Buzzbait Conditions And Colors

[buttonreel]

I purchased 2 booyah buzzbaits yesterday. Both have the clacker. One is a black skirt and a black blade and the other is a chartreuse/white skirt with a silver blade. They are 3/8 ounce. Which one would you choose for overcast days and sunny days and which would you choose for stained/clear water.

[NWBasslover]

I am very much not the expert, but in my humble opinion, I never really throw any top water stuff on a clear day, I have always found it to be stunningly unproductive.

As for colors, I would throw the white/char in clear to stained water and save the black for much more muddy waters.

[CJV]

Throw the black one during low light periods of the day such as early morning, night, evenings. I would throw the white/chart during the lighter light periods of the day. Hope this helps.

[AaronG]

Black in low light and mud.

White and/or Chartreuse in clearer water and when the sun is high. (I almost always use white with a silver blade, I only add a trailer hook if I miss one or two hook-ups due to short strikes)

 

I love fishing buzzbaits but fair warning, sometimes they just won't produce.

I started with a 3 blade (Strike King makes a version called Tri-Wing) buzzbait and it's still my favorite. It runs slower than normal buzzbaits and I cast it with a long rod then "steer" it along edges of surface weeds and pads. The normal two blade buzz baits and buzz baits with clackers have to be retrieved pretty quickly and I find they only work here in northern PA during the late spring before the water gets really warm and in the early fall when the water starts to cool.

 

One more thng, your buzz bait should squeak and squelch like a bad bearing in an electric fan. As the blade spins, you want that metal-on-metal squeaky sound. I don't know why, but I read it online (maybe here on BassResource?) and I did a little testing. Turns out my smooth, silent buzzbaits are also the ones that never come out of my tackle box cause they are the ones that never catch fish! I never made the connection until I read it online, but squeaking is definetly a good thing on buzz bait blades and a bad thing in almost every other metal-on-metal scenario.

[buttonreel]

How deep must it be to throw

[boostr]

It's a top water bait, it can be a foot deep.

[boostr]

You start cranking it right before it hits the water.

[Fish Murderer 71]

The clearer the water the deeper a bass will come out of to hit a buzz bait...  I've had them come out of 12 foot of water and hit the bait. 

[dday07]

Black in low light and mud.

White and/or Chartreuse in clearer water and when the sun is high. (I almost always use white with a silver blade, I only add a trailer hook if I miss one or two hook-ups due to short strikes)

 

I love fishing buzzbaits but fair warning, sometimes they just won't produce.

I started with a 3 blade (Strike King makes a version called Tri-Wing) buzzbait and it's still my favorite. It runs slower than normal buzzbaits and I cast it with a long rod then "steer" it along edges of surface weeds and pads. The normal two blade buzz baits and buzz baits with clackers have to be retrieved pretty quickly and I find they only work here in northern PA during the late spring before the water gets really warm and in the early fall when the water starts to cool.

 

One more thng, your buzz bait should squeak and squelch like a bad bearing in an electric fan. As the blade spins, you want that metal-on-metal squeaky sound. I don't know why, but I read it online (maybe here on BassResource?) and I did a little testing. Turns out my smooth, silent buzzbaits are also the ones that never come out of my tackle box cause they are the ones that never catch fish! I never made the connection until I read it online, but squeaking is definetly a good thing on buzz bait blades and a bad thing in almost every other metal-on-metal scenario.

I love the tri-wing also....to me there is no better buzzbait to use in clear water because it runs a little more subtle than most...tending not to scare off some bass that might be startled by louder buzzbaits

[tcbass]

I've had my best success and really only success at dusk and dark with buzzbaits. I suppose since they are so noisy it's easy for fish to hone in on them.

[river-rat]

Black during cloudy conditions, early/late during the day and night time. If it's sunny and bright go with the chartreuse and white.