Swimbaits On The Rock

[fishinwrench]

How hard can they be to build ?

Borrow one, study it a bit, and start making your own.

[stinger160]

Braid or fluorocarbon and what lb test?

[kjackson]

Kinda wonder about tying a really large, articulated fly...

[Troutnut69]

A 6-8" double deciever has been one of my best producing flys for all species of bass (mostly rivers with a few pond and lake fish thrown in) and has a general profile that looks kind of like a swimbait.

The "Game Changer" is another pattern that looks similar in style , probably even more-so than the DD.

[fishinwrench]

Yeah the only problem with fly gear and "swimbaits" (for bass) is that you really need a steady unchanging retrieve with no pauses most of the time, and you can't get that when stripping a fly.

I was out the other day looking for whites when the snow had just started falling and caught some nice greenbass on a 3" Sassy shad. The only way they'd eat it though was on a straight steady pull with no twitches or pauses.

You can pull off the jerkbait thing with fly gear and streamers, but not the swimbait thing. Wrong tool for the job.

[Old plug]

I had a BBZ1 and caught one small bass on it before I lost it due to a unseen crack in my rods tip top. I have no doubt they will catch fish used in the right place at the right time. I had the BBZ1 slowsinker model. My intentions were to use it as a alternate to my 11 inch plastic worms I use in a specific situation over deep suspended bass that rise to about 10 ft or so to feed on summer evenings. I will say I really liked the sink rate and the the action was what I wanted on the slow stop and go retieve. I will not be buying another one however. I have advanced artritis and it does not take very long casting a heavy plug around to agravate it. So I will stick to my worms.

[Moswimb8slinger]

Sorry to hear about that Plug.

Stringer, I use Berkley big game mono clear 15lbs test for the BBZ1Jr and s-waver 168, I use same line but in 20lbs test for the bbz1 8inch and s-waver 200.

Fishnwrench, were you talking about the flies or the swimbaits on that last sentence?

[Moswimb8slinger]

I beg to differ with that statement because the S-wavers especially are very very slow sinking baits. Add a split ring to the line tie of either the S-waver or BBZ1 baits and the baits come to life with the slightest input. You can slow roll the bbz1 baits as slow as you can tolerate. The s-wavers do require a slight nudge to induce their gliding action, after that they can usually be retrieved fairly slow

[fishinwrench]

I was referring to trying to catch swimbait fish on a fly, with fly gear.

But on second thought it could be done by drifting (wind trolling) with a sinking line.

[Moswimb8slinger]

My friend Kevin held this 18lbs 1oz. LM caught in Southern California, on a large white streamer/fly rod. So its not impossible, but your more likely to see a big bass with a swimbait