Try These Swimbait Retrieves!

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These are swimbait retrieves you need to try to help you catch more bass!
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@joshuajadolon3591 Жыл бұрын

I really appreciate the series on bait retrieves. Thanks, Matt!

@MattStefanFishing Жыл бұрын

Glad you like them!

@Johntom2k Жыл бұрын

As a bank fishermen, I love your channel especially these retrieval videos of baits and lures I use. I have liked a few so far and plan on saving more. Thank you for a great channel and videos!

@MattStefanFishing Жыл бұрын

Awesome! thanks for the support!

@joshbirtchetfishing5196 Жыл бұрын

This be the only Channel I watch now. Hats off to u Matt.

@MattStefanFishing Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@reno-on6vw Жыл бұрын

Matt always dropping the juice! I live sleep and breath fishing and I’ve learned so many tips on fishing baits from this channel.

@MattStefanFishing Жыл бұрын

Great to hear!

@shawnheap2936 Жыл бұрын

I really enjoy these kind of videos. You can watch lots of videos on all kinds of techniques, but there aren’t very many videos on how to work the different lures or techniques. I commend you for showing how to retrieve and work various baits. Please keep doing these type of videos for other techniques and lures. Thanks for teaching the part of fishing that I believe is the hardest to learn on your own.

@MattStefanFishing Жыл бұрын

Glad you like them!

@ThumperSpinnerbaits 5 ай бұрын

Thanks for tips Matt. Hopefully I can use these to improve my swimbait bite, which has been very low as of late.

@MattStefanFishing 5 ай бұрын

Good luck!

@nathanm2571 Жыл бұрын

Great tips! Thanks for the waterside demonstrations.

@MattStefanFishing Жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

@commoncents235 Жыл бұрын

Nice demo. Thanks Matt 👍

@MattStefanFishing Жыл бұрын

My pleasure!

@stevencrane9949 Жыл бұрын

It's always great to hear your advice ,keep up the great work on the channel, have a great day .

@MattStefanFishing Жыл бұрын

Thanks, will do!

@jbshark5941 Жыл бұрын

All the retrieves are very helpful. Thanks

@MattStefanFishing Жыл бұрын

thanks for watching!

@tylerallan741 Жыл бұрын

Swimbaits are one of my favorites for deep water bass. They also catch walleye on those days when the wind has them in the shallows.

@MattStefanFishing Жыл бұрын

yep!

@MrJohnB-qs6dp Жыл бұрын

Thanks for those great retrieving tips!!!Stay Safe & God Bless!!!

@MattStefanFishing Жыл бұрын

Thanks, you too!

@Eyesofthasouth Жыл бұрын

Thanks bud, I like this series 👊🏼

@MattStefanFishing Жыл бұрын

great! Ill keep making them if you keep watching them!

@eddiehawk8861 Жыл бұрын

Great techniques. Thanks for sharing your information

@MattStefanFishing Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

@maxcole3930 Жыл бұрын

I always like hearing different retrieve styles, we all think differently & I like trying different things & try to think outside of the box anyways. I was catching ton of schooling striper using that technique. Letting my dropshot pendulum swing from surface down through school. I had a 3" hazedong shad because they were on tiny bait. It was out fishing for bass & school of striper came up so I switched my dropshot bait & took advantage of situation. It worked extremely well & was ton of fun..

@MattStefanFishing Жыл бұрын

good info thanks for sharing!

@basskirkster Жыл бұрын

I also like to use a small football jig head and bounce it on the bottom. Stands up real nice.

@MattStefanFishing Жыл бұрын

nice!

@ricksonora6656 Жыл бұрын

I wondered how you would break off the snag. Thanks for including it and making it real.

@MattStefanFishing Жыл бұрын

Glad to help

@clintperry799 Жыл бұрын

Great tips, thanks.

@MattStefanFishing Жыл бұрын

thanks!

@douglasspickler4925 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the retrieve videos. Very informative. Your videos got me thinking. With all the baits we have available today, especially soft plastics, the different rigging techniques, it's fun but complicated. When I started fishing national tournaments in 1984 you were either a boater or a rider. Both anglers paid the same entry fee and fished for the same prize pot. Techniques were simple then. Today I see more of a division in anglers. I'm basically considered a power fisherman who likes to move with topwater, spinnerbaits, crankbaits and it's tough if I fish with a soft plastics angler. Wacky rig, texas rig, drop shot etc. The two just don't get along in the same boat. Of course I'm talking fun fishing not tournaments so I carry lots of rods and tackle and adjust to make everyone happy. Too many techniques.

@ps7462 Жыл бұрын

I always tell my friends you can’t employ all of the techniques available today in one day!

@MattStefanFishing Жыл бұрын

lots and lots of techniques

@tommybounds3220 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for the video.

@MattStefanFishing Жыл бұрын

You bet!

@mgdwj Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the videos Matt!! Between you, Johnny, and Randy one day I’ll know how to fish.

@MattStefanFishing Жыл бұрын

for sure!

@ricksonora6656 Жыл бұрын

Who’s Johnny?

@mgdwj Жыл бұрын

@@ricksonora6656 Johnny with fish the moment

@ricksonora6656 Жыл бұрын

@@mgdwj Thanks! I can’t keep the names straight. Yes, that’s a great channel!

@kevinbeaudean704 Жыл бұрын

Thanks Matt, definitely one of my weaker technics. I have 200$ worth of swimbaits and about 10 bass to talk about. I do vary retrieves but will give yours a try. Now show me how to hook a bass on a frog and I will hit the trail.

@MattStefanFishing Жыл бұрын

You bet!

@enriqueburruel35 Жыл бұрын

Keep the good job... Saludos from Mexico

@MattStefanFishing Жыл бұрын

Thanks, will do!

@twiggsherman3641 Жыл бұрын

Caught my PB smallie on a keitech this year. Got hung up 5 feet from shore in a river popped it a bunch of times until it came free then I was burning it so I could cast out again, and got bit a few feet from shore. My biggest smallies have come just after I was hung up and managed to pop free and wasn't expecting to get bit. Appreciate the retrieve videos.

@MattStefanFishing Жыл бұрын

Nice thanks for sharing!

@Vinny190 8 ай бұрын

Thanks man nice

@MattStefanFishing 8 ай бұрын

thanks for watching!

@mattnash5159 Жыл бұрын

This series on bait retrieves is absolute 🔥🔥🔥. Wish you did one on the speedworm.

@MattStefanFishing Жыл бұрын

I did this one kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hquam6Z7s7TMhp8.html

@mattnash5159 Жыл бұрын

@@MattStefanFishing thanks Man I'll check it out as soon as I hit break here at work. #Nightshifter

@jakestevens8552 Жыл бұрын

Man your pretty much my go to. Even though I’m in the south fishing Lanier mainly all the content is applicable to my fishery.

@MattStefanFishing Жыл бұрын

awesome!

@ballzybaits4414 Жыл бұрын

I was in WI fishing one of the bigger lakes up there. I rip, stop, count few seconds, repeat. I was catching Smallies and Pikes over the standard retrieve.

@MattStefanFishing Жыл бұрын

Nice!

@ceciljohnson4458 Жыл бұрын

Very nice Matt

@MattStefanFishing Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@johnrayner5599 Жыл бұрын

I was at Table Rock about a month ago and killed them on the Scottsboro swimbait with your guppy head! I used a mix of your #1 and # 3 retrieves, your head seemed to make a huge difference also, it worked better than the Matt Allen head I was using!

@MattStefanFishing Жыл бұрын

thats awesome!

@craigpeters3165 Жыл бұрын

Great stuff man. I just won a tournament by dragging a 3.8 swimbait on a swing head on points 17-20' deep.

@fishinfrenzy2544 Жыл бұрын

What weight swing head ?

@craigpeters3165 Жыл бұрын

@@fishinfrenzy2544 3/8 oz was enough. I had no current that day.

@MattStefanFishing Жыл бұрын

awesome! congrats!

@heinrichkellogg7563 Жыл бұрын

🍺Thanks Matt.

@MattStefanFishing Жыл бұрын

thanks for watching!

@goodmanfishing Жыл бұрын

One variant of the first one that has gotten me some good fish when using the forward facing sonar is just killing it on a straight slow retrieve. If I see I have followers, I have a good shot of getting them to commit if I just stop reeling and let it pendulum.

@MattStefanFishing Жыл бұрын

nice! thanks for sharing!

@billtiritilli5271 Жыл бұрын

Love these videos is it possible to also add the line size rod size for matching what you are throwing

@MattStefanFishing Жыл бұрын

ill try to do better with that

@shawn_r_schultzfishing4883 Жыл бұрын

I honestly don't throw a swimbait enough. My wife loves to throw it when we go fishing and I leave it for her, even though we are just fun fishing I don't want to "steal" the bites she could be getting. I always pass these tips along though because it's great seeing her crush a big bass from the back of the boat 🎣

@MattStefanFishing Жыл бұрын

thanks for sharing!

@addamoliver 4 ай бұрын

awesome

@MattStefanFishing 4 ай бұрын

Thanks!

@ThatGuy-hj4xj Жыл бұрын

I pair the Dirty Jigs Matt Stefan Guppy Swimbait Jig Head 1/8 oz 1/0 on a 2.8 Keitech Swing Impact FAT Swimbait on my Old 18 Suppressor - 7'0" Ultra Light Casting Mod-Fast rod pair with a Shimano Aldebaran BFS on 3lb Sunline Super FC Sniper Fluorocarbon. The fight is absolutely orgasmic, LOL!!! BFS Rules!

@MattStefanFishing Жыл бұрын

sounds great!

@cerebraltackle Жыл бұрын

You have to keep in mind the eye angle, head shape and weight. All three are super important! The eye angle dictates retrieve. The head shape dictates the way the water pushed over the tail. The weight dictates how fast or slow the movement, roll and tail action of the bait will be.

@MattStefanFishing Жыл бұрын

thanks!

@dhjhawk Жыл бұрын

Some swimbaits, like the keitecs, are flimsy and don't hold up well so I go thru a bunch of them. However, that Berkley Power Swimmer is pretty stout yet still has great action---perfect mix. My favorite swimbait.

@MattStefanFishing Жыл бұрын

it is a great swimbait!

@jasondiddle4226 6 ай бұрын

If I remember right. I think you use to pour your own jigheads. Maybe I’m wrong. I’m curious if you’d use a 1/0 or 2/0 in a ball head 90degree hook for a 2.8”. For smallmouth, spots, and walleye.

@MattStefanFishing 6 ай бұрын

Both will work. I prefer a 2/0

@wolverinex4243 Жыл бұрын

Retrieves are elementary. Hopping it in the dark of night in the deep lakes is crazy. Also, hopping it in the deep currents for stripers. Those are the sickest I've seen.

@MattStefanFishing Жыл бұрын

thanks for watching

@eddieboswell6068 Жыл бұрын

Love the retrieve videos! Good information to the average guys to the pros!

@MattStefanFishing Жыл бұрын

Glad you like them!

@wolverinex4243 Жыл бұрын

With stuff like the Panther, you can power hop it. There are certain types of rod and line for this technique. The key is to feel the line and feel it when it makes contact with the bottom. Fatty Keitechs can be hopped to great effect on certain easy lakes, but the key to hard lakes is the shimmy and relatively fast drop. Yah.

@MattStefanFishing Жыл бұрын

thanks for sharing

@thua4673 Жыл бұрын

Hi Matt, would you fish the same for a darter jighead? I have been hooked by your contents. Thanks.

@MattStefanFishing Жыл бұрын

pretty much so!

@bamadondon0495 Жыл бұрын

Could you make a video on the fluke style worm..? And the ways that you can fish it? My favorite way to fix it is Neko style because I think the end of that worm is designed perfectly for a nail weight! But I think there are a lot more ways that you can fish that bait, drop shot style, the way that I just mentioned with a nail weight in the end fishing it Neko style.. but could you make a video on that particular one? Thanks

@MattStefanFishing Жыл бұрын

ill put it on my video list

@kylemayer8486 Жыл бұрын

Hope you do frogs soon, I can't get any confidence because every time I try, they just spasm to one side.

@MattStefanFishing Жыл бұрын

bummer

@bamadondon0495 Жыл бұрын

Have you ever put a 3* or a 3.25 " swim bag, like some kind of ribbed swim bate kind of like a strike King paddle tail swimbait, and put a light bullet weight in front of it with your swimbait on a ewg style hook and fished it that way? Because I have caught them burning it like that and then stop the retrieve, and then let the bullet wait fall and it looks like that swimbait is chasing something to the bottom in a lot of times I will catch them on the fall as that swimbait is falling after that weight..

@MattStefanFishing Жыл бұрын

yep i do it all the time

@heinrichkellogg7563 Жыл бұрын

🍺More TW orders from your link arrived today. 🤛

@MattStefanFishing Жыл бұрын

awesome! thank you!

@Skatelifefool 8 күн бұрын

I'm three days into fishing and just realized I've been holding the fishing pole upside down

@MattStefanFishing 8 күн бұрын

Uh oh

@Robmulert2830 Жыл бұрын

Would this work for walleyes also?

@MattStefanFishing Жыл бұрын

give it a try!

@bennyventures8204 Жыл бұрын

Was out on Hartwell two days ago really could have used this video then lol

@MattStefanFishing Жыл бұрын

good luck next time!

@bennyventures8204 Жыл бұрын

@@MattStefanFishing back at the local….caught a 6lb spot today and a 19 inch…my dad and I ended up with about a dozen total but quality was great….video of it all should be out in a couple days

@bennyventures8204 Жыл бұрын

@@MattStefanFishing technically they are Alabama bass like the ones in the coosa so that’s why they are freaks for spots lol

@markstheory Жыл бұрын

Matt, which blank is that? Is that your normal swim bait setup?

@MattStefanFishing Жыл бұрын

i use the CB905 - CB907 for swimbaits depending on the size

@jonc.5310 Жыл бұрын

Seems like you switch between left and right hand retrieves in these videos, which blows my mind.

@MattStefanFishing Жыл бұрын

yep i use both and have for the past 25 years. i love both

@PaintballShyguy Жыл бұрын

5:45 close call heh

@MattStefanFishing Жыл бұрын

haha

@Glock-1 Жыл бұрын

Does this also apply to weedless rigged swim baits?

@MattStefanFishing Жыл бұрын

yep

@ScruffyCityFishing Жыл бұрын

I love throwing small swim baits, but man do they get hung up. Risk reward though!

@MattStefanFishing Жыл бұрын

thats true

@LowBrowFishing Жыл бұрын

It was a good guppy. It will surely be missed. Now you have to put a weedless Texas rigged bait on a new jig head and cast it around the yard until it looks all beat up. What is it with fish wanting to just smash beat up jig heads?

@MattStefanFishing Жыл бұрын

haha

@jimb3457 Жыл бұрын

I fish Lake Lanier almost every day, and if I bounce or drag anything across the bottom that isn't weedless......I've lost that bait. I can't even fish a senko without using a weedless hook, it's just the nature of the lake being a reservoir with a forest on the bottom. So I sympathise with you having to break off that swimbait.

@MattStefanFishing Жыл бұрын

thanks...one of many