Lunker City products, how would you rig and fish this stuff for biggins

[MassBass]

I made a semi-impulse order from my favorite soft plastic co. Lunker City. Some of the lures (i think) are kind of big for LM and SM. Im sure I am wrong, and if rigged and presented properly would pull hawgs. Im looking for advice on fishing the 7.5 in. Swimfish and the 7 in. Monkey grub. I might as well throw the 9 in slug-go into the discussion as well, it is a striper lure for me but I know they can catch big bass to. Trailer on a jig, texas rig, line choice, invasive weed species, etc. I would like to hear it all.

[Kdizzle]

Try their Leech.  Its d**n near the best dropshot bait Ive ever used.

[diehardbassfishing]

Slug-Go, Texas rig.

I really like their Texposer hook. (The regular old style - not the new wide gap z).

I don't fish as long as the 9". I fish 6" on the 4/0 Texposer.

 

 

Karl

[Bass Rutten]

For the swimfish I’d nip off the head (1/2”?) enough to fit flush a swimbait jighead (exposed hook) for straight swimming. I use owner and kalin’s saltwater jigheads for this application, there are tons of other swimbait jigheads nowadays available on tackle warehouse that would work too. Full disclosure I haven’t used the swimfish specifically but I have used many different sizes of their shakers (thinner body, same tail) over the years as swimjig trailers and just rigged plain on jigheads. Great tactic for pike too.

 

edit: you’re probably going to want at a minimum of 4/0 but preferably 5 or 6/0 hook on your jig head

[Glenn]

6 hours ago, MassBass said:

I made a semi-impulse order from my favorite soft plastic co. Lunker City. Some of the lures (i think) are kind of big for LM and SM. Im sure I am wrong, and if rigged and presented properly would pull hawgs. Im looking for advice on fishing the 7.5 in. Swimfish and the 7 in. Monkey grub. I might as well throw the 9 in slug-go into the discussion as well, it is a striper lure for me but I know they can catch big bass to. Trailer on a jig, texas rig, line choice, invasive weed species, etc. I would like to hear it all.

Should've mentioned this earlier, but it's good to see you posting here again!

 

[WRB]

The Sluggo inspired Gary Yamamoto to create the Senko, game changer.

My best day ever on the water catching DD was using a 6" rainbow trout prototype Sluggo on a modified Scrounger jig; 18 bass over 10 lbs off old mud point Castiac in '91.

Lunker City Hellgie is a over looked finesse soft plastic drop shot rigged. The Fin-S is another over looked soft plastic trailer for Scroungers.

Tom

[Bluebasser86]

1 hour ago, WRB said:

Lunker City Hellgie is a over looked finesse soft plastic drop shot rigged.

Was going to mention this bait also. I like them on a jighead. Very good little bait that nobody seems to talk about.

[Hammer 4]

1 hour ago, Bluebasser86 said:

Was going to mention this bait also. I like them on a jighead. Very good little bait that nobody seems to talk about.

Ha..bet that changes now, i.e. talking about that bait..

[Bluebasser86]

3 minutes ago, Hammer 4 said:

Ha..bet that changes now, i.e. talking about that bait..

It should, it's a great bait. Anyone that smallmouth fishes, especially streams or rivers, should be using them. Largemouth eat bugs too though, and I've caught plenty of nice ones on them.

[Hammer 4]

Just now, Bluebasser86 said:

It should, it's a great bait. Anyone that smallmouth fishes, especially streams or rivers, should be using them. Largemouth eat bugs too though, and I've caught plenty of nice ones on them.

Oh, I believe it..?

[A-Jay]

9 hours ago, WRB said:

The Sluggo inspired Gary Yamamoto to create the Senko, game changer.

My best day ever on the water catching DD was using a 6" rainbow trout prototype Sluggo on a modified Scrounger jig; 18 bass over 10 lbs off old mud point Castiac in '91.

Lunker City Hellgie is a over looked finesse soft plastic drop shot rigged. The Fin-S is another over looked soft plastic trailer for Scroungers.

Tom

Several LIFE TIMES of Trophy Bass 

Caught in a day.

I can't even imagine Tom.

A-Jay

[Mobasser]

55 minutes ago, A-Jay said:

Several LIFE TIMES of Trophy Bass 

Caught in a day.

I can't even imagine Tom.

A-Jay

Agree A-Jay. Incredible!

[WRB]

A wolf pack of big bass herded a school a planted trout up against this point. As we passed the point I noticed 3 great blue herons standing close together very unusual and splashes along the shoreline. We stopped and I had a Scrounger w/trout sluggo tied on and got into a assume wide open bite. Pure luck to run across this feeding spree and have the right lure.

Tom

[detroit1]

I wanna be lucky...

[roadwarrior]

Me, too!

 

[MassBass]

17 hours ago, Bassjam2000 said:

For the swimfish I’d nip off the head (1/2”?) enough to fit flush a swimbait jighead (exposed hook) for straight swimming. I use owner and kalin’s saltwater jigheads for this application, there are tons of other swimbait jigheads nowadays available on tackle warehouse that would work too. Full disclosure I haven’t used the swimfish specifically but I have used many different sizes of their shakers (thinner body, same tail) over the years as swimjig trailers and just rigged plain on jigheads. Great tactic for pike too.

 

edit: you’re probably going to want at a minimum of 4/0 but preferably 5 or 6/0 hook on your jig head

I originally got the swimfish for a chatterbait trailer, but the 7.5 in. seems too big for most conventional sized chatterbaits. Now I have the 7 in. Monkey grub (this is a BIG grub) rigged up on a saltwater jighead, and im sure it could have a time and place. Basically I bought a size bigger of swimfish than that size I had previous success with as trailer bait. 

17 hours ago, Glenn said:

Should've mentioned this earlier, but it's good to see you posting here again!

 

Thank you for mentioning.