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Yeah, I'm a recovering surf rat, so "loading plugs" and bending lips comes naturally. My favorite 2 mods are making a suspending square bill by filling with water, and taking cranks that "won't run true" and shaving one side of the lip, and bending the eye the opposite direction until it hunts crazy. I've quieted a bunch of cranks, but there are so many different ones off the shelf these days, I don't do it very often anymore.

3.34 is what happens when 1099 meets 1040.

Shimano can give anything a catchy 3 letter acronym and sell tons of product to the enthusiasts, as can most other companies that deal in sporting goods. They don't have a marketing Dept just for the heck of it. I'm not knocking it, I've been selling bicycles that are better than the riders who buy them for a long time, and don't see that changing. Oh, and my fishing tackle, bicycles, tennis rackets, and diving regs are all at least 10 years old, some going on 30...

No. Not cause it won't work, but because it doesn't really add anything. Situationally, a do nothing or do little approach might work as well or maybe even better than with baits with more action, but that will be the exception rather than the rule. That being said, replacing just the business end bait, or matching straight tails with umbrellas wearing blades could be the ticket. I find matching the size and action of the paddle tails is where the ROI is going to be best.

I cycle a lot, so I can essentially eat as much as I want most of the time. I try to eat well, but I get a bunch of not so healthy stuff in there as well. I like all sorts of meats, cheeses, dairy and nuts, as well as beans eggs, and quinoa, so I'm sure I'm over my protein requirements most times. Mid season, I'm eating around 4000 calories a day (about, I don't keep track) and loosing or maintaining weight. I do put on 10-15lbs during the holidays, but they are all gone come april or so. I've never taken supplements of any type.

Now were talking. All the cool kids use Ande Premium for leader, 30-60 lb. NJ ocean has been on fire.

Like the Spiderman movies...

That looks like a Silstar model number, so early to mid 2000s. A bunch of Pinnacle innards will fit in there...

It's part art when I'm picking out soft plastics pallette, and part science when I increase the quantities on my TW cart by the Fibonacci sequence...

Sometimes, (almost always).

Booyah Bait Boo...

That will probably only make things worse. Get some no stretch tape of the same width as the nut (or cut it to size) and wind a couple of layers tightly around it, then try it and see if that works (don't over tighten) if it does, and I suspect it will, the "proper" repair is to replace the nut, though not cost effective in this case. I have a couple of rods where this temporary repair has been going strong for years. On some salt water rods, I've put some vaseline on the threads, then wound some braid tightly around the nut and epoxied over it, and that too has worked fine (don't forget to clean up the threads).

Yes, it's all I use cause I have a bunch of it from salt water fishing. I just use a jewelry round nose pliers from the craft store, and it only takes about 3-5 minutes to make each one. I hardly ever fish store bought inline spinners without a little tweek or two.

Tie on some Strike King plastics, and do not go gentle into that good night...

BOGO SK deep divers (and other things) at DSG... https://www.dickssportinggoods.com/search/SearchDisplay?searchTerm=strike king crankbaits&storeId=15108&catalogId=12301&langId=-1&sType=SimpleSearch&resultCatEntryType=2&showResultsPage=true&fromPage=Search&searchSource=Q&pageView=&beginIndex=0&DSGsearchType=Keyword&pageSize=48&selectedStore=143