More Soft Swimbaits – Their Pros and Cons

In anticipation of the upcoming Gathering from Swimbait Universe, I started an inventory of my swimbaits a while back. To reiterate: I am definitely not a swimbait expert, but nevertheless I’ve accumulated more than my share of big baits. My first sweep of the boat, office and tackle cave produced a pretty heavy supply of lures. In subsequent weeks I found a bunch more and documented them as well. For better or for worse, the inventory didn’t stop there. Here is a set of soft lures that fall under the general umbrella and that deserve a bit more on-the-water testing:

Lures Mentioned

• Reaction Innovations Skinny Dipper

• Keitech Fat Swing Impact

• Megabass Magdraft (Prerigged)

• Megabass Magdraft (Freestyle)

• Ben Parker MBP Swimbait

• Imakatsu Stealth Swimmer

• Optimum Baits Baby Line Thru

• Optimum Boom Boom Line-Thru

• Little Creeper Trash Fish

• Working Class Zero Citizen

While the Ben Parker swimbait may be tough to source, you can still easily find some of the other lures that he had a hand in designing:

• Nichols Ben Parker Super Magnum Flutter Spoon (9”)

• Nichols Ben Parker Magnum Flutter Spoon (8“)

• Nichols Ben Parker Mini Magnum Flutter Spoon (6.5”)