I got a platinum fish on about my 5th cast with the slow sinking 10" It was a 6lber. No problems thus far with the baits. If I can make a recommendation for you guys who are just picking up the bait to use it, use a much smaller hook than you would normally use. Like #2 or #1 is just fine. The baits are so loose they fish are going to inhale them and if you use 2/0 hooks, you're going to gill hook a lot of bass. I gill hooked this fish but it was on a #2 hook so the fish survived.

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