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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | I fished my Rumbler this weekend for the first time, and can report it runs GREAT! I tuned it to run VERY slow and still pop nice. This thing will catch fish. It does run deeper than most of the prop baits, and one is wise to give it a second to 'surface' at the beginning of the cast before starting the retrieve. No muskies, but a couple pike slapped it and got stuck. |
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Location: Mt. Prospect, il | I got a really big follow all the way to the boat. I started my figure 8 to the left, the fish went right. I cast out again and looked down the fish was just laying there right next to the boat. That was my first look at a fish this year. |
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| Hi Steve, could you explain how you tune your prop baits? Do you bend at the cup area or bend the straight part of the prop? And lastly do you bend this tune area with your fingers or do you use something like needle nose? Thank you for your responce. |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | I straighten them out a bit and then re-cup them with more 'straight' area in the center of the blade and more cup at the edge. Pliers all the way. This allows the bait to POP nice running slower. |
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Location: Lake County, IL | I just received my rumbler today from Jackson Lures. Thanks Jackson for the quick delivery. Right out of the box I put in on and proceeded to check out the "pop" on my backyard pond. The pop on this lure right out of the box was tremendous with no adjustments. The amazing thing was to have a 2lb Largemouth hit it. I reeled her in with the 8" rumbler in her mouth! Move over top raider!
If any of you haven't purchased one of these, you're missing out on a good presentation. |
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Location: Iowa | I got one from scheels and used it at night for about 2 hours already...love the thing...nice loud pop straight out of the box...
Big Perc |
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| first 30 minutes I tested it out I got a 41.75 to eat it....I like it..not as loud as my Chopper but not as quiet as a topraider and sits very low in the water..
Had another what sounded like a big fish follow it to the boat after dark sat nite ...probably didn't do my best L ever before she gave me the tail .... |
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Location: Verona, WI | I took a Rumbler I bought from Dorn's out this last weekend. A case of good and bad. I fished it for about three hours and lost a fish on it and had a follow so it does attract fish. The sound is different and it can be worked fast or slow.
The bad side was that the Rumbler I got has very little gap between the body and the tail which means I was forced to retune it about every ten minutes. In addition to keep the lure on the surface I was forced to hold my rod at a 45 degree angle - otherwise the bait would go subsurface. Holding the rod like this was both bad on the back and could not be good for the hook set. My guess is the angle on the head of the bait works like a diving lip.
Jury is still out for me but it does attract fish.
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| Shane, were you working it in any kind of waves...? i found my rumbler performs best (doesn't dive) in calm or almost calm conditions...
if it's wavy I just throw my Chopper!
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Location: Verona, WI | Brad,
It was dead calm. Mark Hintz and I fished Saturday and his Rumbler had the same challenge in keeping on the surface - it wanted to dive. The interesting part was that he got his bait at the Blaine show and his was definitely build differently. From the looks of it the tail of his bait was made from wood and the main body was made from a different material than the Nature Visions baits.
Shane |
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| Ok that is interesting..i thought they all were made from some hard plastic?
didn't know some have wood tail sections?
I guess I got a good one... |
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| The tail on the Rumbler is a large screw, I just turned mine out a couple of turns with a needle nose to get the tail away from the body, then it works awsome. I have one low 40's fish, but seen many on it already this year. |
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| This does not sound correct, I have never seen one from anyhting other the hard plastic, I would be suprised if a company that large would take 2 different baits to a show as large as Blaine. Something sounds fishy !! haha |
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Location: WI | I just bought one and it works pretty good. My only gripe is that it rides a little low and picks up a lot of weeds...but that just means I'll have to reserve it for other areas.
One thing I did before I bought it was hold a few of the boxes and see how good the prop turns by flipping the box back and forth. One of them seemed a little stiff so I bought the other one.
Edited by JKahler 7/1/2007 10:22 AM
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