Gambler big EZ

[jasondaily]

Does anyone have any experience with these swimbaits? What was the outcome? How do they swim? Fast or slow retrieve ? 

[FishOnLMB]

I have used this bait before and I have to say it is a good bait. One thing I would say that it is a thick bait, and you have to use a big EWG hook with it. If it you dont have a big gap between an exposed hook point and the top of the bait, you wont get a good hookset. As i mentioned it is a big bait, so you have too have a medium to fast retrieve because it takes a lot of speed to get that big bootail going. IF you wanted something to slow roll, try a keitech. The bait also has a good scent, I would say it is almost like a garlic scent. I usually like throwing it when the water is warmer and around pads. It catches fish; buy a pack of them. You wont't be disappointed.

[RoLo]

32 minutes ago, jasondaily said:

Does anyone have any experience with these swimbaits? What was the outcome? How do they swim? Fast or slow retrieve ? 

 

 

I've been throwing the Gambler Big EZ for many years, which has a paddletail that remains active

to a near standstill.  With fat, old bass in mind, retrieve the Big EZ with a Slow, Steady retrieve,

just fast enough to sustain a reliable throb.

 

Just as important as the retrieve is the "cast". Soft-swimbaits are totally weedless,

an amenity that should be fully exploited by pitching them smack into emergent vegetation

such as water lilies, cow lilies (spatterdock), hyacinths & maidencane, where other anglers fear to tread.

 

Roger

 

[chattooga_ basser]

Yup, the Big Ez has been a great bait for me. I mostly fish it pretty slow around deep brush piles, flooded timber and stuff like that (like slow rolling a spinnerbait) I also use it as topwater similar to the way you would use a buzz bait. I mostly fish in upstate South Carolina and I was suprised how well it worked in our clear and mostly grass free lakes.

There are few different ways to rig this thing, I usually stick with a weighted EWG hook with a screw lock, pegging a bullet weight to the nose of the Big EZ is another way to go if your around a lot of vegetation. Good luck !

[jasondaily]

22 minutes ago, chattooga_ basser said:

Yup, the Big Ez has been a great bait for me. I mostly fish it pretty slow around deep brush piles, flooded timber and stuff like that (like slow rolling a spinnerbait) I also use it as topwater similar to the way you would use a buzz bait. I mostly fish in upstate South Carolina and I was suprised how well it worked in our clear and mostly grass free lakes.

There are few different ways to rig this thing, I usually stick with a weighted EWG hook with a screw lock, pegging a bullet weight to the nose of the Big EZ is another way to go if your around a lot of vegetation. Good luck !

 To use a swimbait as a top water, do you just keep the rod tip up and fast reel it ? 

[RyneB]

rig weightless, burn across the top around scattered vegetation. I also like it on an underspin.

[Scarborough817]

i'm going to go the other way here and say try them rigged on a keitech model 3 swim jig or as a bladed jig trailer

[ThePolkFolk]

I also like to pitch these into pads and grass. Once it's in you can work all areas of the water column depending on how you retrieve it.

[RoLo]

 
When working a soft swimbait like a topwater lure, I don't hold the rod-tip high.

Instead, I'll hold the rod-tip low, just above the water surface.

This helps to keep the braided line lower in the emergent stems & pads.

Holding the rod-tip high, especially on a windy day allows the fishing line

to "clothesline" on emergent plant stems and protruding pads.

 

Roger

[Mike L]

On 3/14/2017 at 10:22 AM, RoLo said:

 
When working a soft swimbait like a topwater lure, I don't hold the rod-tip high.

Instead, I'll hold the rod-tip low, just above the water surface.

This helps to keep the braided line lower in the emergent stems & pads.

Holding the rod-tip high, especially on a windy day allows the fishing line

to "clothesline" on emergent plant stems and protruding pads.

 

Roger

 

Excellent tip!

 

When I want a lot of "thump" I'll throw it..When I want a little more "wiggle" I'll use a Skinny Dipper.

The Big EZ is an absolute killer down here with an underspin more so than any other swim bait I've used and the include's a Keitech. I use the Gambler Duz-It 

 

 

 

 

Mike 

[crypt]

3 hours ago, Mike L said:

 

Excellent tip!

 

When I want a lot of "thump" I'll throw it..When I want a little more "wiggle" I'll use a Skinny Dipper.

The Big EZ is an absolute killer down here with an underspin more so than any other swim bait I've used and the include's a Keitech. I use the Gambler Duz-It 

 

 

 

 

Mike 

this is the way to go.....same for me.....

[RoLo]

The Skinny Dipper has less bulk than the Big EZ, and just like a small crankbait versus a large crankbait,

the smaller lure tends to invoke more strikes. But there are few thrills greater than a wall-hanger

blasting the Big EZ about 15-ft from the boat. The noise makes your heart skip a beat,

and the water surface resembles shattered plate-glass

                                                                                                  

 

[Mike L]

21 minutes ago, RoLo said:

The Skinny Dipper has less bulk than the Big EZ, and just like a small crankbait versus a large crankbait,

the smaller lure tends to invoke more strikes. But there are few thrills greater than a wall-hanger

blasting the Big EZ about 15-ft from the boat. The noise makes your heart skip a beat,

and the water surface resembles shattered plate-glass

                                                                                                  

 

 

Ain't it the truth!!

[bocabasser]

i always have a rod rigged with a big ez. if your are fishing heavy grass like the hayfields on okeechobee, try this, peg a 1/2oz tungsten with a punch skirt on the ez of your choice and slow roll it back to the boat. dropping it in every hole you cross. its a bulky presentation and when dropped the bait falls straight down with the tail thumping. when it hits the bottom it flairs like a jig. love doing this when there are beds among the grass.