SaraMoa PORO

The SaraMoa PORO is a compact floating shad crankbait from REVONIK, the Japanese lure brand founded by veteran lure designer Seiji Kato.

At 50 mm and approximately 5.5 g, PORO is the smaller member of the SaraMoa family and is designed to be easy to cast and retrieve with light tackle.

Despite its compact size, the lure is not intended to disappear quietly in the water. Its wobble-and-roll action produces a clearly noticeable vibration during a steady retrieve, giving anglers feedback through the rod while creating enough presence to attract bass.

This combination makes the SaraMoa PORO useful as a small search bait. Anglers can simply cast it, retrieve it, and cover likely areas without needing complicated rod work.

Its small profile can appeal to bass feeding on compact forage, while its active swimming action gives it more presence than its size might suggest.

The SaraMoa PORO fits particularly well with a common style of Japanese bank fishing: using light tackle to quickly search small ponds, shoreline cover, overhangs, and other compact fishing areas.

Its 50 mm body provides a small and approachable profile, but the lure still generates a noticeable wobble-and-roll action. This allows anglers to downsize without necessarily giving up the vibration and presence of a moving hard bait.

That balance can be useful on heavily pressured waters, where a full-size crankbait may be too aggressive but an extremely subtle finesse presentation may cover water too slowly.

REVONIK's concept for the PORO emphasizes simplicity. It is a lure that can be cast and steadily retrieved while searching for fish, making it accessible to beginners while still offering the refined action expected from a lure designed under Seiji Kato's direction.

The result is a compact search bait that can catch both numbers of bass and larger fish despite its small size.

The simplest way to fish the SaraMoa PORO is with a steady retrieve.

Cast the lure around shoreline cover, vegetation, overhangs, or other likely areas and retrieve it at a controlled speed. The lure's built-in wobble-and-roll action creates a clearly noticeable vibration without requiring additional rod movement.

Because of its compact 50 mm body and relatively light 5.5 g weight, it is particularly well suited to light tackle.

The lure can also be used to search small areas efficiently. Instead of slowing down with a soft-plastic finesse presentation, anglers can make repeated casts and use the PORO's active swimming action to locate fish.

Around specific targets such as bushes, overhangs, or shoreline cover, shorter casts can be used to place the lure precisely and begin swimming immediately through the strike zone.

Retrieve speed can be adjusted according to fish activity, but the fundamental presentation remains intentionally simple: cast, retrieve, and let the lure's own action search for bass.

• Light-tackle bass fishing
• Small ponds and pressured waters
• Shore fishing
• Bushes and shoreline cover
• Overhanging vegetation
• Small baitfish situations
• Searching for active bass
• Steady retrieves
• When a full-size crankbait feels too aggressive
• Precise short casts around small targets

The SaraMoa PORO applies the search-bait concept to a distinctly compact package.

At only 50 mm, it is considerably smaller than many conventional power-fishing crankbaits, yet REVONIK designed it to maintain a clearly felt wobble-and-roll action rather than turning it into an extremely subtle finesse bait.

This creates an interesting middle ground. The lure can be fished with light tackle and presented to pressured bass, while still allowing the angler to cover water with a simple steady retrieve.

For US anglers, the PORO demonstrates a common theme in Japanese bass fishing: downsizing does not necessarily mean slowing down. A small hard bait can still be used actively as a search tool around shoreline cover and open water.

Its combination of compact size, light-tackle compatibility, and noticeable swimming action makes it a useful JDM alternative when larger crankbaits generate too much presence but soft-plastic finesse fishing is too slow.