1.75" Micro Finesse Urchin

A larger urchin-style soft plastic with a rounded center body and longer radiating legs that move with very little effort. The 1.75" Micro Finesse Urchin is built for crappie, panfish, trout, and BFS bass when you want the same finesse look as the smaller urchin, but with more presence, more glide, and an easier target for fish to find.

Short Product Description

The Table Rock Baits 1.75" Micro Finesse Urchin is a soft-plastic urchin bait with a rounded center body and longer outer legs, made for crappie, panfish, trout, and BFS bass on finesse jig heads, floats, hover-style rigs, slow drops, and light-line presentations that need more profile without losing subtle movement.

Pack Quantity & Size Down

Each pack contains 6 baits. Want the same urchin idea in a smaller, more delicate bite-sized profile? Step down to the 1.25" Micro Finesse Urchin.

More profile. More hang time. Same subtle leg movement.

The 1.75" Micro Finesse Urchin is the size to reach for when the fish want an easy target, but still do not want a loud bait. The rounded center gives fish something to pin down, while the longer outside legs spread out and quiver on the fall, under a float, in current, or with tiny rod movement.

Compared to the 1.25" size, this bait gives you more visual presence, more water displacement, and a little more hang time around the strike zone. That matters when fish are suspended, water has some stain, wind makes a tiny bait hard to track, or you simply need a bigger target without jumping to a traditional grub, shad, or creature profile. Created and tested on Table Rock Lake and Lake Taneycomo, then proven across clear, stained, muddy, and brackish water, this urchin is a good change-up when fish are close but not finishing.

Why It Works

1.75" size gives fish a larger target while still staying in a finesse profile.
Rounded center body gives crappie, trout, panfish, and BFS bass something easy to pin down.
Longer radiating legs quiver on slow drops, float rigs, hover-style rigs, and light jig presentations.
Good choice when the 1.25" version is getting noticed but you need more presence or visibility.
Works well when fish are suspended, pressured, feeding small, or holding around cover and current edges.

Best For

Crappie around brush piles, docks, standing timber, shade lines, suspended cover, and bait-holding structure.
Bluegill, perch, and mixed panfish feeding on insects, fry, larvae, small baitfish, and soft natural forage.
Trout in tailwaters, stocked ponds, current seams, slow drifts, marina edges, and clear-to-stained water lanes.
BFS bass around rock, docks, creek arms, pressured banks, small forage, and finesse target casting.

How To Fish It

Finesse jig it: use a small head and let the bait fall, glide, or pendulum instead of overworking it.
Hover it: hold it near suspended fish when they are following but need more time to commit.
Fish it under a float: set the depth and let the legs move with wind, current, and small twitches.
Slow drift it: let current move the bait naturally through trout lanes, seams, or suspended crappie zones.

Rigging Notes

Use lighter jig heads when you want more hang time, a slower fall, and natural leg movement.
Go slightly heavier when wind, current, depth, or stained water makes contact and visibility more important.
Keep rod movement small. Let the legs pulse, shake, hover, and drift instead of snapping the bait hard.
For BFS bass, try small ball heads, finesse heads, hover-style rigs, or light-line target presentations.

Color Notes

With the larger urchin, color can either keep the bait natural or help fish locate the bigger profile. Start with water color and light level, then adjust based on whether fish are tracking, tapping, or ignoring the bait.

Clear Water / Bright Sun Start with monkey milk, smoke, pearl, clear flake, natural baitfish, light purple, ghost tones, and subtle translucent colors.

Stained Water / Clouds Move toward chartreuse, white, pink, orange, purple, blue, stronger flake, or two-tone colors so fish can find the profile.

Muddy Water / Low Light Use contrast. Hunter orange, chartreuse, black, glow-style colors, dark flake, and louder bodies help the larger bait show up.

Cold Front / Pressured Fish Back down to cleaner colors, lighten the head, slow the fall, and let the legs move without adding extra commotion.

When To Size Down

Choose the 1.75" when you need more presence, more hang time, or a bigger target.
Move to the 1.25" Micro Finesse Urchin when fish are pecking, short-striking, cold-front affected, or feeding on tiny forage.
Stay with 1.75" when water has stain, fish are suspended, or you need the bait easier to find.
Size down when fish follow the larger profile but flare away or only tap the legs.

Season Notes

Spring: good around shallow crappie, bedding panfish, stocked trout, docks, brush, and active small-forage bites.
Summer: fish shade, deeper brush, current seams, marina lanes, and suspended fish with a slow fall or hover.
Fall: strong when fish are tracking fry, small baitfish, insects, and scattered young-of-year forage.
Winter: slow down, use light heads or floats, and let the bait hang in front of fish with minimal movement.

Table Rock Baits 1.75" Micro Finesse Urchin Soft Plastic Bait

1.75" Micro Finesse Urchin