Berkley Powerbait Gilly Fishing Soft Bait

Great bait just tears easily. Lifelike in appearance, great movement in the water, catches bass, perfect size

I fished this weightless with a 3/0 twist lock Owner hook. Action is erratic when jerked and when swum towards you it looks very realistic. Stop and go retrieve really gets the tail going and an unpredictable fall. Does not sink very fast so would consider maybe a Carolina rig for deeper water, but fishing this on pads and in weeds it hammered them today. Negatives would have to be durability. It’s great when inhaled, but the tail is very prone to ripping off if it’s short struck. Also wish it were a littttttle less buoyant, I don’t want to add a weight but it sinks SO slow. Overall a really good bait. Durability, therefore price is the biggest issue, since I can’t just buy 100 like with trick worms or whatever.

Agree with most other reviews. This bait is super realistic, the supple body moves like the real thing. I’ve watched countless videos on rigging this bait and still had to play with hook angle and retrieve speed in order to get it to swim straight. It can easily mimic an injured bluegill, but trying to fire up a fry guarder as a healthy bed raider takes careful rigging. Owner screw locks work well but use superglue. I just ordered the 110’s and I’m going to try those on a drop shot. These get torn up by the short strikes common with spawning fish moving invaders off their beds. If it’s your first time rigging these I would get it as perfect as possible on the first one, patch it with glue if necessary, and try to replicate the most effective hook position and and depth on the rest. Bottom line is these are great baits but unless they improve the durability (maybe license Elaztec from Z-man like Strike King does?), they’ll be a bed fishing specialty lure that I probably won’t throw too often the rest of the season.

Great

Soft, good looking baits. These baits are a soft bait, not hard like many other similar baits, I liked that, but what I didn't like was that these baits tend to ride high in the water column, eventually coming to the surface too soon on retrieve. I wish I could keep them down, closer to the bottom, without having to weigh them down and kill their action. Bass love to eat bluegills, especially during the spawn since bluegills are an enemy of bass and love to raid and eat the eggs from the bass nests. These baits should catch bass but I haven't had a lot of success with these baits yet but I'm sure I will eventually. One thing to remember about artificial fishing lures is , "they are likely designed to catch more fishermen than fish".

These baits are durable and very realistic! It produces great action in the water. A must try!

They work well for lingcod

Once you find your way of rigging these they really do work great. I personally put them on a skirtless chatterbait, superglue them on. One of the most effective lures I have thrown in years. The hook will rip the mouth out easy so the superglue is absolutly reccomended. But the realistic bluegill color is amazing, and the bait as a whole is durable. I'd reccomend these to anyone, if they want to catch a keeper. I use the 130mm on a Zman eye strike 5/0. Or just whatever Bladed jig you want to rip the skirt off. Swims and looks like the real thing!!!! 10/10!!!

It looks just like a *Dying* bluegill, the fish love it and you can even Texas rig it to make it weedless, the only issue is that they get ripped up really easily.

When I got it I hooked it up and went fishing I was not disappointed 5 bass all around 1-2 pounds great bait would recommend

Haven’t had them out and tried them yet but they look good so I hope the fish think so too.