If You Could Have One Lure?

[Mainebass1984]

  Its got to be the jig for me. I most likely would have a rage craw trailer on for this time of year. Jigs win tournaments all across the country every month of the year. It consistently produces bigger then average fish.

[Darren.]

A senko type bait, watermelon red. You can fish them in thick cover, open water, shallow, deep, Texas rig, wacky rig, Carolina rig, dead stick, jerk them back so they walk, and drop shot them. Extremely versatile bait, and they flat out catch fish all over the country. I love senko type baits.

 

x2. For me it would be a 4" version in watermelon magic, green pumpkin + chartreuse tip, hot pepper frog.

[Mr Swim Jig]

For me it would be a swim jig...

[einscodek]

Here is where I found my info on deep bass.

 

http://www.bassmaster.com/tips/wirth-deep-water-hot-spots

 

http://www.umpquavalleybassmasters.com/bassbook.htm

 

I will definintly use a wacky rig/senko, it is something I use often and am comfortable with. I think I will get a swim bait just for the heck of it, and some worms and a jig as suggested.

Thanks again for all the help, and I will give you the tournament results as soon as posible. Thanks agian!

It is theorized that 90% of fish are in the deep.. theory is not fact.

It is said bass is a deepwater fish..

 

Like gentlemen said before, it depends on the season and conditions where they go but yes there are deep in the winter and some in the summer but thats a stretch to say they are a deepwater fish.  There are many myself included whom would argue the opposite.. and in summer and winter alot of fish become deeper water fish.

[NathanW]

My advice is that you limit yourself to the type of lure your gear is best suited for and lean towards the ones you have the most confidance in.

 

I have not fished that lake but it looks like you've got a lot of vegetation to deal with. If you like chucking and winding a spinnerbait, buzzbait, swimjig combo could put a few fish in the boat in the morning. Note that throwing a buzzbait is somewhat of a gamble but has big-fish potential and takes little experiance to fish dangerously. As the day progresses you could slow down and fish the outside of the weeds and docks with a dropshot or Senko, again baits that take little to no experiance to catch em on. If you have depth a dropshot would be a better choice. Your morning bite will last longer if you fish the East bank and if its a high skies sunny day do whatever you can to cast your bait into shaded waters.

 

I would be curious to know what kind of stuff you are used to fishing.

[bassin' 4 life]

My advice is that you limit yourself to the type of lure your gear is best suited for and lean towards the ones you have the most confidance in.

 

I have not fished that lake but it looks like you've got a lot of vegetation to deal with. If you like chucking and winding a spinnerbait, buzzbait, swimjig combo could put a few fish in the boat in the morning. Note that throwing a buzzbait is somewhat of a gamble but has big-fish potential and takes little experiance to fish dangerously. As the day progresses you could slow down and fish the outside of the weeds and docks with a dropshot or Senko, again baits that take little to no experiance to catch em on. If you have depth a dropshot would be a better choice. Your morning bite will last longer if you fish the East bank and if its a high skies sunny day do whatever you can to cast your bait into shaded waters.

 

I would be curious to know what kind of stuff you are used to fishing.

I have only one rod, it is a six foot spinning rod and I like to run 20lb braid on it. Usually I go out in the afternoon and fish the edges of docks and weeds with an x-rap jerkbait, and if that does not work I will switch to a wacky rig. That's about all I use. I had two spinnerbaits but one broke and I lost the other, I am thinking of getting the terminator t1 spinnerbait though.

[BasshunterJGH]

Senko. Close second dirty jigs finesse football jig

[Squirmin Wormin]

Any make of worm.

[NJBasstard]

1/4oz Bitsy Bug jig in black&blue with paca chunk trailer.

[iceintheveins]

Jig with a rage chunk.

[maryhugh3274]

5" senko in pumpkin with green and black flake..I've thrown this bait in countless lakes at depths from 0 to 25ft and caught both smallmouth and largemouth..if no success with regular texas rigging I'll switch to wacky..good luck

[DropTheBass]

4.5 inch Roboworm

[bassin' 4 life]

Well the tournament was fun, even though I did not catch any fish. Only three people out of ten weighed in, and everybody was telling us we picked a hard first tournament. It was a hard day fishing, but I had fun.

[Master Bait'r]

I'd choose a Roman made swimbait.  

 

 

Id then sell said swimbait in the tourney parking lot and go fish a pond on the way home with $400 in my pocket.