So after reading a thread here at BR and talkn to a couple of local fishermen last week, going on about swimbaits, naturally I start looking into it...whoo...I immediately come to the conclusion I need a swimbait rig..haha. Guys are catching serious weight on these things, well serious weight for up here in the Northeast anyway. So I'm not sure if I want to go out and get something that's going to be able to throw 8oz+ or start with say something in the 3-5oz range. Thoughts and suggestions please?

St croix mojo bass swimbait stick 1-4 oz or okuma guide select big bait rods both retail for about 130

Tight lines

Andrew

Okuma Guide Select with a 300 Cardiff and you're good to go without breaking the bank and you can fish any bait you'll need in your area. 

Hahaha...

That's exactly what I was looking at.

Thinking 40lb braid... Thoughts on this?

i would say that, that is a little light a lot of swimbait guys use mono so you may want to look into that. i use copoly and like it 

 

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      Andrew