Papa's Buzzbaits...

[greg]

Papa's Buzzbaits

I have been using Papa's Buzzbaits for a little over a month now. This buzzbait has a unique shape to it. It is not shaped like normal buzzbaits and spinnerbaits. The line tie, the blade and hook are inline with just 2 slight bends between the blade and the lead head.



While using this buzzbait, I never had trouble with it collecting weeds on the head of the lure. With the lead head being inside the circle of the blade spinning around, the weeds could not collect on the lead head part of the buzz bait. The blade would move the weeds so that they did not make contact with the lead head nor the hook.

When I use a spinnerbait or a buzzbait I always use a trailer hook. With the blade where it is on this buzzbait, I caught just about every Bass on the main hook of the buzzbait. I still used a trailer hook on this buzzbait, but it was just for insurance against an occasional short strike.

As Mark mentions on his web site, http://home.earthlink.net/~papasbaits, Since this is a reaction bait, it's not necessary to paint the head. I believe on a buzzbait that the Bass are striking at the blades of the bait. With this buzzbait, if they strike at the blades, they are going to get caught by the hook that is right behind the blade. On other buzzbaits, the hook is below and behind the blade.

This buzzbait seems to be made out of quality materials. You could blow on the blade and it just spins like a top. It was easy to get the blade spinning when you threw it out in the water and start the retrieve. The hook kept it's sharp point and the shaft never bent on the lure. When you get your buzzbait from Papa's, it will not have a skirt. It is just another way that Mark has kept the cost of this buzzbait down. I had plenty of extra skirts, so I would put the skirt color that I wanted to use on the buzzbait.

I was really impressed with the design and how this buzzbait worked. I like the way this buzzbait worked so much that I don't plan on using the typical design buzzbait anymore.

I give the Papa's Buzzbait 5 stars...

[Salamander]

seeing that the prop and the hook are very close to being in line did it you ever think of using something other than a skirt?

[greg]

Steve,

Thanks for that. I never even thought about using a grub or anything like that. I just put a rubber skirt on it and fished it that way.

I believe that using some sort of soft plastic on the hook will give it bouyancy and make it so that you could bring it back even slower than with a rubber skirt.

[papamark]

Greg,
Thank you for the review of our product, its great to see that you really like it. It took us several times to get the bends right so that it ran straight and not to one side or the other. we are also working on a spinner bait along the same design. Hoping to have this out before Christmas

Steve, we have tried all kinds of things as trailers on this bait and so far everything has worked great. The only problem we have seen with other trailers is that you have to decide which one you want to use.

[Salamander]

Thats a good thing, a shad chasing a beetle which both get eaten by Big Mama, That makes us all happy

[les erzinger]

i like the idea if it. ever think of offering it with a wider gap hook ? put a thick body grub that gap gets even smaller. but with the smaller gap hook less chance if getting hung up in grass or slop.

[les erzinger]

link don't work nor the new link to papa's

[papamark]

the New WEB page is

http://www.papasbaits.net

thanks

Mark