Wakebait
Very buoyant on top, with a wide lip set high and forward. Built to stay near the surface and push water.
What is a wakebait?
A wakebait is a buoyant lure retrieved at or just below the surface so it pushes a visible wake. The foam-backed, lipped Tank build tests flotation and steady-retrieve action; it does not simulate the surface wake itself.
What the model actually measures
The grid uses 1 cm cells. The Tank computes displaced water, centre of mass, lip force, tracking stability and wobble at its default retrieve speed. It does not predict a running depth or a catch rate. See the equations and limits.
Closed-foam back over a balsa belly, a four-cell lip, four lead slugs low, one rattle chamber.
Tank verdict: Swims
Swims. A wide, rolling wobble at slow tempo — the slow, thumping roll that big fish track from a distance.
- Length
- 120 mm
- Mass
- 13.3 g
- Buoyancy
- floating
- Stability
- 0.75
- Wobble
- 8.7 / 10
- Tempo
- 3.1
- 1 rattle chamber: adds an acoustic signature the lateral line reads before the eyes do.
Compare with the square-bill
Both designs run through the same Tank model at its default retrieve speed. These figures describe the block builds shown here, not commercial lures.
Scroll the table sideways to compare every measure →
| Model output | Wakebait | Square-bill |
|---|---|---|
| Length 1 cm cells | 120 mm | 80 mm |
| Lip area number of cells | 4 | 2 |
| Buoyancy | floating | floating |
| Stability righting / overturning; N/A without lip force | 0.75 | 1.78 |
| Wobble model scale / 10 | 8.7 | 5.4 |
| Swim verdict | Swims | Swims |
Across 72 fish scenarios
Eaten in 7 of 72 scenarios, and the top-ranked lure in 3 of them. Outcomes: refused 25 · ignored 20 · followed 16 · eaten 7 · not detected 4.
Other archetypes
A generic archetype drawn in Tank blocks, not a product, and the Tank works in one-centimetre cells rather than real dimensions. See how the Tank works and where it is wrong.