How to fish SacPig baits

Pro Set is grab-and-go: three baits with TPE locks glued in, plus three BKK 8/0 Titan Divers. Rigged Set has the locks in — use your existing hooks or add the hook pack. Swimbait Only is three baits plus locks you rig yourself.

Seat the hook so the point stays in the bait. That is what makes it weedless. All packs are 4.7 in TPE. Shop SwimFrat 3-packs.

Watch the history, then shop the 3-pack.

On a straight retrieve the 1-piece makes a cadence you will grow to feel. When that thump skips, a fish is on it or just missed it underwater. You feel it in the hand that turns the reel, not in the rod. After a blow-up, keep reeling — a lot of fish come back.

The waking 2-piece can be cranked down, burned at the surface, or just barely sub-surface. Rod tip up lets you reel faster on top. Mid-level is the comfortable wake — that rocking motion in the butt on a slow retrieve. Tip down and it dives at lower speeds.

Same rod-height rules apply to Mischief Go.

The 1-piece is the only truly silent wakebait we make. The sound is the bait cutting water, not body noise or hardware. Even a “silent” bait still clacks on the split ring and hook. The Mischief 1-piece does not.

A swim review of SacPig 1-piece and 2-piece rats. Shop Mischief Go.

Nick K. on SacPig wake-baits and why bass eat rats. Shop Mischief Go.

Do not swing. Reel until the rod loads, then keep pressure. These hooks are sharp and thin — a hard hookset tears holes in the mouth, and opening those holes is the most common way to lose the fish coming in.

I am an enthusiast of the KVD Mustad hooks, but you do need to fish them differently. During testing I went from never carrying pliers to always needing them in my pocket. On braid to leader, reel-set enough to load the rod completely. Drag a few clicks higher than it takes to fully load the rod. Those two things made a huge difference.

For SwimFrat, the hook is the BKK 8/0 Titan Diver. Same rule: load the rod, do not cross-the-eyes set.

The #1 topwater setup is braid to a mono leader. 20 lb for lighter baits, 30 lb for larger baits if you are bank fishing around extreme cover. Second choice is straight mono, same 20–30 lb. Last — and I do not suggest this for my rats — is straight braid. It causes casting issues and wraps hooks.

Rod: something parabolic, so you can load it instead of swinging. That pairs with the reel-set above.

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When fish rip the tail off or short-strike behind the hooks. The Shaker puts a 4-chamber rattle where the tail was, so the noise is in the strike zone instead of a rubber tail they keep missing.

I started with a Yo-Zuri Knuckle Ball, then built my own. I never looked back — I prefer the Booty Shaker over the tail when I fish. One per pack. Mischief Go takes the 3/4 in Shaker.

Shop Booty Shaker · Shop Mischief Go

Watch the swap, then keep the bait fishing. Mischief Go ships with swiveling BKK hooks. Handmade rats use the same idea — replace worn hooks instead of retiring the bait.

Original Mischief, 2-piece, and Travel rats are handmade in Sacramento and sell in drops. Join the waitlist on those product pages.

Mischief Go is the ABS rat (walk, wake, crank). SwimFrat 3-packs are for grass. Start with how to fish a topwater rat or how to rig a SwimFrat.

Yes. SacPig ships worldwide. Checkout is secure. SwimFrat and Mischief Go ship when you order.

30-day returns. If a pack, hook, or bait is off, contact us and we will make it right.