Just ordered a bunch of these for a lake i started fishing where i believe the dominant prey is yellow perch. I also got the spinnerbait ones so i can clip the swimbait onto a spinnerbait wire and get that extra flash and vibration. The perch color looks like the spittin image of a yellow perch. I hope these swimbaits/spinnerbaits will call out the big sm and lm. Anyone have experience with this lure?

I don't use any kind of jig spinner except for panfish sometimes, so I can't comment on those other than to say you takes yer chances with them, maybe they'll never pop open at an inopportune time, maybe they will.

 

I use the regular minnows without the spinner on occasion and they do catch fish.  The hooks are not heavy but they aren't wimpy, either; I've landed some feisty pike on them, and of course, bass.  Because I mainly fish my local river, and it's pretty shallow for the most part, I have to fish them a little faster than I'd like to keep them out of thick weeds and rocks that are big enough to eat them.  I used them quite a bit last fall (as well as bucktail jigs) in deeper areas of the river where I can rig them under a float and let them drift downstream, twitching them back, just like you would a marabou jig for crappie.  I was surprised at how well it worked.  

 

Good luck!

Yes, my first (and biggest) smallie came on a small version of the perch, w/o spinner, on my first solo launch of our pontoon.  Wasn't expecting to have time to fish that day, didn't come prepared with many tools, and didn't even have the FF that day.

 

Luck triumphed skill to be sure.

 

Have since ordered them in different colors and have some spinner arms as well but have not had many takers since, boat or shore.