Walking baits or walkers, also called stickbaits, pencils or spooks, are surface lures that tend to simply slide across the water surface in a serpentine fashion, which resembles a baitfish swimming close to the surface.
These types of surface lures, such as stickbaits, walkers, pencils, or spooks, are used to imitate baitfish swimming close to the water's surface by gliding across it in a serpentine pattern.