That clean, crisp jerk. That is the feel of it.
Size 3.1 (24g) — a new option. Out this autumn.
Sold in small batches under REVOLT, the brand that puts products out while they are still in development — and the whole thing caught on camera in a December 2024 session.
Why this video
This autumn, size 3.1 (24g) joins JetChaser and goes on general release. Footage of anyone actually working this size is, for now, limited to this single video published in December 2024. The 3.1 of that time was a development-stage product sold in small batches under REVOLT®, and the video says as much: “right now we are developing the JetChaser 3.1”.
The setting is a mid-December tip-run session, 8 minutes 27 seconds long. The plan is to fish Daybreak size 3.3 (35g) and Daybreak 4.0 (39g) switched against each other — which means you can see exactly where size 3.1 sits, on the same day and in the same water.
A spec sheet can carry the number — 24g — and no further; the rest you only learn by using it. The video fills that gap in the words of the person who built it: “a clean, crisp feel through the jerk”, “sharper off the mark than the Daybreak 3.3”. And it does not stop at words — the lure goes on when the bites have drifted away, and the result is there on screen. Whatever someone reaching for this size after the general release wants to check, most of it is already in this footage.
Key Moments
Our Analysis
Three sizes were fished that day. They weigh 24g for the 3.1, 35g for the 3.3 and 39g for the 4.0, so the 3.1 is the lightest, 11g below the 3.3. The 3.1 went on at the point where the size was dropped because “small squid are being caught”. Right after came “the bites had been far off up to now, but when I worked the JetChaser, one came”, and then “that one, I put in quite a few more jerks to make it appeal, and the bite came”. It was a day where the more you moved and showed the lure, the more came back, and the sharpness off the mark turned straight into results. Then, late in the session, going up in weight to the 4.0 produced one as well. Even within a single day, which size fits keeps changing from scene to scene.
Even with only 0.2 between the names, an 11g difference in weight makes for a different character. At 24g the lure accelerates, so each jerk moves it further and changes its posture more. That is what the video means by “sharper off the mark”, and where it tells is when you want movement to get you noticed. The 3.3’s 35g and the 4.0’s 39g sink fast and hold their posture, and they are strong when you want to show the lure on the bottom without losing to depth or current. On this day small squid were on the move and the more you worked the lure the more came back — which reads as the 3.1’s sharp start being the right fit.
Size 3.1 is not a replacement for the 3.3; it is a size that widens what you can choose from when you carry both. What decides it is whether they have not noticed, or will not follow. The former suits the light one with the sharp start; the latter the heavy one that sinks fast. On this day the former state of affairs held for a long stretch, so the 3.1 fitted; when conditions changed late in the session, the 4.0 became the answer. It is not that one is better than the other — the situation picks the size, and the video shows that inside a single day.
Field Data
- Country
- Japan
- Region
- Saga
- Place
- Kariya Port, Genkai
- Season
- Winter
- Time of day
- Daytime
- Target
- Bigfin reef squid
- Weight
- 1.1kg
- Lure
- JetChaser / Daybreak
- Size
- Size 3.1 / Size 3.3 / Size 4.0
- Colour
- Galaxy Glow Purple / Galaxy Glow Green / Ruru Purple / Laguna Chase / Hakana Pink
- Method
- Tip-run
Beyond the Video
This video captures REVOLT® partway through one of its cycles. REVOLT is a private brand that brings the iteration loop of software development into tackle: products at the alpha and beta stage are sold direct in very small batches, and what the people who use them say goes straight back into the specification. Size 3.1 took that road — the prototype was first shown in October 2024, in the 25th-anniversary campaign; this video followed that December; a limited colour was sold at the KEEPCAST venue in March 2025. And this autumn it reaches general release.
So the line that comes up every time a squid is landed — “and it came on the prototype” — is not just a remark. It is spoken while the REVOLT sequence is turning: put it in people’s hands, and feed the result back into the spec. Daybreak 4.0, fished the same day, was itself still at the “it should be out in January or February next year” stage, and it reached the market first, as its product page shows. The “clean, crisp feel through the jerk” and the sharpness off the mark described for 3.1 can, for now, only be checked in this footage.
The Lure's Role
JetChaser size 3.1
Size 3.1 weighs 24g, and goes on general release this autumn. Until now it has been sold in small batches under REVOLT®, taking shape while the people using it fed back. The body is moulded from rigid urethane foam, a material that is difficult to mass-produce, and it is that high-buoyancy material which makes the tension-stay posture possible. The series is designed on the assumption that mask sinkers from any maker can be fitted, so weight can be added to the base figure for deep water or fast current.
The video describes 3.1 as “the egi weighs 24g, so the clean, crisp feel through the jerk is the appeal” and “sharper off the mark than the Daybreak 3.3”, and names early autumn and deep water in winter as where it belongs. In practice it went on after sizing down when the bites had drifted away, and hits followed one after another from there. The colour is Laguna Chase. A good one came to this lure too.
Daybreak (size 3.3 / 4.0)
These are the sizes fished the same day, and they set the scale against which 3.1 is read. The 3.3 weighs 35g; the 4.0 pairs a 39g fast fall with an extra-heavy stainless KS size 10 hook. It is designed to reach the bottom quickly without the posture collapsing, even in hard current or strong wind, and what the 4.0 has in mind is the big spring squid — the Red Monster.
Late in the session, going up in weight to the 4.0 produced one. When the scene changes, the side that sinks fast and shows the lure on the bottom becomes the answer. Because 24g, 35g and 39g share the characteristics out between them, you can assign them to conditions — that is what carrying the series gives you. The light side gets you noticed through movement; the heavy side sinks fast and shows the lure on the bottom. This day’s footage lays both of those out inside one day.
From the Workshop in Arita
The egi used in this video are made at the KEYSTONE factory in Arita, Saga Prefecture, Japan.
REVOLT’s very-small-batch selling works because development, production and sales all happen in one place, in Arita. Splitting density and buoyancy across the rigid urethane foam moulding, and changing the umbrella hook for each size, happen in that same factory.
MADE TODAY IN ARITA
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