What is unusable? 2024
RMax reply :
I have seen a few people say "I won't throw this" even though said lure works well. What are some lures you will not buy/use even if they are effective for others?
scaleface reply :
Theres a lot of lures and techniques that I havent used . I just dont have time to use everything . Unlike a lot of others , I wont hesitate to throw a carolina rig .
bigturtle reply :
That's like asking why don't you buy pretty much every bait under the sun because X bait is productive for X group of people.
RoLo reply :
My wife & I (RoLo) take at least 1 fishing vacation every year, and have done so for the past 50-some years.
Before each & every angling trip, I meticulously peruse everything that I can get my hands-on
with regard to 'WHERE' & 'WHEN'. Without exception though, I diligently skip-over all data & information
pertaining to 'HOW' (needless to say, we never hired a guide). Strange but true, avoiding all locally favorite techniques, lures & colors has served us extremely well throughout the country & over the years.
Back To Your Question:
I've amassed an enormous horde of unusable techniques, unusable lures & unusable color patterns,
but in a paradoxical twist, I don't have a clue to their identity 
Roger
Darren. reply :
Heh. BIG swim baits, BIG cranks, BIG jigs,
BIG baits in general.
Oh, and bubble gum colored lures. They work
for everyone but me. Everyone else.
RyneB reply :
I have a tough time with hard jerkbaits.
RMax reply :
On 2/15/2017 at 9:08 AM, scaleface said:Theres a lot of lures and techniques that I havent used . I just dont have time to use everything . Unlike a lot of others , I wont hesitate to throw a carolina rig .
Whats your favorite thing to throw on a carolina rig in muddy water?
On 2/15/2017 at 9:52 AM, Darren. said:Heh. BIG swim baits, BIG cranks, BIG jigs,
BIG baits in general.
Oh, and bubble gum colored lures. They work
for everyone but me. Everyone else.
Hey, bubble gum doesn't work for me either.
Darren. reply :
On 2/15/2017 at 9:55 AM, RMax said:Hey, bubble gum doesn't work for me either.
Clearly it is something we are doing wrong.
Perhaps laughing every time we cast a bubblegum
colored lure thinking "this'll never catch any fish"
and sure enough it doesn't. 
RMax reply :
On 2/15/2017 at 9:56 AM, Darren. said:
Clearly it is something we are doing wrong.
Perhaps laughing every time we cast a bubblegum
colored lure thinking "this'll never catch any fish"
and sure enough it doesn't.
Or looking through our plastics, glancing at the bubblegum colors, and totally pretending they aren't there.
Darren. reply :
On 2/15/2017 at 9:58 AM, RMax said:Or looking through our plastics, glancing at the bubblegum colors, and totally pretending they aren't there.
That, too.
RoLo reply :
On 2/15/2017 at 9:52 AM, RyneB said:I have a tough time with hard jerkbaits.
Yeah, we all have a tough time with jerks 
Ski213 reply :
I can't think of any lure/technique I have refused to try. There are some I've resisted though. The Ned rig, the A-rig, really any rig that doesn't start with Carolina or Texas.
I've warmed up
to the Ned though. It's the technique I hate to love.
The only pattern I refuse to throw is bass. I have thrown it. For years I threw it growing up. It's the only pattern that I know for a fact that I've never been bit on. I know that it works for others but it has not one time worked for me, not even a swipe.
Mosster47 reply :
I don't throw buzz baits.
guest reply :
I was about to say that wile I was scrolling through the threads, buzz baits.
RMax reply :
I guess I should add my own: buzz baits, spinnerbaits, and drop shot. I've put time into these lures and they have not produced. I guess all the hype surrounding them is fake and is only made to spite me into buying more varieties in hopes of success.
Yeajray231 reply :
You two should give buzzbaits a try if you ever find bass up shallow. Sure they can be taken by other lures but something about chuckin and winding a buzzbait is loads of fun.
Dropshot is awesome. The possibilities are almost endless.
Mine would be the Japanese market.. I'm not all for the hype.I'll admit I own some keitech. But you won't see me gong out of my way or paying extra to get things from Japan.
Are rage and Yamamoto products made in the states ? If so then 95 percent of my soft plastics are made in the states. Like zoom.. fluke , trick worm , lizard, horny toad, brush hog... I think I could get by with just zoom if I had to lol
thebillsman reply :
Never fished tubes.
ww2farmer reply :
I don't have anything I refuse to use.
I do however refuse to give my business to several companies because I am not a fan of their antics, but that's between me and those companies, and I don't think they care much that I don't buy from them.
Josh Smith reply :
I have a hard time with Shimano.
From what I've been able to gather, they stole Lew Childress's design and marketed it as their own.
I generally won't use and any reels made in China. I own one, my ultralight Pfluger. I got back into fishing, realized I needed to replace my UL reel, and ordered a fairly high-priced spinning reel from a brand with an excellent reputation. I felt betrayed when I saw "China" on it.
Josh
Angry John reply :
The ball and chain aka the Carolina rig. I have tried but it sucks and has never worked so i pass on it.
Bluebasser86 reply :
The DT series from Rapala and their Rattlin Rap. I've had too many of the DT's fall apart to ever pay what they want for them again, which sucks because they're a good bait. The Rattlin Raps on the other hand, I could throw one of them into a frenzied school of white bass and come back empty handed. They just don't get bit for me even though they obviously catch fish since they've been around for years.
Bass_Fishing_Socal reply :
I dont like crankbait as much especially deep crank. I plan to try shallow one like squrebill this year.
Btw, I got finess worm, senko and jerkbait style plastic in bubblegum and none produce any fish yet.?
scaleface reply :
On 2/15/2017 at 9:55 AM, RMax said:Whats your favorite thing to throw on a carolina rig in muddy water?
Hey, bubble gum doesn't work for me either.
I usually dont throw it in muddy water . Stained , most likely a Lizard or worm .
Raul reply :
On 2/15/2017 at 10:31 AM, Mosster47 said:I don't throw buzz baits.
I do, can count with my fingers the fish I've caught with them in 4 decades, but now .... now it's personal .....
Mosster47 reply :
On 2/15/2017 at 6:37 PM, Raul said:
I do, can count with my fingers the fish I've caught with them in 4 decades, but now .... now it's personal .....
I've thrown them. I even own a black and white one. I've had one fish swipe at one and miss, but have never caught one.
Sometimes it just isn't meant to be.
Bankbeater reply :
I think I have caught one bass on a Beetle Spin. I stopped using them when I couldn't even get a sunfish to bite.
N Florida Mike reply :
For me it's jigs.I hear so much good about them.I have never caught a fish on one,or even got a tap,swirl or anything.Not that I've fished them a lot though.
Another is wacky rigged senkos. I catch tons of fish T rigged with them,but nothing with wacky style.
Bubble gum flukes don't work well in my lake (fairly clear water ), but I caught one of my best fish ever on one in a fairly murky golf course lake.
bigfruits reply :
deep cranks
cgolf reply :
For me it is Senkos, for a lot of reasons, too slow, not economical, don't like fishing lures on a slack line, etc even though I know they catch fish for others.
I did buy five bags at a DSG sale recently so maybe I am softening, but I have had 3 other bags for a few years that never got used.
Like farmer I have at least one company I won't buy from once I made the mistake of googling some stuff, but as he said they won't care a bit.
The only other baits that come to mind for me are any topwater, they hate me, but I still try and have had limited success. The other is the KVD square bills that everyone loves, they just plow water for me.
On 2/15/2017 at 3:12 PM, Bluebasser86 said:The DT series from Rapala and their Rattlin Rap. I've had too many of the DT's fall apart to ever pay what they want for them again, which sucks because they're a good bait. The Rattlin Raps on the other hand, I could throw one of them into a frenzied school of white bass and come back empty handed. They just don't get bit for me even though they obviously catch fish since they've been around for years.
The cool part about the DTs is you can usually find deals, I bought a bunch of them a while back when Gander had them on a great sale and then to top it off you got 20% more off what you could fit in a cooler you were buying. Saying that though I have only broke one that I bounce off the console and 2 casts later I only had the bill left. I just never slap them on the surface to clean them off and they seem to hold up for me.
the reel ess reply :
On 2/15/2017 at 9:52 AM, Darren. said:Heh. BIG swim baits, BIG cranks, BIG jigs,
BIG baits in general.
Oh, and bubble gum colored lures. They work
for everyone but me. Everyone else.
Funny. My kayaking buddy, who only fishes when he's with me and only has one combo because i gave it to him uses the trick Worm on bubble gum exclusively-and catches fish.
Bama rig, big swimbaits, huge crankbaits, monster worms. I'm sure these all work and have their place, but you can go days without a bite when you oversize. I fish where there are big bass and I find that they'll bite normal size baits.
But I'm a sucker for the expensive topwaters like rats.
Catt reply :
Zoom's Brush Hog!
Kill em on Baby Brush Hog...not a single fish on Brush Hogs!
Darren. reply :
On 2/15/2017 at 9:21 PM, the reel ess said:Funny. My kayaking buddy, who only fishes when he's with me and only has one combo because i gave it to him uses the trick Worm on bubble gum exclusively-and catches fish.
Of course! He's "that guy"! I know a few of them, too.
Everything I say probably won't work, does for them.
Never ending saga, LOL.
.ghoti. reply :
A-rig; because regulations in Illinois say so.
Rattletraps; all I can catch on a trap are dinks. Don't even carry them with me these days. In fact, I gave them all away.
C-rig; just because.
the reel ess reply :
On 2/15/2017 at 9:28 PM, .ghoti. said:A-rig; because regulations in Illinois say so.
Rattletraps; all I can catch on a trap are dinks. Don't even carry them with me these days. In fact, I gave them all away.
C-rig; just because.
I just packaged up some tackle that I won't use and dobated it to a local charity thrift shop, among other things. Among the lures were a few Traps that I've never gotten a bite on. They only want gold metallic/black or silver metallic around here. I had so many I couldn't fit any more cranks in that box.
Yeajray231 reply :
Interesting about the bubblegum baits !! I'm not real big on them... But I had a day where I was catching crappie and bass on them in the same area. I switched to my lightest gear and had a blast.. this was the super fluke too. They were respectable crappie.
The rapala DT... I've never had the breakage issues.. Ive broke one.. and own many. I hear it all the time so maybe I'm not fishing hard enough lol.
Jeff H reply :
On 2/15/2017 at 10:31 AM, Mosster47 said:I don't throw buzz baits.
Ditto. Hate 'em!
kbeeb374 reply :
For me it's the traditional texas rig.. and its not so much that I refuse to use them I just find myself using other techniques to get the job done.
EastCoastAngler reply :
On 2/15/2017 at 10:31 AM, Mosster47 said:I don't throw buzz baits.
You're missing out on some of the most heart stopping bass fishing ever
Fishes in trees reply :
Unusable is a situational concept. For instance, deeper diving cranks are unusable in shallow weedy areas. For the most part, so are hard jerk baits. Exposed hook soft plastics are unusable in some brushy situations. For a better, refined answer, got to have the situation first, then decide which is or ain't unusable.
RichF reply :
I'm not a fan of all the newer "rigs" that have come out recently. I just can't get behind the ned rig and niko rig. I can't stand to finesse fish in the first place so it would take a catastrophic event for me to turn to these. Senkos too. I'm trying not to be so stubborn with them because I know they flat out catch fish but man it's tough. The waters in upstate NY are just so good, I almost never have an issue getting bit power fishing my big, aggressive baits. Now that I'm south of the the Mason Dixon, I may have to change up my game a little.
Jaderose reply :
I tear it up on Bubblegum Senko's. *shrugs*
blckshirt98 reply :
Creature/Beaver style baits(especially Texas rigged) and spinnerbaits. For spinnerbaits I always opt for a chatterbait instead. For the T-rigged creature/beaver bits, I not only hate tying/pegging things on a Texas rig, but I also can't get over how some of those beaver style baits have no action in the water (like RI Sweet Beavers).
Bill Kowalski reply :
For me it's spoons. I used to love the old Johnson silver minnow, but I remember getting mostly Northern pike with it.
Mosster47 reply :
On 2/15/2017 at 11:44 PM, EastCoastAngler said:You're missing out on some of the most heart stopping bass fishing ever
I will take your word for it.
N Florida Mike reply :
On 2/15/2017 at 9:23 PM, Catt said:Zoom's Brush Hog!
Kill em on Baby Brush Hog...not a single fish on Brush Hogs!
Same here Catt.Ive caught one 4 pounder on the brush hog and nothing else.Have caught lots on the babies.
papajoe222 reply :
The Ned rig. If it were the only bait I was limited to use, I'd take up golfing.
clh121787 reply :
On 2/15/2017 at 3:12 PM, Bluebasser86 said:The DT series from Rapala and their Rattlin Rap. I've had too many of the DT's fall apart to ever pay what they want for them again, which sucks because they're a good bait. The Rattlin Raps on the other hand, I could throw one of them into a frenzied school of white bass and come back empty handed. They just don't get bit for me even though they obviously catch fish since they've been around for years.
Plus 1 for the dT Rapala. And spinning equipment. Can't stand em
On 2/15/2017 at 11:23 PM, kbeeb374 said:For me it's the traditional texas rig.. and its not so much that I refuse to use them I just find myself using other techniques to get the job done.
Boooo!
RoLo reply :
On 2/15/2017 at 12:30 PM, Angry John said:The ball and chain aka the Carolina rig. I have tried but it sucks and has never worked so i pass on it.
I like your priorities John, you gave precedence to "ball-&-chain" over "Carolina rig"
Mike L reply :
On 2/16/2017 at 8:29 AM, papajoe222 said:The Ned rig. If it were the only bait I was limited to use, I'd take up golfing.
Ditto..
Mike
RMax reply :
On 2/15/2017 at 11:23 PM, kbeeb374 said:For me it's the traditional texas rig.. and its not so much that I refuse to use them I just find myself using other techniques to get the job done.
You gotta put more time in the Texas rig, it's caught me so many fish.
GreenGhostMan reply :
Probably won't ever throw an alabama rig... Just doesn't seem right to me.
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