BOOYAH Delivers Flash with New Pad Crasher Color

The Disco Ball Pad Crasher offers plenty of flash and an outstanding shad imitation, filling an important niche for late spring, summer and fall bass fishing.

You’ve seen how a disco ball splashes color across a dance floor. The Disco Ball Pad Crasher does the same with reflected light and the lake bottom. Doing its enticing dance, this bait suggests a distressed shad scurrying across the surface and is too much for bass to resist.

Disco Ball does not look like a typical frog, yet it’s an outstanding fit for the BOOYAH Pad Crasher. Let’s examine why BOOYAH has introduced the Disco Ball color and how you can use it to catch more fish from now through the end of autumn.

Lure Specs

The lure itself is the BOOYAH Pad Crasher, a beloved and well proven soft-plastic frog that slides smoothly though vegetation and other cover, does a surface dance that bass cannot resist, and has a great hook to connect with fish and land them. What’s distinctive is the color and its role in a bass angler’s arsenal.

Disco Ball is well named. It is silver and sparkly and sends out extraordinary flash. Like YUM Bait Company’s Tin Foil color, Disco Ball was requested by Jason Christie to provide a Pad Crasher option for matching shad. The Disco Ball color features orange eyes, shad spots on both sides and a silver/grey legs.

When to Use It

A key time to turn to Disco Ball during spring is at first light because of the shad spawn that is just getting underway on many lakes. When shad spawn, bass show up for the feast and feed aggressively on fast-moving shad imitations.

Beyond the shad spawn, Disco Ball offers an excellent option anytime the bass are relating to shad and a Pad Crasher otherwise seems like a good bet. That includes any situation where you want to cover water or fish the surface without making too much noise, especially when vegetation along the edges, brush or other cover makes it difficult to work a lure with open hooks.

It’s excellent for fishing mats or pads, which is the Pad Crasher’s classic application, when shad are prevalent around the vegetation.

Disco Ball will be very important during fall, when shad move into creeks in big numbers and the bass follow – especially on “grass lakes” where the frog bite always heats up during fall.

Where to Fish

Shad commonly spawn around shallow vegetation, which is part of what makes a Pad Crasher an excellent choice. They also make heavy use of rocky points and riprap and, at times, wood cover. Look for shad movement in these types of areas early in the morning.

Whether or not shad are spawning, stay on the lookout for shad rings, areas where the water is darkened by schools of shad just beneath the surface and splashes from bass attacking shad. All indicate plentiful shad near the surface, setting things up perfectly for a Disco Ball Pad Crasher bite.

With shad located, key on vegetation, whether in form of pads, matted hydrilla or milfoil or emergent grass along the edges. Don’t limit yourself to vegetation, though. A Pad Crasher excels atop slop because it can go where the baits cannot, but that also applies to brush and other cover, and in truth it’s well suited for simply working quickly, hitting everything that looks good along a bank, to find feeding bass.

Why Disco Ball

• Bass love shad.
• Bass feeding on top can’t resist a BOOYAH Pad Crasher.
• Bass often hold in cover that’s hard to fish effectively with open-treble lures.
• Jason Christie requested it, and BOOYAH knows that Jason knows!

Folks at BOOYAH realized that Pad Crasher is simply too important a bait from late spring all the way until the end of fall to not have a color that flashes a lot of silver and truly suggests a shad. Disco Ball fills that bill marvelously.

How to Fish

Shad spawn action can be furious, but it can turn off like someone flipped a switch once the sun hits a spawning area. Do your best to be in position before first light and work the bait quickly for as long as the water stays alive with shad activity. The action lasts longer along steep banks with the sun behind them, and on some cloudy days, it will continue well into the morning.

With or without the shad spawn going on, fish a Disco Ball Pad Crasher quickly, experimenting with rod tip twitches and steady reeling, and vary the sharpness of twitches, sometimes keeping the line semi-slack so the bait will walk instead of hopping straight forward.

Occasional pauses in key spots can be important for triggering strikes when the bait starts moving again. Mostly keep the bait moving to cover water, though. When you do catch a fish, or even when a fish hits and misses, work that area thoroughly before moving along. The bass might be ganged up in that spot.

The important thing is to work the bait quickly to prompt attacks from bass!