what is your guy's favorite swim jig trailer? Paddle tail swim bait, grub, twin tail grub ect. and do you match colors?

A Rage Menace is one of my favorites.  I do match or try and get real close most of the time.

PowerTeam Lures Swinging Hammer paired with a Siebert Outdoors swim jig - just nip the first 3/4" of the head off the bait.  Sick tail thumpin' action!

Keitech Swing Impact FAT - I somewhat match but not exact.

zoom fat albert and rage craw, I will try to match the color but sometimes I mixed it a bit.

I like a single tail grub, or a skinny dipper type swim bait.

grub, craw, swimbait, I have even used a ragetoad before.

 

use your imagination, the possibilties are endless.

Skinny dipper, 5" grub, Gambler flapp'n shad & Rage Tail smokin rooster. Sometimes match & sometimes contrast colors.

Do you usually go for a shad colored or like green pumpkin

I like whites, black & blue & green variations.

shad

black/blue/purple

blue gill variant 

 

subwoofers, rage craws, and paca chunks

 

i try to get a close match.

I use a white paddle tail frog on my white bladed swim jigs. Don't knock it til ya try it!

Bug fan of the Menace, Lobster, and late last year started using the Missile Twin Turbo a lot.  I've had great success with that one.

Rage Tail Menace & Shellcracker plus the GYCB Swimming Senko (back half)

Rage craws are hard to beat for me. Black/blue, sexy shad, and bluegill with matching trailers. I might try some Rage grubs/menaces this year though after all the recommendations I've seen. Could probably burn it really well with those menace tails rigged vertically. 

I am a huge swim jig fan, and I use the Menace, Rage Grub, and Craw (or Baby Craw), and sometimes the Shellcracker as trailers, always match the jig as far as colors. And since we're on the subject, I almost never go fishing, without throwing a swim jig at some point, no matter the season, water temp, anything. I've caught hundreds of bass, including my in-state PB on a swim jig. Very versatile!

 

 

 

Whats a swim jig?

 

If I am throwing the original its a 5" grub 40% the time, Paca Craw 40%, and a boot type trailer like the Keitech, grass pig, or whatever floats your boat the rest of the time.

 

A break down of when and why I throw a different trailer in the mix, in the spring as the water is warming I throw the grub, it is a smaller profile more of a finesse type trailer, once the fish go post spawn and can be shallow deep whatever I turn to the action craw type trailer, it allows more versatility, swim it, jig it, dead stick it, in my mind it looks good doing all of them and that's what matters to me. Moving into late summer/ fall bass in my area are often feeding up chasing bait fish and that's when I switch to the boot tail trailer, I can change the trailer to change the look, there is a lot of versatility in these types of trailers.

 

If I am throwing a swim jig like the flip and swim

 

The trailer could be anything from a Action claw type trailer like the Paca to a creature style bait, the Missile D-bomb is my latest and greatest when adding a bulky trailer, to bigger paddle tail type trailers, the subwoofer is a good choice here also. It depends on what I am doing as to what trailer I am using, flipping, fishing isolated cover, or deep water swimming.

Netbait Kickin B and Rage Menace. If I want more of a swimbait look will put a swimming fluke or small Big Bite Cane Thumper on the back.

I like a double-tail grub, or a paddle tail swimbait by Gambler or Reaction innovations (skinny or little dipper).

I seem to have better luck with a single tail grub vs the swimbait style trailer. Ive only tried a shad pattern though. How does the tails of the menace an shellcracker baits hold up to bites and catches? I went threw a few bags of the rage craws because theres not much plastic holding the claws on to the body, a good an bad thing

You almost never lose a tail off the Shellcracker or Menace. You're right, there's less there on the Craw, so more prone to getting 'em bit off.

Swim jig trailers are Big hammer swim bait 3"-5"

3-5" curly tail grubs Kalins or power bait

That is what I use and prefer.

I like zoom swimming chunks

Net Bait Paca Chunk or Keitech Swing Impacts

Rage mennace grub, RI little dipper, swim senko, single tail grubs, and keitech fat and standard swing impacts.