I haven't done so well with them. They are good for bed fishing, but even then I lost all my fish I hooked. Mattlures makes some great stuff, but if your trying to save money, in all honesty bro, its not worth buying. I don't find it as one of the main tools in trying to catch big bass. If you use it for bed fishing your risking losing fish. If you use it as random casting and retrieving, well its action isn't that good. If your desperate for a bluegill, bettencourts bait has good action, kind of like a crankbait and it does not look like crap. Also the castaic sunfish is deadly. And you can still bed fish with it, almost as effectively.

I think overall, that none of the bluegill baits are as good as they could be. I am sure somebody will soon come out with a superior one. One maybe that you could count down and would sink like a huddleston or something. Good luck.

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