I have been reading the praises of swimbaits for trophy bass in the west. Has anyone down here in the florida used them and had similar results or are they strictly a deep water bait?

I live in Tampa and I've used the calcutta flashfoil swim shad in avacado red flake and mullet colors with great success. I've caught big and small bass on these even though I'm not sure they are specifically designed for bass I think they may be engineered for saltwater. I like them best of all because they seem to work in every body of water I throw them in.

One other note:  A friend of mine caught this 7.5 lber on one of the avacado red flakes.

Absolutley.

I have caught several bass up to six plus pounds on swimbaits.

The weeds down here can be a problem but try the 3:16 mission fish, it's weedless and it works.

I've pretty good luck recently with Matts babybass,

I'm kinda going swimbait crazy. I've been throwing huds, Javellon 160's, Mattslures BB and now the ultimate bluegill.  I have a 8" King Kong that looks so huge and scary it looks like it could eat the huddleston LOL>

Florida and worms, or pegged plastics are good ole faithful baits, and they will getcha bigguns, but I wan't the biggest fish in the lake.

If they work in GA(and they do!), then they'll work in Florida.

Dan

Im sure they will work in fla since ive heard of a lot of people fishing with Shiners and what not (live baits)... i just watched a basspro show that showed stacy king fishing with 6 in live shiners and catching 10 plus pound bass.

anyway tight lines to ya and best of luck.

SteveL