Hey all, I'm trying to get more experience with soft plastic swimbaits and wanted to ask if this is normal.
Today I tried out a Big Hammer Ring Hammer texas rigged on a 1/4oz swimbait hook with a screwlock. The tail definitely paddles pretty vigorously, but I noticed as I swam the bait closer to me that the head/front of the bait was also rolling back and forth, pretty aggressively. I think the correct term is the whole bait was "hunting" -- kinda like how the whole bait (head and tail) will rock back and forth on a chatterbait.
Is that supposed to happen? I guess I thought just the tail would paddle back and forth, but the head would travel essentially in a straight line.
I don't recall noticing the head rolling when throwing a Keitech Swing Impact.
Does it matter if the keel weight is lighter or heavier, in terms of causing the head to roll and not just the paddletail? Maybe I only rigged the Swing Impacts on 1/8oz hooks.
Or does the "big hammer" tail just cause such a violent roll, compared to the more subtle tail of the swing impact?
