Feeling the need for a more realistic buzzbait, Lucky Craft designed the B-MH Buzzbait, with a lifelike fish-shaped head made of tungsten resin and plastic, in place of a leadhead and skirt. It’s packaged with an optional tail blade for extra flash and added lift at slow retrieves.

Lure designer John Duwel of Strictly Bass Lures offers the Cheeter Buzz, available in 3/16- and 5/16-ounce models. Cheeters feature a bent shaft to drop the head deeper in the water and an oversized blade to keep it on top at the slowest retrieves. Its flattened head also helps it hug the surface. Finally, a specially designed rivet produces a strong squeak right off the shelf.

Terminator, first with a titanium-framed buzzbait, added the Tiny Buzz (1/8-ounce) and Bill’s Triple Buzz. Now comes the 3/8-ounce Ball Buster, with a metal ball hanging below the blade to create an unusual clatter as it’s retrieved. Fans of the Cav-I-Tron buzzbait will be pleased that the originator of the lure, Lee Bailey, is now marketing it under the Bass Challenge brand.

Persuader American, a company specializing in buzzbait innovation, has just added a double buzzer to fill the void of Blue Fox’s discontinued line. Its extra bubbling and slow retrieve cadence make it a top producer.

Also check Persuader’s new in-line double-bladed buzzer with counter-rotating blades, the Two Timer. All Persuader buzzbaits come with powder-painted heads and blades for long-lasting color. Leadhead Lures also has incorporated a new blade-coloring process in their Talon Buzzbaits. Missouri bass pro Basil Bacon worked with designer Dave Trantham of Vision Lures to create what they call the ultimate buzzbait. The HoneyBuzz’s advantage lies in its free-swinging weighted hook, which rides lower in the water to give bass a good target. There’s also a brass weight on the shaft between the head and the hook for balance. Other features include a Limber Legs skirt, VMC needlepoint hook, and a frame of .051 stainless-steel wire topped off with a prerusted rivet for extra squeal. Bacon recently banked $110,000 on the strength of the new lure, fishing the Forrest L. Wood (FLW) tournament on Old Hickory Lake in Tennessee.

As part of Daiwa’s new lure line-up, the T-D Buzzmax adds a Super Splash prop that slices water fore and aft for maximum disturbance. And a keel-shaped head helps plane the Buzzmax at slow retrieves.

In some situations, anglers like buzzbaits that clack, creating extra sound to attract strikes. Several models, including Terminator’s Ball Buster and Persuader’s Clacker Buzz Bait, incorporate blades that swing on the shaft below the main blade to make contact on every blade revolution.

Another family of clackers is built so the main blade whacks the lure’s head on each turn, creating a loud, high-pitched sound. Hildebrandt’s Headbanger, designed by buzzbait expert Bernie Schultz, has a tin head that’s contacted by a plated blade for a raucous commotion. The Flat Shad Lunker Lure has a buoyant plastic body that’s hit by the overhead blade for a resonating sound.

Manufacturers also produce baits with more than two “ears,” which spin easily and quickly to provide action and lift on the lure. Quad buzzers, made with a pair of two-eared blades, also have a following. Hart Tackle has recently added a 4-Bladed Buzzer to their line, for a total of 10 buzzbait models.