Thanks for all the suggestions, I'll take a look and grab a few and see where it takes me.

 

Any help on what situations are better from throwing swimbaits?  I'll start looking around on here, google, and youtube but any tips would be great.

Thanks for all the suggestions, I'll take a look and grab a few and see where it takes me.

 

Any help on what situations are better from throwing swimbaits?  I'll start looking around on here, google, and youtube but any tips would be great.

Swimbaits is a lot of trial and error man. There's times I throw them and I'm braced every cast because everything seems perfect, and nothing ever happens. Then I get days like yesterday when I'm fishing a lake with mostly small, heavily pressured fish while the sun is high and the wind is calm, and I catch fish.

 

I prefer there to be fairly good visibility for most of my swimbaits, but other than that it's just a matter of getting yourself to actually commit to throwing them. 

Stay cheap until you build confidence and I don't really have any others to add other than if I were to have only two I would have a Matt lures baby hardgill and a mini MS slammer on the rod that you are using.  I also don't really throw giant baits and most of the folks here are going to know more than me, so listen to them.  These are the two I use 90% of the time now.

best advice for getting started for me though is to give them a fair shot.  Don't pick it up and make some casts and give up on it, etc. I still find myself doing this with giant baits, thus why I have not figured out they do catch fish (yet in musky lakes I catch bass on musky baits lol).