My Top 5 Swimbaits Of All Time!

[@JustFishingTV]

Thanks Geoff! Great top 5'ish! I'm still growing my arsenal so it's good to hear what's proven. You're right about throwing the bait should be fun too. A lot of casts for that ONE bite! Might as well enjoy the hunt.

[@geoffreythekingfishing]

It’s so important to have fun with the baits and not get bored with each and every cast! Thanks for watching 🤙

[@kayachaa2679]

What do you think about the grow design works flag255

[@willieharkless782]

I finally bought me a swimbait setup because of your videos fx custom rod and the shimano md

[@MtnWBassin]

How do you like the LDC H rod . Looking to get my first low down custom . Do you like the wrapped guides

[@geoffreythekingfishing]

I love my LDC rods, all of them have been great. The spiraled guides are cool, cant personally say it has affected my fishing in either a positive or negative way. The rod builders have a much better input on spiral wrapped rods than I haha

[@Paul-rl3bz]

Straight flexing with that frenzy! Can’t wait for the catch compilation.

[@geoffreythekingfishing]

Haha it’s a beast of a bait, need to spend more time fishing it!

[@christreas1921]

Thanks to your videos I just caught my first DEPS 250 fish yesterday

[@reelsmokeanglers3132]

Nice, I recently bought my first deps 250 super new to big swimbaits, thrown it once…scared to break it off hahaha

[@andybales7318]

Big swimbaits & wakebaits are such an addiction...I just can't stop buying them 😄 I even have fun just pulling out my swimbait boxes and holding them, admiring how they look....8" Hudd is my all time favorite for soft...MS Slammer for wake...and savage gear magnum Shine Glide in crappie color is becoming a newer favorite!

[@geoffreythekingfishing]

Seriously, just holding them and looking at them is fun😂 the slammer is a classic for sure, need to pick up another soon!

[@jeremytjensvold9936]

Thanks Geoff! I have a couple of these to give a run this winter here in Cali

[@geoffreythekingfishing]

Good luck dude! Catch a giant out there!

[@edpelkey7798]

Thanks Geoff great info 👍

[@geoffreythekingfishing]

Thanks for watching 🙏

[@dragonsnatch1146]

The first swimbait fish I caught was on a 9 inch A.C. plug from shore at lake Murray. It wasn't a big bass but it shot like a rocket straight up to smack the hell out of it . That was a long time ago . I recently picked up some O.G. A.C. plugs made out of wood , hand painted by Allen Cole.

[@timb8970]

What set-up do you think is good for the 10” Magdraft? Love your videos Geoff! You definitely have one of best channels on YT.

[@gwheel9473]

Been watching you for years ! Great job bra! I finally got my hands on a drt wcz k9 on the last drop from wcz an all I can say i hell yeah glad I did! Thanks for all the tips an knowledge !

[@geoffreythekingfishing]

Nice!! Glad you could scoop one! Such a rad bait and color!

[@billy_kohlsfishing]

Hey man what size hooks are you running on that bait? Really starting to think they can see the big ones. Thanks

[@kellymoore4517]

Hey King, what water temperature would you recommend for starting to throw the Magdraft in the spring?

[@davidarriaga1896]

What test you use on your hinckle Geoff??

[@SophiaM829]

New subbed here ❤ New to swimbait fishing. Lets go!!

[@seanshanahan8844]

Thank you for info, live in no California around bunch of big fish , would like to get a setup for those big baits, do you have a suggestion for both glides and swimbait, also line suggested and do you have a leader, knot suggestion?

[@geoffreythekingfishing]

Tons of great options on the market from IRod, ST croix, Megabass, LDC rods, just depends on the price and wait time for what you’re looking for. A good rule of thum is go with an 8’ XH rod. For reels, either daiwa or shimano in a size 300 would be money. I tie a double uni knot for all my swimbaits and it never fails me!

[@maxcole3930]

Definitely like magdrafts & citizens for sure. I have only have a couple glides, a Islide135 that's small & I've caught decent sized fish after I modified it to cut harder back/forth. Then I have the magnum shine glide, that I've fished alot & tired about everything but it just never swims well. I'm looking for new big glide to throw in 9-10". Everyone throws the deps 250 so rather find something little less common! Any suggestions

[@geoffreythekingfishing]

Try fishing the Gan Craft Jointed Claw 230, not many guys fish them but the ones that do catch a lot of fish on them!

[@maxcole3930]

@@geoffreythekingfishing ok cool, I will. I'd rather spend little more one 1 big good glide & learn to fish it well plus always better to fish something not as common.

[@randyanderson7010]

Great video again! What do you use in the head of the citizen to keep it from tearing so bad?

[@geoffreythekingfishing]

I will normally go with a larger screw size for the citizen so it grips the plastic a lot more.

[@dominicsilvio6374]

Cool video bro! Hey I was wondering if I could pick your brain on the K9 at some point when you're not busy. I have been really frustrated with the bait in glide mode.

[@geoffreythekingfishing]

What seems to be the problem? Getting the cadence down?

[@JonJonsOutdoors]

Stoked to see this! Ol’ Ben won’t let you in the camera at the shop so ya need to Tube it!😬😂😂😂

[@geoffreythekingfishing]

Haha thanks for watching 🤙

[@ILLUMINATHAN79]

Wow fishing over 100 swimbaits. You could of had a 100,000 dollars. Your the real deal man. Thanks for sharing. Great list!

[@geoffreythekingfishing]

Thanks for watching!🤟

[@ILLUMINATHAN79]

U bet dude! Been watching you since 2010 and I can’t wait to see where you will be in another 10 years. Thanks for sharing good info over the years.

[@jdean1851]

Geoff-Thanks Again for showing your Dream Hand" EPIC ! An Arsenal WE all Dream about" Cheers from 20f Idaho!jd

[@geoffreythekingfishing]

Thanks for watching my guy🙏🤟

[@slonefactor]

Do you ever use a Huddleston or Savage gear?

[@kevinkarmel2643]

Love the videos. New sub btw! I just got a couple hard swim baits and couple glide baits . Bought a rod and reel based on a couple of your videos. I have also bought couple 6” Magdrafts I live in North Texas and I am the traditional Bass guy! Really nothing more then 3/4 oz stuff My question is : At what water temp do you start throwing hard glides and swim baits ? I assume the soft Magdraft can be fished deeper in 55 degree water in late winter. But just some direction would be great. Thank you ! Great videos !

[@LoganMikkelson]

Where did u get the hinkle trout

[@geoffreythekingfishing]

I bought it off of a Facebook group called Swimbait Universe

[@LoganMikkelson]

Hey thanks man

[@FishiganMilligan]

Hey man! I’ve been in and out of the game for a while now. Living by the Texas coast here I don’t do as much bass fishing, but I love your channel and it hypes me up to want to go back out there and catch some! Do you have any used baits for sale you’d like to get rid of? Fellow KZbinr here looking for something cool to catch bass on a big rocky lake.

[@gambit_fishing1013]

I really want to love the K9 and I really do but I cannot get comfortable with the glide mode. I just need to stick a fish to gain some confidence in it

[@geoffreythekingfishing]

Are you having trouble because it’s so erratic? Or something else? It can be tricky at first to be in control of the bait. Once you get the cadence down, it becomes a lot easier to manipulate the bait

[@gambit_fishing1013]

@@geoffreythekingfishing I think it’s getting the cadence down is what I’m struggling with. I’ve added some weight to the bait so it suspends and was liking that a lot more. I’m going to spend a lot more time with it next year to try and get it down. Just have to wait for the ice to melt 🤮

[@victorxavier9977]

Great video my dude 😁👍 What the possibility of you making another video of your top 5 affordable swimbaits?

[@geoffreythekingfishing]

I’ll try and find some new ones for sure! Thanks for watching 🙏

[@stripervince1]

Aw we were throwing original AC (Allan Cole) swimming plugs back in the 1980s in Calif at lake castaic and pyramid lake for giant bass and stripers. Those were the real orig swim baits back in the day 40 years ago when lake castaic was cranking out 18 pounders weekly, and pyramid 40 lb stripers almost daily. Ps good information video

[@CB4basser1]

I haven't bought a Gancraft 178 in years! Is that color a stock color, I'm looking that baby up.

[@geoffreythekingfishing]

It’s actually a Swimbait Underground collab color! They might still have some left!

[@maxcole3930]

U gonna do top 5 bug baits??

[@randybrodman3959]

What urban lakes in the east valley are the best bet to catch bass on swim baits?

[@geoffreythekingfishing]

Not many in the east valley that I know, Red mountain has been good to me in the past though.

[@randybrodman3959]

No luck for me there yet.

[@frankhunt5018]

Do they still make the High Power Swimbaits like the gliding gizzard? I'm not a FB guy and it looks like they haven't posted on there page in over a year (Nov 2021 to be exact).

[@geoffreythekingfishing]

Randall still makes them but he has had health issues and other complications but he plans to be making more this upcoming year

[@skipdockside]

is that an old model of mag draft, or did you mod the hook keeping system??

[@geoffreythekingfishing]

It’s a normal magdraft that I changed the rigging on, this rigging made fishing the bait a lot of versatile

[@skipdockside]

Should do a video on how you mod your commercial baits. You or the hook up lads ever find yourself in Ontario wanting to hammer some smallies - come find ol'' skip.

[@SouthJerseyBaitReviews]

So is that why the older Hph models with the round connection joints and the 9inch go for so much? because It fishes way different than the newer model cause I had the newer model hph and it didn't like going fast really was more of slow smooth glide.

[@geoffreythekingfishing]

The older ones do swim a bit different and Randall doesn’t make the 9” anymore, I’ve had the newer 8’s and still like the swim but definitely different than the old ones

[@SouthJerseyBaitReviews]

@@geoffreythekingfishing thanks bro for the info I find it kind of crazy how such little changes to the bait makes it swim so different.

[@lawrencelee91]

That 9er hph is perfect. Wish he still made em!

[@geoffreythekingfishing]

Hopefully he makes a bigger version soon! We need a 10-12” version!

[@glee0425]

My current favorites are the tiny Klash, Klash 9, 6th sense draw and double h mir and mir jr. If you can find a mir or mir jr, get it, by far my favorite glide bait. I just paid a hefty price for each.

[@geoffreythekingfishing]

How do you like the draw? Haven’t heard much from other guys beside Milliken

[@glee0425]

@@geoffreythekingfishing the draw has a good glide to it. But stock, it glides wide/far. It works best when fished slowly imo, but with the Milliken modification, he made a video about it, it has a better glide action to it. It can be worked slow or fast and will still has a nice glide action.

[@RevelsGang]

Mega bass magdraft is my favorite

[@geoffreythekingfishing]

They are killer baits once you get dialed in with them!

[@andybales7318]

What size magdraft u prefer? Never thrown the 10", but do have some..they are a bit intimidating...your choice of line for these baits?

[@RevelsGang]

@@geoffreythekingfishing bro I'm a fan. I started watching back in the day too. You got me hooked on big swim baits and I keep buying smashing(or snagging) buying catching. It's fucking fantastic!

[@RevelsGang]

@@andybales7318 I throw the freestyle the most. Where I fish there is a ton of submerged veggies and that goes right through it super natural like

[@xx3281]

You need to try out the Swimbait Republic Glideway 176! One of the best I’ve tried. :)

[@geoffreythekingfishing]

I haven’t even heard of it before, I’ll have to check it out!

[@xx3281]

@@geoffreythekingfishing Ist a Spanish company. It released only 2 moth ago.

[@saleen12]

Thank you!

[@geoffreythekingfishing]

Thanks for watching homie 🙏

[@saleen12]

@@geoffreythekingfishing I was one of the ones who asked for this video and I'm glad I did. Was a banger

[@PedroHernandez-vi7ne]

Dopest swimbaiter on YT.😎

[@geoffreythekingfishing]

Haha trying to be! Thanks for watching 🤟

[@davidohlert4754]

Dang I thought for sure a hudd would be in there somewhere

[@lamontgray6015]

Now sense you have had your fun you can sell me your Hinkle shad ? 😂

[@MEEEEEEEE903]

Maybe when you learn to spell first he might

[@lamontgray6015]

@@MEEEEEEEE903 lol I can do what I want have a nice day

[@geoffreythekingfishing]

I currently don’t own a hinkle shad actually haha

[@lamontgray6015]

@@geoffreythekingfishing lol I didn't even think you would reply brother what made you sell your Hinkle

[@emiltidstrand8006]

That's a hinkle trout not a hinkle shad!

[@reelfunnyfishing651]

How’s it going? 😂 Cool video.

[@caliyak_fishing]

What is happening with the Hudds? they have seem to fall off

[@geoffreythekingfishing]

The hudds have been around for so long and they have just lost the hype to them. Still amazing baits that have caught thousands of giant fish. I’ve never had great success personally though with them strangely enough.

[@saleen12]

You ok my guy? Been a while

[@willembry5469]

Man I can’t believe a Hudd didn’t make the list. Do you have any experience with Phoney Frogs Shad Glides?

[@geoffreythekingfishing]

I personally haven’t had amazing success with the Hudd, maybe because I started throwing them too late in the game but the other soft baits have done much better for me

[@eddycountyfishingnm]

Awesome video!

[@geoffreythekingfishing]

Thanks for watching 🙏

[@Hawgmaster]

Paying homage to the King! 😂

[@geoffreythekingfishing]

Thanks for watching 🙏

[@darrylbent6723]

When will hookup tackle have more DRT Klash’s

[@geoffreythekingfishing]

Maybe sometime this spring 👀

[@itsfriday8928]

sweet video''''''''

[@geoffreythekingfishing]

Thank you!

[@King-to3xq]

I live on the east coast no trout I've been fishing a Sneaky Pete

[@geoffreythekingfishing]

I’ve heard those sneaky Pete’s are legit!

[@andybales7318]

Don't be afraid to throw trout baits, in waters without trout....east coast & midwest bass like a big meal, too!

[@randybrodman3959]

What about a Baca Burrito?

[@geoffreythekingfishing]

They are cool, I have fished a couple, they are good for fishing on the bottom fast but they do hang up more than I liked

[@randybrodman3959]

Yes they do.

[@kevinatwell9781]

surprised the RM Mother didn't make the list, but it's probably not as realistic as the Hinkle...?

[@geoffreythekingfishing]

The mother is an amazing bait, but I always leaned more towards the hinkle due to profile and swim, they swim pretty differently overall

[@kevinatwell9781]

@@geoffreythekingfishing I always wondered why Roman Made didn't make an intermediate bait size between the Mother and Negotiator...it would have been around 9.5 inches, seems like a perfect size

[@kevinatwell9781]

@@geoffreythekingfishing also: have you had any experience with the DRT Klash Ghost? It looks like it's popular in Japan

[@aiiwun]

I’m amazed at the fact that you haven’t lost that bait in all those years. That’s a sick top 5

[@geoffreythekingfishing]

I have lost one of every bait that I talked about in this video beside a GC 178, losing baits will always be inevitable 😢

[@rodlinvon-hugenstine5142]

That a’lotta pizzazz

[@geoffreythekingfishing]

😂 thanks for watching 🙏

[@dannyhocutt8490]

I likem

[@erikmason7747]

Where’s the HMPS? Maybe that was before the time of really expensive plastic manufactured in China?? 🤨

[@geoffreythekingfishing]

I’m actually not familiar with the HMPS? What is that?

[@erikmason7747]

@@geoffreythekingfishing go check out Cast and Crank episode 244. It’s on there. I think the get shown twice. Also known as a HMPC to. It’s the OG OG stuff.

[@joshuajustice2787]

No KGB in the line up?

[@geoffreythekingfishing]

Both the K9 and HPH has covered me in the aspect of “smaller” choppier glides, heard they get crushed though!

[@x_Gorilla]

MAKE MORE VIDEOS...

[@joemama7172]

just found this channel whats the insta

[@geoffreythekingfishing]

The link is in the description! Thanks!

[@TheoneAsiankid]

can you give me a tiny klash -

[@geoffreythekingfishing]

I wish I had a 100 to giveaway 😂