Yo-Zuri R1100 BL vs Whopper Plopper WPL90/14

Buy the Yo-Zuri 3DB floating pencil, model R1100 BL, manufacturer part R1100-BL, black, UPC 756791542143, when you want a 4-inch walking bait whose bullets name a one-knock cadence rattle, a rear weight, and an internal prism. Buy the River2Sea Whopper Plopper, model WPL90/14, bone, UPC 880469204566, when you want the tail propeller, two number-4 trebles, and the bullet that says no rattles. One walks. One plops. The rank on the Yo-Zuri card says soft plastic. The lure in the photo is a hard pencil.

Short version. A clear popper and a wood prop bait are a different pair of topwaters. A Senko and a Trick Worm are soft plastics, which is the category this pencil is ranked in and is not. An inline spinner turns a blade, not a tail prop. A countdown and a squarebill swim under the surface. Match R1100 BL or WPL90/14 before you match the word topwater.

The Yo-Zuri title is a 3DB 4-inch floating pencil in black. The brand cell says Duel. The manufacturer cell says Yo-Zuri. Both can be true of a company and still confuse a search that only knows one of the names. The model cell says R1100 BL. The manufacturer-part cell says R1100-BL. The hyphen is the only difference, and it is enough to order the wrong finish if a seller treats them as two parts. The UPC is 756791542143. The GTIN is 00756791542143, the same digits with a leading zero. The color cell says Black. The size cell says 4 inches. The material cell says Plastic. The piece cell says 1. The unit count says 1. The set name says Yo-Zuri 3DB Pencil. The item-type name says artificial-fishing-bait, which is a category path, not a packing list. The included-components cell repeats the title. It does not name a split ring, a spare hook, or a box insert. Open the bag and count the hooks yourself.

The weight cell says 9.07 g. That is about a third of an ounce, and the card never prints an ounce figure next to it. A 4-inch hard pencil with two trebles often weighs more than 9 grams on a scale. Do not treat 9.07 g as a promise the bait will meet. Weigh it. The dimensions cell says 4 x 0.79 x 1.38 inches. The 4 matches the size cell. The other two numbers are a width and a height the title does not discuss. The style cell says Modern. None of that tells you the hook size. The photo shows two trebles. The detail block does not name a hook number for this model. If a seller swaps hooks, the card will not catch it.

The bullets are the useful part of the Yo-Zuri card. They name 3DB internal paint and a prism, a walk-the-dog action, a one-knock cadence rattle, a rear weight, and a claim that the bait walks more easily than most walking baits. “More easily” has no baseline. It is a slogan, not a measurement. The description calls it a freshwater Japanese hard bait and mentions a nose slash. That description is the sentence that contradicts the rank. The rank says Fishing Soft Plastic Lures. A hard bait with a rattle and a prism finish is not a Senko. Rank pages are how Amazon files a listing. They are not the material. The material cell says Plastic, which is true of both a worm and a hard pencil, so the material cell does not settle it either. The photo does. The choking-hazard line about small parts is the honest safety line on a bait with trebles. A Proposition 65 warning is also on the card. Read it. It is not a fishing instruction.

The Whopper Plopper title on this card reads River2Sea WPL90/14 Whopper Plopper, 3 1/2 Inch 1/2 Oz, Bone. Another title line on the same page shortens that to River2Sea River 2 Sea Wpl 90 Whopper Plopper. The brand cell says River2Sea. The model cell says WPL90/14. The manufacturer-part cell says WPL90/14. Those three agree. The UPC is 880469204566. The GTIN is 00880469204566. The color cell says Bone. The size cell says 3.5 inch. A bullet says 3 1/2 In and 1/2 Oz. The manufacturer cell says Big Rock Sports, which is a distributor name, not the name molded on the bait. The country-of-origin bullet says China. The hook-type cell says Treble Hook number 4. The bullet says two X Strong Treble number 4 hooks. The piece cell says 1. The pack cell says 1. The included-components cell says artificial-fishing-bait. That is the same category path the Yo-Zuri card uses. It is not a list of what is in the box.

The Whopper weight cells do not agree with each other, and they do not agree with half an ounce. The weight cell says 0.01 kg. That is 10 grams. Half an ounce is about 14 grams. The bullet says 1/2 oz. You cannot average those into a third number and call it the spec. Weigh the bait you unpack. The dimensions cell says 4.75 x 2 x 1 inches. The size cell says 3.5 inch. A bait that is 3.5 inches in the size cell and 4.75 inches in the dimensions cell is either measuring the body one way and the body-plus-propeller another way, or one of the cells is copied from a different size. The size selector on the page also lists 1.9 inch and a run of other colors. WPL90/14 is the bone 90. A click onto another size is a different lure with a different model suffix. The material cell says Stainless Steel. A plastic body with steel hooks can produce that cell. It does not mean the body is a steel billet. The photo is a pale bone body, a red eye, a tail propeller, and two trebles.

One product-description block on the Whopper card says WPL90/17 Phantom Shad while the summary says bone WPL90/14. Phantom Shad is a different color code. If the lure in the mail is gray and shad-patterned, you received /17 logic even though you ordered /14. If it is bone, the description block is the leftover. Match the stamp on the bait to WPL90/14. Do not match the longest paragraph on the page. The bullets that belong to this model say bone, 1/2 oz, 3 1/2 inches, two hooks, no rattles, and top water. “No rattles” is the clean contrast with the Yo-Zuri. The pencil’s bullets advertise a one-knock rattle. The plopper’s bullets advertise the opposite. If you want noise from a ball bearing, the pencil is the card that claims it. If you want noise from a propeller, the plopper is the card that claims it, and it says the rattle chamber is not the point.

Who should buy the pencil, and who should buy the plopper?

Buy R1100 BL if you already walk a Spook-style bait and you want the card that claims a rear weight and a single-knock rattle will make the cadence easier. Buy it in black only if black is the finish you meant. The model cell and the part cell differ by a hyphen. A different color in the same 3DB pencil family is a different part number. The piece cell says one bait. Do not expect a spare. Buy WPL90/14 if you want the bone 90 with the propeller and the no-rattle bullet, and if you will check the stamp so you do not accept a Phantom Shad description as the product. Do not buy the plopper because the weight cell says 0.01 kg and you think that is half an ounce. It is not. Do not buy the pencil because the rank says soft plastic and you wanted a worm.

A walking pencil needs slack-line rod work. A plopper needs a steady retrieve fast enough to spin the tail. The cards do not print a rod power or a line pound. Pairing either bait with the wrong rod is your choice, not a cell you can cite. The Yo-Zuri description says freshwater. The Whopper bullets do not print a saltwater rating on this 90. Do not invent a salt rating from the 130 salt model that is a different part. Small trebles and a small parts warning mean both baits are a bad idea around unsupervised children. That is the choking line, not a fishing tip.

What the Yo-Zuri R1100 BL is actually for

This card is a single black hard pencil sold as a walking bait. The bullets want you to twitch it so the nose slashes and the rattle knocks once per twitch. The rear-weight bullet is the claim that the tail sits and the nose walks. Nothing on the card is a tank test. Nothing prints a dive depth, because a floating pencil is not a crankbait. The floating claim is in the title. There is no separate floating cell. If the bait sinks, the title was wrong for the sample you received, and the weight cell will not explain it. Nine grams is light for the photo. Believe the scale in your hand.

Duel on the brand cell and Yo-Zuri on the manufacturer cell are the same family of labels on a lot of these baits. Search both before you decide the listing is a counterfeit. The counterfeit test that matters is the UPC 756791542143 and the part R1100-BL on the bait, not the store name in the sold-by line. The prism bullet is a paint claim. It does not mean the bait glows, and the card does not say glow. Black is the color cell. A clear or bone 3DB pencil is a different model. The style cell says Modern, which is filler. Ignore it.

What the Whopper Plopper WPL90/14 is actually for

This card is one bone topwater with a propeller on the tail and two number-4 trebles. The bullets say the rattle chamber is not part of the design. The sound, if the bait does what the family is known for, comes from the tail hitting the surface. The card itself does not print a decibel or a retrieve speed. It says top water. A size selector that offers 1.9 inch is a smaller plopper. The 130 is a longer bait with a different ounce line on the maker’s other charts, and it is not this ASIN. Stay on WPL90/14 if bone and the 90 length are what you clicked.

Big Rock Sports in the manufacturer cell is a reason to read the brand cell twice. The brand cell says River2Sea. The bait should say River2Sea or Whopper Plopper, not a distributor. Stainless steel in the material cell is the hooks and the propeller hardware more honestly than the body. The body in the photo is a painted hard bait. If you need a non-metal lure for a magnet rule or a special regulation, this cell will mislead you and the photo will correct it. The included-components path is useless. Count two hooks, one body, one propeller. If a hook hanger is empty, send it back rather than fishing it as a single-hook bait the card did not describe.

How to fish them without mixing the two jobs

Tie the pencil to a snap or a loop knot only if you already know how that knot changes the walk. The card does not specify a knot. The nose slash in the description is the part you twitch. Pause long enough to hear whether the one-knock claim is real on your bait. If it rattles constantly, you are not doing the cadence the bullet described, or the rattle is loose. Neither outcome is printed as a defect rate. The plopper wants the propeller in the water on a straight retrieve. A walk-the-dog twitch can foul the tail. Do not fish the plopper with the pencil’s cadence and then blame the model number. Change trebles only if you accept that the number-4 cell no longer describes your bait. The card’s hook line is the stock hooks, not your replacements.

Do not use either bait as a trailer. Do not Texas-rig the pencil because the rank said soft plastic. You will break a hard body or you will be holding the wrong product. Do not remove the propeller and call the plopper a pencil. The body shape is not R1100 BL. Do not read the 4.75-inch dimension as a license to tell a fishing partner the bone 90 is a five-inch bait. Say 3 1/2 inches, which is the bullet, and mention that the box disagrees. Do not quote 0.01 kg as half an ounce in a forum post. The arithmetic is the correction.

What actually fails on these two cards

The Yo-Zuri card fails when a shopper trusts the soft-plastic rank and orders it as a worm. It fails when 9.07 g is copied into a tackle spreadsheet as if a scale had confirmed it. It fails when Duel and Yo-Zuri are treated as two brands and the bait is bought twice. It fails when the hyphen in R1100-BL is dropped and a search returns a different 3DB. The Whopper card fails when WPL90/17 in a description block is shipped or expected. It fails when 0.01 kg and 1/2 oz are both pasted into a comparison as if they were the same measurement. It fails when the 4.75-inch dimension is used as the length and the 3.5-inch size cell is ignored. It fails when a 1.9-inch selector row is purchased by someone who only read Whopper Plopper. It fails when stainless steel is read as a metal lure body.

Both cards fail the included-components test. One repeats the title. The other prints a category path. Neither is a packing list. Both cards are single-piece listings. A two-pack would be a different ASIN. The choking warning on the pencil is easy to skip because it sits with the legal lines. Trebles are the small parts. The plopper’s number-4 hooks are the same class of hazard even when the warning text is thinner. A Proposition 65 line is a California notice, not a statement that the paint is the prism the bullet is selling.

What this comparison is not

This is not a tournament report and it is not a claim about which bait catches more fish. The cards do not print catch data. This is not a soft-plastic comparison, even though one rank says so. This is not a review of the Whopper Plopper 130, the silent 130, or the saltwater 130. Those model rows are a different length and a different hook. This is not a review of every 3DB pencil color. Black, R1100 BL, UPC 756791542143, is the card. This is not a price quote. The price changes. Use the buttons if you want the live page. This is not a license to scrape a manufacturer chart that the Amazon cells do not repeat. Where the bullet and the weight cell disagree, the disagreement is the fact.

So which topwater should you buy?

Buy the Yo-Zuri if you want the walking pencil with a rattle claim, a rear-weight claim, and a black 4-inch body, and if you will ignore the soft-plastic rank and weigh the bait because 9.07 g may not match the photo. Buy the Whopper Plopper if you want bone WPL90/14, two number-4 trebles, and a propeller instead of a rattle, and if you will reject a Phantom Shad body and refuse to treat 0.01 kg as half an ounce. Buy neither if you wanted a worm, a crankbait, or a five-inch plopper. The model stamp is the whole decision.

Sébastien Spring’s film, “Présentation du Whopper Plopper de River2Sea,” shows a Whopper Plopper. It does not show the Yo-Zuri R1100 BL. Use it for the propeller bait’s shape and retrieve, not as a measurement of the 9.07 g cell or of model WPL90/14 against WPL90/17.