Dark Matter John Skinner Jig & Bounce Casting Rods

Dark Matter John Skinner Jig and Bounce Rod – I dare you to find a better all-around fluke fishing rod than the John Skinner Jig and Bounce series. I double dog dare you! The reason it’s so good at one specific angling technique, bucktailing fluke, is that John Skinner, the Vito Corleone of fluke bucktailing, has personally tested this rod until his hands bled. Then tested it some more. We went through quite a few individual prototypes until the final design was agreed upon. The result is a bounce casting rod that was scientifically designed to snap bucktails up off the bottom aggressively while still allowing the rod to give a major assist during hookset – loading pressure down the blank to the reel seat. This has been tough to find in off the shelf rods in previous years, as you’d typically get either a fast tip that’d work the bucktail great but yank lures out of the fluke’s grasp or moderate action rods that produced solid hooksets but a slow, tedious lure action that frequently we