tackle monkey got me - Berkley Beaver Wake Bait

[Plottman1974]

https://www.dickssportinggoods.com/p/berkley-beaver-wake-bait-20bkyabrklybvrwkblur/20bkyabrklybvrwkblur

 

Picked this thing up from Dicks yesterday.  It looks interesting.  It reminds me of a fat whopper plopper with a super fat tail.  anyway ever seen/used this lure?  I had not seen it.

[Big Swimbait]

Does it come with both tails? The description didn't mention the prop. Or is it 2 separate baits?

[jbsoonerfan]

4 hours ago, Big Swimbait said:

Does it come with both tails? The description didn't mention the prop. Or is it 2 separate baits?

Same....is it a wake bait with the straight tail or a rear prop style bait? Literally one of the worse listings I have ever seen. 

[Jig Rookie]

It looks like it's interchangeable--you can fish it with the plopper tail and no bill for a buzzbait style, or you switch the tail and add the bill and it's a wake-and-crank (reel faster and lower your rod tip to crank it down, otherwise it wakes the surface). Newer in the swimbait game are these multi-purpose, variable baits where you can adjust/switch out lips and tails to get different actions or fish a different part of the column with the same bait. DRT (Division Rebels Tackle) Japan was the first I saw with this trend. 

[galyonj]

14 minutes ago, Jig Rookie said:

It looks like it's interchangeable--you can fish it with the plopper tail and no bill for a buzzbait style

What, is it a kit?

 

How are the line tie and bill interchangeable when one example doesn't even have a slot for the bill?

 

Edit: I don't mean to sound like I'm giving you a hard time, I'm just thoroughly confused by this listing.

[Fishes in trees]

I'm still on "wait & see" mode when it comes to Berkley hard baits.  I remember back in the day when they came out with the Frenzy series of hard baits.   As I recall there was a medium diver, deep diver, jerk bait and a lipless crank.   Both divers and the jerk bait were junk, IMO. Molded plastic - not always molded perfectly -  difficult to tune - generic paint jobs.  They didn't have a square bill - the medium diver & deep diver had rounded bills.  If the slightly offset molds would have hunted & fished like pre-Rapala wiggle warts, might have been a different story, but they didn't.  They were just hard to tune.  I think that the pro who hawked these baits in the magazines the most, his career kinda tanked for a few years after he promoted these baits.   Serves him right - they weren't that good a bait, IMO.

Now, there Frenzy Lipless crank - that bait is gold IMO. I have 4 or 5 left.   My first and generally only choice when I decide to throw lipless cranks.

 

So, that's 1 out of 4, I'm going to wait before I drink the Kool aid on this new generation of Berkley hard baits.   The old Frenzy baits did have a pretty unique packaging approach that if I was a hard bait manufacturing company I might want to imitate ( individual hard plastic rectangular boxes with a plastic plug on top.

 

Besides I'm getting ready to drink the Kool-aid on a set of the Strike King 10 XD hard baits.   6 or 8 of those and a box to keep them in and all of a sudden I'm out $150 more or less.  But I know a few brush piles in 15 to 20 feet of water that I don't think have ever seen a crank bait smacked into them, so who knows.   That could be Ms Big Bass summer home.

 

[Jig Rookie]

3 hours ago, galyonj said:

What, is it a kit?

 

How are the line tie and bill interchangeable when one example doesn't even have a slot for the bill?

 

Edit: I don't mean to sound like I'm giving you a hard time, I'm just thoroughly confused by this listing.

Not at all, it is definitely a confusing listing. I guess you'd call it a "kit":  probably comes with one body, two tails (plopper and straight), and a lip. But yeah, the first image doesn't show a lip slot like on the DRT baits, so the only thing I can figure is the lip piece is actually an interchangeable nose piece (notice in the pic the actual nose is different on the two images), one nose is plain the other is lipped. If so, that doesn't give me much confidence about fighting a fish with an interchangeable line-tie piece. Could just be a prototype--give em a few seasons, they might eventually get it right. 

[Plottman1974]

Hello.  Well, there are 2 versions.  one version with a "plopper" tail and one version with a flat tail.  I bought the flat tail version.  it weighs a little over an ounce and will have a large profile in the water.  

[galyonj]

20 hours ago, Jig Rookie said:

...so the only thing I can figure is the lip piece is actually an interchangeable nose piece (notice in the pic the actual nose is different on the two images), one nose is plain the other is lipped. If so, that doesn't give me much confidence about fighting a fish with an interchangeable line-tie piece.

 

I thought about it after I posted yesterday and that's all I could come up with as well. Like you, I'm not sure how comfortable I'd be trying to bring a bass in with a line-tie that's LEGO connected to the rest of the lure. lol

 

I think it's more likely that the image DSG and/or Berkley chose to represent the product is just not good at representing the product in context of the text description.

 

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[jgordon]

Haha this thing is great I love that they are making just whatever.  If nothing else cool to just have hanging around.  Its like the whopper plopper to me I have fished the crap out of it and must be doing it wrong one fish in farm pond.  The sound though makes me laugh when using it. 

[moguy1973]

I wonder if this is a Dicks exclusive bait.  Not seeing it on Berkeley’s website. Only places I’m seeing it is on Dicks and Field and Stream (same company)

[jgordon]

Our local Dicks quit selling fishing gear over a year ago I found out last week only online anymore. 

[rboat]

Strange ad, it does not state size, weight, or what model of the lure you are ordering. Be interesting to hear if it works.

[PhishLI]

4 hours ago, rboat said:

Strange ad, it does not state size, weight, or what model of the lure you are ordering

Here you go

 

 

[Travis Gasper]

Hold up.... I NEED one of these, or two actually. One to use and one to hang on the bait wall. Dicks website only had the Wake version, not the Choppo. I ordered two of the Wake, one in each color. Can anybody point me in the direction or help me obtain one or two of the Bucktooth Choppo? I found a YouTube video with them in. The action looks amazing, just like a regular plopper or Choppo. 

[Spankey]

The ole beaver ? has caught a lot of fisherman over the years. 

[Brett's_daddy]

My question is this...when has a bass (even a Biggun') ever attacked a beaver 

[Spankey]

46 minutes ago, Brett's_daddy said:

My question is this...when has a bass (even a Biggun') ever attacked a beaver 

This is the first I’ve seen or heard of this beaver.  Bass do not go through my mind at first. Same with that top water duck that has been out for awhile. 
 

But I can see a Musky showing a lot of interest. 
 

I hope the OP catches a nice bass on it. I guess that was Berkley’s intention for bass. 

 

Having a beaver ? around can never hurt. 
 

 

[Bluebasser86]

I got one of the wake versions and 100% plan on catching fish with it.

 

A bass isn't smart enough to look and realize it's supposed to look like a beaver. At best, maybe they think it's a rat.

[Timpson]

Just saw this today any updates on availability or how it works?

[Dogface]

I saw this at a Dicks Warehouse Sale store in Philly a few weeks ago. It was marked down to $7.00.

 

I went home and did some research. It was a Dicks exclusive by Berkley. 

 

I went back and purchased one and I have fished it. Its a typical plopper style bait. It runs great and sounds great but no fish yet.  

BTW it does look more like a rat than a beaver. 

[OG Crankster]

The choppo version was my best big fish producing lure last year. It rarely rolled on me and has a violent plop even when reeled in very slowly. My Dicks had buy 5 get 5 free.......yep, the monkey got me for 10 since they were limited.