Swimbaits and stripers?

[Striper-Sniper]

I was just curious about something, I know that pulling live bait under planer boards is one of the best ways to catch big stripers, but with some of the new large swimbaits that have come out and how realistic looking they are couldn't you try pulling these under a planer board instead of live bait? Someone may be doing this, just curious. The new Storm Kickin' Minnow comes in a 10 inch size that looks like a gizzard shad, and they make the Wildeye Shad in a 9 inch size also. The Kickin' Minnows look like a real fish in the water. I'm thinking these would work as a live bait replacement. Anybody tried something like this?

[apb]

I've pulled bucktails behind planers before with success for stripers, so I would think those baits would work too.

Andrew

[adam7456]

When I troll it's slow and any type of artifical bait I've tried just doesn't have the action it is supposed at that speed. If you trolled fast enough I think it would work though.

[Tim_T]

Don't know about trolling them, but I saw an episode of In-Fisherman recently and they were on the Cumberland River with Fred McClintock casting big swim baits and catching some very big stripers. Makes since that it would work if you could get the same lure action trolling them.

[JoeB]

I usually pull alwives as I have a good supply, but a friend who doesn't has been pulling Storm swim baits behind boards the last year or so and has done pretty well.

[cumberlandguy1]

I pull the Gizz 4 crankbait by Smack Tackle. It looks exactly like a shad and I can pull it slow or fast. The stripers and those crazy brown fish love them.