Twitcher or a Swimmer?

Just curious.
Do you primarily twitch your jigs or swim them back ?
I love twitching a trout magnet but recently I’ve been somewhat successful swimming a 1” curly tail.
I go through phases .

Mostly twitching, but I will swim a paddle tail bait. Years back when I was doing saltwater fishing I used to follow a Long Island native, John Skinner, who is a very accomplished fluke (summer flounder) fisherman, though more renowned for striped bass. He likes to target fluke with a bucktail jig plus gulp. On his YouTube channel he took several underwater videos of fishing a bucktail with rapidly twitching vs letting it glide while drifting from the boat. The former was more successful in enticing the fish to bite. Perhaps the twitching motion triggers predatory fish.


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Y’all taught me something just now. Maybe I’ll even remember it when I fish next time. I pitch and do a super slow bottom dragging crawl back to me with tiny hops mixed in. If one is looking at it when I twitch the bite is soon to follow. Straight tail or curly, it works well on both. Getting a guest to slow to a crawl is tough to do, but when they do the fish reward them.

If I fish out of my boat , I’ll sometimes have a rod setup to do both . Maybe a float rig also .
Swimming used to be my go to method until I started fishing a Trout Magnet.
Pausing a swimming jig for a second, will sometimes draws a strike .

I usually twitch when I have a float on and swim it without the float.