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Swim jigs
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11/18/17 05:33 PM
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Joined: Apr 2017
Posts: 164
Freecobasser
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Need some help on type and size line needed. And favorite ways you guys like to fish jigs. Thanks!
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Re: Swim jigs
[Re: Freecobasser]
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11/18/17 05:52 PM
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Joined: Oct 2001
Posts: 3,562
Thad Rains
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20# McCoys Mean Green or in a pinch, 20# big game. Prefer McCoys because of abrasion resistance and strength. I like a slow rolling swim jig. I prefer the 6th Sense Divine Swim Jig a very bad mother! Hope this helps. Tight lines, keep safe and good luck.
Thad Rains
Tight lines, keep safe and good luck.
Thad Rains
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Re: Swim jigs
[Re: Freecobasser]
#12508153
11/18/17 06:22 PM
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Joined: Apr 2008
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CCTX
mapquest
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mapquest
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Swim jigs, so versatile, but my favorite way is to cast them about 10ft past some deep trees and let them fall on a semi slack line. Also good just barely gliding slowly hopping them off the bottom. Swimming through grass and shallow brush
Hack attack swim jig Trailer or your choice
30-50lb Braid mainline to 6ft of 17lb pline cxx leader
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Re: Swim jigs
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11/18/17 07:10 PM
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Posts: 164
Freecobasser
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Re: Swim jigs
[Re: Freecobasser]
#12508307
11/18/17 09:00 PM
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Joined: Mar 2008
Posts: 3,853
catslayer
TFF Team Angler
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40 lb braid, only thing I fish them on
"I'll never mess with bee's or wasp anymore, and I'll never gig another beaver..." Words from a man who learned things the hard way
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Re: Swim jigs
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#12508382
11/18/17 10:28 PM
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Joined: Jul 2009
Posts: 338
bubbaque
Angler
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17 lb Suffix Seige, in eel grass rip and fall
Haulinbassguide.com Fish hard / live slow
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Re: Swim jigs
[Re: Freecobasser]
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11/19/17 12:15 AM
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Joined: Jul 2012
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MagFluker
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I like using Dirty Jigs swim jigs, they have good color options, different hook size for the type of fishing you need to do for different depth, cover etc. I use 15-20# seaguar invisx flouro depending on the swim jig weight, hook size and cover you're fishing it around. Throw a LFT magic shad as a trailer for a change of pace from the regular boot-tail, or a rage tail menace.
Many different ways to fish them. Experiment to see what the fish want on any given day.
PS, they skip under docks well too.
Last edited by MagFluker; 11/19/17 12:16 AM.
Kyle in NC
PB 11.1
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Re: Swim jigs
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11/19/17 12:51 AM
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Joined: Jan 2016
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The_ProFISHional
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I throw my swim jigs on 15lb mono Trilene Big Game. LFT makes awesome shad like profile swimbaits I often use as a trailer on my swim jig.
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Re: Swim jigs
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#12508690
11/19/17 01:56 AM
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Joined: Sep 2016
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TG903
Green Horn
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Green Horn
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I've been catching a lot on a brown bitsy bug with watermelon seed zoom swimmin chunk trailer, 17lb vicious fluro. I've mostly caught em working through laydowns and swimmin around moss.
Arkie has a platinum swim jig that comes with a nice trailer, I caught a 5lber on one back in September, swimmin around hydrilla.
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Re: Swim jigs
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11/19/17 03:39 AM
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Nekro
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Pro Angler
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I used 20lb braid to a 17lb fluro leader
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Re: Swim jigs
[Re: Thad Rains]
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11/19/17 06:04 AM
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Joined: Aug 2014
Posts: 131
CowboyVet
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20# McCoys Mean Green or in a pinch, 20# big game. Prefer McCoys because of abrasion resistance and strength. I like a slow rolling swim jig. I prefer the 6th Sense Divine Swim Jig a very bad mother! Hope this helps. Tight lines, keep safe and good luck.
Thad Rains What trailers do you feel match up best with the jigs for a shad imitation and bluegill imitation?
Last edited by CowboyVet; 11/19/17 06:05 AM.
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Re: Swim jigs
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#12509115
11/19/17 03:08 PM
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Posts: 862
billclay
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Pro Angler
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Lethal Weapon Lures swim jigs are awesome. They have a light wire and a heavy wire version and they are very well made. I fish the light wire one on either 15lb braid/10lb fluoro leader or straight 8lb fluoro with some kind of double tail craw trailer. I drag it or slow roll it in up 10ft of water. It comes through cover really well and it will catch fish.
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