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For someone who has never bass fished before and is heading to a pond to have a picnick with his family I don’t think hardbaits are the best option. However if your a seasoned angler you know that cranks, deep jerkbaits, and walking baits offshore during the summer absolutely kill it. But with no way to contour the bottom your best bet is a football jig drag followed up with a big worm otherwise your just guessing

I got a lipless from h20 but it turned on its side when you let it drop so I haven’t used it much since that I did have a rod from them a while back it was a camo 7ft medium fast and it was one of the best shakeyhead rods I’ve ever owned

It seems they have a similar looking retrieve to mine but it’s hard to tell what their bait is doing underwater I can make a berkley Stunna do anything I want it too but I personally change up baits to make it easier. With a Stunna like I said i do 3 walk the dog twitches then a pull towards me maybe 1-2 ft then a double twitch going forwards and walk the dog i use this in hot water 55-60+ in hot water I also use the Kvd style rip bait and they need to be worked with much faster action and harder snaps the Kvd to me is a post spawn bait you have to hurt rally hard and work agressively the rappala or the flash pointer are more of a rolling action when you jerk then also best worked aggressively when you want to drawl fish with flash in fall and sometimes lost spawn the vision 110family is w great jerkbait made to excell in cold water and this along with the great colors and hefty price tag I don’t use to many of them as I believe the Stunna is a better all around jerkbait it can be hit hard and made to roll fast it can be fished slow and finessy and he’ll you can even put a split ring on the front and back hooks and give the +1 almost a yo yo effect twitching up and too the side in 20 ft of water because of the fast sink jerkbaits are a big confidence bait for me snd I catch fish year round with them however I saw the tactical guys doing stuff a little different witch is ok I was hoping to learn some new techniques from you guys so thanks for the responses

consider yourself lucky on a Tuesday night 3 fish night or every summer Tuesday I can sit on my dock and watch boat after boat pull in the mouth of my cove and go down every dock and 90% of the time throw a kvd 1.5 or spinnerbait around every dock every once and a while a jig witch doesent make sense to me if i had a boat I would be finding some offshore structure during the hot months

Well this isint a per say right way to fish them for me I feel like 90% of the time summer fall winter spring pre and post spawn If there is a fish atleast semi active I can get them to strike however Im more so just curious what you guys try to make your bait do. I normally go 1-2-3 in a walk the dog action pretty soft popping the slack making the bait go 6 inches then 1-2 with less slack and more of a powerful snap this works really well with the change of small to large movement like I said there’s a million ways to fish them I’m curious on how you guys look to make your baits do

This little guy was def a handful

here in the south we have big old 50lb flatheads that will eat your lunch if you hook one cranking or with a big jig

Try adding a split ring to the tail hook so the bait falls back towards chasers when you kill it esp in the summer it is deadly

I normally throw stunnas as a all around first option I keep see through colors for clear water bright see through for muddy water and flashy silvers if I want to make the bait roll and throw off flash the Rappalas are more finesse and move with lighter twitches almost all of these are natural see throughs the Kvds for shallow water or if I want to put more umph into the twitches i like natural perch bluegill or solid silhouette shad colors for these

Hi guys I’ve had a tremendous amount of success on jerkbaits this year and purchased my first lure specific combo because of how much year round success I have had on them. I usually use the berkley Stunna and I tend to do really well making the lure do a walk the dog motion back and forth then every 10-12 ft popping the weight transfer bb so it makes the bait fall tail first back to the fish. However watching a tactical bass on video their jerkbaits did just hops forward sitting nose down and it seems those guys really know what they’re doing. Even when I use other baits like rhe Kvds rappala shadow rap and vision 110 I go for that side to side gliding motion. Am have I been fishing this wrong this whole time ? I catch tons of fish on them and they have become a huge confidence bait for me. But am I working them wrong , should I look for a more straight line approach? What do you guys try to make your jerkbaits do

I’m wierd a strike king Kvd1.5 has been the most sold crank in the world the past couple years telling me that everyone is knowing them, while they do work I like to throw baits that not everyone has, if a fish sees 15 Kvd 1.5s a day and then sees a bx brat fast fighter wobble or a little Jhon’s super tight wobble on my mind it would be more apt to catch fish

What’s your guys favorite squarebills I’ve recently been fishing them a ton as my dock is covered in shallow chunk rock at the mouth of a channel and I love throwing them in the afternoon as the shad move up shallow. I’ve recently found the bx brat to be phenomenal the Kvd 1.5s are ok but I like throwing the dt fat dt 4-6s and the bx brat the best I guess Rapala s are just productive for me. those brats are no joke. What squarebills to do you guys like I’ve heard good things about the little Jhon and crush cranks. Anyone used them ?

I’m using a Dobyns champ 744 and it’s a heavy power extra fast with 20 lb fluro so I usually don’t have trouble with hooksets for me the biggest thing is how well it comes through rock my whole lake is rocky bottom almost so I don’t like super heavy jigs that get stuck on the rocks

I like the football jigs for deep structure but I’m talking like 3-12ft casting at docks laydowns brush ect

What are you guys favorite casting jigs the Bico jigs look really sweet but I’m just getting into jig fishing and looking for some options ?