Favourite "dog-days" of summer lure 2025

zaraspook_dylan2 reply :

25+degrees celcius, little clouds, thick weeds, no wind. August. What's your favourite lure? Mine's gotta be a black lizard.

5bass reply :

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Fishes in trees reply :

Depends on water color and time of day. Crack of dawn or around dusk, I'll try to make a top water bite happen - poppers or frogs, some thing like that. During the day, assuming 1-3 feet visibility, I'll spend lots of time on main lake or primary cove tree lines and I'll primarily fish two lures. I'll look for reaction strikes with a DC16 Timber Tiger crank bait. I'll throw it into or across the crowns of trees and work it back at a medium pace. Option B - same area - a wacky rigged senko, threaded on an O ring, 3/0 Falcon K wacky 1/16 weedless hook on 14 or 17 fluorocarbon. The plan is to drift it down past any shade pockets that may be present. I try to pay attention to boat control. I want to go into or quartering into the wind without casting a shadow in the direction I'm casting. The past few years, this has been my best pattern for 5lb+ fish in the summertime - late june through early september.

Big Bait Fishing reply :

hit up the mats and lily pads with a Canyon Plastics 4.5" frog , punching mats with a Yum craw papi with a 1 oz. weight , runnin' thru light grass with a 10" power worm pegged with a 3/8 oz. bullet weight , and gonna try carolina rigging a smokin rooster this summer . i love summer time ;D

Catt reply :

Texas Rigged Plastic

iceintheveins reply :

Hollow frogs on top of the weeds, and topwaters such as buzzbaits, walkers and poppers on the edges. I would also peg a thumper tail worm, big tube, or brush hawg with a heavy weight to punch through the weeds.

soccplayer07 reply :

FROGS, punching mats, and deep diving cranks

SPEEDBEAD. reply :

Wakebait at night.

ww2farmer reply :

Frog on top, beaver or tube punched in the middle, whacky senko on the edge.

J Francho reply :

Jig.

CWB reply :

Celcius? Where are we, Europe? ;D

Rage Tail Shad over the top of the thicker stuff. Swim a Smokin' Rooster or Space Monkey through the lesser stuff.

Crestliner2008 reply :

In my neck of the woods, summer is THE time for small mouth bass. I mainly fish deep, off-shore structures during this warm weather period. My no. 1 presentation is the drop shot. Probably 70% of the SM that come across the gunnels of my boat, are caught using this technique - at this time of the year.

I really think that if a lot of LM anglers tried the DS, even in denser cover, they might be pleasantly surprised! And, if they moved off the first break, adjacent to where they usually catch them, they'd quickly become DS fanatics!

bassfisherjk reply :

T-rigged plastic's,Poppers.

bassman31783 reply :

T-rig plastics. C-rig plastics. Senko in the pads.

Hammer 4 reply :

I have 2..

Whacky rigged Senco.

Dropshot 4.5" Roboworms.

If 1 don't get em, the other will.. ;D

mhamlin reply :

At the risk of going against all wisdom, if fishing a reservoir that is drawing current like most of the lakes i fish during that time. I actually throw a lot of 6 to 8 foot diving crankbaits. Reason being is that the current positions the fish to face the outside edge of the weed line and towards the source of the current. (Think like a 45-60 degree angle in regards to the weed line.) As a result I can target specific areas of water and do so quite quickly with the crankbait. Which will allow me to then cover more water and so on.

If it's just a natural lake, I treat a jig like it's my bread and butter with a little frogging mixed in for good effect. Hope that helps!

brushhoggin reply :

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hit up the mats and lily pads with a Canyon Plastics 4.5" frog , punching mats with a Yum craw papi with a 1 oz. weight , runnin' thru light grass with a 10" power worm pegged with a 3/8 oz. bullet weight , and gonna try carolina rigging a smokin rooster this summer . i love summer time ;D

ok i realize i'm off topic, but so many folks talk about punchin mats with these 1 oz + weights and expect to get bit on the fall. how in the world does a bass bite a bait that comes crashing through a mat and falls through the water going mach 8? i'm not a nonbeliever, just wanna know how this works

5bass reply :

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hit up the mats and lily pads with a Canyon Plastics 4.5" frog , punching mats with a Yum craw papi with a 1 oz. weight , runnin' thru light grass with a 10" power worm pegged with a 3/8 oz. bullet weight , and gonna try carolina rigging a smokin rooster this summer . i love summer time ;D

ok i realize i'm off topic, but so many folks talk about punchin mats with these 1 oz + weights and expect to get bit on the fall. how in the world does a bass bite a bait that comes crashing through a mat and falls through the water going mach 8? i'm not a nonbeliever, just wanna know how this works

It's more of a reaction type bite. They hear the splash and see something going by....they really dont have time to think about it. They just eat it out of instinct.

You'd be surprised at how fast a bass can grab a bait that's going by at mach 8.

Stringjam reply :

8" Straight Tailed Worm

Various crankbaits from 1' - 20'

Buzzbait

Revo_Carrot Stix reply :

Black buzzbait first thing in the morning, Jig N Pig in the weeds during the day, weightless TR senko afternoon.

IwillChooseFreeWill reply :

usually TR or wacky senko, or for bream cut up hot dogs

zaraspook_dylan2 reply :

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Celcius? Where are we, Europe? ;D
Rage Tail Shad over the top of the thicker stuff. Swim a Smokin' Rooster or Space Monkey through the lesser stuff.

Canada.

silverbullet32 reply :

last year it was 4" TR power worms in tequila sunrise, but that's about all i knew how to catch bass on lol

Red Bear reply :

1. Berkley Red Shad worm on a 3/0 or 4/0 hook

2. Rebel Crickhopper, because if the bass wont eat that day, im sure to atleast catch some panfish using this and still have a chance at bass too

KC Bass Fanatic reply :

Depends on the lake around here but it's hard to go wrong with a T-rigged 10" power worm REAL SLOW on points with timber. Football jigs on rocky points produce too.

DADto4 reply :

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Texas Rigged Plastic

X2 if that plastic is an 8 " Manns!!!!!

kikstand454 reply :

i start in the morning with a buzzbait or frog in the thick stuff... move out of the grass as the sun comes up. by 10am im typically in 20ft of water throwing a c-rig with a trick worm or craw on top of a 13ft bar. then get up over the bar and crank the ledge with a big deep crank.

thats just how it is round here.

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