when to throw swim jigs?

[EDWARD]

With so many baits to throw, my favorite time is spring for swiming a jig. Heres one of my best jigs that produce for me during the spring.

[vuehouaxiong]

what about this fin tech title shot jig head as a swim bait design.
looks like it would make the lure swim pretty horizontaly.of course you gotta tie on a skirt.i tried it with a punch skirt,it looks good but havent tried it out yet

[Smalleyez]

These are the real deal, northern style. There are also informative links on the following web site.

http://www.brovarneybaits.com/

[Smalleyez]

I'll add that I like to throw swim jigs starting in late spring when the emergent weeds are just beginning to fill in, and on through the summer period. I typically start out with darker colors like black/blue with a junebug trailer, and as the year progresses and the baitfish get larger I move to light colors. I love throwing swim jigs!

[Steve Williams]

I throw one year round. In the fall and winter I tend to throw a translucent shad pattern or white more often in the backs of creeks and then gradually deeper like bluff walls and rocky banks as the water gets colder. I like to use a 4" yamamoto single or double tail grub because of its smaller profile in the winter and I use thinner skirts in the winter. In the fall if they are keying on larger shad, I may put a matching 5" or 6" hula grub on the back to bulk up my presentation and tie thicker skirts. I think this looks like a large shad when I do that. I've seen 14-16" bass feeding on 5-6" shad and last year on the river I saw 3-4lb spots feeding on shad that were in the 12-13" range. I know because I hooked two shad on the crankbait I was throwing and one was over 12" and the other was pushing 14". This spring in a tournament I hooked one of the largest shad I've ever seen and it was over 14". Next cast, I caught a 4lb spot. I have no doubt she was feeding on those large shad.

In the spring/summer I like more sunfish and craw pattern with some red in them in the spring and gold/orange in the summer to match sunfish. I swim more in the grass and wood cover in the spring/summer. When the bream go on bed, the swim jig can be deadly. I will put a skinny dipper, soft swimbait or a zoom magnum speed worm tail on the back of my jig in order to move a lot of water.

Late summer, I am primarily swimming around heavy grass. I upsize the jig, use heavy wire hooks, 5-6" double tail and I am mostly swimming early morning in the grass.

One other pattern that I will use in mid summer time is on ledges and deep water points, I will swim hula grub on the back of a 5/8oz promega structure jig. I vary the swimming technique with stroking and it has been really good to me. I think the hula grub increased the bulk of the bait and moves more water down deep.

Just my thoughts, hope it helps.

[Mr SwimJig]

I will throw a swim jig year round as well. I will throw them before a spinner bait and I will throw them anywhere and anytime. I have yet to find a time of the year that they don't produce.

SJ

[BlueWaterAngler]

Late spring/early summer in heavy weedclumps is basically money for Smallies in the Great Lakes region. I always seem to do better along weedclumps adjacent to other cover as well (seawalls, docks, rip-rap). Largies around here seem to like them more in mid to late summer.

[fishindrummer217]

I was throwing one today and caught the biggest bass of my life, was 7-8lbs. It was a dirty jigs alabama bream finesse swim jig with a zoom super fluke jr trailer. Besides being awesome I thought it was rather funny because there had been a lot of talk about the new dirty california swim jigs and I caught a monster on the little finesse swim jig, didn't even bend the little hook. Did break the tip on my powell 733c though, kind of a bummer but I'll take it for a fish like that.