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This is a review of the Spro BBZ-1 Bill Siemantel Signature series swim bait.
First thing this is not a sissy swimbait. At 8” and 5 oz’s you can’t throw this thing on your typical jig rod. I used a 6’8” American Rodsmith Heavy Swimbait Special Rod with one of the big old red Ambassadeur reels with 20 lb. P-Line CXX. In other words a stout rod and heavy line. You’ll know at the end of the day that you were slinging a big bait. But you’ll also have the chance of catching you personal best on every cast. Not that 2-4 lber’s won’t eat it, cause they will, but the big girls see an easy meal.
Like many baits of this types it comes in 3 types. Floating, slow sinking and fast sinking. The slow sink version which I used has a sink rate of about 2 feet every second. One cool feature most baits of this type don’t have that this one does is a nice big single knocker rattle which makes a lot of noise of the retrieve. Slow or fast retrieve it tracked well with a minimum of roll. My favorite feature is if you stop your retrieve and give a sharp jerk , the bait does a complete 180 right into the face of a following bass. This is a very cool trick because you get a lot of followers with these baits. They almost can’t stop themselves from eating it.
This is a very realisticly painted bait, especially the eyes. Twice I looked away and than looked back and thought I saw a trout. The swimming action is great. With a slow but jerky retrieve it looks like a confused stocked trout. The first cast or two I felt like a fish was on the end of my line. The paint job is comparable to lures costing much more. It seems to be well put together and has really sharp Gamakatsu hooks. It is a triple jointed hybrid hard and soft bait. The tails and fins are soft plastic and are replaceable while the head and body are hard plastic.
At about $40.00 it’s not cheap but I would compare it to many swimbaits costing two or more times that. Even at that price you don’t want what happened to me to happen. After a couple of hours I thought to myself I should retie but I didn’t, much to my regret. I hauled off and made a nice long cast and the bait went flying and the line in my reel blew up into the worst birdsnest in history. Even slow sinking there was no getting to it in time. Another contribution to the bait gods. So needless to say no pictures but you can see them here http://www.spro.com/SearchResults.asp?Cat=40
If you never fished a big swimbait before or if you just don’t want to spend $120.00 and up, but will invest $40.00 on a swimbait, this is the one to do it on. It’ll more than hold its own with any of those big dollar baits .Just make sure you retie often!
First thing this is not a sissy swimbait. At 8” and 5 oz’s you can’t throw this thing on your typical jig rod. I used a 6’8” American Rodsmith Heavy Swimbait Special Rod with one of the big old red Ambassadeur reels with 20 lb. P-Line CXX. In other words a stout rod and heavy line. You’ll know at the end of the day that you were slinging a big bait. But you’ll also have the chance of catching you personal best on every cast. Not that 2-4 lber’s won’t eat it, cause they will, but the big girls see an easy meal.
Like many baits of this types it comes in 3 types. Floating, slow sinking and fast sinking. The slow sink version which I used has a sink rate of about 2 feet every second. One cool feature most baits of this type don’t have that this one does is a nice big single knocker rattle which makes a lot of noise of the retrieve. Slow or fast retrieve it tracked well with a minimum of roll. My favorite feature is if you stop your retrieve and give a sharp jerk , the bait does a complete 180 right into the face of a following bass. This is a very cool trick because you get a lot of followers with these baits. They almost can’t stop themselves from eating it.
This is a very realisticly painted bait, especially the eyes. Twice I looked away and than looked back and thought I saw a trout. The swimming action is great. With a slow but jerky retrieve it looks like a confused stocked trout. The first cast or two I felt like a fish was on the end of my line. The paint job is comparable to lures costing much more. It seems to be well put together and has really sharp Gamakatsu hooks. It is a triple jointed hybrid hard and soft bait. The tails and fins are soft plastic and are replaceable while the head and body are hard plastic.
At about $40.00 it’s not cheap but I would compare it to many swimbaits costing two or more times that. Even at that price you don’t want what happened to me to happen. After a couple of hours I thought to myself I should retie but I didn’t, much to my regret. I hauled off and made a nice long cast and the bait went flying and the line in my reel blew up into the worst birdsnest in history. Even slow sinking there was no getting to it in time. Another contribution to the bait gods. So needless to say no pictures but you can see them here http://www.spro.com/SearchResults.asp?Cat=40
If you never fished a big swimbait before or if you just don’t want to spend $120.00 and up, but will invest $40.00 on a swimbait, this is the one to do it on. It’ll more than hold its own with any of those big dollar baits .Just make sure you retie often!
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