Storm Swim Baits

[Jim Sutter]

Please tell me about them. How good are they? How should I fish them? My fingers don't work as good as i would like. Its hard for me to rig a swim bait. That's why I'm thinking about buying some these pre-rigged swim baits.

[Hook2Jaw]

Half of them run on their side and the other half catch the occassional fish.  I haven't been impressed in the least by the prerigged baits and recently the Storm 360 GT.

[A-Jay]

I usually fish all brown bass locally so I do not use them here.

However, the 5 & 6 inch baits have been very good for me on big green bass south of the border.

Need to fish them low & slow - bait will not run true at speed.

They have an unusual 'action' - one that may or may not look 'natural',

but we HAMMER bog fish with these baits.

Finally Mend-It glue repairs most tears that occur so baits can be used many times over.

Good Luck

A-Jay

[frogflogger]

360 gt runs okay for me

[Cgolf]

59 minutes ago, A-Jay said:

I usually fish all brown bass locally so I do not use them here.

However, the 5 & 6 inch baits have been very good for me on big green bass south of the border.

Need to fish them low & slow - bait will not run true at speed.

They have an unusual 'action' - one that may or may not look 'natural',

but we HAMMER bog fish with these baits.

Finally Mend-It glue repairs most tears that occur so baits can be used many times over.

Good Luck

A-Jay

You used the smaller ones at all? I was going to use some 3” ones around reeds for green bass. Slow is the name of the game there so hopefully they run true. 

[Bluebasser86]

Spend a few more dollars on some pre-rigged Savage Gear soft baits and you'll be much better off. 

[A-Jay]

36 minutes ago, cgolf said:

You used the smaller ones at all? I was going to use some 3” ones around reeds for green bass. Slow is the name of the game there so hopefully they run true. 

I don't. 

A-Jay

[WRB]

For whatever reason the Mexican bass like the larger size Storm swimbaits.

Storm are made using salt water plastisol that tends to be harder stiffer plastic that can take a bent set and swim poorly. Boiling the swimbait and hanging by the hook eye to cool can fix the bent set issue.

I use Huddleston's 

Tom

[Jim Sutter]

Thank you, for all of your replies. A lot of great information. None of it I knew. From what you folks have said I will stay away from storm swimbaits. 

[Smells like fish]

I found this in a clearance bin and bought it for show and tell lol

 

10" 5 1/4oz 

[Bluebasser86]

On 6/4/2020 at 7:25 PM, Smells like fish said:

I found this in a clearance bin and bought it for show and tell lol

 

10" 5 1/4oz 

Good muskie bait, but eat your Wheaties if you're going to cast it much. I've got a couple that are pretty old now, they're a load.

 

On 6/4/2020 at 8:35 AM, cgolf said:

You used the smaller ones at all? I was going to use some 3” ones around reeds for green bass. Slow is the name of the game there so hopefully they run true. 

The 3 and 4 inch baits are pretty good too, but not at slow speeds.

[walleyecrazy]

I’ve caught a ton of walleye over the years on the 4” wildeye swim shads slow rolled along the bottom of one of my local rivers. I haven’t really fished them much when I was targeting bass though.