Spro Bbz 1

[Old plug]

QUILLBACK. I might just buy one. I have a problems with the plastic ones you put on a jig hooking well enough. But if it presents much resistance when retrieving. Its out if my ball park. The resistence of a medium large crankbait will make my arm tingle and start to go to sleep in about 1/2 hour casting and retrieving because of the arthritis in my shoulders.

If i do it would be the most I ever paid for a plug.

[Quillback]

Old Plug - Are you thinking of getting the BBZ-1? I don't think they give a lot of resistance, I don't have one, but one of the guys that do can chime in. Good idea on something you can toss without a lot of resistance.

[Jacob W]

Absolutely no resistance with the bbz swim baits, well, some but not much. Probably a little less than a square bill crankbait or better. Fun and easy bait to fish with.

[Moswimb8slinger]

The BBZ1 baits have hardly any resistance at all. I mean if your breathe on the line and the bait swims, they swim ok with the line tied directly to the eye, but use a snap(no swivel) with it and they really move with little effort.

Get a 7' or 8' medium heavy action rod with a long handle, you make pendulum casts with low effort. A guy in California showed me that with a 10' surf rod...lol

Casting swimbaits is a little different from casting small baits, almost like casting livebait, long sweeping cast

[Old plug]

If i buy one I will be using it on my old 71/2 ft flipping rod.. And yes i can see potential for its use but like he said do not expect a fish every few minutes using it my only problem was if it had a high resistance. Then it would stop me pronto. What really encourage me is the treble hooks. And the slow sink. i have trouble hooking up with big plastic lures.

[Moswimb8slinger]

Flipping stick should work fine, the SoCal guys usually use 20lbs test mono either green or clear.

So for the only issue I've had with hook-ups is when the fish go for a head shot on the Strike King "king kong" and they hit the bill on it and it flips the bait over and they completely miss the hooks. Other than the 4" shad, and a bunch of missed strikes due to tail strikes which a remedied with painting red near and around the hook, that improved my hook-ups

[Old plug]

Treble hooks are one of the major points that makes it attractive to me as well as its 6 inch size and the slow sinking. It seems like a good alternate to my giant unweighted plastic worm fishing. If they are really into feeding on shad then they might be more apt to hit this than my big worms . I want to play with it a bit close to my dock and see how it sinks and all the reactions I can make it impart. I know it has to be better than the soft swim baits. They mostly sink like a rock ( I was not aware that the spros didn't do the same) get tore in half and have a single hook that will miss a lot.

[Quillback]

Old Plug, you'll have to let us know how you do throwing those swim baits.

[Old plug]

I will do that. I only have one fearand that is that. Some dam long nose gar is going to take a fancy to it. I had one try to take a 16 or 17 inch bass away from me that I hooked a year or so ago.