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So I finally decided to take the plunge and start building and fishing swimbaits. I built 4 to start with with the idea I was going to make 2 fast sink and 2 slow sink. Well I got them to the point you see in the photo and took them for a swim test. The 2 lighter lures swam much better than the heavier lures, they have a very nice side to side action. Both lures have just a tiny bit of body roll, not enough to actually blow out but just enough to make it noticeable. The heavier lures had body roll pretty bad the first time I tested them. I backed the joint out a little bit and while this improved the action I am still not satisfied. In looking at most of the commercially available swimbaits I see that the majority of them are fairly uniform down the length of the bait and are fairly close to being jointed dead square at half the bait. (I am talking s-waver style) I? believe? that this was my first error on the shad bodies, the tail is much shorter than the body section and it also comes up at a pretty sharp angle, in no way does this promote equal force on both sections. Plus I read on a thread here that you generally use flatter sides to help with body roll and the tails on all 4 baits are fairly rounded at the end of the section, but they are pretty flat on the sides, I think this is why I got as good of action as I did. I also read not to put weight in the middle section. Well I think this is where my second error is, on a few of the weights I placed them vertically to save space when I should have put them horizontally along the bottom of the bait. I've been kind of rambling up to this point but the questions are coming I promise. Since these lures only have 2 should I space the weight out to avoid the middle? Do the tails need to be more squared off as well? Does it matter if the bait is fairly uniform down the length of the body? I like the shape of the shad bait if I could just minimize the roll but at this point it wouldn't bother me to much to make new tail sections for the shad bodies if it would help stabilize the bait. Any suggestions /constructive criticism is highly welcomed. I'm new to building and fishing these so please do correct me if I'm wrong. I will try to get some videos up on YouTube of a swim test so you guys can actually see what I'm talking about