What's your go-to lure? I don't necessarily mean the lure you have the most success with, but that one lure that you are going to throw every time out? For me it's 130 size Whopper Plopper. I catch more fish on soft plastics, but I consistently catch big fish on the Whopper Plopper.
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Generally where I fish, there are not a lot of bass
but I often will throw a Rattle Trap, regardless.
Plastic worms are always good.
Top water Buzz bait, in the Spring.
but I often will throw a Rattle Trap, regardless.
Plastic worms are always good.
Top water Buzz bait, in the Spring.
Where ever I fish I will put out a Texas Rigged plastic worm and it almost always catches bass. I also have had a lot of luck using an original Rapala 13 lure that I bought years ago. In smaller ponds it has always worked for me.
Mississippi - Zoom June Bug or Pumpkinseed with Chartreuse tail rigged to fit where the fish are.
Texas - Senko worm either Texas or Wacky Rig
Texas - Senko worm either Texas or Wacky Rig
Can't go wrong with a rubber worm, no matter the depth. My go-to lure is a baby Torpedo, specifically one colored like a bass. I'm not really sure why, but that color scheme seems to get them to strike more. I hate fishing deep though, so my go-to is always a topwater lure. Anything deeper than about 4 or 5 feet and I'm just not interested, much.
If you like a buzzbait, try a Whopper Plopper. I was skeptical at first, but I can run a WP slower and steadier and even dead stop it. You'll want a 7ft or longer heavy action rod and braided line for good hooksets, but they will cast a mile and big fish seem to crush them.
I don't get to fish nearly as much in Texas as I'd like, but we seem to have a **** ton of success on suspended plastics in red (senko, wacky worms, etc...). Wore em out on Sam Rayburn a few years ago on a red wacky worm.
Texas-rigged plastic worms, junebug color. But... in the summer doldrums at the pond I regularly fish, I only have luck using three inch live bream. I don't like doing it, and it may even be illegal in Mississippi, but I don't like fishing for three hours without a bite either.
The saltwater is my favorite as well. The Rez is tricky. Frogs, buzzbait, white shad jerk bait, rattling rouge
I have fished the MS River oxbows, barpits and runouts all summer.
If you are in moving water, runout or culvert, it's hard to beat a #2 Rebel Crank. Pearl or any black back. I usually use a red permanent marker to add back the red, pink or orange dot under the lip. I'll draw legs onto the crank with a fine tip black paint pen. I keep it handy. The paint comes off the factory bait after 10 fish .
If that didnt work, I would usually use a baby brush hog. Heavy weight, as I was in moving water most of the time. Hot color this year is/was California 420.
A Rattlin Rogue.....depends on your depth, is a popular summer bait down here. In the morning and evenings, the floater is better. After 8am and before 6pm use the diver with suspension. 4/6 ft, ideally.
Big Cranks, on lake dropoffs and points are money this time a year. Seemed like 3/4 of the river bass I cleaned this year had crayfish in its belly. Sometimes multiple crayfish...and they were still chasing my bait. These bass are different than the Florida Hybrid most people catch. Very aggressive.
If you are in moving water, runout or culvert, it's hard to beat a #2 Rebel Crank. Pearl or any black back. I usually use a red permanent marker to add back the red, pink or orange dot under the lip. I'll draw legs onto the crank with a fine tip black paint pen. I keep it handy. The paint comes off the factory bait after 10 fish .
If that didnt work, I would usually use a baby brush hog. Heavy weight, as I was in moving water most of the time. Hot color this year is/was California 420.
A Rattlin Rogue.....depends on your depth, is a popular summer bait down here. In the morning and evenings, the floater is better. After 8am and before 6pm use the diver with suspension. 4/6 ft, ideally.
Big Cranks, on lake dropoffs and points are money this time a year. Seemed like 3/4 of the river bass I cleaned this year had crayfish in its belly. Sometimes multiple crayfish...and they were still chasing my bait. These bass are different than the Florida Hybrid most people catch. Very aggressive.
I'be become a serious fan of a wacky rigged Senko. The blue laminate pattern with one end dipped in some Chartreuse Spike It is money. I almost stopped using Senkos because I was tired of changing Senkos after every fish I caught. Heard about putting rubber o-rings on them and tried that. Now I probably get four or five fish per Senko.
We have a lake we fish on that anything crawdad color is money. Crankbaits, rattle traps, devils horse, spinners, it doesn't matter as long as it's crawdad color.
I always have a ZMan Flappin Crawz in one of the pumpkin colors t-rigged on one rod. I am really upset they have stopped making them. Haven't had as much success with the Turbo Crawz.
It's green and works the best using the walking the D.O. double g method.
I use mostly plastics except for a few days in the spring when you can see the bass hitting the top of the water schooling minnows... I prefer watermelon red, june bug, and blue chartreuse. No luck on tennesee river past pickwick this weekend (wanted some deeper water and was curious) but swapped to real worms for catfish and caught a few. Bass fishing always slows down a good bit this time a year from my experience, but i'm not a pro.
I use mostly plastics except for a few days in the spring when you can see the bass hitting the top of the water schooling minnows... I prefer watermelon red, june bug, and blue chartreuse. No luck on tennesee river past pickwick this weekend (wanted some deeper water and was curious) but swapped to real worms for catfish and caught a few. Bass fishing always slows down a good bit this time a year from my experience, but i'm not a pro.
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My old Lucky 13 topwater on a still pond. Watch 'em explode 2-3 ft in the air.
But yeah, I catch more fish on plastic worms.
But yeah, I catch more fish on plastic worms.
Man, this made me think of those rapala broken back minnows. those and the shorter rapalas will kill it in farm ponds. The small rapalas are hard to throw with a baitcaster, but they catch fish.
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Sounds like most folks fish about the same stuff. On soft plastics I prefer a lizard, a brush hog or 10-12" worm and I always dip them in Spike It Garlic Chartreuse dye. I prefer natural colors, but I'm not opposed to throwing some crazy colors out there if things are slow on natural colors. I didn't realize until a year or so ago that bass see underwater nearly as well as we do. That changed my fishing tactics a good bit.
It's weird how much the Senko out fishes other plastics here in Texas. I finally quit being stubborn and started catching fish.
Back in Mississippi I usually fished lizards and worms on a Carolina rig in deeper water. If they were shallow or in cover, I would Texas rig a lizard with no weight and use it like folks do a swim jig now. It was killer in spring especially fishing it like a topwater bait in weeds and pads, then stopping it just as it passed a hole in the cover.
I still have a big box of cranks just for this kind of fishing including a Tennesee Shad DB3 that I hate to throw now since you cannot find them anymore.
Fish Pickwick a good bit.
For me this year it has be a Strike King 6XD Crankbait in Citrus Shad Color. Others have been a Damiki MegaMiki in Either Plum or Junebug (This thing is 11in long) on a 1oz football shaky head. 3/4oz Chompers Green Pumpkin Jig with a Alabama Craw Strike King Rage Tail for a trailer. This is Summer by the way.
Early Spring is A-Rig and Lipless Cranks (Rattle Traps).
Confidence is always in a Zoom Green Pumpkin Baby Brush Hog or Speed Craw.
For me this year it has be a Strike King 6XD Crankbait in Citrus Shad Color. Others have been a Damiki MegaMiki in Either Plum or Junebug (This thing is 11in long) on a 1oz football shaky head. 3/4oz Chompers Green Pumpkin Jig with a Alabama Craw Strike King Rage Tail for a trailer. This is Summer by the way.
Early Spring is A-Rig and Lipless Cranks (Rattle Traps).
Confidence is always in a Zoom Green Pumpkin Baby Brush Hog or Speed Craw.
They are similar, but the sound is different and seems to make a difference. Literally outfished a buzzbait 7-1 last week with the WP 130. Just picked up a WP 110 yesterday, so I'm going to try that today if th rain slacks off. Also ordered a couple of Grassburners from Tackle Warehouse. I'm excited to see how they perform.
It does. I'll be the first to admit I'm a ***** for new fishing gear, but I haven't fished a lure that is more exciting to fish than the WP. I catch more bass on soft plastics, but the WP is just flat out fun to fish if you are in an area with aggressive bass. I don't know that it would be great in highly pressured waters because I think it scares a lot of bass, but if the fish are aggressive it's money.
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