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Fake ones work even where bass never encounter live lizards or salamanders.
Nevertheless, our lizards went through critical bouts of re-engineering, improving the body, belly, legs and tails on each design iteration. Just make a leader with a hook on one end and a swivel on the other. Then string a sliding sinker and bead on the line above the swivel. This lets you slither lizards all around fairly open water from shallow to deep. The sinker controls everything.