Thanks Tim, I also love trying new off the wall lures. You never know what your bass will want. The crazy crawler did produce some good bass but not often enough to carry around. Many of these lures fall in that category but you never know, I was one of the first in my area to throw a chatterbait, that worked out pretty well !
Great video as always man! Love top water! I believe the old Heddon Lure company was one of the first to have the "winged" type top water lure. It was called the "Crazy Crawler" and when I was a kid 40 year ago I could only afford the "micro" lures at the time so I have a Heddon Tiny Crazy Crawler. Never caught anything on it but what a blast to cast and retrieve! Haha. Love the double buzzbait and caught my PB Smallmouth that was over 5 pounds about 15 years ago up in the Muskoka region of Ontario Canada. My 15 year old son has broken his PB smallmouth bass on his favourite lure twice in 3 weeks with the Berkley Choppo with his last PB at just under 4 pounds! We feel it has a better sound than a whopper plopper and has tougher material for the cupped fin so lasts much longer. Also comes with great sticky Fusion 19 hooks so no need to upgrade. Fall transition is here for Ontario Canada so tight lines everyone and get put for some awesome fishing before the white stuff comes! Lol
You guys need to do a vid/interview at the Fishing museum in Spooner, Wisconsin. Some wild , old lures there. Truly, should be on a fisherman’s bucket list!
First 2 i-wing and pompador are considered crawler baits i belive as far as category of baits. Also the basirisky can be fished how you Said but as I understand it was created for throwing in the thickest of wood/rip rap. A normal frog with double frog hooks can get caught in wood as you drag it over and under wood in thick laydowns. The appendages on the basirisky stop that from happening, this is also why it only has a single hook down the middle. Deps only makes this frog every year or 2. They just made them again for first time in like 2 years.
I got the small cover scat to try and finally got out today to use it. I put it on a 2/0 EWG and it fit perfectly. I was thinking as I made the first cast “I hope I haven’t wasted my money on this”. I couldn’t believe it I caught a bass, then another, 2 nice blue gills, and ended with 3 more bass. Like you said I don’t know what the fish see in it but they love it and so do I, I couldn’t put it down!! Thank you both for all the great baits, fishing tips, and gear you share!!
Awesome looking baits. I’m still an old school jitterbug guy. Have caught more on top water with it than any other and I’ve seen no one using it in decades, not to say they don’t but I’ve not seen anyone using it.
May have been mentioned before, but will you do some underwater footage of some of the top water baits? Just curious on what the fish see. Thanks and as always love all your videos.
Seems like the name of the Deps Cover Scat pretty much explains what it’s supposed to look like 😜 Maybe it’s most effective in lakes with lots of geese?
I’d say that an A-rig fits perfectly in this category to the non-informed angler. When I first saw them and hadn’t seen or read about their fish catching ability I thought that the market had absolutely gone crazy and was just throwing a Hail Mary to see if someone would jump.
@@abuck2844 Really? I'm just using a slow steady retrieve on shallow edges/Around docks in a lake. Had a few sunfish hit it too but I believe they were just defending their bed, All bass were around docks and structure though.
I have developed my own line of Crawlers I’m launching soon. Love they way a good size crawler brings in giants!! Saw my dad catch his biggest bass on a Heddon Crazy Crawler when I was 12!! I have a rat, chipmunk, gill, and frog as well as a black night version. Just caught a 5+ on the rat in my pond!!! Bass just destroy crawlers!! Did you see the OSP Dice Rubber?!?! That is a crazy bait!!!!!
Some of those old Fred Arbogast lures are pretty crazy looking. The jitterbug comes to mind as well as that goofy buzz plug. I know some guys who swear by them. I can't attest to how effective they are, though. While I have a few, I've never caught anything on them.
Black at night with some moon. Listen as you change speeds. It'll talk to you at the right speed. Keeping that speed going until you reel into the Bass that silences it. Crank bait rod will keep it pinned and cast it well.
Heddon Crazy Crawler when I was a kid. My Son gave me a Savage Gear “Bat” for Father’s Day as a “Fun Gift”. That baby gets “savage” bites and the hooks are lethal. (Keep the packaging for storage)
I also slept on the Plopper for a long time. I still prefer using the old Heddon Torpedo, something about the skittering sound the prop makes just drives fish insane, but I make sure to throw the Plopper regularly.
A couple of baits I thow that are a little different are, The Jackall Chop Cut and the Lucky Craft Sammy. I also like the diversity of the Lucky Craft Wonder
Hey Tim great video I’ve fished with the coverscat bait recently down in Florida and works like a dream! Btw have you ever heard of the soft hybrid crank bait called Supernato from Molix? Apparently it can be filled with water to fish suspended and bottom depths as well as like a frog on top water.
You guys should dive down the nishine Lure works rabbit hole if you haven't already. Such innovative takes on mainstay lures. There new erie 115 topwater just came out and wow, it's a Rapala floating Minnow on steroids it can do so many things and looks amazing the seagulls and 1 eagle tried taking swipes at it which says alot. Their namazu is criminally underrated. Abino 110 is totally unique, and their Simcoe 75 is a lipless/blade bait in one.
I love crawlers. Especially around ducks. They work everywhere but if you got alot of baby ducks they work even better. I call it the duck pattern. I just follow the ducks.
Great video as always Tim. The craziest lure I ever used was iBobber’s robotic snapper jerk bait. I have caught a few bass on it, especially early evenings. However, on a recent Canadian trip, I out-fished my partner while using this one lure and catching over 70 walleye and northern pike in one day just only on this lure. The fish went crazy over the vibration and flashing of this jerk bait. Since it is different, the fish have never seen anything like it. You do need to upgrade the hooks but the lure does work ;-) Try it and let me know what you think.
I know now they catch fish but the first time I seen a buzz toad I was like why on earth would ever fish that. Then I seen a video on them and it sunk in. The transformation lure you showed was pretty awesome
WHAT! You passed up the whopper plopper? I remember seeing that thing when I was 9 years old and copping it IMMEDIATELY! Still have my first one, caught so many monsters on it.
The zman bait just reminds me of the jackall riser 009 I have one and it does about the same thing without having the blade on the rear but molded onto the body which I think is a little better for hook ups but. It's a loud bait and u wouldn't think it would be so loud since the blade is in place but. It's has a unique sound for sure and they sink like the hellraizer. Also the Deps "Killer compass" has similar design to the piku piku but with eyelet in middle of the body but has a similar action but u can steer the compass to where u want only difference.
I inherited an old hand-made wooden I-wing from my Grandpa that was made in the 50’s, which sits on my shelf and decoration basically. Don’t want to throw something that old and I don’t want to break it. Cool that they still make them thought maybe I’ll pick up a modern one
I used to fish with the Jackall Pompadour, awesome bait but for me terrible hookup fish/ fish land. When a fish has it, and when you reel it back with the fish, these wings make an opposite pressure that just make bass come off. SInce then, I don't tie it as often as I used to.
If you love crawlers and you got the money to spend and if you can find one I highly recommend an Owl Gene Ulura Kiri crawler. They're expensive as hell but they get destroyed. The type of wood it's made of makes a certain clack that just gets bit. Caught over 130 bass on mine over a couple summers just night fishing.
I have the Deps NZ Crawler Jr that works on the same principle as the I-wing, except it’s wider. Also have the Pompadour Jr and the regular one. The jr draws bass out of hiding, even if they don’t hit it. I need to fish them more.
Wish guys would have checked out the Headbanger lures...I've got a couple different ones and they are different but work great. Tackle Warehouse is all out of the deps cover scat 3.5" there medium size but there is something very very similar called heavy poop that I got on the way...Hopefully it works as well as the cover scat.
I think the new Opening Bell by R2S is a unique buzzbait and I'm already crushing them on it. I am headed out in a minute to hut them again. Also I have the new Teckle Qlinker on order from TW I think it will smash as well
Looking at things from the opposite perspective, does the simple little Z-Man Finesse TRD even look like a lure? They look to me like a gel fidget toy that my daughter forgot to pick up and put away with her other toys. That said, clearly TRDs SLAY bass!
I'm one of the biggest lure junkies in the world....BUT, there is no way in hell I could get myself to buy a zman hellraiser...that thing is freakin' ugly!! 🤣 Imakatsu crawler, take the wings off & walks like a big spook...2nd cast a 4 1/2 lb. Smallmouth..
Thanks Tim, I also love trying new off the wall lures. You never know what your bass will want. The crazy crawler did produce some good bass but not often enough to carry around. Many of these lures fall in that category but you never know, I was one of the first in my area to throw a chatterbait, that worked out pretty well !
Great video as always man! Love top water! I believe the old Heddon Lure company was one of the first to have the "winged" type top water lure. It was called the "Crazy Crawler" and when I was a kid 40 year ago I could only afford the "micro" lures at the time so I have a Heddon Tiny Crazy Crawler. Never caught anything on it but what a blast to cast and retrieve! Haha. Love the double buzzbait and caught my PB Smallmouth that was over 5 pounds about 15 years ago up in the Muskoka region of Ontario Canada. My 15 year old son has broken his PB smallmouth bass on his favourite lure twice in 3 weeks with the Berkley Choppo with his last PB at just under 4 pounds! We feel it has a better sound than a whopper plopper and has tougher material for the cupped fin so lasts much longer. Also comes with great sticky Fusion 19 hooks so no need to upgrade. Fall transition is here for Ontario Canada so tight lines everyone and get put for some awesome fishing before the white stuff comes! Lol
You guys need to do a vid/interview at the Fishing museum in Spooner, Wisconsin. Some wild , old lures there. Truly, should be on a fisherman’s bucket list!
I'm going to check it out. Thanks for the info!
@@davidrussell9290 You wont be disappointed!
A tactical bassin vid about crazy lures drops on my birthday? Best day ever
First 2 i-wing and pompador are considered crawler baits i belive as far as category of baits. Also the basirisky can be fished how you Said but as I understand it was created for throwing in the thickest of wood/rip rap. A normal frog with double frog hooks can get caught in wood as you drag it over and under wood in thick laydowns. The appendages on the basirisky stop that from happening, this is also why it only has a single hook down the middle. Deps only makes this frog every year or 2. They just made them again for first time in like 2 years.
Like to buy them
Super cool video! I couldn’t believe the action on those wing type baits and frog with forward legs! Crazy!
I got the small cover scat to try and finally got out today to use it. I put it on a 2/0 EWG and it fit perfectly. I was thinking as I made the first cast “I hope I haven’t wasted my money on this”. I couldn’t believe it I caught a bass, then another, 2 nice blue gills, and ended with 3 more bass. Like you said I don’t know what the fish see in it but they love it and so do I, I couldn’t put it down!! Thank you both for all the great baits, fishing tips, and gear you share!!
finally after years you are talking about Bellows Gill and Cover Scat! Ones of the most underrated soft baits
Awesome looking baits. I’m still an old school jitterbug guy. Have caught more on top water with it than any other and I’ve seen no one using it in decades, not to say they don’t but I’ve not seen anyone using it.
May have been mentioned before, but will you do some underwater footage of some of the top water baits? Just curious on what the fish see. Thanks and as always love all your videos.
Cant wait to try the bellows shad
Seems like the name of the Deps Cover Scat pretty much explains what it’s supposed to look like 😜 Maybe it’s most effective in lakes with lots of geese?
The hellraizer looks amazing! I can’t wait. I ordered a couple on tackle warehouse in pre order. It will be the big bait from icast 2022
I’d say that an A-rig fits perfectly in this category to the non-informed angler. When I first saw them and hadn’t seen or read about their fish catching ability I thought that the market had absolutely gone crazy and was just throwing a Hail Mary to see if someone would jump.
I've been liking the Heddon crazy crawler recently. Old school but effective.
I cant seem to get any hits on mine. I have an old black and white one. slow, fast, pause retrieve nothing.
@@abuck2844 Really? I'm just using a slow steady retrieve on shallow edges/Around docks in a lake. Had a few sunfish hit it too but I believe they were just defending their bed, All bass were around docks and structure though.
Tim quit a few unique baits some definitely looks different. Thank you for sharing 👍
Cool video why don’t you do a rod and reel Line up
5:03 deer photobomb lol
I have developed my own line of Crawlers I’m launching soon. Love they way a good size crawler brings in giants!! Saw my dad catch his biggest bass on a Heddon Crazy Crawler when I was 12!! I have a rat, chipmunk, gill, and frog as well as a black night version. Just caught a 5+ on the rat in my pond!!! Bass just destroy crawlers!! Did you see the OSP Dice Rubber?!?! That is a crazy bait!!!!!
Some of those old Fred Arbogast lures are pretty crazy looking. The jitterbug comes to mind as well as that goofy buzz plug. I know some guys who swear by them. I can't attest to how effective they are, though. While I have a few, I've never caught anything on them.
Wife got a 4 lber on a black jitterbug at sunset just retrieve + pause over rocky flats near the bank. Fish inhaled that thing!
Black at night with some moon. Listen as you change speeds. It'll talk to you at the right speed. Keeping that speed going until you reel into the Bass that silences it. Crank bait rod will keep it pinned and cast it well.
I love jackall lures. Most unique and effective baits. They are all fish catchers. From the aska to the pompadour
Now we need a short of Tim's pet bass.
The gong!
Heddon Crazy Crawler when I was a kid. My Son gave me a Savage Gear “Bat” for Father’s Day as a “Fun Gift”. That baby gets “savage” bites and the hooks are lethal. (Keep the packaging for storage)
I see you fishing on the bank sometimes Tim. What portable depth/fish finder would you recommend for fishing from shore?
I also slept on the Plopper for a long time. I still prefer using the old Heddon Torpedo, something about the skittering sound the prop makes just drives fish insane, but I make sure to throw the Plopper regularly.
A couple of baits I thow that are a little different are, The Jackall Chop Cut and the Lucky Craft Sammy. I also like the diversity of the Lucky Craft Wonder
Hey Tim great video I’ve fished with the coverscat bait recently down in Florida and works like a dream! Btw have you ever heard of the soft hybrid crank bait called Supernato from Molix? Apparently it can be filled with water to fish suspended and bottom depths as well as like a frog on top water.
You guys should dive down the nishine Lure works rabbit hole if you haven't already. Such innovative takes on mainstay lures. There new erie 115 topwater just came out and wow, it's a Rapala floating Minnow on steroids it can do so many things and looks amazing the seagulls and 1 eagle tried taking swipes at it which says alot. Their namazu is criminally underrated. Abino 110 is totally unique, and their Simcoe 75 is a lipless/blade bait in one.
A giant Dixie jet spoon is crazy looking. Snake and rat lures too.
that wacky rig top water looks sooooo juicy
I’ve outfished many friends on great and tough days with the jitterbug. Sometimes a different presentation goes wonders.
I love crawlers. Especially around ducks. They work everywhere but if you got alot of baby ducks they work even better. I call it the duck pattern. I just follow the ducks.
Can we get videos of you catching fish with them? Especially those crawlers
Great video as always Tim. The craziest lure I ever used was iBobber’s robotic snapper jerk bait. I have caught a few bass on it, especially early evenings. However, on a recent Canadian trip, I out-fished my partner while using this one lure and catching over 70 walleye and northern pike in one day just only on this lure. The fish went crazy over the vibration and flashing of this jerk bait. Since it is different, the fish have never seen anything like it. You do need to upgrade the hooks but the lure does work ;-) Try it and let me know what you think.
The pompadour and I-wing I always called crawling baits...idk?? Not sure where I picked that up from.
The Whopper Plopper gets some laughs, till the fish start blowing up on it. You never can tell till you try them.
I know now they catch fish but the first time I seen a buzz toad I was like why on earth would ever fish that. Then I seen a video on them and it sunk in. The transformation lure you showed was pretty awesome
Tim, what grocery stores are you shopping at that has a tackle section. My kinda place. Lmao
WHAT! You passed up the whopper plopper? I remember seeing that thing when I was 9 years old and copping it IMMEDIATELY! Still have my first one, caught so many monsters on it.
D&M Customs baits has the Super Newt
That is a crazy looking Topwater bait that works!!! Caught some Biggins @ the California Delta with it!!!!
The small curved hard bait is a take on the old school Lazy Ike! which is a great lure.
My dad had some called "flat fish" or something like it. Said muskie loved the damned things... Haven't been able to find one
The zman bait just reminds me of the jackall riser 009 I have one and it does about the same thing without having the blade on the rear but molded onto the body which I think is a little better for hook ups but. It's a loud bait and u wouldn't think it would be so loud since the blade is in place but. It's has a unique sound for sure and they sink like the hellraizer. Also the Deps "Killer compass" has similar design to the piku piku but with eyelet in middle of the body but has a similar action but u can steer the compass to where u want only difference.
I inherited an old hand-made wooden I-wing from my Grandpa that was made in the 50’s, which sits on my shelf and decoration basically. Don’t want to throw something that old and I don’t want to break it. Cool that they still make them thought maybe I’ll pick up a modern one
Always good to throw something no one else is throwing. Super jealous you have a HellraiZer in hand by the way....
A couple of my favorites are in here. The Pompadour and Bellows Gill are staples in my arsenal. Good stuff.
Pompador is a killer night and low light bait. I've caught some really big Bass on them
Have you guys ever fished the googan revolver it seems like it fits this topic ? Do you like it ?
Love your videos but why do the listing of baits now have a line drawn through the description?
It's a system glitch we're trying to solve. Some devices see it, others don't. Bear with us, we'll figure it out.
I used to fish with the Jackall Pompadour, awesome bait but for me terrible hookup fish/ fish land. When a fish has it, and when you reel it back with the fish, these wings make an opposite pressure that just make bass come off. SInce then, I don't tie it as often as I used to.
I NEED that double Buzzbait……like, yesterday!!! Lol
Years ago I bought a triple bladed buzzbait from some company in North Carolina.
Love the crawlers, that I-wing has an amazing clacker inside too, you can hear it from the beginning of the retrieve
If you love crawlers and you got the money to spend and if you can find one I highly recommend an Owl Gene Ulura Kiri crawler. They're expensive as hell but they get destroyed. The type of wood it's made of makes a certain clack that just gets bit. Caught over 130 bass on mine over a couple summers just night fishing.
I have the Deps NZ Crawler Jr that works on the same principle as the I-wing, except it’s wider. Also have the Pompadour Jr and the regular one. The jr draws bass out of hiding, even if they don’t hit it. I need to fish them more.
Instead of using the geecrack bellows gill I use the thunderhawk grenade. It’s pretty much the same thing but made with the same plastic Zman uses
What size Cover scat do you recommend?
First time I heard you guys mention free rig. Time for underwater video please.
I have been wrecking them all year on the cover scat. It is a straight fish catcher
I’m not putting a turd on my hook Tim 😂
Wish guys would have checked out the Headbanger lures...I've got a couple different ones and they are different but work great.
Tackle Warehouse is all out of the deps cover scat 3.5" there medium size but there is something very very similar called heavy poop that I got on the way...Hopefully it works as well as the cover scat.
Can you do a free rig and scrounger head video.? Thanks.
I used to have a red and white striped spoon that worked well for me.
I think the new Opening Bell by R2S is a unique buzzbait and I'm already crushing them on it. I am headed out in a minute to hut them again. Also I have the new Teckle Qlinker on order from TW I think it will smash as well
The Budweiser lure, Megabass Gong and Helicopter lure are even weirder than those. The helicopter not so much a fish catcher.
My son caught a bass on the Duo realis Pikachu yesterday! A few nights ago I had a blow up on a savage gear bat. Was pretty suprised.
I took the wings off the savage gear bat, and use it like a spook type bait...I can confirm, it works & walks good
Coverscat had been clutch the past two days
Looking at things from the opposite perspective, does the simple little Z-Man Finesse TRD even look like a lure? They look to me like a gel fidget toy that my daughter forgot to pick up and put away with her other toys. That said, clearly TRDs SLAY bass!
Surprised not to see the Megabass xpod or xpod jr on here...
Don't sleep on them cover scat. They work very well
some of my most violent striks have come on my I-wing
Heddon made a version of the picupicu years ago I still have 2
Heddon "Crazy Crawler."
My nephew picked up a buzz bait duckling. Loudest, goofiest but catchinest weird lure I've ever seen
I did the same thing with the whopper plopper , the name sounded stupid the bait looked silly , but boy was I wrong now I own boxes of them
Hell raiser looks like a lizard running across the water? gotta have one
PLEASE DO A NEW FALL TRANSTITION VIDEO
My guys!!
Is the Hellraizer available for sale yet?
Yes
We should all call them fin ploppers
Edit: the first 2 lures he talked about
You can walk the Googan Revolver or make it plop like a plopper all in the same cast.
All wonderfully unique baits, but sadly they lack the drawing power of a helicopter lure.
Says baits 30+ times, but only shows lures
Please stop taking about the bellows gill. Trying to keep that bite on the down low locally lol.
I'm one of the biggest lure junkies in the world....BUT, there is no way in hell I could get myself to buy a zman hellraiser...that thing is freakin' ugly!! 🤣 Imakatsu crawler, take the wings off & walks like a big spook...2nd cast a 4 1/2 lb. Smallmouth..
That Deps bait looks like a severed finger. 🤔
Crawler
You got a lot of time on your hands
Hideup japan makes Coike FULLCAST.
Thats the most interesting lure I've seen so far...and YES it catches fish.