Fished a tournament last September and was the first time I used a swimjig and caught fish on it and it got me in the money...I've had a couple swimjigs in the box for a couple years but didn't have any confidence in them and never caught a fish on it till the tournament but I caught 30-40 fish that day on it because the fish were so pressured and it was something different and subtle
Legend has it the swim jig was discovered by accident by a pro bass angler from Wisconsin in the mid 70s.When he was getting bites while reeling in faster to make another cast.
Randy. You need to put these in action in the water and show your audience how it’s done. It’s great did you explain in detail each bait. And at the same time you need to show us how they actually catch bass. Thank you for your time.
Great info. I was wondering when you were coming out with your own old school swim jig. Your jigs are the best jigs I ever used. The living rubber makes all the difference. Love the new channel .
Thanks for the information Randy. Always appreciate the way you explain things. I just started fishing and swim jig two years ago, and it is one of my favorites.
Thanks buddy. I wish you would do a video on each species you have targeted but I get it being all about bass. I like the old school style of fishing you do. It's simple but all about the details. Thanks again
We caught them swimming a jig way back in the 70's, theres a 30min fishing show called the fallcity fisherman and jerry mckinnis was the host and he had me as a guest and i showed him how a just won a b.a.s.s. at eufala So Randy you invented swimming a jig is crazy.
You ask 20 different pros about fishing Swimjigs and you’ll get 20 different answers and no one is right or wrong they just fish differently. I fish Swimjigs in Florida and use them 365 days a year and I use a 7’4 mh with straight braid or braid to flourocarbon leader. For my clients I give them a 7’4 heavy with straight braid
Robbin Thompson is the best Swim Jig fisherman in Alabama. I learned everything from him. When I fish with him, he consistently whips me with his Swim Jigs no matter what I fish. You and Robbin are on the same page with Swim Jigs Randy. I need to fish them more often.
I fish a highly pressured, dirty lake with lots of standing timber. My favorite swim jig is a 60° Arky head with a hand tied Okeechobee craw skirt, but the blue is tinsel. The tinsel just adds enough flash to add an attractant but not be off-putting to the point to deture the pressured fish.
Hey Randy... great video! I have to say... the Megabass Uoze swim jig is amazing. The lure literally caught me first, as I looked at it and thought: wow what a great looking lure!! :-) But this swim jig is money... I use a bluegill pattern with green pumpkin zako... and have only caught big fish with it. It is one of my go to lures for sure... no matter what season. Thanks for the information on the white swim jig for fall though. I'll try that out tomorrow! :-D. Have good one!
Hey Randy great swimjig video I didn't know I could use perch swimjigs I didn't think they would work in shad lakes . I didn't think there was perch in these Missouri lakes. Obviously I was wrong. Thanks again God bless. Ps. Hey Randy is that bamboo pole your grandfather's old catfish pole.
I agree with what all you said. But swim jigs are kinda my thing and I believe a straight retrieve with a paddle tail can work marvelous. If you properly trim the skirt with a paddle tail then you get secondary action from the skirt and it just looks alive. I also don't use braid or a heavy action rod I use a 7'3" medium heavy fast. I can make very accurate casts flips and pitches with my swim jig and it also has enough give to keep the fish buttoned up. I only use between 14 and 17 lb Flouro with my swim jigs. It's basically a finesse version of a ChatterBait or spinnerbait. But it's also very good for hand to hand combat style fishing.
Hey, Randy! Thanks for all the great content buddy. It’s a huge help! You keep using the name perch and Bluegill ( 33:20) as if they are interchangeable. Am I missing something? Thanks again!
@@williamgould2470 It’s technic with a 1/16-3/16oz small jig w ith a trailer that has a lot of lift so you can fish it slow. Like slow to the point it is almost suspending from 1”-3”inches under the surface. And how you shake a swim jig with your rod tip high you keep that tip up but you lift it and reel down slow and steady. Think of it as a wave on the water like rollers. That’s spaced way out is the retrieve you looking for. but you bringing it up and you want the jig to stop before it starts going down slowly. Like it is just floating there that’s why you use a light jig and the trailer with a lot of lift and I fish it around grass lines where you have a point withe shade that almost meats up or is shaded a 1’ or so out past that grass line and keep the jig right there 4”-6” inches Inside the grass line. And the high % spots where the straight grass line cuts in or out. You can use the rod tip to turn that jig so it naturally fallows the grass and stop it and go as slow as you can around them spots. Holes in the grass I do the same thing over them and around points and cypress trees a few of the Z-Man plastic’s will suspend it right under the surface. I’m not the best spelling or typing so I hope you can read & understand what I’m saying if not let me know and I will have my wife or one of my kids type it up and post back for you 🙏🏼🙏🏼
Randy... I noticed when you make your skirts for swim jigs or chatter baits, you put the short part of the skirt on the inside of the jig. I usually see premade jigs and spinnerbaits with the short end on the outside, overlapping the long strands. Why do you do it that way?
I noticed before the cheat screen took over pro bass fishing tourneys, many pros constantly shook their rods while reeling.. gotta be tiring to do that all day
Man all you trolls need to pick your ears, he said HIS generation discovered it by accident, not that he invented it and he was the first one to ever do it. Quit hatin' and listen!
So yesterday we were bashing people for fishing for spawning bass and today we’re teaching everyone who was told not to fish for said spawners exactly how to do it.😂😂
Even if there was a need to do something around the spawn and there might be on some lakes. There’s a lot of alternatives . Other than a complete ban on bass fishing.
Thanks for the help sir, I'm getting better
I like history behind lure. Awesome!
All the info you share is priceless experience and we all appreciate it a ton 🙏
Thanks for all your time, love seein notifications from all your channels
Fished a tournament last September and was the first time I used a swimjig and caught fish on it and it got me in the money...I've had a couple swimjigs in the box for a couple years but didn't have any confidence in them and never caught a fish on it till the tournament but I caught 30-40 fish that day on it because the fish were so pressured and it was something different and subtle
Legend has it the swim jig was discovered by accident by a pro bass angler from Wisconsin in the mid 70s.When he was getting bites while reeling in faster to make another cast.
He never said he invented it guys, he more less stated when he found out, damn folks be hating!!
Randy. You need to put these in action in the water and show your audience how it’s done. It’s great did you explain in detail each bait. And at the same time you need to show us how they actually catch bass. Thank you for your time.
Gear ratio of reel?
Love all your videos
Great info. I was wondering when you were coming out with your own old school swim jig. Your jigs are the best jigs I ever used. The living rubber makes all the difference. Love the new channel .
Thank you Randy
Thank you for all of this info!
Great video Randy thank you.
Thanks for info
EXCELLENT VIDEO RANDY!!!
Thanks for the information Randy. Always appreciate the way you explain things. I just started fishing and swim jig two years ago, and it is one of my favorites.
Good stuff brother keep it rolling!! 💯
Great video! Very informative and interesting.
Love the new channel thanks for the info I've never caught a bass on a swim jig so very helpful!!!!!!!!
Thanks buddy. I wish you would do a video on each species you have targeted but I get it being all about bass. I like the old school style of fishing you do. It's simple but all about the details. Thanks again
We caught them swimming a jig way back in the 70's, theres a 30min fishing show called the fallcity fisherman and jerry mckinnis was the host and he had me as a guest and i showed him how a just won a b.a.s.s. at eufala
So Randy you invented swimming a jig is crazy.
You gotta remember, randy is delusional
He said his generation discovered it by accident not that he himself invented it dip shit pick your ears!
You ask 20 different pros about fishing Swimjigs and you’ll get 20 different answers and no one is right or wrong they just fish differently. I fish Swimjigs in Florida and use them 365 days a year and I use a 7’4 mh with straight braid or braid to flourocarbon leader. For my clients I give them a 7’4 heavy with straight braid
Robbin Thompson is the best Swim Jig fisherman in Alabama. I learned everything from him. When I fish with him, he consistently whips me with his Swim Jigs no matter what I fish. You and Robbin are on the same page with Swim Jigs Randy. I need to fish them more often.
I fish a highly pressured, dirty lake with lots of standing timber. My favorite swim jig is a 60° Arky head with a hand tied Okeechobee craw skirt, but the blue is tinsel. The tinsel just adds enough flash to add an attractant but not be off-putting to the point to deture the pressured fish.
I use to swim my pitching and flipping jig too , back in the 80s too
Hey Randy... great video! I have to say... the Megabass Uoze swim jig is amazing. The lure literally caught me first, as I looked at it and thought: wow what a great looking lure!! :-) But this swim jig is money... I use a bluegill pattern with green pumpkin zako... and have only caught big fish with it. It is one of my go to lures for sure... no matter what season. Thanks for the information on the white swim jig for fall though. I'll try that out tomorrow! :-D. Have good one!
This is not important but it always gets me when randy says "reproductable".
Hey Randy great swimjig video I didn't know I could use perch swimjigs I didn't think they would work in shad lakes . I didn't think there was perch in these Missouri lakes. Obviously I was wrong. Thanks again God bless. Ps. Hey Randy is that bamboo pole your grandfather's old catfish pole.
I agree with what all you said. But swim jigs are kinda my thing and I believe a straight retrieve with a paddle tail can work marvelous. If you properly trim the skirt with a paddle tail then you get secondary action from the skirt and it just looks alive. I also don't use braid or a heavy action rod I use a 7'3" medium heavy fast. I can make very accurate casts flips and pitches with my swim jig and it also has enough give to keep the fish buttoned up. I only use between 14 and 17 lb Flouro with my swim jigs. It's basically a finesse version of a ChatterBait or spinnerbait. But it's also very good for hand to hand combat style fishing.
Hey, Randy! Thanks for all the great content buddy. It’s a huge help!
You keep using the name perch and Bluegill ( 33:20) as if they are interchangeable. Am I missing something? Thanks again!
Awesome info, what color would you use if you thought the fish were mostly feeding on shiners? Just shad pattern??
Randy, what about South Florida where our water temperatures rarely go below 70?
With a swim jig
C’OM RANDY LET THE HOG JUICE OUT !!! You know us old men know you have to FLOAT EM to stand out from the rest to get the hogs.
What do you mean by float them.
Do you mean size of jig and trailer.
@@williamgould2470 It’s technic with a 1/16-3/16oz small jig w ith a trailer that has a lot of lift so you can fish it slow. Like slow to the point it is almost suspending from 1”-3”inches under the surface. And how you shake a swim jig with your rod tip high you keep that tip up but you lift it and reel down slow and steady. Think of it as a wave on the water like rollers. That’s spaced way out is the retrieve you looking for. but you bringing it up and you want the jig to stop before it starts going down slowly. Like it is just floating there that’s why you use a light jig and the trailer with a lot of lift and I fish it around grass lines where you have a point withe shade that almost meats up or is shaded a 1’ or so out past that grass line and keep the jig right there 4”-6” inches Inside the grass line. And the high % spots where the straight grass line cuts in or out. You can use the rod tip to turn that jig so it naturally fallows the grass and stop it and go as slow as you can around them spots. Holes in the grass I do the same thing over them and around points and cypress trees a few of the Z-Man plastic’s will suspend it right under the surface.
I’m not the best spelling or typing so I hope you can read & understand what I’m saying if not let me know and I will have my wife or one of my kids type it up and post back for you 🙏🏼🙏🏼
@@brianpierson7708 Thanks, you did a great job of describing it and the way you work it.
You need to fine a good Crest liner boat then you will be set a19.5 footer will take 115 horse power an aluminum is light weight for speed.
Randy... I noticed when you make your skirts for swim jigs or chatter baits, you put the short part of the skirt on the inside of the jig. I usually see premade jigs and spinnerbaits with the short end on the outside, overlapping the long strands. Why do you do it that way?
I noticed before the cheat screen took over pro bass fishing tourneys, many pros constantly shook their rods while reeling.. gotta be tiring to do that all day
Why not paddle tail swimbait trailers?
Randy, where can I get the jig skirt materials you described in a recent video?
There’s a place in Springfield, Missouri, called fin and feather give them a ring
Thanks Randy. I’ll check them out.
I would swim it and snap it like a tube ,
Man all you trolls need to pick your ears, he said HIS generation discovered it by accident, not that he invented it and he was the first one to ever do it. Quit hatin' and listen!
So yesterday we were bashing people for fishing for spawning bass and today we’re teaching everyone who was told not to fish for said spawners exactly how to do it.😂😂
Even if there was a need to do something around the spawn and there might be on some lakes. There’s a lot of alternatives . Other than a complete ban on bass fishing.
So you invented the swim jig? Id like to shake your hand at the classic next year at Lay Lake.