I ordered another Vanford C3000XG from asianportal on Saturday and it arrived yesterday afternoon. I’m gonna pair it with a sweet Zodias 7’ medium which I bought from @Hawgfinder through the BR Fishing Flea Market….

Very nice

Well as I mentioned in the latest sale thread I suddenly got locked in mortal combat with the bait monkey over JDM Zillion and bait monkey won. I guess he’s allowed to win once in a while. 
 

So I have a JDM Zillion SV TW 1000PL on the way. A few ideas on how to use it but I feel it will hold decent value regardless

Had to get more KVD L&L, and obviously had to throw in some more stuff to get that free shipping. 
 

4 packs of 4.25” max scent flat worms, brown back, mango magic, natural shad, black shiner

 

1 pack 4.5” max scent hit worm in pumpkin seed

 

1 pack 6th sense clout 5.4” in electric shiner

 

1 pack net bait 7” flex worm Alabama craw

 

1 pack 7” power bait fatty bottom hopper in watermelon red magic

 

1 pack 7” max scent king tails in plum apple

1 pack beast coast tackle creep 65 in dope gill

 

3 packs fin-tec title shot jig heads, 3/8oz with a 4/0, 1/8 oz with a 3/0, 3/8oz  with a 8/0 for the swim baits. 
 

I have been struggling to find a 8/0 hook around where I live so it’s not ideal but I figured it’s worth a shot. I almost forgot the last ***” Ned senko floater’s in b bug grinder. 

The infamous JDM Zillion 

 

This reel is much different than anything else I have. I will try hard not to make judgements until I try it with something but ridiculously light and palms pretty small. Handle is small and I might want to switch that out. It is interesting. I definitely think I would prefer this on a lighter power rod 

7 hours ago, LrgmouthShad said:

I definitely think I would prefer this on a lighter power rod 

Fish it like you stole it, Holmes. It isn't a delicate thing at all.

1 minute ago, PhishLI said:

Fish it like you stole it, Holmes. It isn't a delicate thing at all.

I have been oogling and caressing it for ten minutes straight now. It’s a beauty. Love the “Made in Japan” and the feel of it. Everything is so smooth. 
 

I think I am going to go the route of using it for light moving baits. I’ll give it a shot at displacing my REVO Winch on regular spinnerbait duty but functionally, that does not make sense to me and I love the Winch. 

Y’all will see over next few days what bait monkey did to me and it ain’t pretty. He’s been banned from the household for months. Don’t tell the wife…. Oh wait I don’t have one ?
 

Next up skirts from Picasso for clear water spinnerbaits.
 

A lot of this is going to be centered around spinnerbait building supplies

On 9/7/2022 at 11:33 AM, LrgmouthShad said:

Don’t tell the wife…. Oh wait I don’t have one ?

Lucky!

Pics to come but in the past few days I’ve ordered 3 siebert fogys, a bunch of siebert tungsten, a Tat Elite Brent Ehrler 7’1” MMH-XF rod with AGS guides, a Daiwa Rebellion 7’3” MH-F rod, and a Tat Elite Randy Howell M-XF spinning rod. 
 

Pretty excited about It all. Want to see how the Fogys compare to jackhammers. Big savings there if they are good. 
The two casting rods will replace a Falcon Lowrider (big step up in quality) and a Megabass Destroyer, which was super nice but I didn’t like It. 
The Tatula spinning rod will be my first nicer quality spinning rod. Currently using an academy H2O or an AirdX for spinning. 
 

Need help on a reel to pair It with though. Original plan was to get the Tatula spinning reel from digitaka but I don’t like that it’s made in China. 

Getting ready for the topwater bite at the end of the month and beyond (and all the creek fishing in the meantime).

10 minutes ago, Drawdown said:

Getting ready for the topwater bite at the end of the month and beyond (and all the creek fishing in the meantime).

SCUM FROG

 

1 hour ago, LrgmouthShad said:

SCUM FROG

Did quick research of sub-$10 frogs on the rack at Cabela’s, and these seemed to have some of the better reviews. Can’t wait to use them!

2 minutes ago, Drawdown said:

Did quick research of sub-$10 frogs on the rack at Cabela’s, and these seemed to have some of the better reviews. Can’t wait to use them!

I think they are the best out there.

 

When the light is not totally taut and the trophy series frog is at rest, it will sit butt down in the water. They really seem to like that. Super soft, super sharp owner hooks. They are a winner.

Okay time to confess. This shows a good amount of what bait monkey did to me and it's what I've been busy with past couple of days. Both Nichols and Zorro Bango Blade blanks bought in bulk with just the blank. 

 

 

Flash Shad, silver shiner, and dirty craw. 

I just went against all things right in the world and ordered a Shimano Stradic from digitaka to go with a Daiwa Tatula Elite spinning rod. ??‍♂️
 

Also ordered Sunline Siglon braid, Sunline BMS fc, and Sunline Sniper fc. 

Cant believe the exchange rate is up to 142 right now. Couldn't resist and ordered quite a few OSP and Deps baits from Japan Lure Shop last night.

 

I definitely don't need any reels, but the bait/reel monkey keeps telling me to choose between a zillion sv and the new bantam. If they ever get any more Steez A's in at this exchange rate my wallet is toast. ?

I forgot to post the last few things I bought lol, I will be lucky to get anything this week at all. I was off work for a few days when I couldn’t really afford to be.

The new owners at Yamamoto should have kept the Japanese inspired packaging. 

8 minutes ago, KP Duty said:

The new owners at Yamamoto should have kept the Japanese inspired packaging. 

Yeah it’s definitely taking me a while to get use to the new design of the Yamamoto stuff. I am use to the old style, I understand from a marketing standpoint they wanted to show that they changed ownership and want to be different. But to me it just looks like most other modern plastic packaging lol.

8 hours ago, NorcalBassin said:

Cant believe the exchange rate is up to 142 right now. Couldn't resist and ordered quite a few OSP and Deps baits from Japan Lure Shop last night.

 

I definitely don't need any reels, but the bait/reel monkey keeps telling me to choose between a zillion sv and the new bantam. If they ever get any more Steez A's in at this exchange rate my wallet is toast. ?

Did you get charged sales tax through Japan Lure shop?    I'm about to buy the Zillion SV TW.   Digitaka has it for 33,000y, Japan Lure Shop has it for 32,000y.....but you have pay through paypal.

2 hours ago, AlabamaSpothunter said:

Did you get charged sales tax through Japan Lure shop?    I'm about to buy the Zillion SV TW.   Digitaka has it for 33,000y, Japan Lure Shop has it for 32,000y.....but you have pay through paypal.

They won't charge sales tax but JLS  charges shipping, it isn't much but shipping is free with Digitaka.

1 minute ago, Jrob78 said:

JLS also charges shipping, it isn't much but shipping is free with Digitaka.

This site is becoming a Punji Pit for my bank account.....all you guys are accomplices to this! ?

 

I just can't fence sit any more on these prices, especially when I actually need a few new reels.