Hello everyone. Id like to thank a lure I have for giving me a lot of good fish and great memories. Its a lure I've had for almost 5 years now and actually gave my my biggest snook (24.2 lbs). It has 12 - fifteen plus lbs - snook on its count, and its not that Ive used various of the same model (altough I do have 2 new ones). No, with this one lure I've been able to catch all those fish on different trips. It is my big snook go-to lure, a warrior of many battles whom I've even had to rescue from deep branches and mean bottom rocks. I think its time to retire him and use the new ones from now on.



This great lure is the Yo-Zuri mag darter, bronze color in the 1oz. presentation. I do have the smaller one, but I'm a beliver in that bigger lures produce bigger fish (fewer but bigger). The poor lure is all sratched and bitten but its clever engineering, solid plastic polimer and through wire construction has never, ever failed me. This because I've lost some fish in lure that have "anchors" where the hook is placed or the plastic lip has broken, like it has happend in some new maxraps and xrap12 from Rapala.



A great advantage about using this lure is its versatility. The lure itself floats, so that is you retrieve it with an erratic stop and go motion it effectively mimics and injured baitfish. You can also pick up the pace and recover the line at a normal speed, with ocassional bumps of the rod tip. This will make the lure dive to about a foot or two. I've come to realize that snook on the 6 to 10 lbs like this kind of retreive, while the bigger snook attack the slower retreive more often. Snapper also favor the normal speed retrieve with ocassional stops and bumps. And just in case you need explosive speed you can also recover the lure really fast and get bites from jacks, mackerel or roosterfish if they are on the area.





Greetings and good fishing,