Thanks for all the responses,
I will start by saying that I have been making swimbaits for about 10 years now but they are for saltwater. I am also very experienced in fishing the saltwater swimbaits but I dont have that much experiance with freshwater swimbaits.
I will not be making a wood or hard bait yet.
I am not realy worried about my bait getting lost with all the others
because in my opinion the ONLY swimbait that I have seen that looks like a trout is the castaic.
Here are some of my ideas. 1 making a jig head molded from an actual trout head and have replacable bodies kinda like your big hammers except haveing all the fins and top. The head could be solid lead and way between 4 and 7 ounces and would be good for trolling. or I could make the head out of resin and it would be lighter.
2 a solid soft plastic bait that swims on top like an osprey but looks like a real trout. or I can even make it float.
3 I am also going to make a blugill cast from an actual blugill
I plan on making it sit upright when its on the ground that way you could swim it, use it like a jig, and it would make an awsome bed bait.
I have made a shad swimbait that kills the fish down here in san diego. I will try to post a link but if it doesn't work you can see it on momentoffame.com goto the fishing section and then click on OTHER. IT SHOULD BE ON THE FIRST PAGE OR 2. It is called the Mattshad. check it out and tell me what you think.
thanks for all your suggestion! I am taking notes.
Matt


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