Can you thread a soft or hollow swimbait, or a fluke style bait on a football jig head, fished on the bottom? I thought by dragging or hopping it off the bottom would look like something feeding off the bottom? I don't think I have ever read or heard of this but I was just wondering If this works. Seems like it would work around rocks real well! Just a thought, please let me know how we'll this works.

Check out the Biffle Heads and how Tommy Biffle uses them.  Many people use flukes with them as well as the beaver style baits.

I have seen them and the videos, but I don't recall seeing swimbaits put on?

Yes,  I sell 1-1.5oz football heads to a guy that fishes in CA Delta that does this all the time.  The pictures he sends me are the proof that it works.

Nope.  Doesn't work.  Mike's just blowing smoke to sell jigheads.  Pay no attention to that theory at all.

 

Nothing to see here.

 

Move along.

You're thinking outside the box.  Keep doing that and you'll be rewarded.

Can you thread a soft or hollow swimbait, or a fluke style bait on a football jig head, fished on the bottom? I thought by dragging or hopping it off the bottom would look like something feeding off the bottom? I don't think I have ever read or heard of this but I was just wondering If this works. Seems like it would work around rocks real well! Just a thought, please let me know how we'll this works.

Absolutely.  It's not uncomon to see swimbaits on football heads when guys are targeting big smallies feeding on bottom hugging gobys.

Thanks guys. Do you know when would be the right conditions to try this? Which season?

all 4 seasons would work.  I don't think I have ever fished a paddle tail swimbait on a leadhead off the bottom!  (aside from docks)

They are killer when fishing ledges.

Thanks

NEVER rig a fluke or a swimmin super fluke on a jig head and bounce or drag it on the bottom..just don't work. There is no way it would be deadly in every season.nope.

Is this sarcasm?

Maybe...

 They are all yanking your chain............

 

 

 

OR ARE THEY?

 

 

Not a bad idea of thinking outside the box.   Think of it this way.  Look at the Matt Lures Ultimate Bluegill.....Those baits mimic bluegill feeding on the bottom, nose down tail up.....That bait is deadly around spawning bass, as a bass CAN NOT STAND the site of a bluegill robbing their nest eating their eggs....

I fish them on football heads all the time, either open hook or with a weed guard. You can swim them straight or drag them but I prefer to stroke them back towards the boat. The swinging football heads work well also and the let the bait move a little more freely.