There is absolutely no tendency for a fish to be any more deeply hooked on an artificial lure with the skin as it would be without, and there may actually be a valid argument that since most anglers actually reduce the number of hooks on an eelskin plug, that it inflicts less potential damage on a fish
While you can use the same set-up to throw lures for targeting halibut and other game fish, I recommend upping the action/rating for a lure throwing set-up
The lower the center of gravity the more upright your frog swims
If the Rod were tapered, it was tapered probably by Nature not by art, at least so the Agathemeros relief, all the pictures of Venus and Cupid angling, and of many Amorini from Herculaneum would suggest
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