Bank Fishing Tackle

[TWMstr]

When bank fishing what lures and baits should I take? Sometimes I feel like I just don't have what I the bass want or what I need to be using. 

[Tuckahoe Joe]

I always fish from the bank.  Spinnerbaits, squarebill cranks, and Texas Rigged soft plastics are my bread and butter.  Add some topwaters and some jigs and you should be good to go. 

[lmbfisherman]

I probably bank fish more than I can go out in my canoe/inflatable because of the restrictive time constraints due to being married with children.  lol

 

I 2nd - Spinnerbaits, Squarebills, and T-Rig...I also drop shot.  It also depends on the situation too, I will take top water if I think the situation calls for it.  (Frog or Buzzbait)  These would be my main tackle I carry.  I always carry 2 of each too (types of baits).

[TWMstr]

I suppose I should've mentioned that I live in NC so I have to fish in medium to heavy moss and weeds. So spinnerbaits and crankbaits are likely not to be a good option. Is a texas rig and topwater my only options?

 

I probably bank fish more than I can go out in my canoe/inflatable because of the restrictive time constraints due to being married with children.  lol

 

I 2nd - Spinnerbaits, Squarebills, and T-Rig...I also drop shot.  It also depends on the situation too, I will take top water if I think the situation calls for it.  (Frog or Buzzbait)  These would be my main tackle I carry.  I always carry 2 of each too (types of baits).

 

 

I always fish from the bank.  Spinnerbaits, squarebill cranks, and Texas Rigged soft plastics are my bread and butter.  Add some topwaters and some jigs and you should be good to go. 

[Felix77]

I am a huge fan of finesse worms and a split shot. Catches a ton!

[lmbfisherman]

Well you can flip/pitch to weed pockets, which I do from shore at one of my spots. Definitely would stick to frog as your Topwater.

[Crestliner2008]

When I bank fish, the shoreline areas I fish are not conducive to most powerfishing techniques. There are areas with limited access that you can get a cast to and it's usually what I refer to as "in-country" situations; similar to Vietnam. Consequently, I don't use "search" & "attraction" baits such as spinnerbaits, crankbaits and most other faster moving presentations.

 

Instead I rely on stealth, observation and "triggering" baits, such as soft plastics, to fish these areas. (Along with a generous application of DEET!) Weightless Texas rigged plastics rule in this environment; Sweet Beavers, Yum Mitey Bugs, most creature baits and I never leave home without some 7" Senkos.

[Hyrule Bass]

Rage tail toads, and weightless soft plastics

 

shallow diving cranks and buzz baits if the weeds and slop arent floating on top or up to the surface

[Arv]

I use everything aside from heavy punching/flipping/pitching and swimbaits, mostly because I don't have a set up for that. My go to lures are lipless cranks, spinnerbaits, texas rigs, carolina rigs, jigs, shakey heads, weightless plastics and drop shots. Not necessarily in that order. You just gotta figure out where they are and what they're biting.

[powerduster]

I like the Mepps Timber doodle for weeds and junk.

[Marty]

Is a texas rig and topwater my only options?

 

 

Bank fishing is not all the same, what with different bodies of water, different locations and the like. I've used crankbaits, topwaters, soft plastics, spinnerbaits, jigs, etc. There's really no lure types I rule out, I fish what I can depending on the cover and other conditions.

[Raul]

Bank fishing ..... like what kind of place you´re going to fish ? I do a lot of bank fishing and what I bring for fishing from the bank depends a lot on what kind of environment I´m going to fish. For example, I don´t bring deep divers to the ponds, but I will bring them to fish a couple of lakes and I´m still "bank fishing", for some ponds not only I don´t bring deep diving cranks, I don´t bring lipless cranks either, super shallow runners and jerkbaits are fine but the others will imediately hang up in the vegetation. 

 

In other words, like usual in this sport, you have to be creative and adapt your baits and techniques to the conditions of the place you´re going to fish.