Introducing Reaction Innovation's latest trailer bait, the Twerk

Impressions: The Twerk is a chunk trailer style bait available in two sizes - four and three inches (4" & 3"). It has a small, main body section and that almost looks like it's hollow but it's not. This section is solid soft plastic and complimented by two very large, oversized appendages that serve as the bait's tail or loosely interpreted claws.

The Twerk is a chunk style bait modeled after the old pork rinds we used to put on the end of our jigs

Just like the Sweet Beaver, these claws are attached out of the package, but easily split to form two independent flaps. The flaps do have ridges along the surface for added vibration and movement when you're bouncing the bait off the bottom.

Of course, because it's soft plastic instead of pork, the appendages can be a bit more sculpted

Design/Ergonomics: The Twerk, as mentioned earlier, comes in two sizes both of which are presented in the typical Reaction Innovations resealable plastic bag. There is no hard plastic clamshell or other additional packaging within the bag to help the baits maintain their shape, but the baits are packaged very carefully head down and flaps up achieving a similar effect without all the added packaging.

... and one on top of the other so you can get a better sense of the scale of each bait in comparison to the other

They are available in fourteen (14) different colors all with the typical Reaction Innovations nomenclature - some with sensible names, others that are more abstract. Of course, they all look very good. Reaction Innovations has a very good soft plastics color palette.

These baits are best when kept in motion

Price & Applications: Broken down on a per bait cost, the 3" runs roughly sixty three cents ($0.63) per bait while the 4" Twerk runs roughly seventy two cents ($0.72) per bait. These prices are pretty much inline with the upper tier soft plastic bait manufacturers out there today.

Success with the bait fished as a trailer...

As for applications, I had best success with the Twerk tipped at the end of a jig. My experiments fishing it on a bare shakey head were ok, but the fish seemed to bite plastic worms better than the bare Twerk - at least during the one day I conducted this experiment. Durability of the bait, by the way, is very good. The appendages will get ripped off from time to time, but that's to be expected with baits like this.