Ive been throwing a castaic 8 inch trout swimbait and I have noticed if I give the rod a certain amount of jerk on a certain amount of slack line, I can get the swimbait to turn sideways as if it were eating a minnow or even dying a little. This I think would trigger strikes from bass for sure. Watch your swimbait as it gets close to you and experiment with different twitches and actions. I know you'll get something going that the bass wont be able to resist. Im sure you have heard of people doing this in swimming pools, but theres nothing like the lake to try your retrieves out. Good luck to you, and experiment.

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