Some days you can't but help catch fish

[SenkoSam]

Those fish were very active for water temps that cool. Looks like you are on to something there with those thickers tails. Do you ever tip your plastics with any bait?

 I used to think the same thing, colder water / less active. But then I remember my partner and I caught over 50 crappie ice fishing one area of the lake in early March one year. I was using a tube lure and he something else, but man was the bite hard!

The tails are very thin but wide ( I think that's what you meant). They flutter with no rod tip action added on the retrieve except pauses and reel hand stop & go. The Claw had pointed tips that also quiver up and down IMO accounting for strikes.

There is no point in using any bait or scent on lures that demonstrate good action by design. Many times the lures shown were hit three or four times on the same retrieve and caught on the last strike. Granted, there can be a big difference in lure activity/ aggression from day to day, but generally speaking, once I find a design or more than one design that catch fish, I stay with it.

For example, the GY white stick got clobbered the day before, but less so the following day where smaller worked better.