As most of you i assume just like me usually have 6-7 rods on deck at all time.. What all is tied on?
For me its, texas rig, jig, spinner bait, crank bait, top water, shakey head, swimbait.
I don't own a boat, but as a Co Angler I always have the same 7...
Frog (swim bait)
Jig
Spinnerbait (Chatterbait)
Bottom contact plastics
Crank (top water)
Punch
Shaky (Wacky)
Mike
Lures.
Right now I got :
Spinnerbait
Texas Rig Senko no weight
Texas Rig brush hog with a weight
Jig
Dag gum RattleTrap
Fluke no weight
C-rigged small ring worm
Drop shot with a bottom hopper, jr
Could change any second
Big Bite Baits 5" Trick Stick Spinach
Stanley Vibra Shaft 3/8 oz, double willow silver/gold, white/charteuse shirt
Terry Oldham Trailer Hitch jig 1/4 oz, black/blue, Gene Larew 5" Craw Worm, black/blue claw; 1 1/2" cut of the tail
Bill Lewis Rat-L-Trap 1/4 oz copper black back
Three max, usually a worm, a tube, and a spinnerbait or a swimbait.
early. i got a rattle trap. jerk bait. shaky head. jig.
once it warms up. 1 crank bait rod. 1 frog 2 jigs. 1 wacky rig. 1 shaky head. and 1 t rig.
sometimes chatterbait/spinnerbait
A hudd deluxe
Jig
texas rig
texas rig/swing head
senko
squarebill
swimjig
spinner/chatterbait
popper/spook/jerkbait
frog/buzzbait/toad
shakey head
drop shot
Super Spook Jr.
Yo-zuri 3DB Square Bill
Castaic Jerky J or Zoom Super Fluke
Gambler Swim Jig with a baby EZ Swimmer trailer
Hildebrandt Snagless Sally
Husky Jerk 14 (BC)
SPRO Glide 65 in pumpkinseed (BC)
1/2oz white spinnerbait (BC)
KVD 1.5 squarebill in bluegill (BC)
3.5" internally-rigged tube (SP)
Watermelon/red flake senko on splitshot rig. (SP)
I have hundreds of lures , the only one that is tied on 99 % of the time is something Texas rigged .
A tarp with snow on it at this moment.
Last time I went I had:
Bandit 300 series rootbeer
1/2 green pumpkin football jig with zoom twin tail grub trailer
Spro McStick 85 blue bandit
3/16 shakey head with smoke purple tube
Chatterbait
#5 shadrap
flatside crankbait usually flat max bandit
beaver type bait on a bifflehead
tex rig craw dad
fluke
last year it was
1) jig
2) crank
3) wacky
this year it will be
1) jig
2) chatterbait
3) frog
4) big swimbait
5) medium crank
6) wacky/shakey
1. Chatterbait
2. Squarebill/DT6
3. DT10
4. Texas rig/jig
5. Topwater (buzzbait)
Even though I usually always have 8-10 rods with me, those 5 are always tied up and ready to go.
regardless of the mix, there's always 1 jig rod and 1 t rig rod ready to roll
Always some type of crankbait, a spinnerbait or chatterbait, and a Ned Rig.
I carry 6 rods with me on the boat, and depending on the season and or conditions this is what will be tied on each one:
Casting:
7'3" H power/fast action: Flipping and big football jigs, Punch rigs, T-rigs , C-rigs
7' H/F: Frogs, swim jig, or chatter bait
7'3" MH/F (with a soft tip): Blade bait (silver buddy) squarebills, lipless cranks, mid-deep cranks.
7' MH/F: Power wacky, bubba shot, jigs/T-rigs around light cover
Spinning:
6'8" M/XF: Wacky rigs, shaky heads, jerkbaits, tubes/grubs, weightless plastics
6'10" ML/XF: Drop shot, flick shake, split shot rigs,
It depends on what lake I am fishing or what pond...Often I have softbaits and jigs on all my rods at times....
Ok. So time for my real answer. I always have a wacky rigged senko, a spinner bait, a square bill, a flipplin jig, and texas rig on. I usually have 14+ rods tied up, so the other 9 or so rods change with the season. For example, early in the season I have multiple sizes, colors, rattles, no rattle lip less cranks on.
This provides me with the ability to have my bread butter lures on that I can catch a fish on any day, any time of year. But also get pattern, season specific. It is my plan A and plan B.
7 rods:
7 is ENOUGH. If they won't bite THOSE 7 - they won't bite.
1. Jig for pitching and swimming
2. T-rig with beaver or craw
3. Spinnerbait
4. Square bill
5. Frog
6. Drop shot roboworm or wacky senko
1. Jig with a craw
2. T-rig for the bottom
3. Spinnerbait / Bladed Jig
4. Weightless Fluke or Senko
5. Crankbait / Rat-L-Trap
On 2/13/2016 at 4:24 AM, nocellcontracts said:7 rods:
- Squarebill
- DT6
- C-rig
- Spinnerbait
- Spook Jr.
- Senko
- Jig
7 is ENOUGH. If they won't bite THOSE 7 - they won't bite.
Dont know about that . Ever fish a little George ? Or a jigging Spoon ?..
I bring a max of 5 combos with me on a kayak, chosen from among 10 depending on where I'm fishing. Every year I fish about 10 different lakes or rivers, and every year I try a few new ones from among the several hundred within an hour and a half or so of my house.
My 3 current favorites, all pretty small, but different characteristics and different forage that seem to demand tying on different things:
Lake 1: 50 acres, mostly undeveloped, 10-12 feet of visibility, submerged vegetation over almost all of it. Lots of sunfish
--shakey head
--propbait or popper
--texas rigged lizard, craw or ribbontail worm
--wacky rigged stick worm
--Keitech fat impact on an underspin.
Lake 2: 100 acres, almost all shoreline residential development, 1-2 feet of visibility, not much vegetation, but some shallow pads, lots of docks, lots of gizzard shad, sunfish.
--jig & craw trailer
--buzzbait
--wacky rigged stick worm
--shallow crankbait (squarebill or minnow, preferably rattling)
--spinnerbait
Lake 3: 30 acres, developed on one side with a few docks, completely wild and marshy on other side. About 5-6 feet of visibility, lots of vegetation, huge fields of shallow lily pads surrounding a drop to 25 feet. sunfish, perch, lots of activity by terrestrial critters.
--Hollow-bodied frog
--shallow crankbait, or sometimes a lipless
--buzzbait
--mojo-rigged creature or worm
--weightless t-rigged fluke
Im prespawn still, so Im just running 4 rigs on my yak.
-spinning rod with wacky Senco
- Jig
-Texas rig
-Jerk bait/rip bait
Texas rigges beaver bait
Jig
Norman Weedwalker
Jerkbait
Wakebait/buzz frog
Spinnerbait/chatterbait
Only two guys on here with drop shots. Man you guys don' t know what your missing
Spinnerbait
Chatterbait
T-rigged craw
Rat L Trap (or topwaters)
jig (or topwater frog)
suspending Husky Jerk (Rapala or another Rat L Trap)
Trick Worm, weightless (or right now, my new favorite, T-rigged Yamamoto Hula Grub)
On 2/14/2016 at 2:02 AM, THE_Vue's said:Only two guys on here with drop shots. Man you guys don' t know what your missing
I'll get back to it, but when I've tried them I haven't caught a thing. I imagine it's really good around the spawning beds.
On 2/14/2016 at 6:08 AM, the reel ess said:Spinnerbait
Chatterbait
T-rigged craw
Rat L Trap (or topwaters)
jig (or topwater frog)
suspending Husky Jerk (Rapala or another Rat L Trap)
Trick Worm, weightless (or right now, my new favorite, T-rigged Yamamoto Hula Grub)
I'll get back to it, but when I've tried them I haven't caught a thing. I imagine it's really good around the spawning beds.
You and me both. In principle, a drop shot should should be right up my alley. The tackle I like to use and the places I fish should be perfect for it. In practice, I might as well not have a line in the water at all.
I have no idea what I'm doing wrong; maybe nothing, just luck...but at some point, you just have to cut your losses and pull out the dang texas rig again.
On 2/14/2016 at 1:14 PM, MIbassyaker said:You and me both. In principle, a drop shot should should be right up my alley. The tackle I like to use and the places I fish should be perfect for it. In practice, I might as well not have a line in the water at all.
I have no idea what I'm doing wrong; maybe nothing, just luck...but at some point, you just have to cut your losses and pull out the dang texas rig again.
Me too man! Soft plastics are my go-to when I can't buy a bite.
I usually just put whatever I think is gonna work on the front deck. If they don't work I do the dreaded and open the rod locker and tie on something else or get another rod.