With top-water season here in many parts of the country, you may be looking to add something a little bit different to your toolbox to throw at ‘em. Something that has a profile that the fish aren’t used to, an action that they aren’t conditioned to avoid, just something maybe a little bit weird.

If that’s the case, let us introduce you to the Savage Gear 3D Savage Fruck. Quite a mouthful so from here on out we’ll simply refer to this hollow body bait as the Fruck which is a melding of the words, “frog” and “duck”, and bingo … Fruck.

It was interesting to see just how many of the European manufacturers had in their line ups similar style lures. We really don’t know whether it’s due to the fact that so many of those same companies seem to produce products for pike and muskie. It could be that those species of fish more readily eat ducklings or that there aren’t as many frogs over there for forage or some other unknown reason. But the majority of them make a hollow body duckling imitator.

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