Swim Jig Question

[SwampLife]

The last two times I went I didn't catch anything by swimming/slow rolling on bottom but when I was fishing it real slow on the bottom with rage craw as a trailer I caught

Do you guys ever have a swim jig tied on and fish it like a football head? Like bounce off the bottom let it sit, pick it up.. Maybe be pop it a few times?

[backwater4]

Its basically like any other jig. You can fish it any way it catches. The only thing I recommend is, if the swim jig is working on the bottom, get some head styles that work better for bouncing like footballs or brush styles and get the same colored skirts on those.

[rockchalk06]

Backwater is right. You can fish a swim jig like any other jig. It may not stand up near as good as a flip n swim or flipping head jig though.

 

North Star has a Flip n Swim jig series that is perfect for what your talking about. I use Berkley Havoc Sub Woofers as my swim trailers but if you take a craw like a Rage Craw and swim it, the claws put off some serious action in the water.

 

I will take my flip n swims and work them just like I will a spinner bait. I will also flip it just like a flipping jig.

[eyedabassman]

YOU CAN'T FISH A SWIM JIG/JIG WRONG! I LIKE TO SLOW ROLL A BIG FOOTBALL ( 3/4 TO 1 OZ.)and I love the Northstar jigs and there flip & swim can't be beat.remember one thing if you fish a jig slow crawl,hop,drag the bass will take a better look at the jig and and color of the jig comes into play with a swim jig it is more of a reaction bite but i do have colors I like in the swim jigs too.What i am trying to say,with a swim jig the bass has to make his mind up fast to eat it or not but when a jig is fished slow/slower he has more time to take a better look and has more time to eat or not.

[smalljaw67]

As eyedabassman has said," You can't fish a swim jig wrong", I prefer to keep it high in the water column and I will at times just kill it and then other times I'll slow roll it and occasionally tick the bottom going just fast enough so my trailer has a little action. If I'm targeting a specific piece of cover I'll often use a rage craw and if I can't get a reaction bite swimming it past the cover I'll often go back and bottom hop it right where I think the fish should be and I do that with a rage craw as it has great action but it still has the craw profile for bottom hopping or crawling.

[SwampLife]

That's why I love this forum! Plenty of great information..thanks

[lmbfisherman]

I love swim jigs and will kill it and let sink and hop it like a regular jig.  I think it's fun to think outside the box.

[Jay Ell Gee]

If it catches fish for you, getting our permission to fish it that way won't make it work any better or worse for you. 

 

I never cut off my swim jig or chatterbait before fishing it like a jig. If that works, I may perhaps cut it off and replace it with a head style that is better suited for the task, as everyone else said. That is assuming, of course, that I have something in that pattern/color handy.

 

If not, swim jig on the bottom it is!

[eyedabassman]

I fish my swim jigs in a in. of water down to the deep weedlines,deep rock piles and as deep as 30 ft. for me!

[JigMe]

Most of my swim Jig bites came from slow rolling on top the grass, and pause it few times let it sink into the grass then pop it.