It’s been my experience that most long slender soft plastics will work. Playing around a little with weights and rigging you can get them all to perform well. Even those ridiculous rubber eels at Benny’s will do the trick. It comes down to what you expect the bait to do and how you use it. Unfortunately a few years ago the
sluggo craze began and all of a sudden if you weren’t fishing with sluggo’s you were’t fishing correctly. This is untrue. These baits do have their time and place buit that is just like any other plug you might use. Don’t get me wrong I use them and really like them for their casting and fishing ability when rigged properly. I use them to glide and twitch just under the surface in a light current for the most part. I haven’t used them on a wobblehead but I’d imagine it would be very productive. Look at it this way, if you buy surfhogs rigged to go a 2 pack will cost you $10-$12 or 2-3 bucks individually. I’m not usually willing to spend that kind of money on two pieces of rubber that will only survive one bluefish attack anyway. I’d rather spend $5 on a 3 pack of sluggos of which, some I rig. But don’t forget, you are still allowed to fish them with an 8-9/0 offset hook (Excalibur) although this is contrary to what every magazine article will tell you. Sluggos fish well this way. They are an excellent way to probe an area and you don’t have to spend all that time pre-rigging them. I still recommend weighting though. My point is that long slender rubber baits do work well but they are not the “magic lure”. Remember we were all catching fish on other things before the sluggo craze.