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I tried it years ago, it messed up the paint on the surface, and didn't bond both sides of the skin.

Next time i am on the water, i'll try to use it without the leader, or with a mono leader, but i don't think it'll make a difference because i've tried short casts (this lure doesn't fly very far to begin with) as well, and no matter what i did, it ran poorly directly from the package. It feels to me that the lure is simply too light to stay on the water, and have that large blade spin underwater like its shown in the videos.

Probably a long shot since nobody owns the IMZ (from what i hear 😁), but does anyone know if the IMZ's gears can be installed on the Z2020?

That's fine, 50lb is indeed ridiculous. I just hope that 8-10lb won't be an issue because every time i roll it on my jacket, it frays the line, and i have to cut it.

Any pics of the end result?

Using a Pixy with 8lb braid to a fluoro leader. Medium casting rod as well.

There must be a way. I own some Flexible Plastic Adhesive from LePage, and was thinking on trying one of those, but if there's a better product, would prefer getting that.

Cought a 41 incher yesterday, and it sliced my lure pretty good. Is there a product that i should use to repair the rubber skin of a slide swimmer? I assume super glue isn't a good idea since it'll harden, and it needs to be flexible.

Looking at this video, this is absolutely not the action mine is getting. Because they're super light, under standard retreive, they don't stay on the water for the blade to spin. Instead, they roll on themselves and are "sliding" on top of the water just like an entangled bait.

Good idea. What size is yours? If its the same 3.5", i want you to experience it🙃

You can, but you have to give em a call and its noticeably more expensive than it is when ordering from PLAT. PLAT is the way to go, especially with the current JPY conversion rate.

Will try to roll the line on my fish lip gripper next time i pull a snag and hope it doesn't fray the line.

No i mean 10lb test braid. I don't use mono.

Wrapping it around the fish lip gripper handle is a good idea, but i wonder if braid isn't gonna slice through that, especially if i am trying to pull a snag with a 50 pound line. And y'all think its safe to pull a snag by completely locking the drag, and pull on the rod when using small diameter line in the 8-10lb diameter, or that too isn't a good idea for the gear set?

That's what i've been doing for a few years now, but it damages the line, especially smaller diameter braid.

So what line diameter would you say is safe to simply crank the drag and pull on the rod? I assume doing this with a 10lb braid won't affect the gear set?

I used to always tighten my drag, and pull the snag out by simply pulling on the rod. Did this with line up to 50lb. Then i completely stopped because i heard that it'll make your gear set "buzzy" and it'll lose its smoothness, so i rolled the line on whatever, and pulled the snag that way. The thing is, if you do it that way, with thiner diameters (15lb and under), it frays the braid, and weakens your line.

If you retreive it fast, it flies out of the water, and is barely touching it. The action reminds me of when you catch some salad on your walking bait, you begin retreiving it fast to remove it, and that's the action of this bait on a faster retreive speed. I don't know how it is with the larger sizes they offer, but the 3.5" is incredibly poorly thought out.

I am blown away by how much of a dumpster fire this bait is. The bait in question is the Freedom Tackle Mischief Minnow in the 3.5" size. I don't know what they were thinking when making it, but when you take a jerkbait, entangle it on your line, and retreive it on the surface, it has a better action than this Mischief Minnow. When you retrieve it slowly, the bait rolls on itself, there's barely any vibration/flash from the blade, and it looks like a mess. If you pop it on the surface, the bait barrel rolls on itself like its entangled on your line. No joke, the absolute worst hardbait i've purchased since i got into fishing in 99-2000. Dollar store baits have better action, and Freedom Tackle is charging $15 canadian dollars for this. What's the worst bait you've tried in years?

If you want cheap, you buy used from Daiwa, Shimano. If you want even cheaper, buy used Abu since they don't retain their value at all. Personally, i would never waste my time on basement assembled noname reels. But that's just me.

On the Daiwa side its more the spool that makes the difference and not the reel. So you put the SLP1010 spool inside the 21 Zillion, and it will bomb across the lake. Put the same spool on the Steez TW, and the performance will be identical. The SLP1010, Type R and Type R+ spool, the RCS1016, the Type R spool from the Ringa SSS are all super long casting spools.

Its a bass reel, they don't need to be as large as a conquest either. And the weight doesn't need to be as tiny, but i do want the the size, and unless i hear undeniable proof from daiwa/shimano, i will never believe that they aren't making a smaller version because it might ruin their reputation. Shimano isn't making a smaller one because it'll make their current version completely irrelevant, and what they want is to have the same frame for their standard conquest reels and their bfs one, this way the manufacturing is much less expensive. And when it comes to Daiwa, its even worse. The Millionaire CT and the Ryoga1016 are absolutely massive compared to other round reels. How is it that they have tiny 28mm spools, but no round reels to take advantage of those? Lots of people in Japan prefer round reels for stream fishing, and Daiwa not developing a new tiny frame to use their 28mm spools is a waste. Instead, they made the IMZ, a reel nobody owns nor wants to waste their time recharging the batteries after every day on the water. Their zillion design is great and the new steez frame is amazing, but they're ignoring round reels, and that's not cool.

Perfectly aware, and i am not implying anywhere that i am interested in some Chinese brand. What i do want is a Shimano/Daiwa (especially daiwa since they'v been slacking on the round reels department) that is as small as that Chinese dc reel. If a brand with zero manufacturing experience can do it, of course the big two can do it as well. Give it a stock carbon handle with cork knobs like the alphas air stream custom, and i am buying one day one.

Suxfix 832 in their yellow color is great.

I too would take it over Lews, but its not like Lews is any good to begin with. My Shimdaiwa elitism doesn't allow any other brands to get close to me.