Davis Baits Aaron Martens Shakey Fish Swim Jig

Aaron Martens Shakey Fish Swim Jig (2 per pack)

The Aaron Martens Shakey Fish Swim Jig by Davis Baits has a 35 year history, beginning in Southern California in the early 1970s. John Waters, the inventor of the Scrounger swimbait, created it to be an inshore saltwater swimbait.

In the creation of the Scrounger, John used what he believed to be one of the most effective fishing lures of all time, a simple jighead. Because of its upright single hook system, compared to the treble hook system. The Scrounger would provide a much higher hook-to-set ratio and hook-to-catch ratio. He redesigned the jighead to a round jighead with an indention for a plastic bill to fit right the eye of the hook. The Scroungers bill is set up right and cupped around the now round jighead. Allowing the water to pass over the jighead in a complete 360 degrees, this forces the jighead to oscillate back and forth. To control the oscillation, John tied a round nose snap to the line, and for the first time the jighead worked in tandem with the soft plastic trailer. John had accomplished his mission creating the Scrounger swimbait which produced an oscillating action, unlike anything ever seen before. In addition to the improved swimming action, the Shakey Fish Swim Jig soft plastic bill also improves the odds of freeing the Shakey Fish Swim Jig when it becomes wedged in rock or rubble and acts as a weed guard allowing the Aaron Martens Shakey Fish Swim Jig to be fished in and through heavy cover or over weed beds.

The old style jighead swimbaits action is governed by the soft plastic trailer rigged on it. Currently in 2007, fisherman even go to the extent of rigging a jighead with a soft plastic trailer sideways in attempt to increase the swimming action.

Almost instantly, John knew he had accomplished his mission. He formed a company called North American Waters and with his son Tom, produced and sold over 500,000 Scroungers in the first ten years.

The Aaron Martens Shakey Fish Swim Jig could be fished at any depth in the water column from the bottom to the surface, while keeping the Shakey Fish Swim Jig in the desired strike zone. Even the inexperienced angler could fish the Shakey Fish Swim Jig with ease and catch fish. Being produced in numerous sizes, any saltwater species of fish could be caught on the Shakey Fish Swim Jig, Sand Bass, Calico Bass, Halibut, Cods, Yellowtail, Dorado, Pargo, Albacore, Wahoo, Yellow Fin Tuna, Sailfish, etc. All species of fish reacted to the Shakey Fish Swim Jig the same way. It was like the Shakey Fish Swim Jigs oscillating action affected the fishs hard drive. They simply could not resist it! Saltwater fisherman in California rigged the Scrounger with live bait and an array of soft plastic trailers matching the forage. The Scrounger quickly became a great multi-species saltwater lure.

Over the next 20 years, the Scrounger had been produced by a least three, possibly four, other lure manufactures, all producing it for a relatively short period of time. By the turn of the century, it became very hard to find the old Scrounger, especially a good one.