Spro BBZ-1 Rat

[Rodney Smith]

What is the most productive color rat, a natural brown or gray one or one of the wild colors like morning dawn?

[Advantage]

Morning Dawn is the only color I need.

[Rodney Smith]

Size 30?

[BassB8Caster]

Morning dawn size 40!

[Angry John]

I use the natural gray color in the 40 size.  It does good but it's the only color I have tried.  The natural look is ok for me in any condition, but bill simatel uses the 50 in morning dawn 

[d-camarena]

Ninja works great 

[deep]

Yes.

 

No seriously, get the color you think you'll have confidence in.

[Angry John]

Be careful at places with dogs

[WestBranch]

 morning dawn and nasty shad

 

[Brett's_daddy]

I have the natural brown color in size 30 that works well for me. I recently bought the Morning Dawn color in size 30 too but haven't thrown it yet...hopefully I'll have as much luck with that as i do the brown.

[WRB]

Surface lures the color on the belly is what a bass see and the silhouette motion the lure makes. Use whatever color you have confidence to use. I prefer Brown's and greys in rats.

The BBZ-1 rat similar in size to the critters in your area, the original size 50 works where I fish using a moderate action 1-5 oz swimbait rod. You don't need to over work a rat, waking it along the surface works good for me.

Tom 

[DINK WHISPERER]

I use the white in the 50 size. Catches dinks and pigs alike. 

 

[Bluebasser86]

I've had good luck with Morning Dawn in the bigger sizes, and Chrome in the 30. 

[BassB8Caster]

for those of you that fish the morning dawn color, they come with a yellow tail out of the package. I had great success when i got it (i think it was around June). I have caught many good fish on it. But it got beat up and the tail broke. I now have one of the extra tails that come with it, which is purple. I have since had no bites with the rat with a purple tail. Anyone seeing anything like this? We are having cool nights here in Maine, so water temps should be coming down a bit. The rat should still do well. Could a yellow vs purple tail make all the difference?

[Comfortably Numb]

I started with a size 50 black/white belly. Amazing topwater bait. Kinda hard to throw and you need to lob it with a heavy rod.

 

I now use the size 40 in brown. Much easier for accurate cast on a MH. Still catches all size fish. 

 

Work it slow.

[Bluebasser86]

11 hours ago, BassB8Caster said:

for those of you that fish the morning dawn color, they come with a yellow tail out of the package. I had great success when i got it (i think it was around June). I have caught many good fish on it. But it got beat up and the tail broke. I now have one of the extra tails that come with it, which is purple. I have since had no bites with the rat with a purple tail. Anyone seeing anything like this? We are having cool nights here in Maine, so water temps should be coming down a bit. The rat should still do well. Could a yellow vs purple tail make all the difference?

Might be the contrast that they like. My buddy got more tails by contacting Spro directly because he had a similar experience with his Morning Dawn rat. 

[Dustyh]

I've had great success with the 30 size in Nasty Shad color. Smallies love this bait! I only use this if the water surface is smooth as glass.

[NHBull]

Morning dawn, brown Grey, black, in that order for me.

 

I seriously doubt that colors matter when the bite is on.

 

If buying one, flip a coin for MD or Brn 

 

The second should be black for night fishing 

[BassB8Caster]

6 hours ago, Bluebasser86 said:

Might be the contrast that they like. My buddy got more tails by contacting Spro directly because he had a similar experience with his Morning Dawn rat. 

Good advice. Ill give it a try

[Bluebasser86]

On 8/31/2017 at 5:02 AM, BassB8Caster said:

Good advice. Ill give it a try

@BassB8Caster not sure if you're still looking, but if you are.

http://www.tacklewarehouse.com/Spro_BBZ-1_Rat_Replacement_Tails_2pk/descpage-SBBZRT.html

[BassB8Caster]

Thank you very much. Greatly appreciate it