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New Sebile Magic Swimmer SOFT Swimbait added to BassdozerStore.com
from Bassdozer's Store 11/4/2009 5:56:24 PM Rated: Sebile Magic Swimmer Soft 130 ~ Soft SwimbaitModel: Magic Swimmer Soft 130 The Magic Swimmer Soft is a soft plastic jointed lure that swims just like the famous Magic Swimmer hardbait, but can be rigged weedless. At 5-1/8 inches long and 3/4 oz unweighted, the ICAST award-winning Magic Swimmer Soft 130 is the ideal soft swimbait size that many anglers favor most. It's not too big or heavy, not too small and light. It's just right. It is a decent size swimbait to use easily on a wide range of medium to medium/heavy tackle. Best of all, the Magic Swimmer Soft 130 moves through the water with the same realistic, fishy swimming motion as it's hard-bodied counterpart, the Magic Swimmer 125 SK.
Despite their differences in construction and material. both hard and soft Magic Swimmers display supple, fluid, lively movement. They seemingly squirt along through the water like live baitfish. They swim fairly frictionless, meaning you'll feel little or no resistance in your rod tip. Not only does the Soft 130 swim like the hard 125 SK, but the new Magic Swimmer Soft can be used with many of the same tactics which you already use with hard-bodied Magic Swimmers. Much of the time, all you need to do is reel steadily, and either the soft or hard Magic Swimmer will swim seductively a few feet below the surface. When you suddenly spot gamefish scattering panicked bait on the surface, cast into the melee and reel quickly, holding your rod tip down. Used that way, both the soft or hard Magic Swimmer will rise to the top and wake the surface, wiggling frantically like fleeing baitfish. Another of the most realistic ways to work both the hard and new soft Magic Swimmer is to use one as a slowly-sinking twitchbait where you let it sink in or around any shallow cover. You can let one sink up to 8 or more feet as you twitch it with little downward twitches of the rod tip. Only twitch a few inches, and it will flip and flop in semi-circles and can easily do an about-face 180 degree turn-around when you lightly twitch it. One of the keys to this action is to twitch it, and then instantly move the rod tip back toward the lure so the lure may complete its movement on a slack, not tight line. The Magic Swimmer Soft comes with a stout, offset-neck single hook for weedless rigging. This gives you the ideal size hook to use, and Sebile provides six soft tungsten weight rings to slide on or off the hook shank. Each individual sinker ring is 1/32 oz, so you can add from one to six weights (or 1/32 to 3/16 oz) to the hook shank.
Rigging is easy every time since there are factory-made holes through the nose and through the upper back where the hook eye and hook bend respectively need to go through the plastic body. These hook holes guide the hook properly when freshly rigging one, yet the holes are tight enough to grip and hold the hook in perfect position while fishing one. On a different note, one thing that helps the Magic Swimmer Soft achieve its best swimming action is not to affix a heavy weight onto its nose. The head of the bait often needs to be able to move from side to side to generate the best swimming action. So if the head or nose has a heavy weight fixed to it (like a jig head for example) the head will be restricted in its movement, and that tends to stifle the swimming action or twitching action. We've talked about how the soft and hard Magic Swimmers are similar. One of the big ways that they differ, obviously, is the Magic Swimmer Soft may be rigged weedless and used in many snaggy or weedy areas where a hard Magic Swimmer cannot go without fear of getting hemmed up. So if there is a big old tree or jumbled rock pile with a monster fish holed up deep in that cover, you can only swim a hard plastic Magic Swimmer with treble hooks on the outskirts of the lunker's lair, hoping it will come out to whomp it. Wouldn't that be exciting?! Many times though, a lunker buried deep in cover is probably feeling pretty comfy and its not going to come out of its safe haven for any reason. I think you know what to do next. Just smack a weedless, snagless Magic Swimmer Soft right into the worst part of the cover - which equals the best spot to pull out that lunker now! A skip cast or "skipping" is also a great way to skitter a Magic Swimmer Soft underneath low-lying docks or low-hanging trees or bushes to reach lunkers lazing in the shade below. The Magic Swimmer Soft 130 skips more easily and further than many other soft baits. Another great tactic, called "deadsticking" is to let a weedless-rigged Magic Swimmer Soft flutter to bottom and lay there like a baitfish gasping for its last breath. It's one of the easiest ways to use it. If you can cast out, wait for the Magic Swimmer Soft to reach bottom - and then wait some more, you may be well-rewarded for your patience! That's all there is to deadsticking with the Magic Swimmer Soft. In addition to rigging the new Magic Swimmer Soft weightless or weighted with the hook and soft tungsten ring sinkers, we also recommend you try it rigged with a Texas bullet sinker or on a Carolina rig or beefy dropshot rig. With Texas, Carolina and dropshot rigging methods, you are able to reach deeper fish more effectively. Keep in mind, it's often best to let the Magic Swimmer Soft have some freedom to move its head, as that starts the desirable swimming action which ripples down the body to the tail. Finally, it's true that, like other quality swimbaits, they are relatively expensive. So keep the Magic Swimmer Softs properly preserved in the bags and plastic trays they come in. By keeping them in the original bags and trays, they will stay in the best condition possible until you are ready to use them. Once you try it, you'll find the new Magic Swimmer Soft is hard, really hard, to put down.
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