Comparing Crawfish Bass Baits to Live Crawfish UNDERWATER
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
- This video compares a wide range of popular bass fishing crayfish presentations next to live crayfish underwater. The purpose is to help anglers gain a better sense of how different baits perform and imitate crayfish, and when each may be appropriate for various fishing situations. *See FEATURED PRODUCT links at the bottom.
Host McKeon Roberts introduces each bait from a variety of lure categories including soft plastics, jig and plastic pairings, crankbaits, Neko rigs, skirted bass jigs, swinging jigs (wobble head, Tokyo Rig, bladed jigs, and more. As McKeon notes, there’s no ‘best’ crayfish bait for all situations. Some are extreme anatomical and color matches (match the hatch) while others are abstractions of the real thing and offer unique fish-triggering attributes.
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Having fished multiple s in different sizes and colors, ua-cam.com/users/postUgkxCbNOWAGmn6nfbCbJDmasvBq7J38KZNw2 this is by far my favorite. One thing to be aware of is the sided willow blade. One side is silver and the other is the green/orange shown. This is not bad, just unconventional. In terms of fishing, I have found the lure works just fine without a tail like a craw or shad. That addition is up to you. Also, the hook part where you attach the swivel snap or tie the line is a problem on baits these days, since it's able to slide up and down. However this lure seems to be tight enough that that doesn't happen often, and you can solve it by putting a thin slice of medical tube over the hook before attaching the line. Like others have said, it's really magic on a good windy day.
Even though a lot of the baits look good, many of the actions didn't exactly look realistic, especially when standing up on end.
It’s 3 am, I’m watching a comparison of live crayfish and fake bait
What has my life come to?
And we love you for this Noah 😁
Theres only one way to become a bass pro
Things can be a lot worse! Sitting in a tree 19 degrees last November, bagged a big 9pt.large and small love crawdads.
@Noah Baldonado - good for you!! Largemouth and smallmouth love crawdads!! Learn it !! Live !!! Love it!!!
Its 4am for me
Whoever gave this video a thumbs down has issues
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Yes indeed
I agree with you
Dyslexic.
This is one of the best vids I have see on presentation. Please keep ‘me coming I think these are great for all levels
Thank you, Lamar Robinson. The sole purpose of this was to give people a perspective not normally seen. We love doing these kinds of videos so let us know what you want to see and we'll shoot it-
One thing I noticed is that crayfish walk backwards in the same way that crabs do. Another thing I noticed is how slowly crawfish move when there's no obvious threat nearby. Its a reminder that likewise I really need to work on fishing creature baits very VERY slowly and with more subtlety. Patience when finesse fishing is definitely no easy undertaking. Very interesting footage to see, thanks for posting.
What about some the live target, been eye balling them but not really sure, absolutely great video!
I would like to see the live target hollow body craw.
I would also like to see a finesse cut jig with trailer
Finally a reaction innovations spicy beaver rigged with an owner 1/16 oz swimbait hook
The megabass crankbait was very disappointing, it just looked like an oddly shaped shiny red blob. I would expect more from a bait that cost so much
Did you hear it? The thing as a cool sound. Its a lil more for a twitch and pause retrieve since its slow sinking but we were hoping to get it "running with the herd" so to speak. I don't think the bait is even still on the market but we thought it would be a cool comparison.
Thank you for the comment M Jones we really want to hear what people think and generate some conversations. If there are any baits you want to see you should let us know.
Thanks again-
That Tokyo Rig was awesome.... made the craws look real.... and loved the way it allowed the swimbait to follow the contours of the bottom....
Keeps it tight to bottom. That's the beauty of the rig.
The Tokyo rig kinda took the glory but I would love to see the Jika Rig. It's great on Craws. I like the yum Christie Craw
Very true Austin Matuszewki. The Jika is essentially in the same family of presentations and woulda bee cool to see after the Tokyo rig. Christie Craw is legit as well. Good suggestion and thanks for the comment!
Agree. I just smoked some river smallmouth rigging a Zoom Ultra Vibe Speed Craw on the Tokyo Rig last night. Excellent depth control and pitching accuracy on river cut banks and around laydowns. -Ryan
Some of them looks so vertical with the claws all the way up that it looks like the crayfish is surrendering
Claws up dont shoot....
Maybe do a jerkbait video. You could match them with different tackle: baitcaster, spinning, line diameter, styles of line(mono, fluorocarbon, braid).
How about the YUM "Crawbug" & the JAWBONE Craw Crankbait(with moving Claws)?
yum craw bug 3.25"
Great footage. I think the z man looks the best. Even the other crayfish were attacking it lol.
This was an amazing video! Watching the actual crayfish react was awesome.
Thanks a lot Nathan Cross! Helps dial in each presentation when seeing them side by side-
Needed the greatest craw bait of ALL TIME, the Strike King RAGE CRAW
👍🏼 Next time??
Yoooooo!!!! Great video! However, the presentation on swing heads; revealed. They don't actually "swing"! NOT, saying you won't get bit! Just one of the rare times, you can test the marketing of a product. To see if it does what it is truly suppose to do.
Z,an looked the best n got a good reaction from other crays.
Awesome vid! Maybe a next video with classic craws, for example, craws from Zoom and Strike king.
But this video is amazing, great job!
Appreciate the note IronBass. We'll see what we can do with those bait recommendations.
Swing head for the win!!👍
My hard bait of choice is my MudBugs model 20 and my favorite Big Bass model 22 I’ve accumulated over the years…… 👍 Would be cool to see that under water footage! Get Some! I Got Mine!
very good video my country no have crayfish.
If its buoyant youre much more likely to get bit. If youre throwing a floating craw plastic in an area you know has fish and not feeling anything its downsize time or the polar opposite and throw something you fish fish to trigger a reaction strike.
Savage gear with the football head weight looked best i think
River2Sea, “clackin’ crayfish”.
All the Z man stuff looked AWESOME
Easily one of the coolest and most useful fishing videos I've ever seen!
#humbled. Appreciate it SoloXFuRy
you missed marabou, I would have really liked to see that.
That's crazy how many craw there are in there. That's a huge imbalance in the ecosystem
Also hilarious to see those craw get bumped into by the bait and freak out hahaha
They are Rusty Crayfish which are invasive up here. They get to be a little overabundant. Displacing native crayfish numbers and species.
Great video, thank you! I'd like to see a tube jig comparison, dragging vs jigging and falling please
Thanks for the feedback Shayne. We have a cool video that contains similar underwater footage of a tube.
Power Fishing Tubes (Stroking) for Big Smallmouth Bass --> ua-cam.com/video/71nTWLChCDA/v-deo.html
Thanks for the great demos. I honestly do not feel that any of the soft baits look like/act like a crawfish. Perhaps because I think the action being imparted simulates that of a wounded minnow, the way we have just been accustomed to retrieve most baits since forever, and nothing like the way a crawfish moves. None of the multiple real crawfish are in a vertical position, the baits look, imho, just plain silly, the floating aspect being vastly over valued, however when fished in rocks, this could be an asset, not on the bottom as shown. Just my opinion, I still appreciate taking the time to make/show the video.
Thanks for watching and commenting!
I really like your videos where I live, I take new products to one of the many clear canals and works them so I can see the action and work on my speed of retrieve. Then when I go deep the mental picture of the best way to work the crayfish truly ups my capacity to catch bass and sometimes channel cats and flatheads. Your video is basically the same. Very nice job.
We like how you think and operate Bass Dogg 🙌. A lot of the fun is about the presentation and trying to get bit on something artificial.
I'd like to see Rage Junks, Rage craws, lobster craws by Strike King. Paca Craws by net bait. Speed craws by Zoom
Those are some staple craw profile baits Eddie Ray Cantrell. Good call! We'll look into it.
@@Wired2Fish would also love to see finesse jigs like a war eagle hvy finesse jig. D & L or Strike King finesse jigs. Casting jigs by any company with craw trailers. Most have NO IDEA what they are trying to emulate under the water with their jigs and trailers.
I did really love the video!!!!!! Love these type of video's! Very very very informative!!!!!!!!!
Your Stuff is very very nice. . I don't get that in Germany
That Savage Gear crawdad was the most realistic presentation in my opinion. That being said, I can see each and every one of these baits getting bit. For the crankbait presentations, that Megabass crankbait stands out for being much more unique in it’s action, whereas the other crankbait actions have been seen forever. The Carolina Rig is also an awesome way to go as evidenced in this video. May everyone reading this comment this far reach a new personal best in 2020. Cheers!
Thanks for the well wishes on the PB. Can’t wait to see that fish- And thanks for watching, T Bonilla!
do river2sea claki'n crayfish
Awesome job. Yum craw papi is one of the best crawdad baits. I thought you cranked a bit fast to mimic the crawdads. Dirty jigs is the best jig.
We had to really wind up the crankbaits do get them to deflect in the shallow water. Definitely looked like it was being burned but did you see that paint job on the cliff banger? Changes color so fast and looks pretty sweet.
@@Wired2Fish definitely some awesome baits and colors. Didn't care for the strike king stuff.
Strike king rage craw
how about zoom speed craw or double tail grubs brush hogs? good video
That Savage gear was perfect imatation might have to get some now
Yeah, it's one of the more realistic options out there. Savage Gear also has a 2.5'' crawfish option in their Ned lineup that fits the bill when bass are keyed on smaller forage. You might like this video -- loaded with underwaters and some "live eats." ua-cam.com/video/lnX546mIhfs/v-deo.html
@@Wired2Fish Thanks! Love the content I've learned more from your videos and website than any other appreciate it 👊
here it is March 15th, last week I was at the Houston Fishing Show and saw a "shrimp "(craw with out the claw) bait [ LOT OF SALT WATER DISPLAYS ] that had a tail the flexed under and back forward....the bait was fished backward and looked REAL popped across the bottom or fished as swimming.....the tail was slit crossways alternated top and bottom of the tail at each segment of the tail and had a springy rod in the tail for flex and spring.......IT LOOKED ALIVE AND REAL......
Id like to see you do the Rage Craw, hammer craw, and the Net Baits Paca Craw compared to the live craws. Also I think a little more horizontal presentations. Slower drag and stop and go retrieves would help as well. I have a bass in an aquarium and feed him crawdads occasionally and he really doesn't mess with the craws that are in a fighting position. Thanks. This video you just did was great! One of the best video's I've watched on UA-cam!
Thank you DaveC409! Cool to hear that you have observed the crayfish and the bass interact. Definitely something to think about. To be honest that flat rock was kind of hard to impart action over unless you got it going a little fast on some baits. We did do the hammer craw on the Tokyo rig. Coulda done it on a Texas rig too since it’s such an awesome lil flippin bait. Thank you again for the insight!
I see everyone is suggesting single baits, which is great, but how about a video comparing some craws, beavers, and maybe a crawl worm style bait.
And for a future thought, maybe compare the fall rate between a 7 and 10 inch worm on different weight/ hook setups. Good videos, keep'em coming guys.
I caught the king of the dinks (decent bass) out of a shallow creek with a black jighead and a small craw yesterday.. Fish on!
Great video. Very interesting stuff
Pretty cool huh?!
Wired2Fish dang right. Loved it
This was great footage, really well done. Kudos guys
Glad you enjoyed it!
Amazing Video! Thanks! Keep them coming!
We're working on some more. Here's our most recent comparison vid -- bluegill-imitating baits ran next to the real thing 🐟 --> ua-cam.com/video/kxpeeEnOw1U/v-deo.html
How can you have over 12,000 views and ONLY 361 thumbs up????
That camera guy got pinched by a bunch of crawdads that day xD
🦞😖! Our staff have a tendency to mess with wild critters when they should keep their fingers to themselves.
I can just see a fish asking another fish how to tell what’s real and what’s not and the other fish saying if it’s trying to moon walk like Michael Jackson. It’s not real.
Imagine adding a 2 way closed swivel between the jig/hooks line and your main tie off.
Thank me later
Theirs so many crayfish
Fishing show my friend, long live the channel, a big hug and TMJ !!! 🎣🎣🎣🎣🎣🎣
the Zman crawfish are really to small for me but i like the idea
Finesse to the max! Maybe they’ll come out with a bigger size but when fish are on those fresh new baby craws it’s deadly.
This was awesome. Y’all should do a whole series with different baits beside bluegill, shad, etc.!
That’s a good idea.
We are hoping to do more with this series that’s why it’s important for you to tell us what you want to see. Much appreciated!
Some of these look so good!
Great and informative video. I personally have a bunch of craw style baits, but i have only done well with the zmsn u
Maybe a series of videos that follow the feeding patterns and bait type i.e., molting, spring emergence, coloration of bait species for that region being fished, etc.
Yum Crawbugs, Zoom Speed Craw and Ultravibe, Xzone Muscule Back, Googan Baits Krackin’ Craw and Trench Hawg, Strike King Rage Craw and Menece and Rapala DT Series, Bandit 200, Cotton Cordell Big O and Storm Wiggle Wart.
Absolutely amazing idea with great video comparisons. You guys ROCK!
Football head straight drag and pause best one
Hard to beat!
I did learn a new technique from this video… the Tokyo jig is something new I’ll be fishing.. I’m stubborn to the crawl fish.. Out of 100 cast I would say 60 are a crawldad . In some shape or form..
Am I the only one that thinks a crank bait looks or moves nothing like a crawdad??? I think the orange colored crank baits, and other natural looking crawdad baits with the exception of red, imitates a bluegill more then the crawdads. I cant explain why they like red crank baits, at least not here in Virginia, because I've caught crawdads in every month of the year, to look at to match the hatch, in many different bodies of water and never not one time have I seen a red one. Not dark red, or bright red. I've seen mainly green pumkin, watermelon main bodies, with black, blue, grayish, orange accents on the lower body, and pinchers. Another thing is black or black and blue jigs and jig trailers. Because I've never seen a black or dark blue colored crawdad. Or any baitfish that was those colors. I think black lures of any kind imitate a shadow from a bait fish or crawdad. Also once you go past 10 foot any color you use looks the same unless your in gin clear water maybe. My buddy took black, purple, plum, blue fleck watermelon and green pumpkin worms, and dropped a go pro down to 10 foot and compared, then went to 15 foot, then 20 then 25. He said once you go past 10 feet they all look the same.
excellent video.
Thank You, Matheus Pedroso. We had a lot of fun filming it. Learned a lot too!
For a second I was thinking “wow the fish really aren’t biting for this guy” then realized there is a camera fallowing the lure scaring the fish 🤦🏼♂️
Fisherman: lol muh baitssss
Crayfish : DAMN KIDS, GET OFF MY LAWN!!
Thank you @wired2fish! Awesome!
I don't know how I missed this video. Fantastic! I pour/inject a 3.5" crawdad. I usually go worth lighter colors. Lighter colors look more like juvenile Crawfish, which are usually softer. You can really see how the real crayfish react, swim, and go into a defensive stance. Awesome!
Thanks for giving it a watch Darren. We'd enjoy seeing your baits in action.
Great look and comparison. I would like to see you pause the baits as well. The actual crawdads did not seem to move as much or as fast. It may not make a difference, but if imitation of look is the object, wouldn't acting the part help with catching?
I think you are right LeadMunitions. That said we were trying to compare traditional retrieves next to real crayfish. Now that you have seen it, a guy might switch up his cadence a little more. Which is what we were hoping to find out!
Thanks for the comment-
He is in a shallow pool and can manipulate the bait by sight to make it preform. What would it look like 30-50 feet
Man, those high floating Z-Man baits don't look like the deal to me. This honestly makes me want to just go fish a tube.
What about using an O ring on a live craw? Would keep it alive longer and u probably cant beat the real thing 🤷♂️
So you're going to tiny twitch a crawfish bait during a tournament? Horseshit. Good video tho.
Can you imagine how big a bass would get in that pool
Man the one bait I thought you definitely would be using in this video was a zoom critter crawl ):
The savage gear craw to me LOOKED the most realistic bit didnt have much action.
Wow, this was great! I learned a lot from this!!!
So did we! Thanks for watching-
EXCELLENT VID!! Id Like to see Googan Bandito, Krackin craw, and Trench Hogs!
great video i would like to see some creature baits for instance a sweet beaver
Excellent video footage. Thanks for sharing!
Ever wonder why crawdad dont have eyes on the back side? Image running away from something completely backwards not really knowing if there a bigger predator behind you.
I like that perspective.
I'm just getting back into fishing and this video was helpful. Thanks.
Glad to hear it Michael. There's a tremendous amount of lure options out there and they all catch fish under the right circumstances. We like the knowledge of knowing what different baits look like to help us make smart, informed decisions.
Live target craw
I have fished a ton of crawdad lures for smallies. A gitzit/tube is always the top producer for smallies in clear water. Seems like the most realistic crawfish patterns just dont produce for me.
Do the tackle hd craw. Just bought some. Have been killin the small mouth on them
Noted, thanks for the recommendation Kenneth.
A lot of these just look rediculous. Looking at the real crawfish in the video as you drag baits by them, they don't really match the hatch so to speak. None of the real crayfish are flailing their claws like they're running out of a burning building. Their movement seems to be more subtle. I like simple soft plastic craws. The Yum crawbug is pretty much my go to.
There's a lot to be said for the non-natural getting bit -- baits that are abstractions of the real thing and stand out in a crowd. At the end of the day, tackle and experimentation is fun. So too is finding your confidence bait, like the Yum Crawbug 👍.
Great video! I love watching underwater footage. Specially when we're comparing different baits
Berkley squarebull
Great video.. subscribed.. tried to smash the thumbs up button, but as usual it just flashes blue and doesn't register.. 🤔 starting to get a little suspicious...🦞
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Thank you Curt F82!
I make Craw Dad baits by using Deer hair or Marabou ,and different kind Chenilles. John Blythe Southern Illinois. You have great videos thanks.
Thanks so much for tuning in and dropping a comment! Hair is great for that subtle craw action!
I’m gonna start doing my crawfish dance 2:10 lmao
Awesome video
Thanks, nature came together for us on this day.
Great video! Thank you!
@Keys - this is an oldie but a goodie that slipped by me- funny watching the live ones scootch out the way of the line or posture up..
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Thanks for watching man! We're just about to post a very similar style video-👀
@@Wired2Fish y'all got the BEST underwater footage ever ever. Tell Kyle and Jason and Chris and all the other contributors pre pre spawn is right around the corner. #FishingLife #BestFishingBrand #KeysaKaKayakMan
This is very useful to see the side by side! 😍
Smoked a crawdad in the head @15:24 😂
The new Livetarget hollow belly craw
I got as much from watching the live ones get out of the way. They don't continuously move. About 1 foot then dull stop of slight twitch. Gonna change my retrieve now.
Exactly!
How about experimenting with tubes a little bit? One of (if not the) most popular baits to catch crawfish eaters and weren't there a few studies done on bass preferring a tube profile over about everything else?
Chris W, Completely agree about the tube being a geat crawfish imitator. Might have to try this again with tubes and a few other baits that have been suggested. As mentioned you could do this all day with the number of crawfish profiles out there. That said we'd love to compare them all. Great suggestion and thank you for the comment!