Swim Jig Question...

[B@ssCrzy]

My eyes have been opened to the great world of swim jigs so I am looking at placing an order with Seibert to get a few more. My first introduction into swim jigs was to swim a grass jig with a grub trailer on it until I lost it and then started swimming a football head with a grub and did just as well.  So my question is does it really matter if it is a "swim jig" per say?  Or why wouldn't you just use the jig that best fits the conditions you will be fishing it in.  Example if I am swimming it in and around brush why not just buy a brush jig and swim that since it is made to not get hung up in brush?  Since the name of the game is to get it into or close as you can to cover it seems to me that you would want something that if you do get it in too close that it will come through much better.  Or what about a football head around rocks, rip rap, etc. I ask this question because all of the lakes that I fish in my area have very little vegetation.  So I am fishing around docks, rock, stumps, and brush.  Also, if football heads, brush jigs, etc. will work then I could also double up and use them to learn how to fish a jig slow as well.   Which would save me a good amount of money on a limited fishing budget.  Hope this makes sense.  Thanks for all your help. 

[Surveyor]

WARNING STEER CLEAR.

I am friggin ruint!!!

A couple of months ago I decided to try Jiggs after Texas rigging forever.

Ordered a few from Northstar and the Storm series from SO---------BIGG Mistake

After catching them---and bigger ones on almost every jigg I tried I spent most of the rainy day yesterday on their sites trying to figure out what and how many to order.

 

d**n Siebert I just cant fish em all at the same time.

 

The OOMOD and Long Mike appear to be KILLER swim baits. Fished them last week instead of a spinner bait and THEY WORKED.

Nothhstars Black series Is great too.

 

Now I just gotta decide how much to allocate to jigs-trailers and which ones to buy.

[flyfisher]

I am rapidly becoming a swim jig fan this year too.  One thing i have noticed is that the seibert jigs are great and top quality but I actually prefer the Northstar swim jigs.  THe yseem to come through cover a little better in my experience.  I will say that after catching a few on the seibert jigs i did pick up a bunch and cannot wait to use them more often this summer.

 

As far as which head works better to me, in my self proclaimed limited experience, you want a lower profile head rather than a football or brush head.  The swim jig specific heads seem to come through cover better.  I have also been using solid body swimbatis as my swim jig trailers and i like the action and little bit of vibration that they provide but from reading all the posts on here it seems like pretty much anything will work so experiment, and have fun

[born2fish94]

im not the best at it but i would say im pretty good at fishing swim jigs, ive been fishing them for about 2 years and ive kinda figured out what works best for me. I always have one rod rigged with one ready to go at all times. i personally fish all terrain jigs, big fan of em and they have done awesome for me. I was just like you when i first started and was like i can swim all jigs so why do i have to be specific. then after alot of fishing and making many mistakes i realized this. a brush jig is meant to bump into the brush and kind of lift up when you put pressure and roll right over. football jigs sit on the bottom and just bump on rocks and give great feel. when your fishing a swim jig your generally fishing it with a stead retrieve and jerking it. if you go through a tree top and jerk a brush jig really hard it will hang up alot more. the head on swim jigs is built to snake through grass and brush and just slip into those tight spots while coming at relatively faster speed. like i said im not an expert but jigs are just a bait i have alot of confidence in no matter what kind they are. and as far as trailers go for swim jigs i like double tail grubs. ill fish a single one every now and then but usually just kinda stick to what i have had success on. best thing to do is just fish it and see what works for you. but there are my 2 cents. hope it helps! GET JIGGY WITH IT!!

[smalljaw67]

You can swim any jig and it will work fine but a specialized swim jig is made to go throught cover and the 30 degree hook that most use allow the jig to comethrough the water fairly level while a flipping style jig may run a little different. The most popular styles for swimming are the bullet shaped heads and the modified round head which is simply a round head jig with detailed sides and using a 30 degree hook, it is the hook position that makes it ideal for swimming but any jig you like to swim will work.

[CPBassFishing]

It really depends on the cover. A Brush head is going to be horrible at coming through weeds and you really need a bullet or fat bullet style head- (think regualr swim jig and flip n swim). Also, most brush and football jigs don't come in baitfish imitating colors. That is where you will run into problems.

[B@ssCrzy]

im not the best at it but i would say im pretty good at fishing swim jigs, ive been fishing them for about 2 years and ive kinda figured out what works best for me. I always have one rod rigged with one ready to go at all times. i personally fish all terrain jigs, big fan of em and they have done awesome for me. I was just like you when i first started and was like i can swim all jigs so why do i have to be specific. then after alot of fishing and making many mistakes i realized this. a brush jig is meant to bump into the brush and kind of lift up when you put pressure and roll right over. football jigs sit on the bottom and just bump on rocks and give great feel. when your fishing a swim jig your generally fishing it with a stead retrieve and jerking it. if you go through a tree top and jerk a brush jig really hard it will hang up alot more. the head on swim jigs is built to snake through grass and brush and just slip into those tight spots while coming at relatively faster speed. like i said im not an expert but jigs are just a bait i have alot of confidence in no matter what kind they are. and as far as trailers go for swim jigs i like double tail grubs. ill fish a single one every now and then but usually just kinda stick to what i have had success on. best thing to do is just fish it and see what works for you. but there are my 2 cents. hope it helps! GET JIGGY WITH IT!!

 

Great answer.  Thanks that makes sense. 

[B@ssCrzy]

You can swim any jig and it will work fine but a specialized swim jig is made to go throught cover and the 30 degree hook that most use allow the jig to comethrough the water fairly level while a flipping style jig may run a little different. The most popular styles for swimming are the bullet shaped heads and the modified round head which is simply a round head jig with detailed sides and using a 30 degree hook, it is the hook position that makes it ideal for swimming but any jig you like to swim will work.

 

 

Great answer.  That is exactly the info I was looking for.  Looks like I will be buying the swim jig head then.  Thanks everybody!!

[born2fish94]

Great answer.  That is exactly the info I was looking for.  Looks like I will be buying the swim jig head then.  Thanks everybody!!

and just a tip in my experience on my lakes if i throw a bluegill colored one i generally catch bigger fish than one mimicking a shad. just something i noticed. the fish in my profile picture on here came off a bluegill swim jig on the edge of a grassbed

[B@ssCrzy]

and just a tip in my experience on my lakes if i throw a bluegill colored one i generally catch bigger fish than one mimicking a shad. just something i noticed. the fish in my profile picture on here came off a bluegill swim jig on the edge of a grassbed

 

Bluegill was going to be one of the first colors that I bought.