Its probably to late for any help with your tournament but here it is anyways. Swimbaits do catch there fair share of piggy spotted bass. Just as often though you will see a frustrating amount of 5-8# fish that will follow and not strike. you might be able to get theses fish to hit a swimbait if you try different baits, speeds or angles but eventualy you'll lose there intrest or they will move off the spot.



#1 you have to give the swimbait a fair shot at getting bit. If you put your bait in the money zone enough times with out a bite don't try and force a bite. Try and fish faster and hit more key spots. Sometimes its takes a crazy fast retrieve to get a look from spotted bass. I have had days where you can go around and burn a fast sink BBZ or rof 16 Hudd and pull good fish off of key areas. Pay close attention to where the follows are coming from. Now you know where there at. Give them 5-10 mins and they will be right back where they were befor the follow. Now its up to you to catch them. You can try and go back with a swimbait a 6" hudd is a sweet follow up bait. More often than not I will go back with 6-8# floro. and a wacky rigged senko or drop shot rig.

My favorite swimbait for spots are mostly topwaters wake jr, punkers jr. and 7" slammers. This early in the year though I like hudds and 5" big hammers.

Didn't you used to have an anti spotted bass symbole under your name :) .