What is your definition of a swimbait?

[swimbaitunderground]

If you have a different opinion, please share your thoughts....

[offduty]

For me I would have to say it has a tail that kicks like a fish. To me a stick bait is not a swimbait and the key word is swim.

 

Rich

[SPEEDBEAD]

I also voted for anything naturally imitating a baitfish being considered a swimbait.

 

My definition of a "big bait" would probably start at 8 inches or ~4oz.

[Mobassman]

If I could add a little to this topic:

How do you guys classify wakebaits?

[mofish]

I think of a swimbait as an entity whose action is focused on the body instead of the tail.

[colbypearson]

i just consider a real swimbait as 6" plus

[Btbdodgers]

hahahaha^

[swimbaittosser]

If your in my boat and you get hit with one of my baits while im casting .... With out a doubt, you my man are on your way to the hospital !!!! That is a swim bait.

Mickey

I took a freestyle in the Side before... those owners are pretty sharp!!!!!!

[Guest Anonymous]

Not from the west where swimbaits are common and lack experience but I think a swimbait can't be defined and its just something you know when you see it.

[GRIZZ]

Any bait 6" or larger that imitates the natural swimming motion of a forage species

[BigBait Intervention]

If your belief is that swimbaits are only categorized or defined by size, then welcome to the box.....And that being a very tiny box indeed.

 

If this is the case, then I'd have to give up some of my smaller 3:16 weapons, like my Little Booger's, MissionFish, 3:16 Minnows, Curltails, Bluegills, Sunfish, and Shads........Yikes!

 

Nothing like eliminating some of the most productive 3:16 soft swimbaits in my arsenal just because some feel the need to diminish or eliminate the swimbait moniker due to size restrictions.

 

My reply is not pointed at anyone with a different opinion, but is only a response and my perspective to the question presented by the Swimbait Underground Crew.

 

Maybe the real challenge is in the word "swimbait or swimbaiting". I mean we're all just using LURES, some of those lures just happen to be big, really big, or really-really big lures. Can it be defined by separating soft baits and hard baits on polar opposite sides of the spectrum or into different categories all together? Is swimbaiting a reference to motion, technique, bait size, manufacturing material, or maybe a state of mind?

 

God forbid it would just be the inclusion into an elitist group of monster bait chuckers!

 

I could expound further, but I digress.

 

BBI

 

[GRIZZ]

Any bait 6" or larger that imitates the natural swimming motion of a forage species

[BIG HUNGRY]

What about Punkers? Do they count as swimbaits? They mimic the swimming action of a dying/injured bait fish...and they're always listed with jointed swimbaits at all the online retail outlets.

 

...just wondering because this is a swimbait-only website, and I don't want to break the rules by posting a pic of a fish with a punker in its mouth.

[Bassindon69]

Ok, ok,,,A bait that can make more then any of your bass dreams come true. That's mine.

[JasonScott]

A life-like, realistic, anatomically correct fishing lure with fins that swims through the water and looks like a real fish. It can be made hard out of hard material of soft PVC plastic. And a trout body being the number one species imitated. It can be any size. It can have a plastic lip or swim via free moving angled joints or can have a tail that creates the swimming action.

 

A hollow body, paddle tail lure is called a hollow paddle tail. It is not a swimbait. a soft plastic Castaic Jerky J is a soft jerk bait, not a swimbait. A plastic frog is a plastic frog, not a swimbait.

 

Jason Scott.