That is one thing that I noticed right away was the fact that the braid was not wrapping around the top eyelet. It has happened but seems like it’s cut the occurrence down by 90% or more.
I bought the rod at PNT in Parksville. They have higher end ones as well. One of these new slow pitch rods had the eyelets slowly forming a spiral until the end eyelet was pointing downward. Now that’s not something I would have thought of.
I do like that jig. The one that I’ve had equal or greater success on is the black anchovie. The other favourite is the chartreuse and white.