Z-Man Scented Jerk ShadZ Bait

Z-Man plastics, across the board, are my go to soft plastic lures. There is no comparison to anything else on the market (with the exception of a few Strike King plastics that Z-Man makes for them with Elaztec) as far as durability. You would think they would sacrifice some action but they don not at all. The Jerk Shadz tail wiggle as enticingly as any fluke on the market. I’ll take these over the Zoom Fluke any day. Same with the Paddle Tail swim bits, crawz, frogz, wormz, the TRDs etc. all fantastic action. In fact, they have another advantage. Even without the use of a Ned rig, Theis baits are buoyant which makes that tail stand up and dance on the bottom.Don’t over order. It’s going to take you a long time to go through one bage of these. Even Pike and other big toothy critters won’t tear these up.

These baits are so resilient and tough that I couldn’t get a solid hook while using the standard Texposed rig. I lost two really nice bass from lousy hookups!Went to the same spot the next day but went to weedless hooks, and hooked the baits about 1/4” behind the nose, bottom to top. Problem solved!!! I caught 12 bass, with the largest being around 4 pounds and the average size around 2 pounds.These babies really do hold up AT LEAST 10 times longer than standard plastics! Even with the toothy chain pickerel mauling them all day, they held together for the most part. Only exception being when they missed the hook and stole the whole bait from me, but out of maybe 12 pickerel hits, they only managed to tear 2 baits from the hook

These things are an outstanding value! Super soft, super stretchy, fish'll smacking all evening long, and you will catch a load of fish on a single bait. Z Man products rock!

Salt walker bay fish love them. They are very stretch, so when a fish grabs the end it doesn’t break off like on some other brands. Because of the stretch, they are a little tricky to get all the way on a jig head hook.

Either the person that packaged my baits was eating Doritos or the scent is a different color than my bait! Either way, ZMan makes a great quality product. Crazy durable and floats... the only gripe I have is what happens if you leave this material with any other plastics (sometimes including boat carpet) it has a chemical reaction and makes a super mess...

This was my first time using z-man soft plastics. I used it this weekend and caught 5 trout, and around 6 lady fish on just one these plastic baits and its still intact! I plan to use the same one next time I go out. I would highly recommend these for how durable they are and how effective they are at attracting fish.

This is a tough bait to use. I used one for few trips, with bites and tears. The whole bait still intact. Though the price is higher per versus gulp, but well worth it.

Works well at catching a lot of Saltwater fish and probably freshwater also.