The Culprit Goby imitation is a finely detailed lure that perfectly mimics a live Goby both in shape and color. Great Lakes anglers can now take advantage of the attraction this bait fish provides to walleye and smallmouth bass. Available in solid soft-plastic bodies, or body with matching jighead combinations.

Goby Jighead and Matching Body Combo

Goby Soft-plastic Body (only)

How to Rig the Goby
Jighead/Body Combination
1. Turn Goby body upside down and center hook point with the front of the soft-plastic body.
2. Carefully thread the body along the hook’s shank.
3. Pull the hook point through top of bait - note target “gap” in fin.
4. Push body flush with the back of the jighead.

The Culprit Goby has received the North American Fishing Club Seal-of-Approval

Tubenose Goby
(Proterorhinus marmoratus)
Round Goby
(Neogobius melanostomus)

The Tubenose and Round Goby are both non-native bait fish which were accidently introduced into the Great Lakes in the late 1980s. Populations of this fish started to grow rapidly in the 1990s in the St. Clair River and Lake Michigan. Today they can be found from the Detroit River to western Lake Erie and Duluth Superior Harbor in the Great Lakes. Typically a bottom feeder and rarely exceeding four inches in length, the Goby has become a favorite prey for larger native sport fish such as walleye and smallmouth bass.