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Any of you guys tried them yet! Thoughts and how are yall rigging them? I just found some and going to give them a try the next day when it's not unbearable out! Man those things are so tough I couldn't a nail weight in it.

Supposed to be as a good as ffs is. Something new the fish haven’t seen before. I’ve used 30 year ago of baits that work well too.

I can't catch anything on them! I bought some months ago and have caught 2 fish so far. Neither was over 12".

Heat that wire that suspends it in the package and use it to bore out a little hole for your weight. They catch fish no doubt. Do not store them together in a lump in a hot boat or they will stay together in a lump. They need to stay seperate and suspended in storage if possible.

Fishco is a good one, hags prickly oear is just as good and $5 less. The davis ones are trash. Caught a few fish on em back in March/April

I’m sure I could find a video but I’m lazy……when/where/how are they intended to be fished? I still can’t shake the idea that this is an April Fools bit that got out of hand and now social media is just running with it

I was thinking they were a FFS bait. Can be seen easily and has a slow fall rate. I'm gonna give one a try down on the coast once i get there full time.

No FFS for me I fish out of a kayak!

Not to derail a thread....but I can't be the only one thinking bait/lure prices are getting out of hand. $15 for a single "soft plastic" bait is insane.

$12-15ea for crankbaits/chatterbaits/spinnerbaits is bad enough, but $15 for a hunk of squishy rubber is wild.

Yeah I agree Gomer but had to give these a try! I saw a glide bait in Academy for $75!

Oh don't get me started on those...I've seen them over $100. completely insane. Why not just catch an actual shad and throw it out live and fish it like a jerk bait at that point...

I watched an MLF tournament where the winner won on an urchin bait.
He was basically just casting it to different targets, mostly docks.
He’d work it like a jerk bait, twitch, twitch, pause.
From what I’ve read, the water needs to be somewhat clear, at least 2’ visibility.
I’ve tried one once but nothing that day. They sink real slow so you need to add at least an 1/8 oz to it.
I think 3/16 to 1/4 oz would be better. And use a big hook.
Those tentacles interfere with smaller hooks.

Actually they are the hardest bait I have throwm to see on ffs.

I’ve got at least 75-100 hard baits of some sort, 50 old spinner bait that I just bought skirts for and even some old Mann’s jelly worms. I refuse to buy new bait. Before I buy another artificial bait I’ll go back to live baits that I collect on my own.

Buy an eraser and drill small holes in it. Push rubber bands through and there ya go.

I think the main thing that makes all these “new” baits so effective is it’s just something different that highly pressured fish aren’t used to seeing. But with that being the case, some of the “old school” stuff should be just as effective since several “generations” of fish now haven’t seen them

The kosh ball

Prob gonna laugh, but... You can get these REAL cheap on Temu. I think I may have paid $3-4 for a pack of 5.

Man you gonna give all the bass the ChYna Virus with those temu baits!

So....serious question. Someone mentioned FFS.....are these primarily intended to be used with FFS or are people using them without?

Probably mostly used with ffs, but some are fishing them without it. Anywhere you’d have previously thrown a soft jerkbait like a fluke is a good place to start. Fish it the same way too.