Classify This Bait!

fishin' fool · 03-10-08, 10:42 PM

I've had the Spittine Image since I was about 13-14, but haven't used it since then. When I did use it when I was younger, I would use it as a top water, jerk bait, or I would just cast it and reel it in. I still can't seem to figure out what it is. Is it a jerk bait, a wake/crankbait???

Heres a pic if it helps

Cranebird · 03-10-08, 11:22 PM

Thats not a spit n image that is a swim n image.Its a subsurface lure .

Rebbasser · 03-10-08, 11:28 PM

Yep. C-Bird is correct

. I've got several of them.

carolina-rig-01 · 03-11-08, 01:54 AM

the spit n image has the same body minus the lip. it is a great topwater bait that you don't hear too much about.

Cranebird · 03-11-08, 06:56 AM

Its truely a pain in the @ss to fish because the front hook constantly gets tangled on the line as you walk the dog with it.I have found use 14 lb test or bigger and a whole lot less effort in walking the dog, more like a slow lazy cadence and the spittin image is a fantastic smallmouth lure.Most of ones I have ,the finish is almost completely worn off and yet they still consistantly catch fish.

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Bob Smith · 03-11-08, 03:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Cranebird

Its truely a pain in the @ss to fish because the front hook constantly gets tangled on the line as you walk the dog with it.I have found use 14 lb test or bigger and a whole lot less effort in walking the dog, more like a slow lazy cadence and the spittin image is a fantastic smallmouth lure.Most of ones I have ,the finish is almost completely worn off and yet they still consistantly catch fish.

C-Bird Ornament

You definitely know that bait well! I used to use it a lot, then I started relegating it to schooling bass activity! When they would be busting shad on the surface I would cast the Spittin' Image past the school and just crank and jerk as fast as I could! There wasn't a cadence at all just a fleeing action across the top. They would hammer that thing. It was too hard, as C-bird pointed out, to effectively walk the dog. I have Zara Spooks in about every size and color they made that did that ten times better!

Marty · 03-11-08, 08:19 PM

As previously noted, the pictured bait is a Swim'n Image, which is classified as a shallow or super-shallow crankbait. It's my favorite in that category.

The Spit'n Image would be classified as a surface walker.

03-10-08, 10:42 PM	#1
fishin' fool BassFishin.Com Active Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Iowa Posts: 184	Classify This Bait! I've had the Spittine Image since I was about 13-14, but haven't used it since then. When I did use it when I was younger, I would use it as a top water, jerk bait, or I would just cast it and reel it in. I still can't seem to figure out what it is. Is it a jerk bait, a wake/crankbait??? Heres a pic if it helps

03-10-08, 11:22 PM	#2
Cranebird BassFishin.Com Active Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Bath, NY Posts: 308	Thats not a spit n image that is a swim n image.Its a subsurface lure . __________________ ******************************************

03-10-08, 11:28 PM	#3
Rebbasser BassFishin.Com Premier Elite Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: San Antonio, TX Posts: 10,141	Yep. C-Bird is correct. I've got several of them. __________________ It's happened to the best of them: John 21:3

03-11-08, 01:54 AM	#4
carolina-rig-01 BassFishin.Com Premier Elite Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Webb City, MO Posts: 6,387	the spit n image has the same body minus the lip. it is a great topwater bait that you don't hear too much about. __________________ You only live once. But if you do it right, once is enough.

03-11-08, 06:56 AM	#5
Cranebird BassFishin.Com Active Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Bath, NY Posts: 308	Its truely a pain in the @ss to fish because the front hook constantly gets tangled on the line as you walk the dog with it.I have found use 14 lb test or bigger and a whole lot less effort in walking the dog, more like a slow lazy cadence and the spittin image is a fantastic smallmouth lure.Most of ones I have ,the finish is almost completely worn off and yet they still consistantly catch fish. C-Bird Ornament __________________ ******************************************

03-11-08, 08:19 PM	#7
Marty BassFishin.Com Super Veteran Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Rochester, NY Posts: 1,580	As previously noted, the pictured bait is a Swim'n Image, which is classified as a shallow or super-shallow crankbait. It's my favorite in that category. The Spit'n Image would be classified as a surface walker. __________________ Meeting expenses is easy...they're EVERYWHERE The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits Rochester, NY

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