what technique have you never tried? 2024
thinkingredneck reply :
We post a lot about favorite techniques, difficult techniques, etc. What have you just never tried?
For me, it is c-rig, drop shot, whopper plopper, walk the dog,, fluke.
JLindsey reply :
I’m a fairly new angler, so the list of techniques I have tried is probably shorter than the list of stuff I haven’t. I just bought my first baitcasting outfit yesterday and now I’ve got a whole new world of stuff to explore this year. I’m probably most excited to try out frogging, working a jig around timber, and throwing big swimbaits.
Junger reply :
Carolina rig.
fishballer06 reply :
Whopper Plopper. Tokyo Rig.
I'm still not buying into the Whopper Plopper snake oil.
king fisher reply :
Banjo Minnow, and Dynamite.
Dens228 reply :
Dropshot, I just don't have the patience.
waymont reply :
C-Rig and A-Rig
Glaucus reply :
Tokyo Rig because it's an expensive silly looking gimmick. Alabama Rig. Never fished a spoon. True swimbait (fished smaller ones but I've never fished one of the big ones).
PAbasser927 reply :
Glide bait, Swimbait, A-rig, Flukes, Tubes, Spoons, Walking hard baits, Tokyo rig, Mojo rig, Neko rig.
I am only in my 3rd year of bass fishing so I am working on dialing in the techniques I am good at before investing time on the water to learning new techniques. I have a handful of techniques that I have confidence in for each part of the water column and branch out to learn more on the days I can’t buy a bite.
Glaucus reply :
On 3/28/2019 at 11:26 PM, fishballer06 said:Whopper Plopper. Tokyo Rig.
I'm still not buying into the Whopper Plopper snake oil.
That's a shame. See that beautiful smallie in your photo. You'd have a great time fishing a WP for those babies.
Ksam1234 reply :
I have never ever drop shotted .. I always want to but I find other things work better I guess
On 3/29/2019 at 1:21 AM, Glaucus said:That's a shame. See that beautiful smallie in your photo. You'd have a great time fishing a WP for those babies.
MAN I love watching blowups !
NittyGrittyBoy reply :
I'm another, haven't bought into the whopper plopper scam. To me it's just a hardbait trying to be a buzzbait. Seeing how I hardly fish a buzzbait, whopper plopper was a easy No.
Y'all enjoy them.
JLBBass reply :
On 3/29/2019 at 1:05 AM, waymont said:C-Rig and A-Rig
yep, me neither
Glaucus reply :
On 3/29/2019 at 1:46 AM, NittyGrittyBoy said:I'm another, haven't bought into the whopper plopper scam. To me it's just a hardbait trying to be a buzzbait. Seeing how I hardly fish a buzzbait, whopper plopper was a easy No.
Y'all enjoy them.
How is it a scam? It's a little expensive but it will last forever unless you put it in a tree. It accounts for dozens of nice fish for me every year. It also isn't like a buzzbait at all. You can't pause a buzzbait. You can pause a Plopper. It's more like a buzzbait and a popper made a baby. It's a fantastic bait.
NYWayfarer reply :
A-Rig.
fishwizzard reply :
C-rig and A-rig. I have tied on a C-Rig a few times but never fished it for long as the weight kept wegding in rocks. My state limits A-rigs to two jigheads so it never seemed worth the bother.
A-Jay reply :
Chicken Rig ~
A-Jay
EGbassing reply :
Alabama rig.
Bankbeater reply :
A-rig.
fishwizzard reply :
On 3/29/2019 at 3:07 AM, A-Jay said:Chicken Rig ~
A-Jay
The Chicken was clearly invented by someone who sells plastics, it’s almost always a “one and done” in my experience. Sometimes I can get two bass on a Trickworm rigged this way but it’s not a sure thing.
It’s a decent rig for throwing a really lightly weighted plastic into the gaps between pads though.
MIbassyaker reply :
A-Rig, Tokyo Rig, Double Fluke rig, structure spoon, chicken rig (I guess? had to look it up).
Scuba Steve reply :
Honestly I’ve never tried the float-n-fly. Want to try it sometime soon but I just don’t get it.
A-Jay reply :
On 3/29/2019 at 4:01 AM, Scuba Steve said:Honestly I’ve never tried the float-n-fly. Want to try it sometime soon but I just don’t get it.
I started to include that one.
But then I remembered I have used it a handful of times.
My version of it made dead sticking a Senko feel like throwing a buzzbait.
Did I mention it was slow . . .?
#couldnottakeit
A-Jay
On 3/29/2019 at 1:24 AM, Ksam1234 said:I have never ever drop shotted .. I always want to but I find other things work better I guess
MAN I love watching blowups !
Well that video just cost me $40 . . .
Thanks
A-Jay
MassYak85 reply :
A spoon. I've fished johnson silver minnows and daredevils plenty but I don't use those big jigging spoons.
NittyGrittyBoy reply :
@Glaucus if it works have at it haha. Ive watched the whopper plopper videos too.
I have friends that fish with em, I just have my preferred topwater baits I throw! ????
iabass8 reply :
A new adventurous lure always costs me too much money
Glaucus reply :
On 3/29/2019 at 4:25 AM, NittyGrittyBoy said:@Glaucus if it works have at it haha. Ive watched the whopper plopper videos too.
I have friends that fish with em, I just have my preferred topwater baits I throw! ????
Which is cool, I just got caught up on the scam part. I don't know how it's a scam.
Heartland reply :
On 3/29/2019 at 4:25 AM, NittyGrittyBoy said:I just have my preferred topwater baits I throw! ????
They're a scam dude.... they just want to be WP's 
Jleebesaw reply :
Theres too many to count. I dont even know what some of the ones mentioned are.
I bought a wopper plopper last summer. I wasnt too sure about it after the first lake ontario smallmouth that hit it broke the rear hook, but it's been ok since. It caught some fish. A super spook junior outperforms it greatly though.
papajoe222 reply :
I actually have a couple. The first is the Ned rig.
The second is dangling my finger over the side of the dock and lipping a bass when it tries to bite my finger. I don't plan on trying either.
LonnieP reply :
Swim bait,Whopper plopper,C-rig,A*rig,drop shot, Ned rig or any type of finesse fishing.
Jrob78 reply :
Ned rig, Whopper Plopper, Spybait, Neko rig, Tokyo rig, Float and Fly...I'm sure there are more.
MN Fisher reply :
Swimbait, Whopper Plopper, Pitching/Flipping.
With the new rigs and a gift of a couple WPs, I'll be giving those last two a go this year.
punch reply :
I'm gonna toss a curveball in here and say Fly Fishing. I self-identify as a bass fisherman but I really like to dabble in other species and I really feel like i'm missing out on fly fishing for trout in Minnesota. There's some pretty awesome stream fishing in the state and someday I'm just gonna go to my local fly shop and go nuts.
Catching skinny water smallies on a fly rod looks so insanely fun. Someday I want to make my own fly.
Catt reply :
Alabama Rig & a Ned Rig
Have all the necessary components just gotta take the time to do it.
Mobasser reply :
Big swimbaits
CrankFate reply :
A-Rig, Big Swimbaits, Tokyo Rig, Deep Cranking. Rarely use jerkbaits. Have used, but never use spinnerbaits.
SC53 reply :
Can’t say there’s nothing I haven’t tried...at least once.
Now being successful with a particular technique or lure is another story.
Only caught one fish on a Plopper and still trying to get my first one on a dropshot but down here in Florida not a lot of opportunities for the shot.
thinkingredneck reply :
On 3/29/2019 at 3:51 PM, punch said:I'm gonna toss a curveball in here and say Fly Fishing. I self-identify as a bass fisherman but I really like to dabble in other species and I really feel like i'm missing out on fly fishing for trout in Minnesota. There's some pretty awesome stream fishing in the state and someday I'm just gonna go to my local fly shop and go nuts.
Catching skinny water smallies on a fly rod looks so insanely fun. Someday I want to make my own fly.
I love fly fishing, especially on top. I love to fish for Bass and panfish. Tie my own. Go for it!
And I haven't tried an A rig. Being from Miss State, I can't use anything with the A word in it.
Jigfishn10 reply :
On 3/29/2019 at 4:01 AM, Scuba Steve said:Honestly I’ve never tried the float-n-fly. Want to try it sometime soon but I just don’t get it.
Yep, me too. And I tie jigs...LOL
CroakHunter reply :
Ned rig, whopper plopper, a-rig, Tokyo rig, swimbaits of any kind, spybaiting, hair jigs, spoons, blade baits, damiki rig,
ResoKP reply :
I.. just don't have the confidence for this..
fishwizzard reply :
On 3/29/2019 at 11:38 PM, ResoKP said:I.. just don't have the confidence for this..
It’s a big meal but with enough beer and a break in the middle I could probably eat 1/4 of my body weight in one sitting like that bass tried to do.
microotter reply :
Trying this year for the first time: Ned rig, wobble head, dropshot, spybait, small hard swimbaits
no plans to try:
a-rig, c-rig, tokyo rig
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