More fun this afternoon. This could get addictive. Not as many today but nicer ones all on the Tango.

I have noted a design flaw. The rear plastic "prop" is oversized and the diameter extends beyond the diameter of the hook. It could impede the lures hooking ability and indeed I lost several nice ones today including one that could have exceeded yesterdays big mama. Rats!

The solution is to really let them have it and turn down with the lure. Easier said than done when it gets blasted!

The other thing I'm not crazy about is the lure is an absolute gator caller. If I cast in one spot for more than 10 minutes invariably a gator just appears and the dang thing is looking right at me. This has happened 3 times so I know they are hearing the lure and getting interested. Creeps me out when they are looking at me and go down.

Wally13 wrote on Oct 11^th, 2011 at 4:51pm:


Yea that was my first thought but it would have to be huge. The props on these things are rather big. Plus they are stiff, no flex. Still, it can take some big fish and I wouldn't hesitate to employ one even with the disadvantage.

The other thing I noticed is the clear plastic props remind me a bit of fins, they have that same transparency. I have stopped taking my rod biking at least until they cut the grass around the canals. There is some big ornery snakes around these parts and I would hate to get hit 12 miles from the truck. Kinda creepy walkin next to the water in waist high weeds.