You’ll Never Rig Your Swimbaits The Same After Watching This!

Randy shares with everybody one of the most closely guarded professional secrets on how to modify your Swimbaits to land short striking fish…#bassfishing #fishthemoment #fishing #bass #swimbaitfishing #swimbait #swimbaitunderground #swimbaits

[FinclipRIP]

For us northern folk, we call it "running a stinger" when jigging walleyes. Keep the main hook and run a size 8-10 treble on a pre tied piece of braid aka "stinger hook" and it'll change your life. When we Jigs we let the hook free swing but when we're casting we'll one hook it back into the body. Works well for threaded on live bait as well. 👊

[-MAX-]

Butch brown rig, been around for ages. I find it easier to control the length if you tie off to the line tie first, then tie the treble on.

[taggardhecker]

Great tip! If I may add too, rig your swim jig as normal. Tie a Palomar knot to the jig head leaving the existing hook on, tie your treble hook to the tag end of the Palomar knot and insert treble hook accordingly. 😊👍🏻

[mamo]

We use this rig all the time when fishing for pikes. Due to the bigger swimbaits we leave the jig head intact and just add the stinger. Instead of clipping the hook of the Okashira jig head you could also use screw in heads (e.g. Gunki g'fish screw from 3/16 all the way up to 1oz)

[rockhull]

So why not just us the jig with hook and then back it up with the treble stinger?? It just seems like your going to keep losing your swim bait body each fish you catch or time you cast..

[BeardedDadFishing]

Absolute game changer! I fish swimbaits 50% of the time and I can attest, short strikes are very common. Best believe this will be my set up on my next trip. Thanks for sharing!

[psychofishermen]

I've been making this trap rig for hailbut. After I get the proper length, I use duo locks. Then I can add them to the eye, and change my grub, or swimbaits accordingly. Each size if bait, get their own sets of traps....pre- made. No time loss on water rigging. Hope this helps someone.

[jerzdev]

This is outstanding info, and I don’t care who may have done it first, you’re showing us now, thanks for the awesome tip!

[keithallpress]

Thanks you are the first bass guy I've seen doing this. Us walleye guys have been doing it for years to get the short bites. Awesome tip. 👌

[donaldshipp]

I wish I would have seen this a week ago. I was fishing a spinner bait with a paddle tail swim bait attached. Upon retrieving the bait through the muck, a huge boil occurred right at the boat and the swim bait was bitten off exactly where you placed the treble hook! Thanks for a great tip!

[biglebob]

I usually use this rig when fishing for pike. You can also prep varying lengths in advance with loops at the end. Instead of attaching it directly to the jig-head, you can simply hang it in the snap with your jig-head. Also I leave the jig's hook intact. This way I can use shorter jigs to allow for more play in my baits while also reducing dead strikes due to the stinger which is changeable and the rig stays adjustable when I change my bait's size. When fishing for pike I use a wire leader. A good way to circumvent the use of jig-heads for shallow fishing is to use screws and 1-2 stingers depending on the size of the lure. Some screws come with adjustable weights but you can also use pear shaped weights to hang in the snap to adjust to the situation.

[helterskelter]

Great tip. You can also trim a bit off the top of the bait, which will allow the hook sit lower on the bait.

[matthall]

I just bought some 6th sense line through swimbait jig heads that do this basically but you put your line through the nose of the jig head and the head also has a screw lock to hold the swimbait on. Then you just add your own treble hook to the back! I can't wait to try them out!

[philrowan]

It may be time consuming initially but you can use the rig over and over. The thing you have to do is keep checking the line from the eye to the hook and change if becomes worn or nicked.

[harveyschindler]

We’ve been doing something similar, found with speckled trout, we have to use larger test line. They are toothy and treble hooks tend to snag deeper into the throat of trout with the line going across their teeth. I tried using like a trailer hook around shank of jig hook with mixed results. It tends to stiffen the action of plastic.

[patrickt]

Thank you. I always wondered about how efficient the hook was with the traditional rigging of the swim bait. This definitely addresses the obvious issue with a short strike.

[ericseyboldt]

Do you find that the swim bait comes off once the treble releases from it? Doesn't seem like there's much holding it onto the jig head at that point.

[SammyBenitez]

Something I’ve though about but never done. Wouldn’t it work just as well without removing the main hook?

[stevesteve]

Guys do that up north with hand tied walleye jigs. Awesome. Thanks Randy!!!

[AndrewMorris-mddw]

Thanks for making us better fishermen and fisherwomen Randy! Appreciated.