How Do You Fish? 2025

basshole8190 reply :

What's your favorite technique? Pitching, jigging, topwater, or bobber fishing? How do you like to catch your bass?

Me personally if i could pitch a beaverevery day i would or throw a frog inn the slop and i would never complain.

The Young Gun reply :

I fish all techniques but I don't catch fish on all of them hah

Bluebasser86 reply :

I I could catch fish consistently, every day with a 1/2oz brush jig, life would be good.

SirSnookalot reply :

I can catch fish anyway, catching them is easy as long as they are cooperating, the days when they don't can get pretty long and frustrating. I'm going to pick a top water popper over anything, it's just the most fun for me.

slonezp reply :

Guess it depends on what the fish are biting on. I prefer flipping and swimming jigs, but will use any means necessary to justify my addiction.

Tuckahoe Joe reply :

Topwater is my favorite but pitching t-rigged soft plastics is quickly moving up the list.

MarksHooked reply :

Mostly weightless t-rigged senkos. Nothing like seeing that line go off or feel the tap tap!

Bankbeater reply :

I could throw jigs and topwaters all day with no problem at all.

Catt reply :

Deep water structure & a Texas Rig

IneedAnewScreenName-3261 reply :

Flipping a 1oz. tungsten into thick mats and the other end of the spectrum drop shotting for great lakes smallmouth. Gotta love Michigan.

bonzai22 reply :

Deep water jig

coryn h. fishowl reply :

Topwater zaras, skitterpops and frogs on matted vegetation, then sight fishing flats and weedbeds, t-rigs/jigs, and crankbaits bounced off stumps, in that order. I'm a bank angler, so I take what I can get, after all, any bass fishing is good bass fishin.

Felix77 reply :

I got hooked on finesse techniques. The Mojo Rig has been my savior this year. Love that d**n rig!

MarkH024 reply :

Froggin' and Punchin'... I enjoy some squarebill cranking too.

5dollarsplash reply :

Frogging, as long as the bites decent, I could do all day.

If the frog bite is off, I could throw/flip/pitch a 3/8oz Siebert jig for a day just as easily and be content.

J Francho reply :

If the fish were always biting moving baits, that's my preference. What I fish the most are jigs, drop shot plastics, and Jika rigged craws.

stratoliner92 reply :

T-rig worm or craw

BenB54 reply :

flipping/pitching heavy cover and frogging

Montanaro reply :

topwater fishing always trumps all. bass exploding on a bait is a rush. the trick is to get the bites....

I do enjoy flipping though. hitting your target silently and coercing a bass to suck it in is a treat.

Sam reply :

Spinnerbait Setup = 1) Shaky Head; 2)Flip and Pitch; 3) Senko; 4) Drop Shot

Baitcasting Setup = 1) Crankbaits; 2)Spinnerbaits; 3) Texas Rigs; 4) Topwaters; 5) Carolina Rigs; 6) Jigs and Pigs; 7) Chatterbaits;.

"Favorite" lures and presentations change with each body of water and time of the year.

thehooligan reply :

Topwater, lipless cranks, and the flickshake

Love throwing sammies and buzzbaits. Also love to throw 1/4oz lipless cranks.

Favorite finesse fishing is throwing jackall flickshakes and dropshot.

gallowaypt reply :

I catch too many fish on weightless plastics to not throw them at least once a trip.

tholmes reply :

T-rig plastics, jigs and crankbaits. That covers about 90% of my fishing.

Tom

Shane Mccormick reply :

I prefer to catch theim on swim jigs or spinnerbaits.

WRB reply :

Pre spawn I am fishing with jigs, swimbaits, wake baits and big worms.

Nights, big worms, jigs, buzzers and crankbaits.

Summer days it's mostly finesse soft plastics, jerk baits, crankbaits, spinnerbaits, top water, and jigs..

Fall add structure spoons to the summer lures.

Winter it's deep structure fishing with soft plastics, jigs, spoons and swimbaits.

Tom

MCS reply :

On 9/4/2013 at 10:02 PM, deadadrift89 said:
T-rig worm or craw

X2 T-rig is my favorite most of the time.

S_Miketa6 reply :

Give me any crankbait and I'll be happy fishing for the day!

pbizzle reply :

Jigging and T-rigging

Brian Needham reply :

I like it all......call me a kid, but give me a bucket of Crickets and an UL spinning rod, with some big bedded up Bluegill and I am in heaven.......

whitwolf reply :

Favorite would have to be TX rigged plastics or a Siebert brush jig.

Darren. reply :

Probably going to give the crown to wacky techniques - both weightless and weighted. By far, I catch the most bass using this technique. And since I fish for enjoyment, not a paycheck, or tournament competition, that's fine by me

pbrussell reply :

Crankbaits>Jigs>everything else

DogBone_384 reply :

The reservoir close to my home has little in the way of pads & surface structure and is fairly deep so I fish Texas rigged worms of various types/sizes. I've been thinking about trying a whacky rigged Senko, but haven't because I fish only an hour or two per trip between two jobs & daughter's dance/swimming practices.

All in all it's been a good year because this is the first year in my life I've taken soft baits seriously and took the time to learn how to fish them.

tritonguy reply :

Brush Hogs, is there anything else?

Todd2 reply :

Casting/Pitching jig - 70%

T-rig/C-rig - 20%

Cranks, SB, Top water - 10%

derekxec reply :

buzzbaits are my favorite for bass

brgbassmaster reply :

Pitching to shoreline docks,laydowns, grass, riprap, seawalls. Pretty much anything pitching to shallow cover.

Also Throwing reaction baits like shallow/deep cranks,spinnerbaits and jerk baits. And throwing frogs.

Basshammer reply :

Oh yes, jig fishing for me.

Fish Murderer 71 reply :

I cant say that I have a "favorite technique", I seem to catch the most on topwater, Lately its been soooooooooooo HHHOOOTTTT I have to go deep therefor Carolina rig. Most of the lakes here in East Texas have had the vegetation eradicated, so I dont get to use a lot of weedbed techniques. I would have to say that I'm most proficient at Top water, free floating Flukes, Carolina rig, and then crankbaits.

gallowaypt reply :

On 9/5/2013 at 9:34 PM, Fish Murderer 71 said:
Most of the lakes here in East Texas have had the vegetation eradicated, so I dont get to use a lot of weedbed techniques.

I know it, and it's such a shame.

indianabasshunter reply :

I used to power fish 100% of the time and its a feast or famine deal. Took years and years of slow days to learn that finesse fishing can be just as fun and save the day more often than not. I almost enjoy finesse as much as power fishing now. Still hard to beat the feeling of a solid jig bite followed by a rock hard hook set or to watch a bass explode on a topwater bait and have the nerves/patience to wait long enough before setting the hook.

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