Hey folks Todd Faircloth here and we're here at the Strike King writer's conference. I'll
talk a little bit about the Swimmin' Caffeine Shad, I'm real found of this bait. As many
of you know I won my first Bassmaster Elite Series event of the year this year on the
Sabine River fishing with this exact color and bait. I had it rigged a little bit different,
I was fishing real real shallow water so I had a 1/16 ounce weight on the front of it.
Basically what I was doing in that tournament was I was fishing a big expansive flat that
had a mixture of pads, grass, different types of grass, and it had some reeds. The fish
weren't really keyed in on one specific deal but what I could do with this bait was I could
cover a lot of water and I could keep the bait in the strike zone. I was basically making
long casts with and I was just crawling the bait through potential areas where I thought
the fish might be. Sometimes they were random, but I tried to fish something different where
the pads met the grass line, or reeds met the pads, and I was looking and trying to
find something different. It's just a great great bait; it's a real nature looking bait.
You can fish it shallow, you can fish it deep, and you can vary the depths you fish it with
the amount of weight that you put on it. Like I said, there I was fishing 2 foot or less
of water so I was using a 1/16 ounce weight and this is a 1/4 ounce weight. You can fish
this from anywhere from7-8 foot of water. This is the Pro Blue and it's a real natural
looking shad color in the water, which is my personal favorite. But we've got a lot
of different colors in it. Next time you're out there and you're is a situation where
maybe a spinnerbait isn't working, or maybe a bladed bait isn't working and you know there
is fish present. This bait can definitely add to your catch for the day. Give it a try!
You know there is a couple of different ways you can rig the Swimmin' Caffeine Shad. Whenever
I'm fishing around cover and I'm throwing it in thick stuff such as grass, around wood,
or what be. I'll rig it Texas Rig like this with the hook coming out of the back. It's
a real Weedless bait like this. If you're fishing flat points where there's not a whole
lot of cover then you my want to go with just a regular jig head. They make a lot of swim
bait heads now and you can just rig it and bring the hook out of the back of the bait
where it's exposed. If I'm fishing spare cover that's how I rig it and you'll get more hook
ups that way. It's got a real natural swimming action to it. The tail has a kick to it, and
they whole bait kind of wobbles as it's coming through the water. Its just a real natural
appeal for the fish and it's a bait that a lot of people won't throw in real thick cover
and that's kind of why I like it. It just gives the fish a little b it different look,
and a lot of times that's what it takes.
But it does work!