ZBC Swamp Crawler

📝 Editor's Take Three reports, thirty-two fish. That ratio is the story: this is a numbers bait, and one trip carried most of the load - thirty bass in a single day at Lake Kameyama in late July, in water averaging 74F. The other two came off Lake Biwa in May and both measured 52cm. So the same worm produced a summer grind and two post-spawn giants, and every one of them came on a neko rig. Note the brand: ZBC is Zoom's parent, and Japanese anglers treat the Swamp Crawler as a single bait regardless of which name is on the bag. If you are cross-shopping, the ZBC and Zoom packages are the same worm - buy whichever is cheaper, nail-weight it, and shake it slowly on bottom.