The Black Label Player is absolutely the closest thing one can get to mother nature herself when looking for a soft plastic bait that matches a small shad. Modeled after a true live threadfin shad, the Player offers several features to aid in its ability to mimic a shad as close as humanly possible. ~ Starting with a very realistic head profile that is just wide enough to carry a jighead, the Player flows into a beautiful scaled life-like body that not only looks like a shad but even has a shad