I recently bought some 8" and 10" swimbaits, color: perch, bluegill, and rainbow, colored lures. I have two questions:

1. I have a 7' heavy action w/ baitcast reel rigged with 15lb braided and I was wondering if this was enough to be throwing these types of lures. I primarily use this rod/reel for 7" senkos but the lures are a bit heavier. I just really don't want to wing one of these things out at $7 a pop and have one 100 yards out sinking at the bottom.

2. Anyone have good success using these large lures? The largest thing I ever throw is 7" senkos and 12" finesse worms.

Any suggestions would be helpful, Thanks...

Bad,bad idea....I'm no expert on swimbaits,but even that i wouldn't attempt to try from what i gathered from all the information here.

What swimbaits are we talking about so we can get the idea of the weight on those...8'' & 10" swimbaits are a couple of ounces alone.

What rod you trying to use?Is it a swimbait rod?From your post it doesn't sound like it is.My heavy rated rods only go up to 1 1/2 ounce anything heavier i'd be pushing my luck.

From what i gathered most people like using 20lb mono or fluorocarbon line....if you are trying to cast a heavy weight using braided line which is much,much thinner than mono and fluorocarbon you need to up that braid pound and diameter greatly.