Fishing a lure like a rat or a mouse for catches including largemouth bass or pike has been popular for who knows how long, but still sounds funny.

Does a rat or a mouse ever fall or jump into water and swim?

A new duck lure might sound even funnier, because you never saw a duck-plug before.

Savage Gear’s 3D Suicide Duck is meant to imitate a duckling.

The duck, a hard-plastic lure, might look like a toy more than a lure, like many rat and mouse lures do.

But like many rat and mouse plugs, the way the lure swims looks enticing.

The Suicide Duck’s feet, semi-soft, spin separately on the retrieve, kicking up a gurgling wake that could look attractive to fish, for one thing.

To see, watch a video about the lure that includes swimming footage.

The lure also imparts two styles of action, depending on where the angler attaches the line.

Attach the line to the beak, and the lure runs with a low posture, like a duckling trying to hide and escape.

Tie the line onto the chest, and the lure runs higher, looking more panicked, like a duckling fleeing without hiding.

The lure is designed to always land on the belly.

With two feather-covered treble hooks, one on the chest and another on the back, the duckling is meant to have the option to remove the belly hook to avoid snagging, like on weeds.

This is a top-water lure, of course, meant to draw explosive, visual attacks along the water surface.

The Suicide Duck, available in two sizes and several colors, is a superb lure for bass, pike, muskies and “big, brutal catfish!” Savage Gear says.

Savage Gear makes a variety of interesting hard lures for freshwater like this, including, in fact, a rat.

Hey, at least a duckling belongs in water.

For more info,
visit Savage Gear’s website.