Designed for ultra-slow presentations in shallow water or near the surface, the Slow Tail Swimbait features Hogy's trusted trophy grade rigging ready to target tackle busting tarpon, tuna, snook, striped bass, cobia, and more. Featuring twin action-packed ribbon tails for a lifelike swimming action at very slow speeds, these baits are ideal for targeting lethargic, pressured, or generally finicky gamefish by offering a slower, more natural presentation. Ideally fished with slow steady swimming action, or a slightly stop and go retrieve, these baits effectively imitate unassuming mullet, herring, menhaden, shad, and more.
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The striped bass migration has hit Cape Cod waters! Capt. Mike Hogan heads out on Buzzards Bay aboard his 28' Contender in search of schoolie striped bass. Capt. Mike demonstrates how to catch finicky striped bass on light tackle using the Hogy Slowtails with a cast and drop retrieve!
How To: Swinging Swimbaits In The Current For Spillway Snook
Capt. Jay Clark shares his favorite techniques for targeting snook in heavy current from spillway outflows. Using the mid-water and low-level swimbait sweeping technique to target snook using swimbaits.
How To: Slowtails For Finicky Surface Sipping Stripers
We crack the code on super finicky stripers sipping tiny hake and sand eels on the surface utilizing a slow-twitch retrieve with the new Hogy Slowtail Swimbait. Fishing out of Barnegat Inlet along coastal New Jersey with Capt. Rob Radlof of Waterman Charters, we push through some sloppy seas to find pretty epic surface feeds of southbound Striped Bass.
Capt. Mike Hogan joins Capt. Dave Peros targeting stripers staging in fast current along boulder fields. Fish are holding in slicks and back eddies, the perfect time to deploy a "dead drift" retrieve for maneuvering Slowtail Swimbaits through the feeding zones, and finding some quality stripers.
Landbased Tarpon Fishing The Minnow Run With Hogy Lures
Capt. Ross Gallagher heads over to Jensen Beach, Florida to target land-based tarpon during the minnow run migration with Hogy fan Dane Yelencsics. We cover a variety of tips for successfully hooking and landing tarpon on a variety of Hogy Pro Tail Paddle Swim Baits.
We head deep into the Florida Everglades in search of early season Tarpon action along the shallow bays of Everglades National Park. Tarpon are staging in very shallow water, making excellent conditions for sight and blind casting to rolling fish. Pro Tail Paddles and the Charter Grade Sliders are the perfect presentations for swimming just subsurface along the shallow, tannic bays.
The Hogy Crew heads out of SWFL in search of light tackle tarpon action along coastal river systems. We focus on a late May night time outgoing tide, swimming Hogy Slowtail Swimbaits near the surface along bridge light lines.
Capt. Ross Gallagher shows us how to sight cast to cobia schools over structure offshore using the Slowtail Swimbait. Having a rod rigged and ready with an appropriate lure is key for quickly pitching to cobia when they surface.
