Prop Baits

[Jim Sutter]

What is your favorite prop bait and what are your go to colors.  

[burrows]

IMA helips in blue gill color don’t know the exact name of the color but it looks perch of blue gill I only use them in the spring personally.

[papajoe222]

For me, it's a Smithwick Devil's Horse. Not sure what the color is called, but it's chrome with a splash of red at the nose and either a black or blue back.  My all time favorite was a WoodChopper. I'm down to my last one and don't throw it often because I'm concerned I may loose it.

[Jim Sutter]

Burro and papajoe222,

Thank you for your information relating to Prop Baits. Do either one of you throw them in the fall? If you don't, how come?

[WRB]

Prop lures or spy lures, top water vs underwater?

Tom

[bigbill]

Mr Twister Top Props comes with the MT split double 4" trailer. Steady retrieve or a 1-2-3 rip n pause. Or stop and let it fall almost vertical. It's a weedless bait too.  Either way the topwater action is at its best.

[DINK WHISPERER]

Devil's horse in bumble bee color (not actually called that). 

[Bluebasser86]

[scaleface]

 The largest 6 fish limit I ever caught was on one of these . Bomber Prop A . Also the largest on back to back cast .

 

[crypt]

Devils Horse.....

black,white bottom

[Catt]

Heddon Torpedo Black Shiner ?

[Fishingmickey]

Here's one for y'all. some of you older gents might remember it. Heddon Dying Flutter in bass coloration. It might still be my personal best five fish stringer. This was the wooden (cedar) version. I wish they still made them.

Fishingmickey

 

[J Francho]

I have a bunch of Dying Flutters.  They work.

[WRB]

6 hours ago, Bluebasser86 said:

Interesting new lure from R2Sea? looks a little different?

Tom

[riverbasser]

Cotton Cordell's "crazy shad" and also the "boy howdie"

[kbeeb374]

18 minutes ago, WRB said:

Interesting new lure from R2Sea? looks a little different?

Tom

Nope this is the Yo-zuri 3DB prop and it is awesome.  I have 5 of that same color.

[Brett's_daddy]

24 minutes ago, kbeeb374 said:

Nope this is the Yo-zuri 3DB prop and it is awesome.  I have 5 of that same color.

If you h ave Whopper Ploppers would it be redundant to get t hese?

[Choporoz]

Might be redundant to get five of them in the same color...lol...but don't tell the monkey I said so

[kbeeb374]

5 minutes ago, Brett's_daddy said:

If you h ave Whopper Ploppers would it be redundant to get t hese?

I fished side by side with someone else using a whopper plopper while I was using these.  I was catching them in places he wasn't and vice versa.  you can't have too many options

Just now, Choporoz said:

Might be redundant to get five of them in the same color...lol...but don't tell the monkey I said so

I got that color for $3 a piece so I bought them all haha.  my friend custom paints so I may have him help me out there

[WRB]

41 minutes ago, kbeeb374 said:

Nope this is the Yo-zuri 3DB prop and it is awesome.  I have 5 of that same color.

Thanks, 7/16 oz, 3 1/2" lure would be a good where I fish and like prism colors.

Tom

[Choporoz]

I like the plastic prop, too.  I have never gotten the hang of tuning metal props....drives me nuts

[Gundog]

Heddon Tiny Torpedo in leopard frog color has always been a great fall time top water bait for me. 

[Junger]

2 hours ago, kbeeb374 said:

Nope this is the Yo-zuri 3DB prop and it is awesome.  I have 5 of that same color.

What conditions do you throw the Yo-Zuri 3DB?  I have a couple of those and never got a single hit, where other poppers have produced. I do a straight retrieve and a rip-rip-stop retrieve.

[primetime]

Single Prop-Tiny Torpedo on light tackle-6-8lb test is a killer in any color. I usually throw a white/Redish color.

 

For a wake bait I love the Bagley's Bang O lure with single prop in back-Silver/Black stripe & Gold black stripe on dark days/water (Similar to the Bomber Long A with a prop on the back, only a lighter more buoyant balsa version. You can add a prop to any jerkbait.

 

I used to be a big fan of the Devil's horse, but I switched to the Rapala X-Rap Prop which seems to work better for me and casts better. Different action as well. 

 

The cordell crazy shad is the only double prop lure I have every had success on, I feel many of the others are too loud and aggressive, They only have a few colors, smokey Joe or silver black is all I have used. I fish this lure fast most of the time, Kind of like a buzzbait when fish are aggressive.

 

Growing up the first plastic worm I ever caught a bass on was a Creme Midget Crawler which is the Creme finesse worm, 2 rigged hooks, and a prop in the front. I fished that worm every trip I made and if I needed weight I added a split shot. I caught hundreds of bass on that rig growing up in NY, I forgot about it after getting my first job and placing my first bass pro order as a kid, but picked up a bunch from a local shop for .99 each a few years ago.....I now keep it in my main box, sometimes adding a prop just works, I don't think fish see it often. 

 

You can order props cheap, you can put one behind a popper and have a good bait, I find light line is key for prop baits, as light as possible.

[Bluebasser86]

13 hours ago, Brett's_daddy said:

If you h ave Whopper Ploppers would it be redundant to get t hese?

No, this are fished more like a popper with short twitches or rips, where the ploppers are more of a straight retrieve bait. They also have a different sound and surface commotion than a plopper. 

12 hours ago, Junger said:

What conditions do you throw the Yo-Zuri 3DB?  I have a couple of those and never got a single hit, where other poppers have produced. I do a straight retrieve and a rip-rip-stop retrieve.

I mainly use short twitches, generally in a twitch-twitch-pause cadence. I like to fish them around shallow, shoreline cover where fish are feeding on shad. It was a great bait around shoreline grass when the shad were spawning this summer.