First, a stand-up style head won’t twist your line like a Texas rig will. “Buckeye Lures makes a wide range of sizes, but most of the time, I’m fishing 12 to 20’ deep in summer so I use their ½ ounce stand-up head," he said. Instead the 2-time Toyota Bassmaster Angler of the Year usually rigs them on a stand-up style jig head. Whether he’s fishing a Zoom Ol’ Monster in June and July or the 7” Magnum Trick Worm in the dog days of August, you might be shocked to learn Swindle almost never rigs them Texas style like he learned as a teen. Nor is catching a bass with a quarter-sized sore on its gill plate or body where the attached lamprey, for whatever reason, came off.īut as summer enters its final stretch, and the bass have seen a ton of the popular ribbon tail worms, Swindle will typically use a straight tail worm to give them a look they haven’t seen much. Finding the eel-like lamprey attached to bass on Guntersville Lake or other Tennessee River impoundments isn't unusual. At least a half-dozen species of lamprey inhabit his home state’s waters, and most spawn and hatch larvae from late spring into early summer. "And lampreys seem most prominent earlier in the summer, so that’s when I use a ribbon tail worm that resembles them." “Look, I don’t claim to know much about the life history of freshwater lampreys, but I can tell you based on three decades of bass fishing they love to live around underwater shell beds on all the Tennessee River reservoirs," Swindle said. His choice is largely determined by similar looking jawless fish known as lamprey. Swindle uses two types of big worms in the heat of summer – ribbon tails and straight tails. Ribbon Tails, Straight Tails and the Lamprey Factor These days the Team Toyota pro utilizes long soft plastic worms to cash tournament paychecks when water temps heat up, but the 30 years of wisdom he shares about using them might surprise you, and help you catch more fat summer largemouth too. And as a kid, the plastic worm was the first artificial lure top pro Gerald Swindle remembers learning to use on trips with his dad, Tommy, who was one heck of an angler in his own right. (Photo: Alan McGuckin)Ī plastic worm goes with summer bass fishing like fireworks and the 4th of July. Zoom Baits pro Gerald Swindle keeps things simple in summer when he's using giant worms, with two colors and a stand-up head to give the bait more action.
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