What Is Your Favorite Buzzbait?

[Bluebasser86]

3/8oz black on black Cavitron, not even a close second. 

[roadwarrior]

3/8oz black on black Cavitron, not even a close second. 

 

Great  lure!

[Frenchman83]

Cavitron. To get it ready, I tie it on.

What he said. I like black with gold, black with gold, black with gold, and white.

[JohnnyF]

I second all the cavitron posts. Love the way it sounds

[Wfo123]

When u say a skirt and trailer , you mean the skirt that come on it and a trailer hook or u put a grub on the hook on the buzzbait?

[FrogTosser88]

Small SK white... Is the only one i seem to get hits on.. The bigger baits or the ones with clackers dont seem to work where I fish

[rangerjockey]

I buy most of mine from a Local guy here on Table Rock . If I buy any from the store it's War Eagle.

[Mainebass1984]

Cavitrons work well. The best producing buzzbait I own are fleck buzzbaits. They are incredibly hard to find. I am pretty sure they aren't made anymore. When I called up the guy that made them he said he was going out of business. He said he couldn't compete with the big name stores anymore. I bought the last 6 that he made. The are 1/2 ounce white blade and white skirt. It has a three wing blade made out plastic. The plastic blade lets me fish it very very slow and makes a distinctly different sound then the metal bladed buzzbaits that are so popular today. It catches big fish day or night.

[coak]

I'm thinking of running a fluke or "shad" soft plastic as a trailer?  Will this effect the lure getting up on plane at all or having problems with the retrieve not coming straight in?

[Wayne P.]

Custom jointed:

 

 

 

 

I get them ready for fishing by tying one on.

[tcbass]

Custom jointed:

I get them reading for fishing by tying one on.

What's the point of the really long shaft?

[Wayne P.]

Ask the company that markets Booyah. That style was a production model for a while.

 

It takes care of short strikers like adding a trailer hook or two on short models. I assume.

They are demos, only cast one of them for a few minutes. 

[ChrisD46]

Cavitron. Hands down the best. 

+1 ...Cavitron is all you need to know .

[Bass Junkie]

Damiki MTB is my personal favorite. Quality components, hand tied skirt, great overall design, and good durability.

[tcbass]

Ask the company that markets Booyah. That style was a production model for a while.

 

It takes care of short strikers like adding a trailer hook or two on short models. I assume.

They are demos, only cast one of them for a few minutes. 

 

 

 

Ok. Well, I just purchased one of the long shaft Booyah ones at Cabelas like yours. They are on sale for $1.99.

 

 

 

I'll see how they go. I take it you like the long shaft ones? Do you get less misses?

[warpath58]

My favorite is a D & M double hammer followed by a D & M slow roller I also like lunker lures. The one thing I make sure I have are clockwise and counterclockwise blades on buzzbaits, that way when I throw it around a stump or tree I can throw one on the right side and then the other on the left side so it will run up to the stump or tree and climb all the way around the base. To get them ready to fish I hang them on my truck antenna and drive to the lake, by the time I get on the water they have a great squeak.     

[CarolinaBoy4Life]

D&M buzzbaits would be my choice as well. Only buzzbaits I use. Great company and great quality as well

[fishballer06]

Only thing I could catch them on yesterday was a black Cavitron with a red blade. Caught a few nice 3-4 pounders.

[tcbass]

Custom jointed:

 

 

 

 

 

 

I get them ready for fishing by tying one on.

 

 

 

 

Interesting design. I wonder if the o-ring prevents pressure and stress on the wire when a fish is on it thus allowing the lure to not get so easily beaten up.

[Wayne P.]

Ok. Well, I just purchased one of the long shaft Booyah ones at Cabelas like yours. They are on sale for $1.99.

 

 

 

I'll see how they go. I take it you like the long shaft ones? Do you get less misses?

I don't use them. They are demos

[Wayne P.]

Interesting design. I wonder if the o-ring prevents pressure and stress on the wire when a fish is on it thus allowing the lure to not get so easily beaten up.

The joint lessens the leverage that the fish has to throw it. 

Some of them just have a joint without the split ring. Those are for fishing around grass.

[CWB]

My favorite is a D & M double hammer followed by a D & M slow roller I also like lunker lures. The one thing I make sure I have are clockwise and counterclockwise blades on buzzbaits, that way when I throw it around a stump or tree I can throw one on the right side and then the other on the left side so it will run up to the stump or tree and climb all the way around the base. To get them ready to fish I hang them on my truck antenna and drive to the lake, by the time I get on the water they have a great squeak.

To get a good squeak, make sure the rivet is flat and 90 degrees to the shaft and the tab at the back of the blade is perfectly flush with the rivet. This will give you the most squeal and not risk losing one out the window. The tab must make full contact with the rivet. Hanging it on your antenna may work but will wear it out pretty quick.

[warpath58]

To get a good squeak, make sure the rivet is flat and 90 degrees to the shaft and the tab at the back of the blade is perfectly flush with the rivet. This will give you the most squeal and not risk losing one out the window. The tab must make full contact with the rivet. Hanging it on your antenna may work but will wear it out pretty quick.

Yeah that works too, but not near as much fun ! You should see the looks I get going down the highway and knock on wood I haven't lost one yet.

[Brocephus Fishing]

Back when the buzz bait craze first started - late 70's where I was living at the time - I acquired an original Lunker Lure Buzz bait.  I used it for years and in certain situations it worked great.  It is gone now and I don't know what happened to it - probably lost it in action but I don't know that.  Now I own lots of different brands of buzz baits and they all work about the same.  That being said, I don't catch a lot of fish on a buzz bait, conditions for them don't happen all that often on the lakes that I fish.

 

Thanks for reminding me about the Cavitron.  I do own one and next time I think a buzz bait might work I will tie on that one and see what happens.  For me, every time the fish are in the 4 to 7 foot grass and you think a buzz bait might work, swimming a worm through the grass seems to work much better for me.

 

You can still purchase the original Lunker Lure buzzbait at ***.com for roughly 5$.

 

Rhino68W

Lunker Lure buzzbaits are my go-to with Cavitron being a close second (can't go wrong with either). I fish most of mine utilizing the skirt, but occassionally I'll remove the skirt and fish it with a small swimbait or grub, depending on what the fish want.

 

As far as getting it ready...I always make sure the wire leading to the blade is in-line with the hook (makes it run straight), then I'll clamp the pop-rivet down on the wire and flatten the top of it out to match the part of the blade that it meets with (will make it squeak more and you want squeaky), and then I may or may not tie it to my car antenna and drive around with it to work the contact point between the pop-rivet and blade. Other than that, I may or may not add a trailer hook. Hope that helps.