Strike King Tour Grade Rage Blade Swim Jig

[fishinfiend]

Strike King Tour Grade Rage Blade Swim Jig

 

Anyone use this bait?

 

how well has it worked? 

 

 

[bigbassin']

This is the only chatterbait I throw.  It stays pretty high in the water column and probably doesn't get deeper than 4 feet even reeled as slow as you can go. The advantage is that you can wake these baits pretty easily at a moderate speed over shallow grass flats, which has been by far my most successful chatterbait technique.

[fishinfiend]

excellent

 

thanks

[roadwarrior]

I rig them with the rage Tail Structure Bug and try to slow roll the presentation o9ccasionally ticking the bottom. Another technique which I learned fishing with Big O was removing the skirt on the Rage Blade and using a Cut-R as the trailer, tail up.

 

[gardnerjigman]

I like using the naked one rigged with a smokey shad rage menace vertically and pumping it off the bottom. Watch your line ad you let it sink after a pump. Usually get smacked then, or as soon as you start to lift it again. I don't fish it like a bladed jig at all. 

[quanjig]

I've had some good success with this bait early in the spring. Especially when pads and weeds just start growing. This bait seems to pull through the emerging pads nicely. I will make a long cast and let it sink to the bottom, contact the sprouts and rip and twitch the bait back down on a slack line. They will crush it on the fall so be prepared to set the hook!!

[fishinfiend]

thank you kindly, gentleman. 

[buzzed bait]

all the above and add that for me they have not hung up nearly as much as other bladed jigs.  have had a number of takers on the initial fall as well.

[blckshirt98]

The Rage Blades are solid, you won't be disappointed.

[A-Jay]

I'm a Big Fan ~

Try it with a 4.5" Lake Fork Boot Tail Live Magic Shad

Killer

A-Jay

[HookdUP]

I use the bait a lot in pre spawn and can say nothing about it .. Extremely weedless and it hooks fish almost always in top of mouth 

[fishinfiend]

ordering now

 

Thanks guys

[primetime]

I like a skirt if I am fishing it higher in the water or just under the surface or over weeds, but I have found that trimming the skirt helps, and for trailers I like to use standard single tail grubs in 5" or a 4-5" double tail grub, I really like using a spider grub under a bladed swim jig since it gives the skirt more flare, slows the fall, and casts a mile. I like to fish at night during the Spawn and Spring, and I like the Rage Blade and I have a bunch of custom made bladed jigs from a member on this site who makes a killer jig and he uses a stout hook, and I color the blade black for the most part, or half black, leave the rest silver....I like a trimmed black or chart skirt, and I Find that any soft bait can work well, but at times I find that many trailers give a bait too much action at night and fish miss it, but all above posts have great options...Lake Fork Boot tail swimbaits are great as are the originals depending on mood...

I feel the trailer matters most to me and the Rage Menace rigged sideways or flat is never a bad choice, one of the best soft baits on the market for all techniques.

I rarely use the Cut'R worms as trailers but love them solo on a texas rig, I need to try that, but Swim Senko is great, Rage Craws, 4" Ribbon tail worm cut down, Z-man and Strike King Zero Elaztach baits are great near the surface...4" Diezel Minnow, Grubz, Turbo craw, and I have not tried the new Razor shads designed for a blade, but the Strike King Caffiene Fluke and swimbait are my favorites to rig without a skirt. I find the Strike King Flukes to be the best with the single tail, Bass Assassin makes a fluke I also like as the single tail waves and moves nicely...

I have replaced the spinnerbait for the most part with the bladed Jig, and I find you can fish them anyway you have confidence in....Places where a trap works, wake it, hug bottom, or rip it and let fall....I like the lighter ones at times and I go 1/8 at times, small GYB 3'' Grub is always a winner...Great lure, fun to fish as well, I was told to try it at night on this site about 2 years ago, and I think that was the best advice I was ever given....Next to the Jointed Floating Rapala, I find this to be just as much fun....I want to try adding a willow blade to the hook which was just suggested to me....

[fishinfiend]

ended up with these...

 

Love the color of zman jigs

 

 

[gardnerjigman]

1 hour ago, fishinfiend said:

ended up with these...

 

Love the color of zman jigs

 

 

Hello 180 degree turn! Lol

6 hours ago, A-Jay said:

I'm a Big Fan ~

Try it with a 4.5" Lake Fork Boot Tail Live Magic Shad

Killer

A-Jay

I've thought about this too. Can you keep it down with that much action/plastic or does it ride high in the column?

[A-Jay]

1 minute ago, gardnerjigman said:

Hello 180 degree turn! Lol

I've thought about this too. Can you keep it down with that much action/plastic or does it ride high in the column?

"Keep it down" ~ that's a relative term I guess.

If you're asking if the bait sails to the top and waddles along on the surface rather than running sub-surface as one would expect - the answer is NO, it's works fine.

 I'll add that when I'm fishing it shallower I use the 3/8 ounce bait on 14 - 20 lb mono. 

When I'm fishing it "Deeper" I'll use the 1/2 ounce bait on braid ~ Works for me.

A-Jay

[gardnerjigman]

Sweet. Gonna be trying it out

[A-Jay]

Just now, gardnerjigman said:

Sweet. Gonna be trying it out

OK ~ Be careful now - don't get your arm Broke . . .

A-Jay

[fishinfiend]

ya lol 

 

the color sold me. Thnk you guys. I don't have any experience with bladed jigs but there are couple very grassy spots i fish that i think they will work well.