What Creature Bait is Your Favorite?

It all started with the plastic worm and has now mutated into a huge array of specialized offerings. Whose is the best and which one is your favorite? Come share your thoughts and opinions here.
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What Creature Bait is Your Favorite?

Post by mprestonSEK » Thu Sep 20, 2012 2:21 pm

Hey guys. It seems like just using a worm isn't always enough to get the bass to inhale your lure. When the bite is slow and the bass are finicky, I like to throw creature baits. I'm not sure why, but doing this always seems to produce fish when worms can't. My favorite creature baits are: ZOOM Baby Brush Hogs, YUM F2 Mighty Bug, and the Trigger X Aggression Moe. What are your favorites and why?

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Re: What Creature Bait is Your Favorite?

Post by smalljaw » Fri Sep 21, 2012 5:26 am

My situation is different, if I'm getting bit with worms but mostly small fish, that is when I like the creature. I keep my selection of creatures simple, sweet beaver for wood, brush hogs for weeds, and a Trigger X Big Moe for dragging across flats with weeds and wood mixed.

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Re: What Creature Bait is Your Favorite?

Post by llvwj » Fri Sep 21, 2012 11:53 am

I have done well with brush hogs, sweat beavers and berkley havoc wideload

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Re: What Creature Bait is Your Favorite?

Post by HellaBass » Fri Sep 21, 2012 12:02 pm

Baby Brush Hog is a fav of mine for all kinds of things, Beavers for flipping

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Post by NJ Jigman » Sun Sep 23, 2012 8:12 am

beavers of all three sizes. simple color selection cali, infection and watermelon red

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Re: What Creature Bait is Your Favorite?

Post by Hogsticker2 » Thu Sep 27, 2012 11:01 am

Culprit Incrdi Craw, when I just wanna use something different, and am not fishing acres of lily pads

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Re: What Creature Bait is Your Favorite?

Post by Nitroman77 » Fri Sep 28, 2012 7:14 am

Lake Forks Flipper...
Took a 1st, 3rd and a 5th using that bait this year so far.. 8-)

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Re: What Creature Bait is Your Favorite?

Post by spookybaits » Sun Sep 30, 2012 8:15 pm

If my fishing buddy sees this he's gonna kill me, but ya know what- after this weekend- My Georgia bulldogs beat Tenn, Braves are headed to the playoffs, the falcons beat Carolina, my moms surgery was a success and is now 100% cancer free, and dammit I'm loving life and feel like sharing something good- so here ya go-

Drumroll....ladies & gentleman, I present to you- The Hairy Hawg by Imakatsu =D>
http://ichibantackle.com/showproductdet ... e=IMAKATSU

I like rigging em with a screw-in bullet weight(which I forget the proper name of because I've been awake for 28hrs), or on a jig. They're not cheap, but god do they catch fish.

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Post by NJ Jigman » Mon Oct 01, 2012 7:12 am

damn spooky, ssssshhhhhhhhhhhh

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Re: What Creature Bait is Your Favorite?

Post by Teal101 » Mon Oct 01, 2012 8:28 am

spookybaits wrote:If my fishing buddy sees this he's gonna kill me, but ya know what- after this weekend- My Georgia bulldogs beat Tenn, Braves are headed to the playoffs, the falcons beat Carolina, my moms surgery was a success and is now 100% cancer free, and dammit I'm loving life and feel like sharing something good- so here ya go-

Drumroll....ladies & gentleman, I present to you- The Hairy Hawg by Imakatsu =D>
http://ichibantackle.com/showproductdet ... e=IMAKATSU

I like rigging em with a screw-in bullet weight(which I forget the proper name of because I've been awake for 28hrs), or on a jig. They're not cheap, but god do they catch fish.
Florida rig ;)

That is a sweet looking bait, but damn $2 ea?!?

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Re: What Creature Bait is Your Favorite?

Post by mprestonSEK » Mon Oct 01, 2012 4:52 pm

spookybaits wrote:If my fishing buddy sees this he's gonna kill me, but ya know what- after this weekend- My Georgia bulldogs beat Tenn, Braves are headed to the playoffs, the falcons beat Carolina, my moms surgery was a success and is now 100% cancer free, and dammit I'm loving life and feel like sharing something good- so here ya go-

Drumroll....ladies & gentleman, I present to you- The Hairy Hawg by Imakatsu =D>
http://ichibantackle.com/showproductdet ... e=IMAKATSU

I like rigging em with a screw-in bullet weight(which I forget the proper name of because I've been awake for 28hrs), or on a jig. They're not cheap, but god do they catch fish.
Dang those are pricey! Are they worth it?

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Re: What Creature Bait is Your Favorite?

Post by spookybaits » Mon Oct 01, 2012 6:31 pm

mprestonSEK wrote: Dang those are pricey! Are they worth it?
Are they worth it...that's subjective, as someone who pay's $30+ for a crankbait, I might be the wrong person to ask lol.
I like em, they're unique & create alot of movement. I caught a few big ones back to back on them so It's a confidence thing I guess. I don't fish jigs much so I don't go thru em as often as some people. If I did, I probably wouldn't load up on them unless I could find a dealer her in the states. It's the shipping that hurts imo.

here's the official page for em(google chrome translation)- http://www.imakatsu.co.jp/products/pro_a034e.html

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Re: What Creature Bait is Your Favorite?

Post by lipsnatcher » Tue Oct 02, 2012 9:34 am

I see a few people saying the baby brush hog. Has anyone had the same success on the super hog?

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Re: What Creature Bait is Your Favorite?

Post by John Puckett » Wed Oct 03, 2012 4:58 pm

The 4 main ones I use are the baby brush hog, baby paca craw, speed craw, and of course sweet beavers (420's & smallie)

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Re: What Creature Bait is Your Favorite?

Post by ppFishing » Thu Oct 04, 2012 5:51 am

the latest one for me right now is kinky beaver.

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