bombshell turtle lure

[Ctrl_Alt_Dlt]

What are your thoughts?

Here is a promotional video on it:

Here is a video review of it:

My cousins in WI have been buying bags and bags of these. Claim they work really well. I have yet to catch a Bass with a turtle in the mouth. I didnt know bass ate turtles. The lake I fish will soon have a lots of baby turtles in it. Wonder how well this lure will work.

I saw some at fleet farm.

[Cecil]

You lost me when you said guys in WI are using them. Odds are they are infused with beer and cheese...

[RK]

I've seen these a couple places too. I'm sure they work. I'm also fairly sure they won't work that much better than a Beaver-type bait, just as an example. Look at the profile. Not a lot different.

Bass don't see exactly the same way we do, and they're not that bright besides. If it moves, and they can get their mouth around it, it's food.

RK

[NewJ]

That's true what RK said, they don't care as long as it fits in. My brother tried it out this weekend and caught bass with it. I think it's more about catching anglers than catching fish.

[Ctrl_Alt_Dlt]

Cecil---seriously----I totally forgot to consider that! My cousins in WI do drink quite often. That could have been it!

RK--I agree. It looks like a wider version of a beaver.

[Cecil]

If it moves, and they can get their mouth around it, it's food.

RK

OH COME ON! Thats too easy!!!

[mainbutter]

They work excellent.

Profile, movement, and a dozen different ways to rig them.

I don't think that bass specifically think "hey that's a turtle, I'll eat it". IMO, typical floating frog lures are better turtle imitators.

Most predators are just willing to eat things that seem to be alive.

[RumRiverRat]

I think it's more about catching anglers than catching fish.

Fisherman are so gullible sometimes.

Banjo Minnows anyone?

[goblueM]

What are your thoughts?

I have yet to catch a Bass with a turtle in the mouth. I didnt know bass ate turtles.

I caught a few bass with turtles in them in Delaware about 12 years ago. 5 and 6 pound largemouth with 3 inch diameter painted turtles. They were feasting on the things

[Gordie]

If it moves, and they can get their mouth around it, it's food.

RK

OH COME ON! Thats too easy!!!

Tell you what if that not the case I bet if you take that bass with the bombshell turtle in its mouth and throw it in front of a flathead

catfish they will both disapper that is the bass and the turtle

[HandGunner]

ANOTHER BIG BASS! ANOTHER BIG BASS! id try it tho but wont abide by it

[RK]

I should clarify my earlier comments.

It's possible that these things could work great in some situations, and outfish another soft plastic.

But if that's true, I would argue that it's because of its behavior: size, color, speed, drop speed, profile, sound, vibration - the combination of things that make up any presentation - rather than because it 'imitates' a turtle.

Gordie - cats are a good example of the 'if it moves it's food' theory. Muskies too. I know a resort owner on Lake of the Woods who found a 35 pound muskie with a muskrat in its stomach. The rat about half way clawed its way out and killed the fish before it drowned. Imagine that case of heartburn...

[NickMcD63]

Fisherman are so gullible sometimes.

Banjo Minnows anyone?

Hey, they are deadly.....for pike.

[RumRiverRat]

Hey, they are deadly.....for pike.

Are you Babe Winkleman in Disguise?

[NickMcD63]

Are you Babe Winkleman in Disguise?

That is hilarious because I just watched his lake of the woods episode a few days back.