Storm Pre Rigged Soft Swimbaits

[Mccallister25]

I know a lot of you guys who throw swimbaits probably tend to buy the higher end stuff, but Iv never tried fishing with swimbaits. I may look into it in the near future, but do t wanna blow a bunch of money on something I may not like. I always see the soft bodied storm swimbaits that are pre rigged and stores, so I may start with that. My question is, when fishing with them, is there a preferred technique or is it mostly a simple cast and retrieve deal?

[Knightiac]

Whatever the fish want that day. Try yo-yoing, straight retrieve, dead sticking, pauses and you can even bounce them off the bottom. They are great for bouncing off of cover and the like, that's usually when I get bites with mine.

 

I don't use mine nearly enough, I usually bring them out when the fishing is tough and I need to go super realistic, but I could probably use them much more.

 

When I use prerigged, it's always the storm wildeye shad.

[HeavyFisher]

I used to fish with Storm Swimbaits for years using a steady retrieve before I discovered the higher end Swimbaits. These were the guys I used.

 

[gobig]

The storms may catch some fish but it is going to be a pretty slighted view of swimbaits. They lack the characteristics that good baits have. You would be better off getting a few decent baits that you could sell and recover most of your money if not all of it. I will be one of the first to tell you that you don't need to spend $100 on a swimbait for it to be good. Ill try and give you some insight on the different baits that are out there in a few but I got go eat at the moment.

[Bluebasser86]

The 3 or 4 inch bluegill versions are killers in ponds. A slow, steady retrieve is how I normally use them but stroking them works well also. 

[Choporoz]

My wife outfished me for a few hours last weekend using nothing but a mostly white-ish single hook storm like the one in HeavyFisher's post above.  Casted to cover and reeled steadily to the boat.  She didn't get any bragging size fish, but when I couldn't get a bite on a jig, chatter, crank, spinner, worms, etc, she was reeling them in pretty steadily. 

[SPEEDBEAD.]

If you're going to use something pre-rigged and on the lower end of the cost spectrum, I implore that you at least use a better constructed bait. The River2Sea Live Eye Bottom Walker would serve you better than any of the Storm baits. Period.

 

I'm a big proponent of acquiring the best baits you can afford. You truly get what you pay for with regards to swimbaits.

[Nice_Bass]

I think they work fine when used and thought of as an open hook jig and paddle tail trailer, and worked much the same on bottom. 

I used to use them, but now when I want something like that I use swimbait jigheads and berkely flat back shad so I can have a variety of colors.

 

Not trying to give you another option, however I don't think of it as a "swimming bait" and only used it in the bottom of the water column.

They do have thick hooks and are dense so just throw on a MH or H rod and you are fine.

[Mccallister25]

All of these responses are great. I appreciate the help guys. Imma keep my options open, and continue to look into more baits before i make a decision.

[BigMoneyGrip]

For a few dollars more, you could get a pack of Zoom Swimmin Super Fluke Jr, and a pack of 3/0 weighted swimbait hooks (Walmart has all of this) and you'd be way ahead of the game. This spring, I have smoked them (roughly 80 LMB on 2 outings) using this combo in white ice.

[AK-Jax86]

I use them and have caught some nice fish and I hooked into 2 monster fish on them. When I fish with my girlfriend she likes to use these a lot. I use a yo yo technique and a steady retrieve when fishing them.

They catch fish and are durable good inexpensive way to start if you are getting into swim bait fishing

[indianabasshunter]

I used to use them a lot in the summer months. My best retrieve was fast and very erratic like a fleeing baitfish. They didn't seem to swim straight when fished in this manner but they caught the snot out of quality fish at times when not much else would... I used the all white/translucent version in the same style as pictured above. Buy 'em, they work.

[smalljaw67]

I like buying the finesse swim baits like the River Rock Striker or the Keitech Easy Shiner but I have 4 packs of the Storm Swim Shads, two packs of pearl and two packs of shad and let me tell you that they catch fish, period.  The 3" will get numbers and is great for slow rolling around rip rap banks in 4' to 6' of water, the 4" is heavier, almost 1/2oz and this is the real killer. I take the 4" version and slow roll it in 10' to 12' of water on points or channel bends but a good way to get a reaction strike during the summer is to take that bait and burn it next to pads or weed beds, it is heavy enough to keep it down, these are cheap and very versatile and the hooks are pretty decent too, try them.