Material Blends

Material blends are always noted within the description of each bait, it is also noted on the packaging of the bait. The following is a description of the blends we use along with each blend's pros and cons.

• Finesse. The finesse blend is extremely soft and flexible. This blend imparts a whole lot of action into the bait. We typically use this blend in Robo Worm and flat worm (Wyandotte Worm) type baits, along with a few other drop-shot profiles. Due to its softness and flexibility, the finesse blend is extremely weak. Do not expect to get more than one or two fish per bait.
• Worm. The Worm blend is soft and flexible. This is considered to be the same as the industry standards for 'Soft'. We use this blend in baits such as sticks, trick worms and most NED profiles. Though not as soft as the finesse blend this blend is still pretty soft. We will consider one lucky if the bait survives 3 fish.
• Swimbait. The swimbait blend is harder than the industry standard for a soft bait, yet softer than the standard for a medium bait. Consider is to be Medium Soft. We use this blend in all of our swimbaits and jerk baits. We find this blend best to ensure proper action in the tails (paddle, forked and stinger) of our baits. We typically tend to get 2-3 fish per bait.
• Tube. Our tube blend can be considered as a Medium Hard blend. Almost all tubes from other manufacturers are created with a hard grade of material. We feel that hard material does not allow for the proper action to be imparted to the tails of the tube and therefore have opted for a softer more flexible blend. We typically tend to get 2, maybe 3 fish on our tubes.
• Tube Tough / Craw. Tougher than our Tube Blend. This blend is the typical blend used by most Tube makers. Its toughness allows for the Tube to last for 3 - 5 fish. The downside of this blend (we feel) is that the tails of the Tube seem stiffer to us when compared with the Tube blend.

Floating and Sinking

We carry each of our blends in a floating and sinking mixes. We believe the choice of a floating or sinking bait depends upon the presentation one desires. As with all things in life, it is not always that obvious as to what one's choice should be. The following is an enumeration of how we tend to make this decision. This is our opinion, so take it with a grain of salt.

• NED's, Shakey Heads, Trick Worms, Drop shots.  If we are fishing down to say 6 feet, we will always opt for a floating blend. This allows the bait to stand up in the water column. If we are fishing at depths of 7 feet or greater we will opt for a sinking blend. This is due to the fact that the buoyancy of the bait increases at depth due to the pressure in the water column. So, a sinking blend will actually become neutrally buoyant at depth with buoyancy increasing the deeper you go. This allows one to adjust their hops and twitches to ensure the expected action is imparted upon the bait. 
• Swim Baits. We tend to fish our swim baits with weighted swim bait hooks. Very rarely do we fish them on swim bait jigs. There are times where we wish to fish the swim bait as a pseudo top water bait. With this presentation we bring the bait to the top of the water, crank just fast enough to have the paddle break the surfaces, slow the crank down to get is to sort of dive and repeat. A floating blend allows us to crank slower and bring the swim bait to the top easier. All other presentations we opt for the sinking blend.
• Jerk Baits. Quite often we tend to fish our jerk baits with a top water presentation, especially when we are fishing the pads. In this case we opt for the floating blend. All other presentations the sinking blend is used.
• Sticks, Texas and Non-weighted whacky rigging. We will always use a sinking blend with these presentations with both the salted and un-salted blends.
• Sticks, Weighted whacky rigged. With this presentation we tend to opt for an un-salted floating blend.