Menendez Choosing the Right Thunder Cricket for Spring

Not all vibrating jigs are built the same, and Bassmaster Elite Series pro Mark Menendez knows exactly when each version of the Strike King Thunder Cricket earns its place on his rod. In this short, Menendez walks through all three models, the original, tungsten and rattling, breaking down how vibration frequency, blade sound, and flash change from version to version and why those differences matter when largemouth and smallmouth are pushing shallow in the pre-spawn and post-spawn windows.