I had a bunch of fun with this particular bait last August waiting for the be surgery day. Great slow retrieve action. They run quite shallow so a lot of these have been bored and some #5 lead shot slipped inside with the bb that came in it. I think I added 5 of the lead shots to the baits I drilled. I used some really heavy gel super glue to plug the holes then ran some super fine wet-or-dry sandpaper over the plug to smooth things out. Don't even now they've been altered. The extra weight gets them down to crappie type summer water fairly fast then a nice steady but not super fast start and stop retrieve. When the bait stops but before it begins to sink more is when the hits come. Ironically, those small mouthed sunfish hit the hardest.