What are you going to try in the new year?

[Ineedanewscreenname20170204]

Fat Ika, tubes, floating worms, big worms, LC Pointers, Sammy...

[s13john]

reading the fish finder correctly, and setting it up correctly. other than that deep fishing ... never can get it right.

[Brian B]

Definitely want to try drop shot.  Also wanna give swimbaits and jerkbaits a shot too.  I agree with Backlash_NC, breaking the worm comfort zone is tough.

[Kowen117]

hard Swimbaits (tylure  hard sunfish) and improve on my dock/timber jig fishin

[Hammer 4]

Need more hard swimbaits...$$$$$$$, and will keep chuckin em.

Also I'm gonna work with the ragetail Eliminator.

[Big Bait Fishing]

get into throwing BIGGER SWIMBAITS !!!! tryin' to get away from 6"-10" baits and start throwing 12"-16" baits , seriously .............

[A-Jay]

I am planning on fishing a spinnerbait DEEPER this year. Up to now, I rarely throw a blade bait in anything more than 4-5 feet. This season I'm going to try slow rolling a heavy spinnerbait in some of the same places I would normally throw a deep running crankbait and perhaps even deeper. I've been reading up on it this off season (which is waaay tooo long) and I think it might be a technique that the fish up here don't see much.

Also, if I can muster up the commitment, I going to make a few trips with nothing but Buzzbaits in the boat. We'll see. . . . . . .

A-Jay

[tritz18]

Jigs and spinnerbaits are my main focus for the coming year

[knap]

swimbaits and C-Rig

[Blue Streak]

I going get back to the Carolina rig this year. It is a great search tool and I have always done well with it, got away from it to try some new techniques that did not work as well.

[santacruz]

Gonna focus on cranksbaits.Learned jigs last year, crankbaits are bout the only bass lure i havent learned to fish well yet.

[soccplayer07]

Punching mats!!!

[RedhookRR]

Lets see.

1 Canoe

2 swimbaits

3 dropshot

4 every other lure or rig excluding crankbaits since those are my all else fails lures

[Georgia Jeff]

Drop shotting

swimbaits

Z-Man elastec frogs and swimbaits

crankbaiting logs in the river

[bwillis]

Jigs w/ trailers

Crankbaits- both lipped and lipless

Soft plastic frogs

Flukes

Carolina Rigs

and a few other things I can't think of right now.

[soccplayer07]

Jigs w/ trailers

Crankbaits- both lipped and lipless

Soft plastic frogs

Flukes

Carolina Rigs

and a few other things I can't think of right now.

once you try frogs...you may never use anything else...

[SkilletSizeBass.]

I've got quite a few things I really need to learn or get better at, some of I know nothing at all. I just hope I don't try to much at once, or in a short time and get overwhelmed, or not perfect any. But, here are some lures I plan on trying more of:

(1) Senkos ...I've heard too much good about them and I've got to learn this method this year.

(2) jigs ... I just have never done good on jigs, Ive got to give them more effort.

(3) spinnerbaits... I've had limited sucess on them and need to be more patient.   :-[

[zaraspook_dylan2]

I'm going to try jerkbaits a little bit. But i'm going to also learn to be more patient.

[Josh Bassman]

What lures do you want to try this year?

I really want to try the new Swimmin' Flukes and Jelly Worms. I also want to try some Paca Chunks.

I'm going to do a lot a "rigged" wacky worming. The rigged wacky worm is weighting the head end of the worm with a nail.

I catch a lot of fish with two setups: a shakyhead and a wacky worm. The "rigged" wacky is almost mixing the two.

We'll see how it works.