Top 3 Cold Water Baits? 2024
demonjd22 reply :
Hey guys with ice out approaching rapidly here in the north (thank goodness!) I'm wondering what are your top 3 cold water goto baits. I've been reading the articles here but I'm hoping you guys can narrow it down for me. I don't want to waste time throwing lures that don't work. I'm fiending catching not fishing ;D
I Love BassResource reply :
For me
Jerkbaits
Jigs
Tight Wobble Cranks
Slow Rolling big spinner baits
Yeah thats 4... sorry
Blue Streak reply :
Jerk baits
flat sided cranks
sometimes I will use a deep running, suspending crank
Team9nine reply :
Hair jigs
Blade baits
suspending jerkbaits
-T9
soccplayer07 reply :
hair jigs
traps
jerk baits
Catt reply :
Rat-L-Trap
Jig-N-Craw
DD-22
Triton20XSD reply :
hair jig
jerkbait
grub
Taylor Fishin 4 life reply :
suspending jerkbait
rat l traps
jigs
grub on 1/8 jig
Paul Roberts reply :
Ditto the above good. Guess I'd add Chatter too.
As in all seasons, what you do with a given lure often matters more than the exact lure.
It's nice to find fish that will chase a faster retrieve. I often start faster and see what comes. If no go, I slow down. This is true in cold water too, but everything is slowed down across the board. Another thing helps, often a lot, but esp so in the cold: erratic action, BUT, not moving too far horizontally -forward. Consider erratic action with limited horizontal movement the reaction presentation for the cold. In summer sometimes simply rapid forward speed does it. Not so in the cold.
Sometimes cold water bass are willing to move for a horizontally traveling bait. Great! Makes covering water and catching fish that much quicker. I'll usually swim a jig or grub or creature or Chatter or SB or lipless or But often more erratic action triggers bites better. I then go to a jerkbaits, or bladebaits, lipless, or jigs fished more vertically -yo-yo'd. Last resort, often under real cold, is even more vertical with little or no horizontal movement: spoons, blades, grubs, or float-n-fly.
Year round horizontal speed of a lure is important, sometimes critical, determined by how willing bass are to give chase. In cold water, the issue is magnified, with generally slower presentations required, but this does not have to preclude erratic action.
Blade-Runner reply :
Suspending Jerkbait.
Jig.
Crankbait.
Lipless Crankbait.
Big Bait Fishing reply :
1. big , deep diving crankbaits
2. deep running spinnerbaits
3. jig and a plastic craw with a large profile .
Deep Jig reply :
Jig w/ trailer
Dropshot
Fluttered lipless crank
Hammer 4 reply :
Jig
Jig with a trailer
Suspending jerk bait.
DeanFishesNY reply :
Jig
Jerkbait
Blade baits or spinnerbaits
Hooligan reply :
Jerkbait
Suspending shad bodied crankbait
Jig
bear7625 reply :
Lipless crankbait
X-rap
1/8 jig w/ 3" reaper
bobbyc reply :
Bass suspended in cold water? Give me a Rapala jerkbait. Let that SOB lay still while just twitching the wrist. Making it as lethargic as a cold water bass will entice a strike imo.
Dock Master reply :
1. Jerkbait
2. Lipless Crankbait
3. Jig
RoLo reply :
In no particular order (may vary hourly):
> Suspending Jerkbait
> Jig & Craw
> Lipless Crank
Roger
senko_77 reply :
Jig
Fluke
Jig
K_Mac reply :
1. Jig: a-skirted with big trailer (Paca craw) b-non-skirted with spider grub
2. Wacky rigged 6" Senko/Stick-o on 1/8 oz jig
3. Suspending jerkbait (100 Pointer or X-Rap)
iceintheveins reply :
1. Centipede
2. Senko
3. Suspending Jerkbait
4. Tube
5. Jig and Pig
RobbyZ5001 reply :
Shaky Head
Jig
Jerkbait
BriBass reply :
jerkbait
lipless crank
jig
hey senko... nice new pic 8-)
bassman31783 reply :
1. Suspending jerkbait
2. Colorado spinnerbait
3. Jig
River Rat316 reply :
Hair Jig
Hair Jig
Pointer 78
When the water warms a little swimming a grub and spinnerbaits get worked in
For coldwater hair jigs check these out:
http://www.northstarbaits.com/hairjigs.html
MALTESE FALCON reply :
Spinnerbait
Jerkbait
Shallow Crankbait (tight wiggling)
Falcon
Siebert Outdoors reply :
tube
jig
jerkbait
basscaster88 reply :
jig
kenami(idk how to spell it...bait by Gary Yamamoto) plastics(T-rigged)
spinnerbait-slow rolled
rumbal reply :
Jerkbait
Wacky
Jig
zaraspook_dylan2 reply :
QuoteHey guys with ice out approaching rapidly here in the north (thank goodness!) I'm wondering what are your top 3 cold water goto baits. I've been reading the articles here but I'm hoping you guys can narrow it down for me. I don't want to waste time throwing lures that don't work. I'm fiending catching not fishing ;D
1) on a light jig, with 8 pound mono, rigged with a small 2 inch Yum Wooly Bug.
2) shaky head jig with some sort of floating worm
3) maybe a 6 inch Original floater
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