Had a chance to fish the "big honkin flat raps" quite a bit on my trip to Pickerel 8/28-9/3

This bait is very easy to cast with MH baitcasting bass gear.  Seemed to dive around 3-6' casting on 10lb test.  I also trolled it quite a bit.  It doesn't pull very hard but still dove to around 8' or so.

I think this will be a very good big pike bait when they are relatively shallow.  I lost one about 40" but that was the only big fish bite...water was unusually warm for this time of the year so I assume most of the big girls were deep.

I caught a surprising number of walleyes casting reefs with this bait.   Most were between 20-23" and in 5-8' of water as the sun was setting.  Smallies also attacked this bait including a nice 18" and I caught them as small as 12" on this 6 1/4" bait.

I will definitely not make another trip without a couple of these in the box.