The pictures do the fish no justice lol. He was actually pretty big, probably 4 pounds. Was very long, just had a big bait on his face. First good fish on this bait, caught like a one pound dinker but for sure wasn't worth posting.
I got mine in pumpkinseed. I've caught one dinker, seen several followers. Throwing mine on a MOAM XH for treble hook baits, wm60 big shooter and 25# Pline CXX
I would say XH would be your best bet. You will want to start throwing bigger and bigger baits, and you would rather have too much rod instead of not enough.