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Rats, ducks, turtles, and a sea urchin — the strange stuff that actually gets bit. Every bait here maps to a technique covered on this site: the animal is marketing, the retrieve is the technique. Read the full decoder at the Weird Lures page.
Rat 30 · Rat 40 (1 oz · 3.9" body / 7.8" with tail) · Rat 50
The rat that started the craze. Single-jointed body, square bill, effortless walk-the-dog wake. Fish it along grass edges, shade lines, and points — and after dark for the biggest bite of the year. This is a wakebait wearing fur: exposed trebles, open water only.
View at retailerToothpick-keeper install · Mix-and-match colors
Tails are the Rat's consumable — toothpick-keeper install, mix-and-match colors. Keep a pack in the box.
1 2/3"1/4 oz · ★ FF Kuro Ageha — anchor color · Swap stock double for #4 treble
A cicada that walks and struggles on the surface like a real bug falling from an overhang. Bug-bait technique: dead stick with micro-twitches under shade, docks, and calm clear coves. The wings fold for accurate casts and open on the first tug.
View at retailerSoft weedless body · Double hook — mats & pads
The other kind of rodent: soft, collapsible, weedless double hook. This is frog technique — braid, heavy rod, walked over mats and pads. The downsize call when fish short-strike a full-size frog.
View at retailerHard body · spinning feet · ICAST Best of Show
The ICAST Best of Show duckling with spinning feet churning water behind it — plopper technique in feathers. Late spring into early summer around banks where duck broods hold.
Soft hollow body · prop tail churn · Weedless double hook — pads & slop
A hollow-body turtle with a spinning prop tail — churns a bubble trail across pads and slop while the weedless double hook keeps it fishable in the nasty stuff. Fish it like a frog: slow crawl with pauses over open lanes, snap it out of holes, let the prop do the calling.
View at retailerFlagship tournament size · 7 colors
A sea urchin. Really. Silicone strands that breathe and pulse on the bottom like something alive — fished on a jighead or free rig. Full guide on this site.
View at retailerRibbed body · salt/flake blend · Weightless or wacky rig
A ribbed soft stickbait with a coarse salt-and-flake blend that shimmers on a weightless fall. Wacky-rig technique: lighter line, skipped under docks, or nose-hooked on a free rig. The texture is the selling point; the bite is the same as any good stickbait.
View at retailerJointed serpentine surface crawler
A jointed serpentine surface crawler — wakebait retrieve, slow and steady along grass edges. Water snakes live on every reservoir this site covers; the fish know the profile.