At $300 each, there are only a handful of people willing to pay that price
Whether you crawl it super slow, so you can't even hear the tail, just the tiny glass beads sizzling inside its body, or you speed it up so it throws water like a swamp buggy with the same deep, hollow whopper-plopping-fish-catching sound as the original, the Whopper Plopper gets bit
Typically fished with a small, earth-toned soft plastic like green pumpkin rigged on a light jighead, the Ned rig is shaken or dragged slowly across structure to imitate natural bottom-dwelling prey
The rims seemed to have good braking surfaces, which was a plus
I mention the conservation value of circle hooks to guides who use live bait, stressing how effective they would be in saving countless undersized trout from gut-hooking