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Fishing with surface lures is clearly one of the favourites for a large proportion of anglers looking for different species. Watching your savage gear work and being able to observe the predator 's attacks is totally captivating and provides a good dose of adrenalin.
For many years now, the Whopper plopper has offered an action that has made it a success. At the surface of thewater, they offer a unique swimming action thanks to their spinning tail. The Whopper plopper's efficiency has set a trend, prompting competitors to come up with products with a similar action. This is how the Savage Gear Smash Tail.
So we've put them in competition with each other to give you an honest, unbiased opinion on your decision.
The size of these lures
This is a major difference between the two models on offer. The comes in a wide range of sizes, while the Smash tail is only available in 10cm.
The River 2 sea will be much more versatile when you're looking for predators on the surface. You'll be able to target perch, black bass, pike and trout while still allowing you to venture out to sea. The Savage Gear will continue to be designed primarily for pike and black bass.
Colours
Here we have an approach that can be quite different between the two brands. Savage Gear river 2 sea has clearly opted for a limited choice, while offering some fairly innovative colours, notably with its 3D scan technology, which gives a very natural finish, especially on colours named after fish: trout, rudd, perch or roach.
River 2 sea and its whopper ploppers have opted for a much wider range of colours, while remaining fairly basic. These include the famous firetiger, bone and chrome black.
We'd be inclined to go for the same attention to detail that's found throughout the Savage Gear lure range for a lure that's now found its way into many anglers' boxes. This will be an opportunity to stand out more easily.
The hooks on these lures
There's not much point in having an effective lure without hooks that are capable of hooking fish. And the two brands Savage Gear and River 2 Sea have understood this.
Fishing on the surface can sometimes result in low hooking yields. There are plenty of misfires, and you'll be lucky to be able to rely on two SGY trebles for the smash tail and 2 high-quality treble hooks for the whopper plopper.
The shape of the tail
Even if at first glance you get the impression that the characteristics are identical, in fact the two shapes are quite complementary. The principle is the same, that of striking thewater repeatedly to enable you to imitate a fish on the surface of the water.
The Whopper plopper produces the distinctive plopping sound for which it is renowned. The action starts as soon as you crank the handle, making it easy to fish as soon as it hits the water. The quality of the joint between the tail and the body makes this lure easy to spin continuously.
The smash tail offers a similar action, or almost, but also produces different vibrations, thanks to a slightly different design. The different fins on this lure offer variations in the flow of water that drives the tail rotation. To increase the lure's effectiveness and push the sound a little further, Savagear decided to add a rivet to the inside of the rounded section.
The price
Even if the products aren't exactly identical, the price is pretty close. This consistency means you can choose either one or both of the two models, so you can make your own comparison.
The 9cm and 11cm whopper plopper will be on sale for €10.99 and €13.00 respectively, while the 10cm smash tail and its 17g will cost you around €15.
Conclusion
The two products presented and compared today may look similar on paper, but they're very different when you put them in the water. The concept that River 2 Sea has been proposing for years is certainly an innovation, but above all it is a totally new way of fishing. What we sometimes wrongly call copies are, in the end, simply new approaches to a concept that everyone has made their own.