting big fish. I don't remember who it was that said it but someone on here called a clawless Rage craw a "Rage Turd". On a bad day I'll have Rage Turds all over the bottom of the boat

[airborne_angler]

Rage Turd...Thats Classic. Yea swinging and missing doesnt cost anything except a little energy and sometimes aggravation and frustration. Makes it so worth it when you suspect its a strike,but cant tell for sure,swing and get a solid mass that almost rips the rod out of your hand when it doubles over,not that its REALLY ever happened,but I can imagine.

[jkarol24]

Small bass will steal your pinchers too.

Hmm, i have just the opposite thought. I've found that bigger fish will steal the claws and not take the whole thing (maybe they are cautious, smarter, who knows...). On the contrary, smaller fish seem to be more aggressive and eat the whole thing.

On a side note, i've recently downsized my jig trailers so that the claws are very close to and/or are in the skirt so the fish would have a hard time eating just the claws. I've noticed a decent increase in hookups and size.

[clayton86]

Small bass will steal your pinchers too. I set the hook anyways. I'd rather loose the claws on my bait than pull it away from a light biting big fish. I don't remember who it was that said it but someone on here called a clawless Rage craw a "Rage Turd". On a bad day I'll have Rage Turds all over the bottom of the boat

same here I remember one trip i went threw a whole pack and then some trying to figure out what kept stealing the pincers im not exaggerating either every single cast resulted in a strike and then no claws I don't think a single one hit the water twice. this went on for a good 10 minutes then my nephew threw a off brand cheapo craw in there and pulled out a 1.5lb bull head I was so PO'd hog of a bullhead though

[Ima Bass Ninja]

Happens allot in the rivers i fish. throw a bait in there and its like a machine gun going off on your bait. I had to switch to yum money craw so i wouldn't blow thruogh 2 packs a day. The claws on those are much thicker and i don't get nearly the amount of lost claws due to bluegill.

[Mumpy]

This is funny, because last week I had a Spotted Bass take one of my Claws off my RageCraw and I immediately took it off, threw it away and put a new one on. 5 casts later, another claw gone, immediately took it off, threw it away, put another one back on.

Then my dad say's to me... "Have you never seen a Crawdad with one Claw?"

Which got me to thinking... Wouldn't this give the Crawdad a more "Vulnerable" apperance to a fish? lol, just a thought

[airborne_angler]

Yeah it would give it a vulnerable appearance,but I'm not sure the action on the Rage Craw would be so pronounced and attractive. May even throw the bait off kilter so it would be out of balance.

[grimlin]

Lost 4 rage tail grubs to bluegills back to back casts.......They rip kinda easy. :/

I have caught a bunch of fish with them though...so I really can't complain too much.

[DrNip]

Happened here last weekend on me. Felt a double tug, tried setting the hook and that was it for the claws. Was left with a rage turd.

[clayton86]

I'll still use them with 1 claw some times but I have noticed times where the fish don't mind and others they do i'll toss it in 2 claws constant hits one gets ripped I throw it back in nothing a few casts of saying I don't understand happened I switch to a fresh bait and bam hits like crazy again.

[unionman]

This is funny, because last week I had a Spotted Bass take one of my Claws off my RageCraw and I immediately took it off, threw it away and put a new one on. 5 casts later, another claw gone, immediately took it off, threw it away, put another one back on.

Then my dad say's to me... "Have you never seen a Crawdad with one Claw?"

Which got me to thinking... Wouldn't this give the Crawdad a more "Vulnerable" apperance to a fish? lol, just a thought

Ive noticed the claws riping easy too. Rage needs to address that problem... I will say that I had a Rage frog get one of its legs ripped off and they seemed to love it more. I caught 19 bass on it!