Heddon Spit'n Image -How?

[catchnm]

How's the best way to fish these? Like a Spook or Sammy or more like a popper? Or maybe a little of both?

What's the best retrieve and cadence?

[Bass_Fanatic]

I like to fish it like a spook, but mix and up and let the bass tell you what they want.

[Jigfishn10]

9 times out of 10 I walk it like a spook or a sammy. I use a quick retrieve (as fast as I can walk it) at first to see how the fish react to it. If no takers I slow down. I don't usually stop it at all, but have used a stop and go retrieve on occasions. This goes against the grain a bit, but I start the cadence up as soon as it hits the water and found that I get more hits that way then letting it sit until the water rings are gone.

Hope this helps.

Oh, I do one more thing. If I'm looking for a really slow retrieve, I snap the rod tip down hard and let the bait seal under water...it can be deadly at times.

[hookset on 3]

9 times out of 10 I walk it like a spook or a sammy. I use a quick retrieve (as fast as I can walk it) at first to see how the fish react to it. If no takers I slow down. I don't usually stop it at all, but have used a stop and go retrieve on occasions. This goes against the grain a bit, but I start the cadence up as soon as it hits the water and found that I get more hits that way then letting it sit until the water rings are gone.

Hope this helps.

Oh, I do one more thing. If I'm looking for a really slow retrieve, I snap the rod tip down hard and let the bait seal under water...it can be deadly at times.

X2. When you snap you rod tip down, make sure you've got enough slack in the line, because the bait will sometimes do a 180 and come up facing backward. This can be a strike trigger sometimes.

[Bassin_Fin@tic]

This bait does work when walked normally like a spook or sammy but if thats what I want then I will use a spook or sammy. Personally my best way to use this bait is on pretty calm water and twitch is methodically and very lightly with tiny but sharp twitches almost keeping it on place like a dying or wounded shad. Think of it just like using an original Rapala on the surface

[Wayne P.]

Of the three Image series, Pop'n, Spit'n, and Swim'n, I have the most success with the Swim'n Image using the same retrieve styles like walking the dog, and popping. An occasional subsurface action seems to generate the most strikes.

[iceintheveins]

I love the spittin' image when I want a size of dog walker in between that of a zara puppy and a spook jr. I fish it just like a normal walking bait and the bass love it. I throw the smallest one on 12 pound test and can cast it a mile. It also has a fatter profile, which better imitates the bluegill and green sunfish that Colorado bass usually feed on.

[NCbassmaster4Life]

When the shad or baitfish school up this lure is deadly throwing past the school workin it over top of the school the bass explode the water...mkaing almost every cast hook-on.