Hard or soft swimbaits?
The hard swimbait is generally characterized as having segmented bodies with at least 2 segments with joints in between, but we’ve seen as many as 6 segments on a hard swimbait. They can be made of varying buoyancies and can be either hand crafted or machined. They are essentially cast great distances and slowly reeled back to the boat. The baits can have action imparted to them with speed and starting and stopping your retrieve.
Hard swim baits are often employed in the same places you might throw big topwater plugs, or covering big areas like points, flats and humps where big fish are known to roam. The larger variety make huge splashes on the cast and that has to be considered when targeting areas where fish roam so you don’t spook fish from the best looking spots with the cast itself.
Much the same, soft swimbaits come in a variety of sizes and can be just bodies that have to be rigged on weighted hooks or jigheads or fully rigged swimbaits with lead and hooks already pre-rigged in the body. They are meant to be cast and slowly reeled back to the boat as well. But you can be a little more lenient with the retrieves and allow them to sink a bit more without worry of big treble hooks snagging on cover like the hard baits.
Most folks consider swimbaits to be clear water options as they are very visually oriented. They are usually subtle in movement so the fish have to see them usually to elicit a strike.
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