Description
The Bait Junkie Risky Critter is the brainchild of Daiwa’s Tom Slater, and Kris Hickson. Developed over a period of two years, the Risky Critter is everything that they wanted merged into a compact creature bait. Designed with not just bream fishing in mind, the Risky Critter is just big enough to be a bite sized meal for Australian Bass or Yellowbelly in our freshwater rivers & lakes, it can also be trimmed down to turn it into a deadly trout nymph!
The combination of forward & rear facing legs give the perfect ‘quivering’ action whilst sinking on light jigheads, with the claws and wings also providing that subtle kick to draw bites. The two main curl tail legs off the back of the body are designed to work as the bait is hopped off the bottom, as a signal to nearby predators there is something to eat nearby.
As with all Bait Junkie lures, the Risky Critter is made from Elastomax material, this formulation is a little bit firmer than the original, which both Tom & Kris felt improved the ‘quivering’ action of the legs on a light jighead.
AMINO-X is impregnated into the material itself, giving natural flavour and scent to the baits to maximise bites in tough conditions.
With twelve colours in the range to suit both fresh & saltwater including a couple of new colours to the Bait Junkie range, the Risky Critter is a deadly creature bait profile ready to catch a host of estuary species throughout Australia.
Lure Action:
Specifications:
- Length: 76.2MM
- Type: CREATURE BAIT
- Jighead: #2-#1/0
- Weedless: #2-#1/0
ELASTOMAX MATERIAL - INCREDIBLE STRETCH & DURABILITY
All BaitJunkie baits are made from Daiwa’s Elastomax mate- rial. A stretchy, durable & buoyant material, Elastomax allows for thinner designs without sacrificing strength, which results in significantly improved swimming action at slow speeds.
FLOATING MATERIAL
The bouyant nature of Elastomax also means baits will rest ‘tail- up’ when rigged on traditional jigheads. This gets the tail up off the bottom and into the current, meaning BaitJunkie baits swim even when you’re not retrieving them.
AMINO X - NATURAL FLAVOUR & SCENT
A natural based flavour & scent which masks any unnatural plastic odours or smells. The addition of AMINO-X means when fish bite, they hold on longer, giving anglers more time to react and ultimately more fish in the boat.
BaitJunkie is the culmination of years of collaboration between Daiwa engineers from Japan and local Australian R&D teams. Developed specifically for Australian conditions, BaitJunkie is the furthest evolution of soft bait design, incorporating innovative material science with unique and functional 2D and 3D designs to release a full range of soft plastics that are just as effective as they are exciting.
BaitJunkie baits & packs are also loaded with Shrimp Power-Oil, a powerful shrimp-based formula to make sure that the moment your lure hits the water it’s working.
It’s the small details that set BaitJunkie apart from the competition. When BaitJunkie baits are made, the mould was designed in such a way so the baits can be perfectly cut from the mould, making the fronts of each bait perfectly flat with no injection markings. This makes rigging BaitJunkie baits incredibly easy as they perfect match to any jighead on the market. Speaking of rigging, All BaitJunkie baits have rigging lines to ensure you rig them straight and true everytime. Even the packaging has been carefully planned, and includes a ‘clam’ style internal tray, meaning bent & kinked baits will be a thing of the past.
