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And my answer still stands. You can always fish them like any other paddle tail too...put them on a weighted ewg or a ball jig head and just cast and retrieve. They work well as trailers too. Spinnerbaits, swimjigs, etc.

My favorite way to rig a zoom fluke is on a 4/0 ewg gammy weightless. Send it out, let it fall, give it a jerk and a twerk, let it shimmy, repeat. Jerkbait action with a pause and a fall and a shimmy.

I've tried the alternatives and keep going back to the Zoom fluke. Everything else I have tried is secondary imho.

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I have owned and sold 3 Met B's now. I want to love them, but they just don't blow my hair back for the cost. I am pretty much a two different baitcaster guy now. Curado 71 mgl and Bantam mgl. The Bantam is a better overall reel than the Met B imho, and has a 150 spool size. Most of my bass rods have the Curado 71 mgl. That CRR you just bought can double as a salmon jig twitching rod if you're into that style of river fishing. In which case, I would 100% chose the Bantam over anything else. Yes, the Bantam is just a bit heavier, but you don't really notice it on a longer rod. Being aluminum, it will get a bit cold in the winter months salmon fishing fyi. Met B's although very nice, are not nice enough to justify the cost over other Shimano offerings, even at JDM prices. The bearings make them feel smoother, but in my experience, they do not cast any better (distance) than Curados and Bantams. If I were ONLY bass fishing with that rod, I would personally get the Curado 71 mgl, spool it with 15 - 20 lb copoly, and call it a day.

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Is and always has been a white 1/2oz double willow spinnerbait. However, the Karashi is VERY quickly becoming a favorite of mine. Just too much fun to be had.

It will be almost exactly like the 7'5" Talon you have for reference, just an inch longer. Fisherman's? Great to have another angler here from my area. Honestly one of the absolute best rods in the entire series. You would not be disappointed.

I've caught countless fish on the Karashi. And 5 totally different species so far.

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Just ordered 3x Karashi's in the Megabass Respect 90 color drop of GG smallmouth bass. This could be the best lure in my arsenal.

That is one heck of a good delivery.

Caught a 6.41lb LMB on this bait last Sunday. I was fishing the green pumpkin dawn color with a ned head this time raising it off the bottom and just letting it flutter back down. This thing is getting bit. Highly recommend giving it a try. https://www.tacklewarehouse.com/Black_Label_Cliff_Pace_Snapshot_10pk/descpage-BLSNP.html

Learn to paddle one handed. It will help immensely. Wind has always been an issue on yaks without a drive. It's the same for me. But I have figured it out pretty well and can manage in the wind pretty good.

I am down to 3 rods on the yak, sometimes 4. Always: 7' BFS 7' MHMF 7'5" MHMF Sometimes: Swimbait rod

Still haven't caught a bladed jig fish myself. Definitely tried a bunch.

Looks 8 to 9lb class to me. She's definitely over 8. Although the second pic with the boys makes it look double digit to me.

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I may have misunderstood what you were saying. I thought you were saying that bass see a jerkbait and do not relate that to a baitfish. It is literally designed to imitate that. Just like an artificial fly is designed to look like a fly for trout. They don't see a parachute adams sitting/landing on top of the water and think "oh hey, a floating rock"

I disagree with this completely

That bullshad will have a significantly different action than the trick shad being discussed. Glidebait vs multi jointed swimbait. Though I agree you do need a multi joint bait as well. As a cheap bait, I use the 6th sense trace for this purpose and it does well when the conditions call for a multi jointed bait.

Rip out how? Out of the bait?

Trick shad kiwi color

I feel like $300 is my rod price point for getting into higher end bass rods. There is some really nice kit out there for $300. When you start moving into the $400-600 range, you really start seeing diminishing returns for the extra hundreds. I don't ever really bother looking at price personally. I always choose the rod first, price second. Most every line of rods no matter the cost will have one or two gems in the series. I also try to buy rods built on NFC or Patriot Factory blanks no matter the brand. The Loomis family really has blank making figured out.