Best Paddle Tail Swimbait Rod

Techguy615 reported catching Largemouth Bass using the Soft Body Swimbaits (Small/Medium) technique and St. Croix Victory Spinning Rods on Old Hickory Lake. Additional comments from this report: "Wash fishing stumps in shallow water. Started noticing small blowups in the water. Decided to change to the spinning rod with the baby shad and a 6th Sense Pecos under spin. This guy nailed it on the first cast. Got two more before having to call it quits. They are definitely watching undersized baits. With spinner bait with willow leaf baits were a bust in the same area. "

Connor Lacy reported catching Largemouth Bass using the Soft Body Swimbaits (Small/Medium) technique and St. Croix Victory Spinning Rods on Lake Barkley (2). Additional comments from this report: "Finding brush piles near river channels targeting crappie largemouth and smallmouth."

Luke Mohr reported catching Smallmouth Bass using the Soft Body Swimbaits (Small/Medium) technique and St. Croix Victory Spinning Rods on Little Lake Butte Des Morts. Additional comments from this report: "Found em just outside of their wintering holes"

D-VoN reported catching Largemouth Bass using the Soft Body Swimbaits (Small/Medium) technique and Dobyns Rods Fury Casting Rods on Whitmore Lake. Additional comments from this report: "Throwing the underspin over submerged weed beds and edges. The Largo Shad paired with the Divine underspin is a deadly combo. The tighter wobble seems to work better on more pressured lakes. Mid morning hours before the heat settled in. "

Paul Mroczenski reported catching Largemouth Bass using the Soft Body Swimbaits (Small/Medium) technique and Dobyns Rods Fury Casting Rods on Sylvan Lake (IN). Additional comments from this report: "Fish caught in wind blown lily pads by dragging a texas rigged paddletail swimbait across the surface and letting it sink in pockets. "

Steve Haack reported catching Smallmouth Bass using the Soft Body Swimbaits (Small/Medium) technique and Dobyns Rods Fury Casting Rods on Canadice Lake. Additional comments from this report: "Slow rolling over and around submerged lay downs. Really like the action of the Mayor swim bait, it has a nice body roll and more subtle tail waggle on retrieve. "

Billy Kohls reported catching Largemouth Bass using the Soft Body Swimbaits (Small/Medium) technique and Dobyns Rods Champion XP Spinning Rods on Smith Mountain Lake. Additional comments from this report: "Largemouth and Smallmouth bass are starting to move out of the creak channels and out onto main lake points and deeper docks. The mid section down to the dam is a great place to fish this time of year with the river channel close by. On cloudy and windy days a 2.8, 3.3 and 3.8 Kaitech swimbaits on very sizes of 1/4oz up to 3/8oz Guppy Head and Dobyns Swimbait Heads work well. Throwing them on spinning rods with lighter line with get you more and bigger bites. A Dobyns Champion XP 703SF is a perfect rod for all of those sizes. On sunny post front or sunny afternoons its time to start dragging around jigs and large profile plastics. A Dobyns football head jig in 1/2-3/4oz is perfect to keep bottom contact. Texas rigging a Zoom Ole Monster is key for a big bite or Carolina rigging a creature bait on a 1oz with a leader will get you those post spawn summer time female fish. Check out the Man Bear Pig from Reaction Innovations. Another technique that is over looked this time of year is the bream eating fish that are up shallow. This will almost exclusively be largemouth and it is not for targeting numbers but rather single giant fish. This requires time on the water to find those honeycomb bream beds in the backs of pockets. Find the bream beds and fish whatever targets are close by like laydowns or docks. This bite seems to be best during the hottest part of the day. Use a prop bait or popper for topwater or a senko or flipping bait like a missile baits D bomb or Spicy Beaver. Lastly is focusing on the finesse side of deep fishing. A Dropshot is hard to beat this time of year. A 6” roboworm is my go to 90% of the time on a Dropshot and in the summer it really shines. Focus on deep dock post on the main lake on the sunny side. Be careful of the heavy boat traffic. If you use a Gamakatsu re-barb hook you can also target heavy brush piles to big bass. "

Dominic Altavilla reported catching Smallmouth Bass using the Soft Body Swimbaits (Small/Medium) technique and Dobyns Rods Champion XP Spinning Rods on Lake Ontario. Additional comments from this report: "Lots of fish in the 10’-15’ range wherever there was chunk rock or boulders. Quite a few had crawfish in their throats but they still ate the swimbaits."

Dicky D reported catching Largemouth Bass using the Soft Body Swimbaits (Small/Medium) technique and Dobyns Rods Champion XP Spinning Rods on Lake Winterset. Additional comments from this report: "The Winterhaven chain has been fishing pretty well. The key seems to be to get into the clearer lakes like Summit, Winterset, and Roy. It seems like the fish are father along on these lakes and are about to / are on bed. It's time to get shallow and look for spawners. When your looking around you can still catch a lot of pre-spawn fish. Throwing a 4' Diezel minnow on a light jighead is an easy way to pick off cruisers and pre-spawn fish. "