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569, RE: What would u like in a Swimbait?
Posted by swimbait, Tue Feb-08-05 06:04 PM
I want one that catches a lot of fish :D

Really... I want lures that look as much like real trout as possible and swim as much like a real trout as possible. If you cover those two things, you're doing good. If it has a good hook setup so you can actually land the fish, that's even better.

Everyone likes to make their stylized versions of trout but there's only a few baits that really look like trout. Props to Huddleston for making a bait perfectly shaped and painted like a trout. I like those baits a lot. The eye on the Huddleston is the best trout eye I've seen too - it really looks like a fish's eyeball.

Action wise, I like subsurface baits that have action like stocker trout and live trout softbait. Really natural swimming motions. The kind of motion that when you reel it by your buddy, he does a double take to see if it was a real fish that just went by.

If you make a surface bait, I like the action on the Slammer. It just moves right through the water. The 3:16 wake bait moves the right way on top too.

A bait with great action that looks like a real trout is going to get big bites, it's that simple. The baits that work all prove this to me in my mind.