I picked up some new (to me) swimbaits -- BioBait DNA -- after reading about them on a fishing forum. The rubbery material is supposed to be more durable and water soluble (i.e. degrades faster and saves trees) than normal plastics.
They also have realistic color patterns like yellow perch, redtail chub, sunfish and brown trout, to name a few.
I normally use Reaction Innovations Little Dippers -- I've tried several other types of swimbaits but prefer the action of the Little Dippers, so I was interested to see how the BioBait lures performed. Karen got me an Amazon gift certificate for my birthday, and Amazon actually carried them, so they were basically free, right?
Unfortunately, Amazon only had four color selections so I bought Arkansas shiner (because they resembled fallfish) and sexy shad (because what fish doesn't like a sexy shad).
Yesterday I fished for a couple hours in a section of river I hadn't tackled much before. My first impression of the BioBait lures was that they acted almost exactly like Reaction Innovations Little Dippers. They oscillated through the water -- if you were to look at them in the water coming straight at you, they twisted back and forth like turning a door knob.
I hooked into a fish after 15 minutes, but the line snapped. Either I tied a bad knot or the line was cut on a rock. Moving around targeting pools below eddies, I got a few bites and follows before finally hooking and landing a 10-inch smallmouth bass.
On my other rod, I had a Heddon Zara Puppy and fish showed no interest in the topwater lure, and that was the story on that front throughout the rest of the morning. It seems like now should be the perfect time for frenzied surface bites, but the fish were having none of it -- not even timid passes from sunfish!
Later, I managed a 12-inch smallmouth on the BioBait swimbait. Then in an area I don't recall ever fishing before, a smallmouth which looked to be at least 14 inches (a giant for this water) grabbed the swimbait and rose to the surface, shook its head out of the water, and the lure went flying from its mouth. People walking on a trail on the other side of the river even heard the commotion. Maybe it was because I dropped an F-bomb?
I stopped fishing a little while later after hooking the Zara Puppy into a tree branch roughly 500 feet above the river. If I fished in a boat in the middle of the ocean, I could snag a lure on a tree branch.
So the BioBait swimbaits definitely work. They're a little pricey in comparison to Reaction Innovation -- $7.99 compared to $4.89 -- but the tradeoff is that they are more durable and break down faster when getting lost in the water, or a fish actually eats them
BioBait does have "original" colors that are cheaper than the DNA patterns, and they come in packs of eight as opposed to six. They also carry other lures like leeches, tubes, crayfish and Flippin Chickens.
I still have a ton of Little Dippers when I stocked up .... last year! So I probably won't buy more any time soon, but definitely will consider them in the future once my swimbait supply starts running low (I type this as it's dumping rain, so it this year is starting to look like last year).
They also have realistic color patterns like yellow perch, redtail chub, sunfish and brown trout, to name a few.
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| The 12" smallmouth on an Arkansas shiner. |
Unfortunately, Amazon only had four color selections so I bought Arkansas shiner (because they resembled fallfish) and sexy shad (because what fish doesn't like a sexy shad).
Yesterday I fished for a couple hours in a section of river I hadn't tackled much before. My first impression of the BioBait lures was that they acted almost exactly like Reaction Innovations Little Dippers. They oscillated through the water -- if you were to look at them in the water coming straight at you, they twisted back and forth like turning a door knob.
I hooked into a fish after 15 minutes, but the line snapped. Either I tied a bad knot or the line was cut on a rock. Moving around targeting pools below eddies, I got a few bites and follows before finally hooking and landing a 10-inch smallmouth bass.
On my other rod, I had a Heddon Zara Puppy and fish showed no interest in the topwater lure, and that was the story on that front throughout the rest of the morning. It seems like now should be the perfect time for frenzied surface bites, but the fish were having none of it -- not even timid passes from sunfish!
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| Oh deer! |
I stopped fishing a little while later after hooking the Zara Puppy into a tree branch roughly 500 feet above the river. If I fished in a boat in the middle of the ocean, I could snag a lure on a tree branch.
So the BioBait swimbaits definitely work. They're a little pricey in comparison to Reaction Innovation -- $7.99 compared to $4.89 -- but the tradeoff is that they are more durable and break down faster when getting lost in the water, or a fish actually eats them
BioBait does have "original" colors that are cheaper than the DNA patterns, and they come in packs of eight as opposed to six. They also carry other lures like leeches, tubes, crayfish and Flippin Chickens.
I still have a ton of Little Dippers when I stocked up .... last year! So I probably won't buy more any time soon, but definitely will consider them in the future once my swimbait supply starts running low (I type this as it's dumping rain, so it this year is starting to look like last year).
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| BioBait DNA swimbaits. |
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