Kalin’s Lunker Grub – A Swimming Grub Seminar

Are these the greatest smallmouth catchers of all time? What they are for me might not be for you.

Grubs mesmerize smallmouths everywhere. Some lures are only seasonally productive, while others seemingly work always. Whether smallmouths are active or inactive, a grub can always be relied on for catching a few fish, no matter where.

The swimming grub is what started the smallmouth obsession for me back in the mid- 2000’s. It is a tactic I still heavily rely on for year-round success.

Whether slow rolled and retrieved along bottom, high in the water column, or somewhere in-between, a swimming grub does it all.

Work a Kalin’s 5” Lunker Grub with your jig head of choice. Mine is a 1/8 oz. Owner Ultrahead, ¼ oz. Northland Slurp! And 1/8 oz. Freedom Tackle Hydra Ultra Light. Making the longest casts possible, work them with slow/steady swimming retrieves throughout the upper water column where fish feed up at the surface, or suspend.

Kalin’s 5-inch Lunker Grubs fished on exposed ¼ oz. minnow heads are my boat’s fish finders and fish catchers on most days. If downsizing is necessary, in which smallmouths are fixated on smaller prey, consider downsizing to a 3-inch Lunker Grub with 1/8-ounce head. With lighter line it usually seals the deal.

With the swimming grub, matching the hatch is critical for success. I always strive to match the hatch with natural baitfish profiles and translucent colors. On other fisheries such as river systems, smallmouths could be favoriting crayfish instead. Many grubs are available in crayfish patterns. Avocado, Pumpkin, and Bluegill are my colors of choice. Make sure the grub is compatible with the water clarity being fished too. The simplicity of the swimming grub is what makes it work so well. The supple tail action of a 5” Lunker Grub is all that’s needed to entice a strike whether you are fishing lakes, rivers, creeks, or any waters inhabited by bass. It catches all other gamefish species too.

Casting and steady retrieving them is the standby technique. Jigging and crawling the bottom under slower speeds can be done too, with the only adjustment to consider is usage of a mushroom or football styled head.

In deeper water one can often get a nice flurry of bites along the first breaks in 10-15ft depth and atop shallow flats when drifting and covering water. Bomb cast along the breaks, and run your swimmer thru the lower water column. Turning your reel 1x every second will maintain it at these depths. When smallmouths are shallower, downsizing your head to a 1/16-ounce or 1/8-ounce ball or minnow shaped head will allow you to probe through the skinny water.

Bomb-casting and swimming the grub as a search lure is deadly.

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