As a rule I am a profile/bait action sort of crappie angler. Color comes next. But this bug is so life-like in size and over-all appearance that I had to try the mold. I did get my hands on the original proto-type of this bait which was about 3/8" shorter and proportionally narrower. Those baits were made in watermelon green with some black flake and I smoked crappies and sunfish using them. I haven't been on the real water with these new ones yet, but I have been fishing them just about every morning on the river behind our house for 10-15 minutes just about the time the sun rises over the horizon. Bugs keep me from spending any longer there fishing, but even in that short span each day I do amazingly well on crappies, sunfish, smallies, rockbass and even a couple walleyes in the 17-18 inch range.

The mold is fun to shoot and it shoots super easy. For me the colors are my challenge.