Style Q and Style V Buzzbaits

Gamakatsu Hook. These buzzbaits all have Gamakatsu hooks.

Heavy Wire Arm. The 3/8 and 1/2 oz size buzzbaits have heavy duty .051 wire. The 1/4 oz size buzzbait has .040 super wire which is stronger and vibrates more than standard wire. I feel that wire vibration matters as much with buzzbaits as with spinnerbaits. So the 1/4 oz buzzbaits have .040 super wire. It is incredibly strong. It vibrates more and shakes the skirt much more, imparting more wriggling action to the skirt.

Buzzbait Blade Styles. The smaller style P, Q and V blades, the small clacker and small Colorado spinner match up best with 1/4 oz buzzbaits. The bigger P, V and Q sizes work swell on 3/8 and 1/2 oz models. These no reason for the letters used (P, Q, V) except they're just a short, easy way to identify different styles.

I often alternate casting with two or more different buzzbait rods when I am fishing buzzbaits, and between the various different P, Q and V blade set-ups, fish will hit them all about equally most of the time. The different blade set-ups do behave, look and sound different, but are not so different that fish won't hit most of them sooner or later on most days. Part of the reason is a lot of time, testing and experience have gone into optimizing every different blade set-up, so by the time you see them in Bassdozer's Store, they are all about as good as a buzzbait can get, and all have what is needed to best attract strikes.

Style Q Blades. I call this double blade configuration the "Style Q". There's no meaning for it, except to distinguish the Style Q double blade version from the Style P single blade buzzbait. The Style P (shown on right in photo) is the standard style buzzbait. Style Q (on left in photo) is a configuration I came up with in order to show fish something different. When you throw a buzzbait for two years straight, it can get recognizable to fish. So Style Q is something a bit different, and it's action is a bit different.

I have experimented with many different possible double blade configurations. The bane of most every double blade buzzbait is that they do not cast well. Even the industry-standard Style P single blade is not a great casting lure. To the contrary, the Style Q configuration casts like a rocket. It rifles out there. Upon splashdown, the Style Q rises to the surface as quick or quicker than a standard single blade buzzbait. The Style Q can be fished on top as slow or slower than a standard single blade buzzbait, and it squeaks and squeals as much or more. The Style Q performs the typical churning, bubbling retrieve. In addition, there are two different action that can be made with the Style Q:

1. Plopping. This is just letting the counter-rotating blades (one blade turns clockwise, the other blade turns counter-clockwise) plop and plink on the surface. This is a natural action like a shad blipping on the surface or a small fish feeding on tiny insects. It is not a frantic gurgling, splashing action (although the Style Q can do that too).
   
2. Waking. This simply leaves a wake like an individual fish (or a tight school of bait) leaving a vee wake. It is not "bulging" the surface, like can be done with a spinnerbait, that leaves a bulge behind. This tactic with the Style Q leaves a vee wake like one adult shad (or baitfish) pushing water with its nose, or a school of tiny baitfish muddling along on top, leaving a vee wake.

The blades turn in opposite direction on the Style Q, making it run relatively true. The blades do not torque the hook and skirt over on one side like a standard single blade buzzbait tends to roll up on one side. So if you want to speed up the retrieve, the Style Q is more stable at faster speeds than a standard single blade buzzbait.

The Style Q... it's an oldie but a goodie for me, and now available for you to try.

3/8 oz Buzzbait ~ Style Q ~ Chartreuse White Flash

3/8 oz Buzzbait ~ Style Q ~ White Pearl Flash

3/8 oz Buzzbait ~ Style Q ~ Alewife

3/8 oz Buzzbait ~ Style Q ~ Smallie Special

1/2 oz Buzzbait ~ Style Q ~ Black

Triple Style Q Blades. The two smaller front and back blades rotate clockwise. The bigger middle blade turns counterclockwise. The combined counter-effect negates torque or tendency for the buzzbait to lean or come in to the side. It comes in perfectly straight as an arrow, and that is especially helpful for an angler who needs to plan how to snake it through thick grass. The straight line path makes it easy to manipulate. It casts like an arrow too - straight, far and true. The triple blades present a lot of motion flailing on the surface every which way. The noise it produces has a shaking, rattling element that you don't get with other buzzbaits.

Quad Style V Blades. The next buzzbaits have a two-piece four-wing blade Style V blade. The two blades knock against each other. The sound is remindful of an old time steam-powered locomotive clacking over some rickety railroad tracks, and it has more squeal, splash and splutter than a single two-wing blade. Most important, with four blades, it can be retrieved far slower than a standard buzzbait.

1/4 oz Buzzbait ~ Style V ~ Charteuse White Hologram

1/4 oz Buzzbait ~ Style V ~ Shad-A-Delic

1/4 oz Buzzbait ~ Style V ~ White

Style V Blades. These are used in pairs. It's actually two identical parts (with two blade cups apiece) that interlock to make a four-bladed buzzbait. The two parts constantly bash each other adding a metallic chugging dimension to the squeaks and squealing sounds emitted by this contraption. With four blades, the Style V slowly churns the surface in a small frenzy of sprayed white water.