THE BASS COLLEGE

The Mattlures Bluegill Series

The Mattlures Bluegill is the most realistic soft plastic bluegill swimbait available on the market today.  Each lure is individually hand poured and painted to ensure quality, and accurately display the natural details found in live bluegill. This versatile lure can be fished at various speeds without compromising the action of the lure. Fished as a swimbait, these lures have a life-like, fleeing action that will trigger the natural predatory instincts of big trophy bass.  These baits will also wake the surface at a moderate speed.  But that’s not where it ends!  Drop the bait down on the bottom and the bluegill will maintain a feeding position with little or no effort from the angler. 

Twitch the rod tip, and the lure “bounces” on the bottom; nose down, just like a bluegill eating bass eggs. As you can imagine this makes them MAD! The strikes are typically ferocious. Because of the way they “sit ” these bait can alsobe flipped and pitched like a jig. One of my favorite techniques is to slowly swim them past ambush points. The possibilities are endless.

The video is reviewing the NEW Hard Bluegill from Matt Lures.

Coming in at just under two ounces for both the floating and sinking version of Mattlures' Hard Bluegill, these baits are hardly cumbersome to throw. What's more, given their relative light weight, you can throw them on just about any heavy to extra heavy powered bass stick regardless if the stick was designed for big baits or not.

Paired with any of their newer reels like the Citica, Curado, and even the prototype new Chronarchs and using a gentle lob cast, this bait is very easily presented.

Since this bait is a three piece design, it is easy to assume its action is the same as that of a bait like 22nd Century's Triple Trout. But while the Triple Trout swims with a relatively wide s-pattern, Mattlures' Hard Gill has a much tighter motion that really resembles a fleeing bluegill. Of course, pause your retrieve and feed the bait some slack line and it will do the 180 degree turn

Even more exciting is the action of the floating version of this bait. When retrieved at slow to medium speeds, but when retrieved at faster speeds mixed in with some twitches and pauses, the bait darts around wildly mimicking a panicked baitfish not knowing where to flee to get away from a predator. With some practice and a variation of your retrieve, you can also get this bait to pop and dance like a spook-type bait.

I Like the Hard Bluegill a lot more than the original. It has produced a good number of bass. Swimbaits work just as well here in the northeast as they do anywhere else. Just ask our new member from Arizona who now lives in Delaware. He just fished Killens Pond in Dover with them and did OK.:cool:

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I love this bait it was one of the first swimbaits I caught bass with here in DE

                 It looks perfect, its so real looking its amazing.