Most of my soft plastic lures are either hand poured or modified using a candle. After years of using pretty much every lure shape you can think of, I come to the conclusion that any of the tail designs shown below catch fish even when clear plastic.

The above are what I would call a stick tail - one made from the tail of a mini stick added to the body of a lure.

Mini sticks rigged on light jigheads have also done well this year. Wacky rigged stick on the right:


Claw tail hybrid doesn't look like it would have any action, but it did and caught a lot of fish!


....another version:


Thick blunt tails are a standard and believe it or not have a unique action fish can't ignore:


Even works well with a float:


Similar in design are Crappie Magnet tails which are up there with the best and in many colors!


Spike tails are superb no matter the season: