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Lately Im finding that when tying polomar knots onto my swim jigs, they tend lean to one side when swimming, and when suspended motionless. How can I remedy this?

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Im kind of a sucker for beavers, and flippin baits in general. Here is what I like to play with... Ugly Otter RI Beaver D-Bomb Fuzzy Beaver Biffle Bug

Dirty Jigs, Boss, *** But...I will say......The Strike King Denny Bruer Structure Jig has been particularly nice lately.

I still get line twist even with a swivel.

Spinnerbait Swimjig T-rig plastic. Topwater

Wait......FC has more stretch than Mono? What?

Thanks for your input, people.

Dont worry about it. Try not to care what some person on the internet is looking to do.

Im making a reference. What are your preferences?

Which ones would you not use braid?

Uhhhh.....this is a duplicate. Not sure how that happened. Mods, feel free to delete this one.

Refresh my memory, just so I can keep this as a general reference. What is the best type of line to use for each of the following baits/rigs? 1.) T-rig plastics 2.) Jigs 3.) Hollow Frogs Spooks/Dogwalkers 4.) Poppers 5.) Spinnerbaits 6.) Swim jigs 7.) Drop shot 8.) Wacky rig 9.) Soft jerkbaits 10.) Crankbaits Thanks.

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Perhaps surmise isn't quit the right word. oh well.

Hmmmm....splitting hairs maybe? What important differences can you surmise from these two very similar baits?

For what reasons? (just curious)

Yeah that's what I used when I first started tinkering with this idea, but I was still getting hangups with that set up. Much of my hangups are caused not by the hook, but also from the jig head, or bullet weight in the front. I found that if you can remove the weight from the front, then hangups are dramatically reduced. But of course, that has a big impact on presentation. Which is why this is only just for specialized situations. I opted for the skirted swimbait hook set up, because if all Im doing is a slow drag along the bottom, then this puts the center of weight at the center of the bait, making it well balanced, and slides nicely through hangups. I also like it better than pegging a skirt, slip weight, etc., because it is a complete, slf contained unit, with a more compact profile. but of course, that's all just personal preference. Im sure the fish don't care either way.

Banjo Minnow Dancin Eel

You should try a Roman Made Mother.

Right now im using a Rage craw & Rage lobster, but any 4+ inch craw should do fine. Hook is a 4/0, 1/8th oz Gamakatsu swimbait hook with a screw lock. Have to pop the screw lock off and thread the skirt onto the back side of it. It takes a little finger muscle to get it back on.

Nice snakehead in that pic you got there.

Its always fun and rewarding to catch fish with something youve concocted from the darkest depths of your creative imagination. Today I caught a decent fish on something that honestly has evolved to become something of a necessity. When fishing from shore, depending what you are faced with, sometimes fishing with a jig can be challenging, or at times, problematic. Hangups can happen more often, especially when you may want to make a long cast with the jig, and slowly crawl/stitch the jig back across the bottom. So I wanted to be able to present a craw w/skirt, in a manner that highly minimize hangups, even across the gnarliest of rocks, tangles, or other hungry subsurface bait-gobbling objects. And of course, working a jig uphill, can bring with it, its own set of problems. But this jig is specialized and meant only to be crawled, not hopped or twitched. And only with a relatively shallow line angle to the bottom. Im sure most anglers dont have much use for this, but from shore, I most certainly do. Its a simple setup though. Basically, all it is, is a craw rigged to a weighted swimbait hook (what you guys would call a rage rig), with the addition of a skirt threaded onto the screw lock. What happens is that the swimbait hook functions much like a sled, and when a plastic craw is skin-hooked, then there is no other hardware exposed to the bottom for it to get stuck onto any structure or cover. This allows me to make a long cast from shore, across say a shallow flat, with plenty of rocky hangups, and just reliably crawl the jig up, over, and around anything in its path, without hangups.....yet. And so what we had today, were fish hanging around this shallow area, taking notice of this slow crawl, and slurping the bait up. It worked out well, Im happy with it.

Cause I have a 9" Shouldnt be much different with a 7"

This is something new that Im playing with these days. Ive caught a few fish with it, not many, but good ones. But I wanted to mention just a couple things that I am really liking about this setup. Now, what I mean by a Fat Max jig, is simply taking a 9" Fat Max worm, cutting about 2.5" - 3" off the body, and rigging it to a jig. This is just some creative effort to solicit some larger fish. Ive preferred a football jig, but I am mostly fishing it like a swim jig, although still with plenty of bottom contact. So first off, one of aspects that I am really liking, is the retrieve speed. On a steady retrieve, I can fish this thing slowwwwwww. Way slow. Much slower than any other swim jig trailer out there, and still have lots of tail action. The slower the retrieve, the wider that big tail flips and flops. This can also be further enhanced by the lightest of twitches with the rod tip. Making it appear to look like some lethargic, meandering, pond monkey, completely oblivious to its impending doom...Easy target. Im also liking this thing as a bottom crawler. Every single little scoot, twitch, or hop. No matter how slight, still generates some large tail action. Sometimes with even the tail swinging wide to the left or right when it comes to rest. One thing is for certain, it gets noticed. I might even be able to portray this thing is a big Goby. And of course, it certainly functions well as a flipping bait, and performs well on the fall. Now I wont claim that this thing is any sort of a monster fish catching machine but, it sure seems to have it where it counts. So whenever I want to try some large deep-water, slow cruising, bottom hugging big fish bait. I find myself reaching for this thing. Im diggin it.