Big Bass Chaser

Thanks for the IDs, going to find out what that top one is. Anyone ever fish with any of these?

Someone gave me a tackle box with assorted gear in it recently and some of it appeared old. The bottom two are a Hot N' Tot Thin Fin and a Short Wart. The top three I have no idea. And I have no idea how effective any of these lures are so any advice would be great thanks.

Going to have a day to fish near Milan, Italy in early-mid May but I don't know the first thing about bass fishing in Italy. Was hoping someone could point me toward a local guide or fisherman who might be willing to guide? Might be at Lago Como at some point, could make it to Lago Maggiore as well.

Jackall Flick Shake worms, wacky

They are my favorite drop shot and shakeyhead bait bar none. They do however have durability issues.

If it's not too late : FinShake.

1st : Shellcracker 2nd : Summer Craw

1-40ft water 3/8oz. 41+ water 1/2oz. Unless, as one person said, you want a slow fall.

1. Dropshot (usually Flickshake worms). 2. Jig (1/2 football head with chunky trailer). 3. Lipless crank (Yozuri or XCalibur).

I fish a lot of lipless cranks and in the 5/8 to 1 oz size and the hooks they come with are usually small and chromed so I switch them out for one size larger owner trebles. If a bass breathes on it, I usually have them.

Before I lost it I caught about 50 bass on the exact same lure as you without it looking that beat up. Can I ask what the primary forage of the bass is in your lakes? It looks like they don't spend a lot of time with crayfish in their mouths if they can scratch up a bait that bad on 9 fish. I see you also replace your trebles =).

If I didn't quote your response, thanks for the advice too! I love how helpful everyone is here.

Thanks for the pics, I might have to pick up all 3, these remind me of the Luckycraft lures similarly named that I'm not willing to pay for. My shopping cart groweth.

I will speed my retrieve up, I had been really slowing it down recently scared that they wouldn't chase. Regarding natural/clear colored cranks, I think I need to invest in a few today.

I hadn't considered running crayfish color cranks into the bottom, I'm going to give that a try. Your dropshot advice is absolutey correct, on my last trip (President's day) it's the only thing that produced.

I have had success with Yozuri and XCalibur lipless cranks (although not in the current water temp, tried a few days ago). Not sure what a Mission Fish is?

I will order a few shortly, thanks. In the one lake with stained water locally the spinnerbait seems to work, but maybe I need to fish it deeper in my main lakes.

I use a Curado 200E7 and reel slowly. I don't see how I'm losing out by not using a 5.0:1 reel.

Jigs already whack em (usually) so you're advice is spot on. I just want to be able to change presentations to a crank sometimes.

I fish what would classically be called a highland reservoir with all its standard attributes : rocky, extremely high visibility, lake defined by the old creek channel that was dammed to create the lake. There is little other than some fallen timber on the bottom and rocks for a crank to bounce off of. There is some but not a lot of vertical weed growth in the summer in water < 20 feet deep. I automatically think to fish natural colored, silent, deep running cranks, but I'm interested in what you would do given that kind of water?

Can't buy a smallie bite around here, congrats, beautiful fish and you beat my PB by 1 oz!

Although crazy expensive, the only punch skirts I've used so far are Paycheck baits and I haven't had that problem.

No one mentioned the conditions their fishing their jigs in nor what type of jigs. I fish a lot of football heads as my lakes are rocky (with clear water). For football heads (depending on the size of the jig and skirt), NetBait Paca Chunks, Berkley Chigger Craws (both types), Rage Tail chunks, RI Sweet Beavers, Double-tail grubs. I don't fish many swim jigs, but when I do I like a trailer with some sort of action in the tail like a swim senko, curly tail grub, the longer football head trailers with all the appendages detached from each other. Flipping jigs I tend to use the smaller football head trailers with the most action on the fall. Color-wise I tend to stay away from anything that doesn't look like local forage, so lots of natural colors from red to brown to green to black with different highlights or sparkle.

Ditto on this. Also, I won't buy baits that I feel aren't for conditions/situations I fish in. So many anglers have overflowing gear they will never get a chance to use.

These look a lot like NetBait plastics with antennas. But if the antennas add action Bass like, I'd try them.