The Most Effective Technique?

[hatrix]

So I am just curious to see what everyone thinks about this. What technique do you feel is just the best way to consistently catch fish? I have a feeling most will agree with what I think but who knows. It could be anything like even a way of working a bait or a whole setup.

Drop Shot is hands down the clear winner for me.

[BenBassmaster]

Drop Shot for me too; other rigs work extremely well under certain conditions, and produce bigger fish. Yet the Drop Shot can catch big or small fish anytime; extremely helpful for tournements.

[gr8outdoorz]

I can't say I have a "most effective" technique. For me it varies by season. Shakey Heads, swimbaits, jigs, jerkbaits, and crankbaits all catch me a lot of bass.

[Sundance]

I'd have to say Texas rig is the most effective. It's weedless and you can use a verity of plastics sending on conditions and it can be fished at any depth.

[Hogsticker]

Jigging - hands down, no contest. Bass, Walleye, Trout, some sort of jig.

[Bankbeater]

I usually catch more on jigs each year than any other bait.

[Shane J]

For me, it's jigs. Overall, I could probably catch fish faster, and put more in the boat with other things, but for the bigger bite I'm after, nothing plugs away at 'em more consistently than a jig. 

[Sam]

Flipping and pitching a Senko to targets.

[CPBassFishing]

I would have to say a swim jig because I can catch fish almost all year with it and I can fish almost any cover.

[Siebert Outdoors]

To catch numbers would be a shaky head.  Size would be a jig.

[Felix77]

So I am just curious to see what everyone thinks about this. What technique do you feel is just the best way to consistently catch fish? I have a feeling most will agree with what I think but who knows. It could be anything like even a way of working a bait or a whole setup.

Drop Shot is hands down the clear winner for me.

 

Looking to work with the drop a lot more this season.  Is a particular type of bait more effective than others?  You can put almost anything on a drop shot.  Just curious about which do you feel works better than others.

[roadwarrior]

In shallow water, weightless soft plastics.

 

In deeper water, jigs and crankbaits. Sometimes the bass are more focused

on either "moving baits" or bottom contact so you may need to go with just

one or the other.

 

 

 

[hatrix]

Looking to work with the drop a lot more this season.  Is a particular type of bait more effective than others?  You can put almost anything on a drop shot.  Just curious about which do you feel works better than others.

 

I think most people use a straight tail worm usually. I usually want to wacky rig it if possible or you can T-rig it and throw it right in the middle of the weeds with not much issue. I have also do very well wacky rigging senkos and ocasionally will use little fluke style baits nose hooked. To me a drop shot catches every fish of all sizes and that is why I think it is just the flat out best at catching numbers of fish. If there is a fish there I feel it is more likely to bite a bait sitting right in its face then a lure swimming by or something sitting on the bottom. I catch all different species with it too just because the presentation is so small usually most fish can eat it.

[J Francho]

I find keeping my bait in the water is most effective.  What that bait is, is highly dependent on where I'm fishing.  There's no one magic bullet.

[flyfisher]

I find keeping my bait in the water is most effective.  What that bait is, is highly dependent on where I'm fishing.  There's no one magic bullet.

Yes there is...

[Paul Roberts]

I find keeping my bait in the water is most effective.  What that bait is, is highly dependent on where I'm fishing.  There's no one magic bullet.

Agree.

 

In fact, I agree with everyone. Drop-shot is mighty powerful. But ... I can't DS a buzzbait!

 

For me, it would be almost anything on a jighead. I know that's not quite fair but ... again, I agree with J.