FishmanJason78

I like the clacker type. The only thing I do with mine is during the retrieve I'll kinda snap my rod tip and make it jump. It makes it look like a bait fish that is being chased and is skipping, I get lots of strikes after this sudden snap of the rod.

I'm getting lots of good feedback from you guys and I do appreciate. I like many of your methods given, mainly the top,mid, and bottom approach which I kinda follow. How many of you use some of the finesse techniques we hear so much about? Am I wasting my time and rod storage with a drop shot rod, a setup for neko and neds and all that? I think we all see what the pro's do and we wanna mimic it, I'm not different. When I see a big win come off the ned rig or neko and everyone in the field flunked out it makes me question if I need that, then I get it, but I'm never sure when to use it.

Probably shouldn't read into the pros logic, that's what has me here now. I watched the pros on lake cumberland last weekend and it's like the knew exactly what to practice with and where to use it. Perhaps it was them using time of season and water as their guide and it just all came together, either way they weren't searching for lures all day, they narrowed it to a spinnerbait or swimbait and it worked for 4 straight days. I'll give that a read though and see what it says, thanks! I enjoy the challenge, but no on likes driving 50 miles and striking out on every lure in the storage compartment. Past history failed, lures for the water and season conditions failed, it just sucked all together and when that happens I take it very personal and it gets in my head that it's all me and I'm wrong in everything I do.

Hi all, So I'm a bit confused on how some people just know exactly what to go to on the water, lure wise. I go out and I base what to throw on time of season, water color, and water temperature. For example if I go out to a lake loaded with shad and the water is 56 egress I'm gonna throw a shad pattern crank, swimbait or spinnerbait because I know the fish are feeding up on shad in preparation for the spawn. My confusion lies in this, what other I do when the fish don't hit what they're "supposed" to? I've saw guys on the water that make moves to oddball rigs like neko, ned, split and drop shot, but how do they know that if the baits for the time of season and water temp aren't working what to try next? When I see the crank, trap, jig, or spinnerbait bite isn't on I spend my day just wailing away on a wing and a prayer that they like what I'm chucking at them. So, how do I know when to go to a neko VS a spinnerbait, or a ned VS a jig or whatever? What do you guys go to when the "usual" ain't working?

Hello to everyone. My name is Jason writing in from Eastern KY. I'M your die hard weekend warrior, 50 hour work weeks cut the fishing time down a lot unfortunately. Anyways, I love bass fishing, love to get a good smallmouth bite going and favor a jig over most any lure. If you're ever in my neck of the woods let's wet a line....