About this product
A soft swimbait catches fish for a reason a hard lure cannot copy. The whole body flexes as it moves, so the tail drives a slow, heavy roll even at a crawl, and the lure feels right in a fish mouth for the half-second before the hook sets. On pressured fish and in cold or still water, that is often the difference.
The NBL8602 is made in four lengths – 140, 180, 220 and 270 mm – which spans a lot of ground. At 140 mm it is a general big-predator lure; at 270 mm it is a genuinely large swimbait aimed at the biggest fish in the water. It sinks, so you count it down to the depth you want and then swim it back slowly.
The plastic is phthalate-free, which is worth noting – the softeners used in cheap soft plastics are exactly what makes them melt into each other and into tackle-box trays. Noeby list it for pike and big game, freshwater and saltwater.
In Tanzania the obvious use is Nile perch on Lake Victoria and Lake Tanganyika, and tigerfish in the rivers, where a large soft swimbait is a proven bait. Inshore it will take big kingfish and cobia worked over reef.
One note: this lure is on Noeby China site as the Pro Shad Swimbait but we could not load that page to verify the hardware, so the figures here come from our supplier and from the product listing title. Ask us and we will open a packet in the shop.
Noeby NBL8602 Pro Shad Sinking Soft Swimbait - 140 mm to 270 mm