A different kind of creature bait for slow summertime Texas and Carolina rig fishing.
Summer can be a grind.
As water temperatures climb, bass often get less willing to chase. They settle into deeper water, tuck tighter to cover, or simply become more deliberate about what they’re willing to eat.
That’s when slowing down can become your best weapon.
And that’s exactly where the Riot Baits Speed Demon shines.
BIG ACTION — WITHOUT A FLIMSY PROFILE
A lot of popular craw-style baits—like the Zoom Speed Craw—rely on relatively thin, poorly designed claws that only generate action with a heavier weight or with the sharp stroke of the rod.
That works.
But the Speed Demon takes a different approach.
Its tapered, twisting claws combine the sweeping movement of a curl-tail style appendage with a broader paddletail profile that moves more water with lighter weight and more subtle movement.
Instead of thin body that tears easily, the Speed Demon presents bass with a bigger, more deliberate silhouette with extra “meat” for your hook.
When you’re dragging a bait slowly across a point, crawling it through a brush pile, or working it along a deep weed edge, that matters.
MADE FOR A CAROLINA RIG
The Carolina rig may not be the newest technique in your boat—but during the dog days of summer, it can still be one of the deadliest.
Drag a Speed Demon behind a Carolina rig and those oversized claws give the bait movement and presence even when you’re fishing painfully slow.
And because the Speed Demon is made from buoyant plastic, the bait has a tendency to maintain a more active presentation rather than simply lying lifeless on the bottom.
Pause it.
Drag it.
Let those claws work.
Then hang on.
OR PUT IT RIGHT IN THEIR LIVING ROOM
When summer bass bury themselves in vegetation, laydowns, docks and other cover, Texas rig the Speed Demon and put it right where they live.
Its substantial body gives you plenty of plastic for a secure rig, while the Speed Demon’s built-in head design helps keep the bait positioned on the hook. The thicker body also provides an area for the hook point to be concealed for a clean, weedless presentation.
That means you get the profile and action of those oversized claws while still having a bait designed to be pitched and flipped into cover.
SOMETIMES THEY DON’T NEED MORE SPEED.
They need something worth eating.
When the summer heat has bass lethargic, stop trying to make them chase.
Slow down. Get it in front of them. And Make ’Em Riot.
RIOT BAITS SPEED DEMON
Texas Rig it. Carolina Rig it. Drag it. Flip it. Catch fish