what are your guys favorite paddle tails?! mine are the rapala crush city mayors in all sizes as well as spark shades.whar are yours?what jigheads do you pair them with or any other rigging methods,feel free to share!

I use Keitech fat swing impact and Tackle Max Fugitive swim baits plus the ones I pour. Jig heads are Dirty Jigs guppy and a minnow head that I pour. Several sizes of swim baits and several colors as well as several sizes of heads.

I use skinny dippers on a jig head or a weighted swim bait hook. My go to set up.

Another vote for the crush city Mayors and the jighead i use is either a VMC swimbait jighead or a Z dude Finesse EyeZ jighead

In finesse sizes, I like the 3-3.5"" easy shiner and 2.5" mayor. I grabbed a few packs of owner juster shads last year when TW had them half off, and at that price the 3.2" was also great. Seems like TW doesn't want to carry them anymore, just one size and color available now.

For my swim jigs and for large profiles, I really like gambler 5" big ez and 6.5" gz. I also really like River2Sea D-walkers in the 120mm size. Both of these seem to hit the sweet spot for kick and head shake at any speed once the water is in the mid 50's and they are durable fish catching machines.

scott

In that order:

Jackall Rhythm Wave

Keitech Fat

Crush City Mayor

Heads: my own

Keitech fat, Xzone Swammer, Rapala Mayor are my trinity.

Usually throwing on an owner flashy swimmer weedless.

6th sense crappie heads for BFS sizes.

2.8" Fat Swing Keitech on a 1/8 ball head jig, I buy the jigs on ebay in 50 packs.

I have a bunch of favorite ones. I use 2 sizes 2.8-3inch and 3.8 inch.

I like the Strike king rage tails especially one color in particular the blue bug. I like the Kietech sungill color. I like the 6th sense divine swim baits. Right now if I had to have an all around favorite it would be the Crush City Mayor.

I make my own jig heads. Do it gamakatsu round ball jig.

On 3/26/2026 at 5:29 PM, Jig Man said:

I use Keitech fat swing impact and Tackle Max Fugitive swim baits plus the ones I pour. Jig heads are Dirty Jigs guppy and a minnow head that I pour. Several sizes of swim baits and several colors as well as several sizes of heads.

No wonder you always slay the fish ! That’s a fine collection of paddle tails

I am a fan of the storm largo shad and the rapala mayor and the 6th sense whale.

RI Skinny Dipper for wiggle or a Gambler Big EZ for when they want more thump, both on a keel weighted hook with cps.

Never on a jig head

Mike

Keitech Fat Swing Impact with Keitech Super Round Tungsten Jig

https://www.tacklewarehouse.com/search-tackle.html?sort=no&start=0&count=20&searchtext=Keitech

Kietech Swing Impact Fat

Xzone Swammer

Crush City Mayor

I also like baits from small companies

All In Fishing and Reel Time NW.

Dobyns Swim bait heads all around.

Yum Money Minnow

Zoom or Keitech

Hands down the Ragetail Swimmer in the 3.75 length. I fish them on a ball type jighead, weight depends on the current. Most of the time I use a 3/16th oz head. If the fish are nipping at the bait but not getting hooked I will cut the length of the paddle tail down.

Kietech Swing Impact Fat and Rage Tail Swimmer

If its show 'n tell time again... Lunker City Swim'n Ribster has been my long time favorite. If I want a more finesse grub, Charlie Brewer's 3" boot tail grub.

Jigheads:

6th Sense Divine Jigheads

Berkley fusion 19

Paddletails:

Rage Swimmers

6th sense Divine swimbait 4.4in

Storm Largo Shad

All three are durable, decently priced, and have amazing action. You can catch a couple dozen on one largo shad sometimes.

Yamamoto Zako

Pretty much all I use anymore is the Mayor.

Storm largo shad, crush city mayor, x zone swammer for me. Depends what I’m doing

Keitech Fat Impact and the apparently discontinued Strike King Swim-N-Shiner