Forum | swimbait

Agreed…. Single hook weedless is way better than a handful of trebles. In the picture it appeared y'all were in fairly open, alebit shallow, water. Just thought a wake bait mite'a got that reaction bite.

On the second day of the district 2 day championship on Coleto Creek I went through approx. 75 yards of stuff that looked similar to that, 'cept it was topped over hydrilla. I truely did look like a salad shooter. But… got through the stuff to a hooked point with a 20yd or so clearing all the around it where the grass wasn't growing. One guy in the tournament saw me go in and said it was a sight to behold! A fluke caught one 6#er and two keepers… a swim bait the other 6#er and one keeper… fer almost 18#s.

GRRRRRR!

At least no evidence as no pic,had several good bites each on top ,but really not that interested they were,taking funny just not getting a hook in them good like someone who went to fla.

Steve had two bites on a horny toad and no hookups at all,me large 8 in swimbait one really nice swirl partical hookup,but difficult to tell whats swirling on the other end when not into view.

Area does have rather large gar at times,suspect maybe a wayaward muskie or grass pike occasionally,and sometime sauger come into the grass me having one on on the main lake that hammered a fluke yet still not hooked good.

Just about the time one figgures one thing out here another species comes along like a huge drum,to test out ones gear,I thinl I landed a record last year and rleased never thought about it till afterward and had no camera,took up the entire front deck of the jag ,record is 52 pds by the way.

Their reluctance to take top water baits combined with our misses on those slashes.left us with but one keeper,has we actually been on the ball or had better bites would have limited.

Think twas the latter needed a better bite,water warm,high was 3.5 ft,in the fall at that time 1.5,sun was super bright.

If one goes back and looks at all the posts,me in particlar has had a lot of missed strikes on floating frogs,prior to me actually catching them each and every time almost,somewhat due to the changing bite and the way they bite as at times its quite different.

Normally a horney toad one sets the hook immeadiately like a buzzbait strike,yet floating frogs count to three,yesterday one needed not to have rod loaded upon the strike point it at them then set,brought back a fluke bitten off even with the hook shank,had them grab the tail of the swimbait etc,yet they wanted an erractic trigger,and thats what it was a trigger strike,most occurring upon the bait hitting the water,often after seeing one bust and tossing past it slightly.

Problem was most were doing that 80-90 yards away.being able to toss the weighted swimbait farther got more hits on it,taking my two handed seeker rod next time.

Normally the horney toad bite is about the same just the floaters need adjustment to the strike but july 6 was one of those weird days for them even.

I do however think im onto a different bait to toss there,as super magnum flukes have worked for me there and can wake these things.Combined with later on the american shad(skipjacks) in jumps adter minnows any swimbait 6-8 in long silverish sides should be dynamte.