Can someone explain the technique when using these? Slow retrieval speed? on top? or below?

i try everything.....some times one thing works sometimes another.......slow & steady seems to work best most of the time....just fast enough to feel the tail working...i ussualy let it drop to the bottom before retrieval....bigger fish on the bottom mentality..........some times pick one up on the drop...........hope this helps

I have 2 retrieves that I pretty much use with these. One is the Slow and steady that hubco mentioned. That one works probably 75% of the time for me. The other way is a stop and go where I bring the rod from pointing out at the water to pointing to the sky. I usually get hits right when I start to raise the rod after the 1st or 2nd time.

I did have real good luck w/ these this year

I bore out a hole in the belly and fill er up with smelly jelly :lasso:

schoolies in spring
that's when I use these things

6" pearl shad
 

I caught over 300 stripers this october using the 6" pearl shad. When people next to me were casting everything they had and were saying the fish were picky , i was pulling fish out every cast. I had many 30+ days, mostly bass only a few blues. I didnt have too much luck with the bunker color. I caught some fish just slightly larger then the lure. I tried the 9" shad but i found the double hook to be a pain in the ass when fish got hooked twice, lost time that i coulda caught more. Some days i would hook into so many i would bend down the barb, and hook into 6 different fish on a cast, bringing one in . LA\rgest i brought in was 16.5lb 35" with many just a little smaller, and a mess of schoolies. I had one massive fish spool me, i can i only dream about how big it was, i couldnt even stop its run.:smash:

Love Live Storms
 

Hottest lure this season. Started the season using the 5 inch in rivers and ended the season using the 9 inch. Bunker & Pearl were the only colors I used. From surf, from jetties and from boats!