Pretty sure the "High Impact" (plastic) version was created for its durability, which is great if ya want your Suick to look pretty and not retain water / weight over time with use "abuse"…….that being said, I haven't used them, probably won't……I custom ALL of em, with weight, hook rash, and usually get a few pin pricks. Something about a old crappy, scratched up, confident suick in sucker, with new hooks….whooo, shivers……12" ?? maybe under low vis i would, can't say…
"MattG_braith" said:
I am not a fan of the unweighted suicks of any size really. I like them to suspend and sit there or slowly rise after the pull so weighted only for me.
I agree, the unweighted ones fish way too shallow for the majority of the spots I would use them. When I first started musky fishing I actually spent some time using an unweighted Suick as a topwater. Had a couple fish follow but never had one strike it. I'm also with Adam on preferring the wood versions. I like to customize almost every bait I own, and I feel the wood gives me a few more options. With the wood versions it seems no two lures are ever the same, but I guess that can also be a good thing. I haven't had the success on Suicks most have, but I also haven't fished them enough and am determined to one day master how to use them.
Kid, I've used the 12" weighted for a few years now and they run fine. I've been a suick fan for many, many years and don't use the unweighted ones all that often. I like the "hang time" on the weighted ones and the ability to get them down a few feet deeper in the water column. I agree with Adam that some of the old, beat up suicks with paint missing and lots of hook pointers seem to be some of the best when it comes to both bait action and musky action.
I like the 12 weighted, it's a lot of wood and unweighted is too buoyant. I love my 9 and 10's unweighted in the summer in shallow-ish weeds and as noted they really get good when worn and soaking up water. I don't fish weighted suicks a whole lot outside of October/November, there are so many better lure options much of the time. The company hit a home run with the new high impact baits. The HI run just like a perfectly worn 9" unweighted.
I have a couple of each the weighted and unweighted 12 that I got to mess with this year. Of the 3 weighted that I used I didn't even have to tune one of them, other than adjusting for depth. Im not sure if its the size that makes little things not affect them as badly or if they manufacture them better, but 3/3 on suicks is about 75% better odds than with the 9 and 10's. The unweighted was definitely too buoyant, but I want to play around with weighting them a bit different than the factory weighted guys… One nice thing about these is that you can really rip on them if you want and get them going 5-6' side to side along with working them nice and slow like I like to work the other sizes.
As for the HI I wish they made a 10 and 12… they run perfect every time, and in shallow water are great. They come up a little faster than I would like but you can work them as fast or slow as you want without screwing up your action.
Like TimD, I've used suicks for many years and usually use the weighted version because of the increased hang time. Definitely like the 12" weighted and it is what I throw from mid-season on (most of the time). Regardless of the size, the suick works surprisingly well in weeds provided they are not too thick of course. Tuning the bait's metal tail up/down will alter the angle of the dive and the depth achieved on each pull. Twisting the tail a bit can help running it straight if the nose ring adjustment doesn't quite do it, especially with the 12".
I agree with everything said about the wood style but, I haven't used the HI yet. Guess that will have to be this year's tackle update. 😀
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