This heavy weight plastic gives you a very castable bait without any weights added. A lot more action and a lot better hookups. I much prefer it rigged with the hook point coming out of the big end and the small end acting as a tail as you fish it. I’ve rigged it both from the tip of the bowling pin to the other way around with the bowling pin top or what I call the tail coming out the bottom. The sides have grooved channels, perfect for hiding the point of an EWG hook in it. As it skips along the bottom or pulls over cover, the tail is always undulating. The head slightly tapers and the rear is a bit more bulbous with the added tail coming out the end. I have been fishing a 5/0 BKK Nemesis EWG hook on it most of the time. The bait itself is 3 1/2 inches long and weighs 5/8 ounce without a weight on it. The plastic has salt impregnated in a proprietary way to give it a much heavier and quicker fall with more action than most plastics similar to their Senko. There is a knobbed tail (or head depending on your perspective and rig). This bait basically looks like a small bowling pin. And now manufactures are coming up with new shapes, baits with tentacles and more self-weighted plastics that just need a hook to be fished. Keith Jones proved was the preferred size and profile a bass wanted in his testing more than a decade ago. I think we’ll see a lot more baits like this being developed in the next few years. And there are a lot of things you can do with it. To me the heavy plastics like the Yamatanuki is almost a cross between a weightless senko and a ned rig that is heavy enough to fish on baitcasting tackle. More than likely the surge in interest for ned rigs has made the heavy plastic options a lot more palatable for US anglers now than it probably would have been years ago. Yamamoto actually came out with the Yamamoto Yamatanuki several years ago but it has only been available in Japan until this year. Folks in North America are getting to see the power of heavy plastics that Japanese anglers have been enjoying on lakes like Biwa for a few years. The heavy plastic craze is officially stateside.
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