New Techniques

[slonezp]

Why not build your own? I dont know how much time you have to do it, but you can order the weights with the hub on it, or the hubs and skirts, or just the tabs...

That is building my own. The weights and hooks are what I'm waiting for. Must be a worldwide shortage of tungsten and steel

[bassguytom]

Punchin with a skirt on a t-rig

This was my plan also but I got it backwards and ended up wearing a skirt while punching other fisherman that were laughing at me. I'm going to flip and pitch lilly pads more this year.

[29JMP29]

deep water finesse fishing - drop shot

[slonezp]

This was my plan also but I got it backwards and ended up wearing a skirt while punching other fisherman that were laughing at me. I'm going to flip and pitch lilly pads more this year.

If you would have sewed up the hole in the front the laughing would have stopped.

[fadetoblack21]

I want to work on my jerkbait fishing mostly because I would like to do some cold water fishing this year. 

 

I focused on square bills last year, so maybe some deep divers and lipless cranks this year. . . I haven't decided yet. 

[iceman11]

I am going to try for two things this year to master. 

1. Top water. I have never had success with top water baits. Frogs, buzz baits or jitterbug. 
2. Finesse styles. I am going to try and get a lot of them down.

 

Last season was my first season back in a while so I mainly just threw cranks, but now I am going to try and venture.  

[Jaiden]

For me it's topwater and spinnerbaits. I haven't had much luck with either of the two.

[Shewillbemine]

I have NEVER caught a bass on a topwater lure. Perhaps I will try this season.

[bassguytom]

If you would have sewed up the hole in the front the laughing would have stopped.

Skirts don't have holes in the front. I know I have chased a lot of them. Now I'm just running from the rolling pin..... I fish too much at times.

[Sam]

Punching on the Potomac.

 

Zeka Rig.

 

Going to concentrate on jigs and pigs all year.

 

Throwing the jerkbaits more.

[lazeebum]

Alabama Rig

Carolina Rig

Flipping

Maybe dropshot

[Jell0b0y]

going to work on Jerkbaits this spring, Ledge fishing with Deep diving crankbaits, spinnerbaits and the Jika rig this year. May throw a couple other things in thier but that's my primary goals for this year

[prjavelin]

Ive stocked up on: jerk baits, deep cranks and built an Alabama rig. Hopefully I become decent using these. I want to master the spinnerbait. Im decent using it but its not very effective. So there must be something missing from my presentation. 

 

Being a beginner I want to master the basic rigs: texas and the C rig. Meanwhile summer is around the corner here in Puerto Rico so I can work on becoming good at catching fish in deep water. Thats where the Deep cranks and the C rig will shine. Right now soft plastics texas rigged are killers here in the numbers department. not so much in the size department. 

 

 

I consider myself a power fisherman. I want to become proficient on finesse fishing so that I can become a good all around angler. 

[bwillis]

^{Swim jigs}

^Buzzbaits

^{Hardbaits in general as I fish mostly soft plastics}

[KansasAngler]

Deep water fishing, Drop shotting, deep cranks.  Also Chatterbaits

[iceman11]

I have NEVER caught a bass on a topwater lure. Perhaps I will try this season 

 

 

 

 

I have caught two and one was less than a pound. Both were on a jitterbug 

[MSAJAA]

"Sharpen" my mental game!  When the bite gets slow don't just chuck and wined, fish the
moment, adjust to the conditions.

 

[Felix77]

This year joined a Bass club and wont always be beating the bank and I am excited about this, I hope to learn and do new things, I would like to try a chatter-swim and maybe a deeb diving crankbait.

Just remember to keep an open mind and pay attention to what the boater is doing.  You will learn a lot by watching.  Tourney fishing is a different demon and you need to get used to it.

 

Good luck.

[Felix77]

This was my plan except TW has had all their punch rig stuff on back order for months.

 

fishingskirts.com has everything you need to build your own.  It's good quality and you can get exactly what you want.

[zwhiten12]

I plan on working jigs heavily.

[chromedog]

JIGS

CAROLINA RIG

TOPWATER

WORMS - RIBBON AND PADDLE TAIL STYLE

CREATURE BAITS

 

All I have used a tiny, little bit, with good success, but I always go to my "go-to" baits right away and sometimes, just don't use other things.

[Grizzn N Bassin]

I spent much of this winter / off-season reading In Pursuit of Giant Bass by Bill Murphy. 

 

I am going to devote at least this next fishing season to that end.

 

By learning the techniques he employs and adopting the mind set required to use those methods effectively, I'm hoping to see a whole "New" side to the waters that I have been fishing over the past few years. 

 

And maybe while I'm at it, I'll sore-lip a few worth posting here.

 

Regardless of how it goes, I'm planning on posting a thread at the end of the year covering this venture.

 

A-Jay

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Ive read that book 2x this winter also im finishing up Big bass zone

Im doing the same thing this year

. Ill be sure post whats going on as well.. its going to be fub learning these techniques out.on the water!!

[paul25]

for me def. finesse fishing i don't even own a spinning reel or rod, and there have been days fishing with my buddy when the finesse techniques are the only way to catch em.

[Bassfishing375]

Drop shot

Jigs

Swimbaits

Crankbaits

Chatterbaits

Tubes

I fish with these once and a while with some success but i never stick with them. 

[A-Jay]

. Ive read that book 2x this winter also im finishing up Big bass zone Im doing the same thing this year . Ill be sure post whats going on as well.. its going to be fub learning these techniques out.on the water!!

 

 

Cool - I know I'm really looking forward to it as well.

 

I'll admit, it will be hard to pass up on the shallow bite that comes each spring in lieu of staying out on the deeper pre-spawn and post-spawn staging areas. 

 

  But it will get dramatically easier to do if I hang a couple of the kind of bass I'm hoping to.

 

A-Jay