All this buzzbait talk.....

[Col Forbin]

All this buzzbait talk got me digging through some tackle and noticing maybe I need to go shopping!!!! Topwater, is by far, my favorite way to catch fish. I fish alot on Ky lake with Sammy's and spooks, the occassional frog when the grass comes in thick. However, I seem to be lacking in quality buzzbaits.

So the question is...... What is everyone's buzzbait of choice? I am needing to go buy a couple, but wanted some input first. Any suggestios?

[elnutsmalljaws]

Booyah, love them. Single and Double blade any color you want as long as it is BLACK!!!!! Plan on tossing it a couple of times around the flooded timber at Ky and Barkley for the next 7 days.

[csparks643]

go to dicks and get the cavitrons, there about 6.50 a piece though, there worth it.

[csparks643]

its the one on my profile picture

[flippin stick]

Look at team supreme buzz baits. They have professional quality tackle. (teamsupremetackle.com) Been using there buzz baits for over a year and have been impressed on how well they hold up after catching many fish.

[BassNNutt]

Look at team supreme buzz baits. They have professional quality tackle. (teamsupremetackle.com) Been using there buzz baits for over a year and have been impressed on how well they hold up after catching many fish.

ChatterBuzz in any color as long as it is Black.....

[DJD]

Cavitron all the way!

[csparks643]

Cavitron all the way!

heck yea...

[18'stratos]

I don't shop according to name brand. I have a variety and they are from different co.'s. Some small, some large, blade difference's like the double blade, the clacker, the drilled blade for a bubble trail. Long story short, I like to have a variety for different situations. I don't pick one color either, let the fish decide that one for you.

[hairball]

Lunker Lure with the offset blade, generally chartreuse but sometimes white. I always take the blade off and square up the holes with the tang end of a small file, then adjust it so the blade ticks the wire.

[MsgMills]

High Rider Double blade for me......

[Chubminnow]

I checked out the Cavitron and it looks pretty good, looks is usually what sets the hook on all of us fishermen anyway doesn't it? It does me, lol... I also like the Uncle Bucks Bucktail Skirt Buzzer. Either one of these baits look like they have good potential. The only thing I can think of that would make either of these two baits better, or any buzz bait for that matter is if they had a piece of cork in front of them to give them some buoyancy.

Many many years ago I was fishing with a friend of mine nicknamed Totsy (who passed away at an early age), but anyway, we were fishing Green River Lake...Can't remember what we were throwing now, probably cranks, C-rigs, etc, when suddenly a huge explosion occurred just barely out of casting distance. I do remember that we were up in Butler Creek. Anyways Totsy says to me: "Did you see that? Man she's callin' for us, let's troll over there!"

He had this so called "special" buzz bait that he pulled out of his box...in between taking one lure off and tying his "special" bait on he was talking about how special it was and how he could only find them at one place, which was Smyrna Tackle (I think). He said some old man made these baits by hand, and after he made a few dozen or so he would sell them to the bait shop and the bait shop would turn around and sell them to their customers. A we trolled over to the spot he went on about how he prefered to fish a buzz bait as slow as possible, slow...slow...s l o w enough to keep the blades turning and that's it. The cork aided the lure into staying a float thus allowing the bait to be fished extremely slow. This bait look a little bit like an in line spinner bait, similar to the Skirt Buzzer I mentioned above. The bait consisted of an Eye-let, offset wire with cork, followed with the head and rubber skirt ending with the hook.

He didn't catch the fish on the first cast...it might have been the fourth or fifth cast...But I distinctly remember a nice sized log laying horizontally across the water, partially submerged/partially exposed. Before casting it out again this time Totsy said: "Watch this." He brought the lure back to the boat real slow and right over the part of the log that was barely sticking out of the water. No sooner did the bait cross over the log and fall back into the water that fish busted that bait and I mean it BUSTED IT GOOD! It ended up being a nice and fat 4lb largemouth.

I went to Smyrna sometime shortly after our trip in search of that lure, of course they didn't have it...went back again to buy one without any luck...I gave up but I still remember that bait with the bullet shaped cork on the front of it. I have thought about trying to make this bait on my own since I can't find it anywhere.