Click the above imaged for the enlarged version, that you can read. This is a digital image of an article I was fortunate enough to get done in collaboration with Curt Niedermier. The intent was to take a simple look at various tails on swimbaits and understand some subtleties and just keep it simple.

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Watch the above video and see how a 3″ Big Hammer with a 1/4 oz. Hammer Head swims, at both normal speeds and with the aid of slow motion.  There is an incredible amount of ‘rocking’ and rolling the body of the bait does, and the tail itself does a lot of twisting and recoiling.   The Big Hammer Square Tailed Swimbait is a fish catcher.