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I replaced the meat hook with a smaller swim bait hook with weighted keel and screw lock (if you want to fish a trailer)

Buttery Smooth Winding with Japanese NMB Bearings Equipped with dual pre-installed, high-precision Japanese NMB bearings nestled inside the custom CNC knob, this premium reel upgrade delivers an ultra-smooth, perfectly balanced rotation

If you'd like the rod alone it will be $10

For starters, its widely held that these hook positions keep shiners lively longer as theyre carrying the hook in their head, so their tails and bodies remain unencumbered for swimming

Fact: It is generally safer to cut the barb and pull the shank back out the original hole to minimize the amount of metal passing through the tissue