Best Boot Tail Swimbait

[Catt]

Smash-Tech Baits Weedless Poacher 

[michaelb]

I don’t know what to call them apparently but i use skinny dippers as linked above. Several colors work but i am currently using white on a swimbait jighead. I also can’t say they are the best since there are so many others out there, but i like them better than the keitechs and they are bigger and more durable. 
 

Pike love these too. 

[Mike L]

18 minutes ago, michaelb said:

I don’t know what to call them apparently but i use skinny dippers as linked above. Several colors work but i am currently using white on a swimbait jighead. I also can’t say they are the best since there are so many others out there, but i like them better than the keitechs and they are bigger and more durable. 
 

Pike love these too. 

Thier Houdini color is a killer down here. 
That’s the only color I use for them. 
 

When that bite slows and they need a little more thump, try a Big EZ. 
 

 

 

 

Mike
 

 

[Big Hands]

12 hours ago, bass4life.... said:

I personally have some favorites: 

 

https://www.tacklewarehouse.com/Reaction_Innovations_Big_Dipper_Swimbaits/descpage-RIBDSB.html

 

https://www.tacklewarehouse.com/Reaction_Innovations_Skinny_Dipper_7pk/descpage-RISKD.html

 

https://www.tacklewarehouse.com/Reaction_Innovations_Little_Dipper_35_9pk/descpage-RILD.html

 

in colors white trash, sexy shad, purple smoke, bad shad, and houdini. To @Big Hands

I use those style baits, but I am Carolina rigging them and dragging them very slowly through our version of cover (weeds, rocks and stickups) where open hook baits seem to quickly seek a permanent underwater resting place.

 

I have tried the Reaction Innovations 'Dipper' swimbaits. I caught some fish on them, but the Keitech Swing Impact has been much more effective for me. It's possible that since I am working them much more slowly, the tail of the Keitech swims much easier at those speeds than baits like the RI Dipper or the Megabass Hazedong Shad or the Strike King Rage Swimmer. I will say that the plastic of the RI Dippers, Rage Swimmers and Hazedong Shad (for better or worse) is much more durable . . . . which makes them stiffer.

 

I actually welded a body & paddle tail from a Keitech onto the head of a dipper and quickly caught fish with that. The reason I tried it is because the front of the swing impact baits get tore up very easily and I wanted to see if I could get the durability of the RI dipper and the action of the swing impact . . . and I had the scraps of each sitting there staring at me while I was doing a swimbait repair session.

 

Best Keitech colors for me are:

 

1) Electric Shad (easily my favorite color)

2) Silver Flash

3) Bluegill Flash

4) Pro Staff Special

 

Other Keitech baits I have been having success with have been the Easy Shiner, and my newest favorite the 3.8" Sexy Impact in Electric Shad. It doesn't have a swimming type tail at all, so I have no idea how it will fare on a jighead, but is an excellent minnow imitation. They rig very nicely with a #2 Decoy Worm17 KG hook if you want to try dragging one. If I don't let the bass swim off a bit with them, my hook up ratio suffers and oddly enough, they will swim a mile with those things without spitting them out.

 

The Swing Impact baits have 'squid scent', but I use Hot Sauce on top of that. Could be why they'll chew on them for so long ;~)

[Allen Der]

15 hours ago, TnRiver46 said:

If my lure looks like a boot, I feel like I've taken a wrong turn somewhere 

you dont think the tail on this looks like a boot?  I've never seen a canoe or kayak paddle that shape.  Zoom uses the preferred nomenclature FWIW

[TnRiver46]

2 hours ago, Allen Der said:

you dont think the tail on this looks like a boot?  I've never seen a canoe or kayak paddle that shape.  Zoom uses the preferred nomenclature FWIW

Kind of looks like a fish to me...........

 

If I were to compare it to footwear it would go with house slipper or crocs haha

[softwateronly]

keitech fat impact and easy shiner

megabass spark shad and magdraft

gambler EZ and Big EZ

Scottsboro swimbait

R2S Dwalker

 

scott

 

 

[Munkin]

One that I didn't see mentioned that works well for me is the Damiki Anchovy shad.

 

Allen 

[TnRiver46]

I’m up to about 50-60 fish on this same plastic in the last week or so. You can’t do that with a keitech and a 5 gallon bucket full of glue. I also got 2 20 packs of these last year for $2.99 apiece. I would get keitech if I liked throwing money into the river 

 

last year my buddy came to stay at my place for the weekend and fish. He was bumming paddle tail/boot tail hand pour baits from me before the end of the Saturday session because smallmouth ate through the 3 packs of keitech he brought to the tune of $24. His catch rate didnt decline when he started using my baits either