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[DitchPanda]

I have a new favorite moving bait: the swim jig. For years my favorite has been a spinnerbait but over the past few a swim jig has out fished it 10-1 for me. Don't get me wrong I still love a spinnerbait but I just have supreme confidence with a swim jig.

[NorthernBasser]

I always have one or 2 swim jigs tied on. Easily a top 5 bait for me. Now you can have fun experimenting with different trailers. Paddletail-style is obviously great, but craw-style work great as well. 

[DaubsNU1]

What's your preferred retrieve method for a swim-jig?  And working around what type of cover?

[EWREX]

2 minutes ago, DaubsNU1 said:

What's your preferred retrieve method for a swim-jig?  And working around what type of cover?

instead of a steady retrieve, i like to mix in pauses and sporadic hops all the way back to the boat/bank

[DitchPanda]

18 minutes ago, DaubsNU1 said:

What's your preferred retrieve method for a swim-jig?  And working around what type of cover?

Working it mostly around rock and some wood mixed in. Most of the time its a fairly straight retrieve with a pause or pop of the rod tip thrown in every once in a while...I try to bounce it off cover like I would a square bill and that does the trick.

 

23 minutes ago, NorthernBasser said:

I always have one or 2 swim jigs tied on. Easily a top 5 bait for me. Now you can have fun experimenting with different trailers. Paddletail-style is obviously great, but craw-style work great as well. 

I've fished them several years and have tried half a dozen different trailers. I've settled on 2: 90%of the time a vertical menace grub...the rest of the time a zoom ultra vibe speed craw. I'm not a big paddle tail guy.

[bigspirit]

@DitchPanda, when I was up by you a swim jig was my favorite bait in the IGL region. Ripping them out of grass was always my fallback when I couldn’t catch fish on anything else. 
 

Vertical rigged menace was my favorite as well. I haven’t thrown them as much where I’m at now but probably need to change that. 

[Cgolf]

Hoping to see your luck, I do really well on spinnerbaits including my PB smallie, but can't crack the code on swim jigs. One trailer I really like though is the old yum woolie bully rigged sideways. At least when they were available they were very cheap. I will work with them some more this year again though to see if I can get a consitent bite.

[Deleted account]

To me a swim jig is like an adjustable wrench in versatility in fitting different requirements, but a spinnerbait is more like a hammer...

[DitchPanda]

35 minutes ago, Deleted account said:

To me a swim jig is like an adjustable wrench in versatility in fitting different requirements, but a spinnerbait is more like a hammer...

That's a good way to put it...the versatility is unmatched in my opinion. Also I feel a big part of its appeal is the subtlety...its kind of the finesse worm of moving baits..draws strikes even from spooky wary fish.

[LrgmouthShad]

Swim jig did me right this spring.

 

But man, spinnerbait and swim jig, they’re both pretty great ?.

 

 

[Deleted account]

18 minutes ago, DitchPanda said:

That's a good way to put it...the versatility is unmatched in my opinion. Also I feel a big part of its appeal is the subtlety...its kind of the finesse worm of moving baits..draws strikes even from spooky wary fish.

Yup, if you have a swim jig in two weights, two or three colors with 3 or 4 trailers, you can catch fish most anywhere.

[txchaser]

I'm a sucker for trying new stuff. I think I like these. The blade is small enough it's more like an underspin-level of accent. Fishes like a swimjig.