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BoSox46GSR · Joined: 29 Mar 2009 Posts: 388 Location: Chester

What kind of swim baits is everyone using? I'd imagine color really depends on forage in the lake/river/pond you fish. What brands do you use? Hard or soft?
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RyanfromTrumbull · Joined: 17 Feb 2009 Posts: 78 Location: Trumbull, CT

I just started using KieTech and love them, they get great action, a lot of colors and sizes
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Justin · Joined: 11 Oct 2007 Posts: 106 Location: Farmington, CT

There are a wide variety of swimbaits ranging from little soft plastic Keitech or Kamikaz ones to the larger 3:16, or the hard baits like a Kingshad to Spro BBZ. Color does seem to matter, but I tend to think that the action has a lot more to do with it. I have tried a bunch and found you don't need to spend a ton of money on ones when cheap ones will do...especially when they are so soft and tear easily. My suggestion is to go to Cabelas and buy some cheap ones and try them for yourself.

Phish · Joined: 22 Aug 2008 Posts: 454 Location: West Hartford

My three largest LMB have all come on the 7" Tru-tungsten Tru Life swimbait (including the one in my avatar). These things are awesome. The action is ridiculous and they're versatile because of the way you can add and remove tungsten balls to go from a wake bait to a slow sinker to a fast sinker. Buy one and mess around with the retrieve. You can dead stick it, twitch it, steady retrieve, etc. It's awesome. You can actually make the thing turn around and "look behind" itself. I've got a bunch of the new 4" versions as well but haven't fished them long enough (about 10 casts in the West Hill tourney) to truly give you a report. Cobalt can vouch for the way they look in the water.

I'll also give a shout out to Mickey at 3:16 lures. His stuff is amazing in both the hard baits and soft (his No Bull frogs are awesome too, by the way). Detail is great, action is great. Pricey but worth it. I just ordered a few of the baby wakes, which are small for Mickey's lures, but plenty big for outside of California. Tons of guys are having a lot of success with the Berkley hollow body power baits, and Huddleston's are extremely effective as well.

pdcrack · Joined: 01 Jul 2008 Posts: 727 Location: Wethersfield CT

very good info Phish, good to have people sharing this kind of knowledge. ty ty
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anointed130 · Posted: Thu May 07, 2009 2:02 pm Post subject:

Pricey, definitely Pricey. $60-$70 dollars for the swim baits...intresting.
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Phish · Joined: 22 Aug 2008 Posts: 454 Location: West Hartford

For what it's worth, the bigger ones you're going to be throwing on 20-30# Fluoro or braid. I haven't lost one yet. However...I haven't had to deal with Pike yet either....

BoSox46GSR · Joined: 29 Mar 2009 Posts: 388 Location: Chester

I almost want to get them for Pike, but damn... that's an expensive fish.... Steel leader it is!
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Phish · Joined: 22 Aug 2008 Posts: 454 Location: West Hartford

Good call. A lot of guys carry paint pens with them to fill in places where the paint gets chipped off one things like pike's teeth...or the occasional errant cast into a boulder...which Cobalt watched me do to my 7" bluegill. He needs a little touch-up work in the dorsal area.

BoSox46GSR · Joined: 29 Mar 2009 Posts: 388 Location: Chester

That's actually not a bad idea. I have an Xrap, brand new out of the package this year, and you can barely make out the color on the top and bottom. That was from a bunch of snot rocket pickerel.
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RayC · Joined: 15 Mar 2009 Posts: 8

Best soft swimbait on the market is a Huddleston Deluxe!

Just4fun · Joined: 08 May 2007 Posts: 1389 Location: Saybrook

Huddleston 8" trout is generally acknowledged as the most realistic bait on the market! I've actually forgot what I was throwing a few times and caught myself thinking it was a fish near the boat!! Laughing

Anytime you get bit on a Hud,..it's gonna be a nice fish but the swimbaits I've had the most luck with numbers-wise have been Mattlures baby bass & trout series baits. About $10 so they are not that bad pricewise and you can make them last a lot longer than you'd think by repairing them with superglue as they get torn up!

I throw them all on 20# fluoro and I don't remember ever losing one to a toothy fish (although they do get a bit torn up by them..)! Actually, I've found that pickeral/pike generally get triggered more by fast or erratic movement and very rarely bite a swimbait on a slow steady retrieve! If you are actually fishing for pike,..I think you'll have much better luck with a large jerkbait or spinnerbait than a swimbait!
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