Product Description:

The Bayou Bug is a smaller version of the Bayou Craw, looking like and acting like a young crawfish, especially a young spring crawfish. The pork fat cooked into the bait makes the claws stand up to simulate the natural defensive posture of a crawfish protecting itself. This defensive posture of the Bayou Bug will challenge a fish, producing explosive strikes. The unique ring design of the body will hold air between the rings that is released when you stop pulling the bait through the water, replicating the same live action characteristics of a real crawfish. Ninety percent of the young spring crawfish are a greenish in color with blue or gray tint to the claws. Our watermelon color series works well for replicating the color of young spring crawfish. Crawfish color varies depending on the color of the water; lighter colors in dark and muddy water compared to more true colored crawfish in clear water, and the claws are often a different color.

Product Reviews:

Reviewer: Jeff Gulachek (Cleveland, OH) - October 25, 2005

I fish the ABA Tournament Trail (District 038) and attended the national this summer on the Red River. I recieved a packaged of your Bayou Bug in a red and black color. I believe it was called Tequilla ...something, just not sure. Anyways, came back home here in the area of Cleveland, Ohio and decided to use this bait at our developement lake at which I stocked with bass and just killed them. This was this last weekend on Sat. Oct. 22nd. It was cold and cloudy. The lake was clear and just could not believe how well this bait did! I would love to buy more and I will defenitely get pictures next time. I still have time left to catch the big one.

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Fishing Tips:

The Bayou Bug is a good spring time bait and it works well in the summer when the water is high after a heavy rain.

The Bayou Bug is fished in the same way as the Bayou Craw, using a more finesse style of fishing.

Fish the Bayou Bug as a jig trailer by removing half of the body and rigging it to a 3/16 ounce finesse jig.

The Bayou Bug is fished very effectively using the dropshot technique, especially around boat docks and other large structures because of the feeding nature of the crawfish. A crawfish will climb up the post of a dock and feed on algae all the way up to the surface. Wave action and boat wakes can wash the crawfish off the post, and the crawfish will slowly drop to the bottom, wiggling its legs and claws on the way down. The crawfish will eventually crawl back up the post to continue feeding unless some feeding fish decides to take it out. Fishing the Bayou Bug dropshot around structure is replicating the action of a crawfish floating down to the bottom, making the bait appear vulnerable to a feeding fish and triggering the natural behavior of bass – STRIKE! Use a 1/0 straight shank hook and hook it through the end if the bait, but don’t hook it weedless because you want the fish to hook itself when it strikes

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