The first soft plastic bait I ever threw. The lizard.

[Darth-Baiter]

I bought a pack a few days ago.  I usually rig them  t-rig style.  Clip off the head so the worm-sinker substituted the shape. I remember an old timer telling mr salamanders eat fish eggs (?).  I believed him then.
 

this time?  I hooked it up on the drop shot. It was fantastic. I was pulling bass from the deeper pockets off shore, and pulling them straight off the bank.  Just a plain boring brown zoom lizard.  I love the hard tick of a bass hitting a drop-shot bait. 
 

I switched to a tuna bubblegum pink roboworm and the little bass went after it.  Back to the lizard, the bass got bigger. It was odd. 
 

I don’t see a lot of people in my area fishing with a lizard much anymore.  It all Senkos and Neds.  (The work great tho). I got zero love with a SENKO wacky-style. 

[scaleface]

I use lizards a lot on Texas rigs .

[GreenPig]

Zoom 4" Lizard on the dropshot is very effective post spawn into the Summer here.

[00bullitt]

Zoom Lizards are still my go to. Texas Rig, Carolina Rig, Power Shot, Drop Shot, Neko Rig, .....its the OG creature bait. And BTW......Neko rigged lizards get crushed where I am.

[Mobasser]

Lots of guys think of lizards as only a spring/spawn type bait, but they work all season. In a couple of lakes I fish, I've never seen any salamanders or lizards there. But the bass still hit them.  I just use Zoom 6" or sometimes 4" lizards Texas rigged or shakey head. Cast em anywhere and everywhere that looks good. A 6" or bigger lizard reeled slowly over vegetation can be good also.

[813basstard]

I hate to be ‘that guy’ but I highly, highly doubt the fish know it’s a lizard. Or a worm..or a creature bait...or anything else we think they’re thinking.

Im almost convinced they are a lot like me in college..stumble home, open the fridge and grab the first thing that looks like food.

 

Heres the secret tho: If you think it works, guess what, it works.

[papajoe222]

I’m one of those guys that puts tem away after the spawn. Not that they wouldn’t produce then, I just switch gears come summertime. Hard baits and big worms , or boot tail swimbaits are my go to’s and finesse when called for. 

[roadwarrior]

15 minutes ago, 813basstard said:

I hate to be ‘that guy’ but I highly, highly doubt the fish know it’s a lizard. Or a worm..or a creature bait...or anything else we think they’re thinking.

Im almost convinced they are a lot like me in college..stumble home, open the fridge and grab the first thing that looks like food.

 

Heres the secret : If you think it works, guess what, it works.

 

Call them what you like, but different profiles work better than others at times.

The lizard is "old school". As much as I like the Structure Bug, Craws and a variety

of worms, the Rage Lizard is a staple for me.

[GreenPig]

58 minutes ago, 813basstard said:

I hate to be ‘that guy’ but I highly, highly doubt the fish know it’s a lizard. Or a worm..or a creature bait...or anything else we think they’re thinking.

Im almost convinced they are a lot like me in college..stumble home, open the fridge and grab the first thing that looks like food.

 

Heres the secret tho: If you think it works, guess what, it works.

I agree but after everybody and their cousins have shown the fish 800 gazillion Roboworms, I'll give them a different profile with the lizard.

[Johnbt]

Back before Christmas I found 3 big bags of these buried in one of the old, old bins of fishing stuff. I can't even guess how old they are, maybe 25 or 30 years, or the last time I used one. The first time I used one was so long ago it may have been when I caught my first 7-pound bass. I think I'll take a handful with me in the morning.

 

[MAN]

Lizards still work just as good as the day they were introduced.  They are just not the latest and greatest, and thats what we put all the marketing behind to help catch the fisherman...woops I mean fish.  

[Wildbillb]

Lizards don't work.  Send them to me to melt down and repurpose.