Modified S-Waver and Barramundi

I don’t like to modify the baits by myself. I don’t even want to true-tune the line eye. I open the package of lures, and I want them ready to use, period. But sometimes, from time to time, I feel like I wanna do some arrangements on the baits.

When barramundi gets spooky and slow down, the school tends to stay on the bottom. Even a living bait swims just in front of their faces, they ignore. But I felt like I didn’t wanna use tiny lures to do finesse. Thus, I had no choice; I gotta work on customizing swimbait to catch fish on swimbait because I was into swimbaits at that time.

I didn’t wanna modify my Deps Slide Swimmer or Gan Craft Jointed Claw because they are expensive lures… Thus, what I chose was River 2 Sea S-Waver. As you can see in the pic, this is what I did. I threw this lure only a few times before customizing it, but it didn't swim the way I wanted, so this is the only choice I had to modify a swimbait.

I saw Butch Brown's Huddleston customization, and I wanted to do something like that. Please see this movie on Youtube.


Butch Brown Hudd Rigging

I used 50Lb wire to hold the hook, comes in 4 times to punch the sleeve. It means this wire was as strong as 200Lb. (I know it was too much). I tied the hook by 40Lb mono filament line not to move around, and made sure not to move, I attached with the adhesive.

However, when I went to fish, this bait was sinking soooo slow. I couldn't wait it to sink it on the bottom, so I added some SuspenStrips type of lead weights (probably 2 grams) on the jaw.

I first reeled it really slow, but this bait doesn't wiggle its tail much. So, I started jerking it like a jig. Then, bang!

First strike, I caught a 2 kg (4 Lb) barra.

The second fish I caught, barra destroyed my mono filament hook holder... Well, I gotta do something about it.

Then, I caught a few Chado.
At the end, this modifying S-Waver went pretty well.