What do you get when you are under a budget, but still need to catch fish and need them to last a long time?

Strike King 3x chunks. Usually I could care less about durability, if it catchs fish I am happy. But the Strike King and Z-man elaztech stuff does both.

Value vs. price:

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^{I fish Rage Tail Baby Craws, Craws and Lobsters for jig trailers.}

Strike King 3x chunks. Usually I could care less about durability, if it catchs fish I am happy. But the Strike King and Z-man elaztech stuff does both.

Thank you, I'll be looking into them!

Rage Craw/ Lobster + Mend-it?

yamamoto double tail grubs. you get 20 for 7 bux and i really never change out trailers the whole day. mend it or loctite super glue gel works great for ripped baits. granted if the claw or whatever is gone you gotta change trailers but thats bound to happen so yea.

for durability, I would think good old fashioned pork is tough to beat.