So I jumped on the Ragetail Bandwagon... Now what?

[Blues19]

Thanks Big O

[rondef]

All you have to do is toss the baits out and then hold on tight.  These baits are amazing and they are the only plastics that I use any more.

[Fishing Rhino]

For the sake of full disclosure, those on a strict budget need to be judicious in their use.

Any who have read my posts know that I am effusive if my praise of the rage tail baits.

But, the very thing that makes them effective, their wild action, has one drawback.  They are fragile, especially the small appendages of the lizard and space monkey.

The loss of those appendages do not seem (to me anyway) to diminish their fish catching ability.

Bluegills, crappie, yellow perch, and other "nibblers" seem to go for those parts.  

Pickerel sever the larger parts with ease.

Lately, I've been using the craws because the smaller fish have become extremely active, and destructive.

I have about seven one clawed craws on the bottom of my canoe from yesterday's fishing.

But I also caught a bunch of bass, several decent and one lunker.  More than a fair trade-off to me.

But for those counting pennies, this post is a heads up.

[roadwarrior]

Well now, it's like two different views which are both right!

"I say the glass is half full, you say it's half empty."

As a long time GYCB fan, I find Rage Tail plastics to be

extremely durable. In fact, I would prefer a softer

plastic with the same bait designs.

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[Bassin_Fin@tic]

Well now, it's like two different views which are both right!

"I say the glass is half full, you say it's half empty."

As a long time GYCB fan, I find Rage Tail plastics to be

extremely durable. In fact, I would prefer a softer

plastic with the same bait designs.

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x2 The rage products are especially durable.I can re-use a craw or annaconda many many times and they are also very compatible with mend-it.

As far as claws,tails,appendages falling off I would like one person to name me a plastic bait,any bait at all that doesn't happen too.Well of course it will not happen if you don't like catching fish.

[Fishing Rhino]

Well, you cannot glue what you do not have.

They are not merely torn, they are gone.

The toad, the craw, and the anaconda are durable.  As durable as any other plastic bait.

Perhaps there are more of the little "robbers" where I fish.

But since they occupy the same bottom as the lunkers, there is no escaping them.

This problem of amputation is a recent occurrence as activity of all fish, particularly the "undesirables" has picked up.

Maybe it's the way I fish them, but since they catch plenty of bass, I'm not about to change it.

I will say that a single rage tail can catch many bass.  I've done it, and during that time frame, I might have argued that they are durable.

Maybe with the spawn over, the little critters have returned to the lily pad beds and other areas where the bass had been spawning, and shooing away intruders.

There is no way of getting away from them now.

Other than for jigs irretrievably hung on the bottom, I lost my first "rig" of the year a couple of days ago.

Felt a heavy rap, set the hook, started to fight the fish, and tick, the line went slack.  Hook with wacky rigged worms, gone.  Yes, that's right, wormS.

Bad knot tie?  That was my first thought.  

When I examined the 30 pound test fluoro leader, it had been sliced off at an angle, as if cut by a knife.  Pickerel no doubt.

[ChiCityBasser]

Glad to say I jumped on board starting with the Rage Tail Chunks and Shad. I tried the Shad out and love the action but now hits but the water temps were still low when I tried it out. Next trip out I tried the Rage Chunks on a Stike King KVD Swim Jig and and 7 quick hits and my personal best of 2.5lbs so far. I love the action and now I've added the Rage Craws to my arsenal and last night I added the Rage Toads as well. So far the Blue has been my most productive in the Chunks but have the Green Pumpkin in the rest and for the Toads I with with the Green Pumpkin and Chartreuse and the Green Pumpkin and White and they will both get some use over the weekend.

Great baits and love the action of them all