Kind of a neat and new concept, folks went to the fishing show as my guts have been wrecked since Saturday

(thank you 1 year old and your day care bugs)

It's a typical looking bait except the tail has a built in rattle. So every flutter and bump should generate some noise. Hopefully I can try some under the lights this weekend and catch the hell out of 14.5 in trout

Academy H2O soft plastics have had built in rattles for a few years now FYI.

Rattling plastic bait is neat but the real question is where can i get a shipping container stocked with bass?

rootube said:

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Rattling plastic bait is neat but the real question is where can i get a shipping container stocked with bass?

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All it takes is money

strohag said:

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Academy H2O soft plastics have had built in rattles for a few years now FYI.

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From the googling I've done the rattles are in the body of the academy baits. The difference would be these are in the tail. Don't know if a hungry trout/red/flounder/bass cares though

Meh.

At the bottom of one of several forgotten tackle boxes I've got some glass tube rattles designed to fit nicely into soft plastics. They are probably 25 years old and weren't game changers to say the least.

Hell, the black/chartreuse head Top Dog with high pitch rattle that I've been throwing the past two days hasn't even gotten a courtesy blow up. But I'll be throwing it tomorrow.

Your results may vary.

Looks like a lot of salt water paddle tail lures ... less the rattler

Yep. Used those tubes for a while about 25 yrs ago. Then I went to cutting a smell piece of plastic worm to hold the tubes, and I'd rig it between my weight and a glass bead on a Carolina rig. I can't say that I ever caught a fish I was convinced was attracted to the rattle, but you never know. My strikes per cast ratio was about the same with or without them.

We commonly put glass worm rattles in all our soft plastics. In the winter, when it is cold, calm, and water is dirty, you can definitely tell the difference in hookup ratios for rattle vs no rattle. If we are both fishing the same plastic, same jig head, same retrieve with rattles, and on good fish, we have seen it lots. One guy has his rattle pop out of his bait without realizing it (usually due to catching a fish that pushes it out), suddenly he doesn't get bit for 5 or 6 casts, while the other guy continues to hammer fish with multiple bites per cast.

I think when the rattle matters least, is when conditions are rough enough out that there is a lot of ambient noise and the fish can't distinguish the rattle noise, so they aren't attracted to the sound then.