What time of year and what kind of areas do you look for to throw It?

Big soft SB’s….like line-throughs or Huddelstons can be good the majority of the year. I personally like them the MOST fall through prespawn, and in the summer. The key I look for is when bass are relating to chunk rock, be it deep or shallow. I kind of think of soft SB’s in the same manner I do a c-rig. I’ve had the most success with them when the bass are a bit lethargic, and I can slowly bump it through that rock and present a large easy meal to them.

Awesome. Thanks

I was looking at the MB magdraft. Since It has a treble hook on the bottom would you fish It differently?

Not really….even the line through with the treble you can bump the bottom with. The other version of the magdraft you can use an owner beast on. Super good on hard structure.

All year round... thickest pads or pad stems during spring, summer and fall.. downsize during winter and fish the same places during warming periods or switch to power plant lakes. If there is hydrilla under the pads, even better. If no pads then along the edges of thickest cover I can find in preferable three or more feet of water. Stump fields with hydrilla, especially if there are lilly pads there too.


prime time... when pads are thick. Last year late summer/early fall I think. Picture below is of same area this past weekend, pads just coming up.


Caught 8, all but one on 6 inch swimbait, 5 of the 8 had tails that were red, all between 3 3/4 and almost 5.5. Couldn't see any beds just anchored up and fan casted, over and over, move and do the same. Slow retrieve, just feeling for bottom. All were subtle bites. Missed a bunch.

Oh... and I almost for forgot, I did catch a 12.5 on 6 inch swimbait 11 days ago on a different lake.

Nice! How you keep from hanging up in the pads?

Had it skin hooked on 8/0 owner flashy swimmer, it had come out and exposed hook in picture. That fish wasn't in pads.. shallow flat covered in hydrilla near deep creek channel.. definitely a community hole on Naconiche. That bait will come thru the pads fine unless you get into the black slime stuff.

Tell me more about these big, soft "swimsuits..." My current one's kind of itchy...

Hahaha just noticed that. Stupid iPhone thinks It knows better

Year round. They are a lot more versatile than you think. Shallow to deep, slow to fast,cold water, warm water, open water, in grass, pads and timber. You can creep them out deep or run them just under the surface too.

Missed three fish this morning on a 6.75" soft swimbait this morning, watched 'em eat it too! gah!

I do this hack to the 8" MD and use the 10/0 with 1/2 oz weight. It weighs 4 oz with this hook. I use 25 Gamma Flo.

You can fish it thru just about anything rigged like this and when they bit it they choke it. I throw it out and let it sink to the bottom. Reel it slow but keep it moving just fast enough to keep the tail wiggling. When they bite it give em a second just like you would a frog before you swing. You will need a meat stick to fish it like this. This is the rod I have settled on.

I average two bites per trip on this bait and it works on my shoulder pretty good casting it. I make 20-25 cats with it then pick up a Texas Rig and fish it a few mins to rest. Then go right back to it. Caught a 10.17 on it 3 weeks ago but I know if I keep throwing it I will get a giant eventually.

The rod I have that I use for flash mob jrs is what I will use for swim baits. I don’t know that I’ll throw one enough to justify its own Rod for now.

It’s the dobyns 795 SB.

You’re good 👍