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Why these fit
If you’re looking for swimbaits in general, these cover the most useful lanes: soft paddle-tails, open-pour swimmers, and hard glide/jointed baits.
Technique notes
- Soft swimbaits: rig on a weighted swimbait hook or large jig head, then use a steady retrieve or slow roll.
- Open-pour styles: let them glide and wobble on the fall around baitfish-oriented fish.
- Hard swimbaits: cast and retrieve with a steady cadence, adding short pauses around cover, points, and open-water bait.
- For shallow fish, the slow float on Shad Swimbait can keep the bait near the top of the water column.
When to switch
- Switch to a topwater/wakebait if fish are pushing bait on the surface.
- Switch to a faster-sinking or bigger-profile swimbait if you need to reach deeper edges or trigger reaction bites.
- Switch to a finesse soft swimbait if fish are following but not committing.
- Switch to a more compact bait if the forage is small or the water is heavily pressured.
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- bass soft swimbaits
- hard glide swimbaits
- slow sink shad swimbait