Johnson Thinfisher review

After last week's successful pike fishing trip to Porcupine Lake I've decided to do a review on my star player from that trip :the Johnson Thinfisher. All the pike I caught and landed last weekend were caught on the Thinfisher (except one dastardly beast which tore the Williams ice silver spoon clean off my rod).the Johnson Thinfisher comes in a neat package, I purchased my one and it's replacement at Canadian Tire for $ 6.99. I purchased the 1/4 oz version as I also had rainbow,spake and lake trout in mind. The package comes with a fairly detailed instruction guide for the three line attachment types. The setups are as follows :  Front or fast is the front grommet set for fast vibration and short weavin5, middle or medium : the default setup and it's the second grommet and is medium vibration and medium length weaving  ( this is the setting I used for this trip) and the last is rear or slow, is for slow vibration and long weaves. The Thinfisher is also equipped with a chamber around the center of balance that has a rattle which produces sonic activity as it rattles and weaves. When I set the lure up and started to use it I was using highly aggressive jigging motions and had multiple hits that didn't hold and one that did but was barley hooked. I switched to an agresssive and stop action and the hits became takers landing three more and the one large pike came along and tore the Thinfisher off at the hole entrance ending my happy streak ( yes I was re-tying after each pike). This lure has "Ice" markings however in a vertical fishing situation it would do outstanding in the canoe or above a brookie hole you can feel even on the medium setting the highly functional vibration setting. The Thinfisher was a kind of spur of the moment purchase but it performed well out of my expectations. The replacement I purchased this weekend will hopefully be put to good use again this coming weekend, I want to get some trout and get some camping done. This lure gets my 5 stars.