A good swimbait has to look right in the water.
The profile matters. The color matters. The action matters. But the bait also has to fit the places you actually fish. A swimbait can look perfect, but if it only works in one situation, it will spend more time in the box than it should.
That is the idea behind the Option Swimbait.
It is built around a realistic baitfish profile with the kind of size, color selection, and swimming action you want from a soft swimbait, but the biggest advantage is right in the name. It gives you options.
You can rig it with the treble hook on the bottom, or you can switch to a top-hook setup when the situation calls for it. That one change makes the bait a lot more useful across different types of water, cover, and fish position.
The bottom-hook setup is the one to reach for when you are fishing over the top of bass.
If fish are set up on offshore structure, suspended under bait, sitting on points, holding around humps, or positioned on ledges, a bottom treble puts the hook where a lot of those fish are going to attack. Many swimbait bites come from bass tracking underneath or behind the bait before they commit. When that fish comes up to eat, having the hook underneath can help put it right in the strike zone.
That makes the bottom-hook setup a strong choice for cleaner lanes, open water, and offshore situations where you are not constantly fighting cover.
The top-hook setup is what gives the Option Swimbait a different lane.
When you need to get closer to grass, brush, timber, or rock, a bottom treble can become a problem fast. The bait may get bit, but it also gets hung up. By moving the hook to the top, you can fish the bait through more cover with a lot more confidence.
It is still an exposed-hook bait, but the top-hook configuration makes it surprisingly efficient around places where a traditional treble-hook swimbait can be hard to manage. You can bring it over brush, work it across rock, or swim it over the tops of grass without constantly worrying about the hook catching everything in its path.
That matters because those are the places big bass like to live.
A swimbait that can get closer to cover gives you more chances to put the bait where the fish actually are. Instead of being limited to open water, you can adjust the rigging and keep fishing the same realistic profile in tighter areas.
The bait itself is built to match larger forage, whether bass are feeding on shad, bluegill, herring, trout, or other baitfish in your lake. The lineup gives you multiple size options, so you can choose a bigger profile when you want drawing power or scale down when the forage is smaller, the fish are pressured, or conditions call for something more compact.
The tail design is another big part of the bait.
The Option Swimbait has a wider, rounded tail that creates a strong kick and natural head roll. That head roll is what helps a swimbait look alive. It gives the bait flash, body movement, and presence without needing to overwork it.
That is important with a bait like this because a lot of the time, the best retrieve is simple. Let the bait swim. Keep it moving naturally. Pay attention to where the fish are positioned, then choose the rigging option that puts the hook in the best place for the bite.
If you are fishing offshore and expecting fish to come from underneath, run the bottom treble. If you are working around cover and need the bait to come through cleaner, switch to the top hook.
That versatility is what makes the Option Swimbait easy to keep tied on.
You are not locked into one setup or one kind of water. You can fish it around offshore structure, over grass, through open lanes, across rock, around brush, or near timber by adjusting the rigging to fit the situation.
A lot of swimbaits look good. The ones that stay tied on are the ones that give you confidence in more places.
That is what the Option Swimbait was built to do.
