Damn Bill you are going to have a tough time with this.

A true "swimbait" tournament would be any bait made of plastic/rubber with a boot/vortex/wedge tail. ie. Huddleston Trout & shad, bighammers, baitsmith, Mattlures, hell even 2 inch paddletail baits would be considered swimbaits.

The hard to define area would be the hardbaits. Some are marketed as swimbaits when they are just glorified crankbaits. Here is where you might need a dedicated list of what is and is not a swimbait. MS Slammer: YES jackall mikey: NO Bettencourt shad: YES etc etc.

This way Matt is happy because his baits would be allowed (as I believe they should be):-) Just realized baits such as the Castaic Platinum soft series would not be allowed under my description for soft baits... hmmm yeah this is hard... good luck