Magmaster, I wish I could put one of these baits in your hand. 2 seconds later you'd be saying, "why in the world is the entire tail of this bait hollow?!?" I'm telling you these baits have never been like this, a bad run or maybe more has come down the line. All of a sudden the baits are different, where they used to be SOLID MATERIAL there is now a hollow area. I'm trying to think how else to describe it... If you took a knife and cut off the last 1/2 inch of the bait, right down the tail so that you cut off the end of the "boot" you would be able to see right up the inside of the bait like it was a big tube bait. Does that make sense?