Anyone here use the Storm swimbaits or any others in western Wa lakes?  Each year I try out a new style of bait and am considering these.  Positives/ negatives.  SM /LM uses/scenarios.

I too have pondered when and where these baits can shine. I won't spend too much time on them until I build confidence, but I will give them a try. I will have to see the right opportunity. A year ago I was fishing in November and I started throwing a small crankbait. My partner and I started catching small bass and them a lot of trout. All of a sudden I lay into a 6 pounder. Then 5 minutes later, another 4 1/2 -5. I think the fish were zoned around the school of trout.

That would have been a good time to throw a swimbait I think.

I bought some Storm baits last weekend, they have a single hook on top, with a treble on the bottom.  First time I seen them.  Got them in a rainbow trout color, can't wait to use them 

These work at Roosevelt as well. Saw a guy catch a 6+ smallie on an Osprey swim bait there about a year ago.
Russ

I know that there are rules against posting for advertisements, but wait until you see those swim baits that I sent for the raffle. The best colors, and they can be leadhead rigged for crawling (dragging) on the bottom now, or drop shot when the fish move up in March / April. They will be in the stores very soon........
Pass em around at the raffle.....

I will email you the link offline. I do not want to offend the admin. Anyway, go to the Panic Minnow (swim) for the small swimbaits.

Can you swim a jig? Well, ever try swimming a dropshot? Guess not. Want to swim in a specific depth, and maintain contact with the bottom, such as 36" off the bottom. Well, next time you are slowly pumping your drop shot, and not catching any fish, try swimming it back to the boat. Too many times everyone is stuck in the same rut with the same baits, when they need to experiment a little with the same baits. Just my opinion...
So it has to be 7" to be a swimbait, so if it is 6-1/2" and has the same general shad type swimtail, then it is not a swimbait.....you got me on that one.

Smitty,
I love it when you talk like that.  My swimbait is a "soft pour".  Is that opposed to a "hard pour"?  I think that you can get arrested in some third world countries for talking like that.  Speaking of Ramirez, where do you think I got the dang fooled notion that these things might actually work?  I throw'em out and wind them in.  I have not evolved to "drop-shotting" of jigging them.  No offense meant, just makes no sense to me.  The fish come from such great distances and depths to check these baits out, why bother dragging?  Heck, my arms already get tired after ten casts, anyway.  And hey, don't get all weird about WDFW and "move to another State".  What, you think California or any other "left" coast state is better.