I made a semi-impulse order from my favorite soft plastic co. Lunker City. Some of the lures (i think) are kind of big for LM and SM. Im sure I am wrong, and if rigged and presented properly would pull hawgs. Im looking for advice on fishing the 7.5 in. Swimfish and the 7 in. Monkey grub. I might as well throw the 9 in slug-go into the discussion as well, it is a striper lure for me but I know they can catch big bass to. Trailer on a jig, texas rig, line choice, invasive weed species, etc. I would like to hear it all.

Try their Leech.  Its d**n near the best dropshot bait Ive ever used.

Slug-Go, Texas rig.

I really like their Texposer hook. (The regular old style - not the new wide gap z).

I don't fish as long as the 9". I fish 6" on the 4/0 Texposer.

 

 

Karl

For the swimfish I’d nip off the head (1/2”?) enough to fit flush a swimbait jighead (exposed hook) for straight swimming. I use owner and kalin’s saltwater jigheads for this application, there are tons of other swimbait jigheads nowadays available on tackle warehouse that would work too. Full disclosure I haven’t used the swimfish specifically but I have used many different sizes of their shakers (thinner body, same tail) over the years as swimjig trailers and just rigged plain on jigheads. Great tactic for pike too.

 

edit: you’re probably going to want at a minimum of 4/0 but preferably 5 or 6/0 hook on your jig head

6 hours ago, MassBass said:

I made a semi-impulse order from my favorite soft plastic co. Lunker City. Some of the lures (i think) are kind of big for LM and SM. Im sure I am wrong, and if rigged and presented properly would pull hawgs. Im looking for advice on fishing the 7.5 in. Swimfish and the 7 in. Monkey grub. I might as well throw the 9 in slug-go into the discussion as well, it is a striper lure for me but I know they can catch big bass to. Trailer on a jig, texas rig, line choice, invasive weed species, etc. I would like to hear it all.

Should've mentioned this earlier, but it's good to see you posting here again!

 

The Sluggo inspired Gary Yamamoto to create the Senko, game changer.

My best day ever on the water catching DD was using a 6" rainbow trout prototype Sluggo on a modified Scrounger jig; 18 bass over 10 lbs off old mud point Castiac in '91.

Lunker City Hellgie is a over looked finesse soft plastic drop shot rigged. The Fin-S is another over looked soft plastic trailer for Scroungers.

Tom

1 hour ago, WRB said:

Lunker City Hellgie is a over looked finesse soft plastic drop shot rigged.

Was going to mention this bait also. I like them on a jighead. Very good little bait that nobody seems to talk about.

1 hour ago, Bluebasser86 said:

Was going to mention this bait also. I like them on a jighead. Very good little bait that nobody seems to talk about.

Ha..bet that changes now, i.e. talking about that bait..

3 minutes ago, Hammer 4 said:

Ha..bet that changes now, i.e. talking about that bait..

It should, it's a great bait. Anyone that smallmouth fishes, especially streams or rivers, should be using them. Largemouth eat bugs too though, and I've caught plenty of nice ones on them.

Just now, Bluebasser86 said:

It should, it's a great bait. Anyone that smallmouth fishes, especially streams or rivers, should be using them. Largemouth eat bugs too though, and I've caught plenty of nice ones on them.

Oh, I believe it..?

9 hours ago, WRB said:

The Sluggo inspired Gary Yamamoto to create the Senko, game changer.

My best day ever on the water catching DD was using a 6" rainbow trout prototype Sluggo on a modified Scrounger jig; 18 bass over 10 lbs off old mud point Castiac in '91.

Lunker City Hellgie is a over looked finesse soft plastic drop shot rigged. The Fin-S is another over looked soft plastic trailer for Scroungers.

Tom

Several LIFE TIMES of Trophy Bass 

Caught in a day.

I can't even imagine Tom.

A-Jay

55 minutes ago, A-Jay said:

Several LIFE TIMES of Trophy Bass 

Caught in a day.

I can't even imagine Tom.

A-Jay

Agree A-Jay. Incredible!

A wolf pack of big bass herded a school a planted trout up against this point. As we passed the point I noticed 3 great blue herons standing close together very unusual and splashes along the shoreline. We stopped and I had a Scrounger w/trout sluggo tied on and got into a assume wide open bite. Pure luck to run across this feeding spree and have the right lure.

Tom

I wanna be lucky...

Me, too!

 

17 hours ago, Bassjam2000 said:

For the swimfish I’d nip off the head (1/2”?) enough to fit flush a swimbait jighead (exposed hook) for straight swimming. I use owner and kalin’s saltwater jigheads for this application, there are tons of other swimbait jigheads nowadays available on tackle warehouse that would work too. Full disclosure I haven’t used the swimfish specifically but I have used many different sizes of their shakers (thinner body, same tail) over the years as swimjig trailers and just rigged plain on jigheads. Great tactic for pike too.

 

edit: you’re probably going to want at a minimum of 4/0 but preferably 5 or 6/0 hook on your jig head

I originally got the swimfish for a chatterbait trailer, but the 7.5 in. seems too big for most conventional sized chatterbaits. Now I have the 7 in. Monkey grub (this is a BIG grub) rigged up on a saltwater jighead, and im sure it could have a time and place. Basically I bought a size bigger of swimfish than that size I had previous success with as trailer bait. 

17 hours ago, Glenn said:

Should've mentioned this earlier, but it's good to see you posting here again!

 

Thank you for mentioning.