What are your top three bass catchin' techniques.It may be your most successful or just your most fun or a combination of the two!My three are: 1)Floating jerkbait used as a topwater in lowlight conditions 2) the Carolina rig with a lizard or a finese worm 3) Pitchin'/Flippin' a tube or jig into cover
1. Gill Net
2. Cast Net
3. Dynomite
A fourth method is a small dragger, if the lake has a big enough ramp... :
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1.pitching sweet beavers and jigs to shallow wood cover and matted vegetation.
2.skipping ZOOM trick worms under docks and overhanging trees
3.throwing small homemade spinnerbaits and burning them by deeper laydowns and seawalls.
1. Wacky worming a Zoom U-tail worm in just about any type of cover.
2. T-rigged worm.
3. Crankbaits.
1. Crankbaits
2. Grubs
3. Did I mention crankbaits
1. Live bait, split shot rig
2. Soft plastics, weightless
3. Soft plastics, weighted
But my favorite technique is fishing jerkbaits.
1)Pitching T-rigged worms. 2)Low light buzz baits. 3)Slow rolling spinner baits on windy rocky points
Tight Lines!
1. Shallow Crankbaits
2. Deep Crankbaits
3. Walk the dog topwater
1. Plastics - Weightless and t-rigged
2. Crankbait along rip rap
3. Spinner bait in spring.
My favorite is Jig, still need work on that though. I think it's more of a confidence thing than anything else.
1. weightlessTrigged worms Zoom tricks/orswamp crawlers and Manns Jelly
2. Original Floating Rapalas #7to#11 at sundown the jointed version
3. Whenm the fish arent bitting M-80's OVER THE BOW a fgure s pattern about 25 yards from shore paralell to the shore seems to work best ;D ;D
C-rigged Chompers (Senko type bait) for open water.
T-rigged Trick Worms when casting at specific targets in shallows (lilly pads and docks).
My third most productive technique is everything else...crankbaits, minnows, topwaters, etc... (obviously never as consistent as worms).
(1) Jig and Pig
(2) Spinnerbaits
(3) plastics weighted and weightless
(1) Spinnerbaits
(2) Flippin and Pitchin tubes
(3) Wacky rig
(4) Buzzbaits, sorry just couldn't leave that one out!
1) Buzzbait
2) Frog
3) Crankbait
These are the most fun/effective for me.
No. 1: Matt's Baby Bass swimbait--just started it this year and it's brought me my new PB, a 9 lber plus many others from 1.5 lbs and up.
No. 2: Wacky-rigged, 5", color #222 Senko.
No. 3: Pitched 1/2 to 3/4 oz rattlin' jigs with several different trailers.
Dan
top three
1)texas rigged zoom trick worm
2) drop shot 4'' worm
3)7'' berkely power worm texas rigged with a weight
1. Dropshot small handpoured worms
2. C-rig or split shot 4-5" lizards
3. Burning a spinnerbait
Captain George's loading depth charges , fool proof!
I on the other hand tend to go with:
1. Waked spinnerbaits
2. Soft plastics t-rigged
3. crank baits digging up the bottom
Fish on!
Peter
Anyone of these can produce a trophy any time.
Any top waters.
Slow rolling spinners
my own 18 inch plastics
swim baits
1) Pitchn'- any plastic
2) Flippn' - any plastic
3) Crankn'
Since it's my thread,I get 3 more choices...LOL...1)spinnerbaits in the shallow cover 2)buzzbaits in the shallow cover 3)Horny Toads in shallow cover.
For fishing shallow heavy vegitation like lilly paps and slop, I use:
1. In-Line buzz bait (hildebrant)
2. Large soft plastic frogs, lizard, or worms fished on top of the water
3. Trick worm
With a stout action rod and heavy test, when you use these you can catch fish out of places most wouldn't even put a boat near!!!!
Fish on,
Peter
Hello, my name is Jeff and I am a crank bait addict.
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1) 1/2 ounce White and Silver Roostertail
2) Finesse worm on a Spot Sticker Jig Head
3) Black Crankbait digging up the bottom at night
The Rooster Tail is my go to bait for numbers and even big spotted bass on Lake Lanier but works everywhere.
Spinnerbait
Crankbait
Senko
If those three don't work I go home and read about fishing ;D
Slow rolling lipless vibrating baits on deep water breaks.
Fishing 10-11" worms on deep water cover or structure.
In-line buzz baits in thick grass or weeds.
Suspending jerkbaits in very early spring.
Fluke - usually under docks or around laydowns (I would say grass but we dont have any > )
Crank - best on points for me,digging along the bottom
Senko - killer dock bait,probably the best in my opinion
1. Spinnerbaits
2. Jig 'n Pigs
3. Tubes
Right now, meaning cold water the number one two and three are,
jerkbait
lipless crankbait
jig if wind is down
spinnerbait, if wind is up
My favorite and a pretty good producer is a quality popper
1. Jig
2. Spinnerbait
3. Crankbait
Spot Remover Jig with a green pumpkin finesse worm
White Super Fluke
Baby Bass "The Fluke"
My favorites are:
Popper
rattletrap
Colorado blade spinnerbait.
I just love the way a big bass hits a fast rattletrap.
I'd say:
1. Pitching Sweet Beaver and Jigs
2. Dropshot
3. Cranking DT10s and DT16s
Most productive;
1. T-Rigged plstics
2. Spinnerbaits
3. Crankbaits.
Most fun;
1. Topwater
2. Fly rod with big rabbit strip flies
Top water SMB: Zara Spook Walking the dog got me many of these babies!
Top water LMB: In the Slop saladspoon frog got me many Heart Stopping
blow ups and many of these!!
C-rigged salamanders: Got me a whole bunch of these babies!!
But I am addicted to the top water bite. I just can't get enough of it!!
tie- wacky and weightless senkos
2nd- Shallow Cranks
tie for third- Buzzbaits and Original Rapalas
1. 1/16 ounce bitsy bug when their around shallow LIGHT cover. I know its small and very finesse but it works great but you just have to be careful with the light line.
2. 3 inch grub on a 1/8 ounce jig head will garentee a fish for me.
3. And my favorite is fishing a Rapala all the diffrent ways you can fish it. Its the most versital hard bait there is and its fun to fish.