What's your favorite finesse technique? 2025

TheOriginalFishaholic reply :

I fish a lot of heavily pressured watersheds and sometimes have to rely of some form of finesse fishing to save the day...what lure(s) and technique do you employ when finesse fishing? If line weight and type of rod is relevant, please give that information also.

backwater4 reply :

When I need fish, my go to finesse set up is a 3/16 Spider Slider Head w/ a 4" straight tail worm, either a Luck E Strike Razor, Berkley Finesse or Brewers. I only use different styles of worms because I like a specific color from one better than the other. My rod/reel set up is a Team Diawa Tony Bean 6' spinning rod (old) and an older Team Diawa SS1300 Tournament. Line is Trilene XL 8lb lo vis green.

BassnMan Mike reply :

Out here in the clear heavily pressured waters of CA we generally go about it either 1 of 2 ways.

1. Down size, use small finesse baits on light line. Either Split Shot or Drop Shot them.

2. Go Big, swimbaits or big worms, I'm talking 12-15 inch ones.

TheOriginalFishaholic reply :

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Out here in the clear heavily pressured waters of CA we generally go about it either 1 of 2 ways.
1. Down size, use small finesse baits on light line. Either Split Shot or Drop Shot them.

2. Go Big, swimbaits or big worms, I'm talking 12-15 inch ones.

That's very interesting Mike, because I tend to go extremely small on super ultralite tackle, or go big with my surface baits and swim baits that are rarely used in this part of the country.

Fish Chris reply :

My favorite finesse type of Bass fishing, is to fly-line (no weight whatsoever) a night crawler, and let it sink, slowly / naturally, twisting and curling the whole way Deadly !

....and if that won't put them in the boat, try tail hooking them. They are much more fragile this way, and will sometimes break their own tail off to get away.... But if you can get it into the zone, it will literally crawl across the bottom, and a bass (even big ones) often can't resist

......and if that doesn't work, I'll turn around and throw a big swimbait, or 10" wake bait

Peace,

Fish

Boogey Man reply :

Split shot for me. I use the lightest weight I can get maintain bottom contact with depending on the wind. I usually position the weight about 12" from the lure. I use Zoom finesse worms, Meatheads, and Lucky Strike Razor worms. In super clear water the best color I've found is cotton candy, but don't tell anybody ;D. For line I use 8# Stren Original, the rod I was using was an old Berkley but this year it will be a 6'6" Compre x-fast medium. I'm not real crazy about fishing slow but sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do.

Bass_Akwards reply :

"Stitching" a live crawdad. It's the most deadly big bass technique I can think of once you're on fish.

brushhoggin reply :

4" roboworm zipper shakin on a 8th oz spot remover. deadstickin tiny flukes

Fish Chris reply :

Hey Bass_Akwards, I love fishing live dads, when, and where I can still legally do it. But I use my medium weight gear, and 2 1/2" to 4"crawdads, most of the time, when I'm after big bass. Which is why I don't immediately think of crawdads at a "finesse" technique.

Tiny dads, fished on the micro-light can be a kick, but I usually just get numbers of 3 to 8 lb'ers that way (mostly at Clear Lk. CA) It's a blast, but almost never produces legit 10+ fish for me.

My crawlers are always fished on the micro-light though.

Peace,

Fish

BassThumb reply :

When the pressure is heavy, I go with down-sized shakyhead worming, like 4" worms on 1/16 oz heads.

VABassin'14 reply :

Just this year I started using a Yum Forked Dinger, Texas rigged. It has produced very well for me and I now have very strong confidence in it.

Dock Master reply :

My favorite is a 1/8 oz. shakey head with a Zoom shakey tail in green pumpkin color.

Chris reply :

Bass assassin 3 inch shad assassin letting it fall after a few jerks. Carlson tackle Mr.Wiggly Jr. swimming it a few feet then jerk it and let it fall then repeat.(I do the same thing with a 6" creme worm) Spiraling a tube or skipping it. (sorry couldn't choose just one)

Hammer 4 reply :

I fish a bunch of city park lakes in so. cali, which as you may have guessed, are all highly pressured.

First I'll break out the 6'6" mxf spinning rig loaded with 4lb fluro, with a huddlebug, or a tiny baby brushhog on a split shot.

If that don't work, then I'll go to a dropshot on the same line, and use a #2 ds hook, and nose hook a 4.5" flat tail robow worm.

Although at 1 lake, where the fish are bedding, I toss a white 5/8 oz jig, with a oxblood colored craw trailer.

Other than that, I'm chuckin 6 to 8" swimbaits..lol

Phranchise1213 reply :

tru tungsten flick shake jig...3/16 oz...with a 4 inch tiki stik or similar. Deadly technique in cold clear water when those smallies are being shy. i usually opt for 6 lb fluorocarbon on a 7 ft fast action spinning rod.

Wayne P. reply :

6 1/2' medium heavy spinning gear with 30#-40# superline. The bass's favorite presentation is a Zoom finesse worm rigged wacky.

roadwarrior reply :

3/4 oz GMAN Mop jig/ Rage Tail Lobster fished

SLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW. Crawl the jig

over a rock or limb and let it hide. Then move it

to the next piece of cover and let it rest again.

8-)

Gamec0cks5 reply :

I like to go to my 6'6" Shimano Compre w/ a Sahara 2500 with 8lb test Berkley Trilene xl. I usually can get them to bite on a Gamakatsu or Owner shaky head between 1/6oz or 1/8oz with a brown head and a watermelon shaky worm by zoom or a Roboworm MIII Curly tail. Both worms are only about 4" long. Its deadly this time of year when they are near the shelves and shallow bars

Wacky Worm produces fish also when nothing else works. I like SK Ocho or Yum's Dinger I can't afford the real senko(just can't stand to pay $7 a bag)

There's my .02

fishinflip415 reply :

Dropshot or shakey head with the lightest weight you can get away with. I like roboworms in 4-6". 8-)

KC Bass Fanatic reply :

In my area it's hard to beat a zoom finesse worm with a 2/0 wire hook and an 1/8oz weight.

basspimple reply :

1/8 oz. gambler giggy head with either a 6" netbait t-mac worm, or 5" open water baits huzzie worm. internally wieghted gitzit tube or strike king bitsy tube is my next best thing. as far as colors is stick with black or some dark color. all fished on a 6'8" st croix mojo spinning rod with a flueger supreme reel with 6 lb. yo zuri hybrid US.

Carrington reply :

for finese i will use a texas rigged zoom finese worm with an unpegged 1/8 oz tungsten weight.

DWG1984 reply :

1/8 oz shakey head and a berkley wacky crawler

or a 1/8 oz pegged bullet weight with a 2/0 hook with the same worm

Vinny Chase reply :

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When the pressure is heavy, I go with down-sized shakyhead worming, like 4" worms on 1/16 oz heads.

Must be a Minnesotan thing

Jeff H reply :

1/16 or 1/8 oz Snagless Slider and 4" Producto Tournament worms for me. I use a lot of different finesse techniques but this one is my favorite.

iceintheveins reply :

Weightless senko or a split shotted centipede.

iceintheveins reply :

To fish these I use the 4" models with 8 pound test spinning gear and a MH action spinning rod for extra backbone and sensitivity. A 1/0 EWG gammy is my hook of choice for 60% of my plastics fishing.

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