Do Buzzbaits Work During The Daytime? - Hells Ya!

[tcbass]

I've read a lot of articles and on forums that buzzbaits are best for evening and morning. I just really got into using buzzbaits a few weeks ago and as evening came on we put some Booyahs on and really did quite well at a local lake. We tried again a few evenings later and almost no success even though we were still catching fish with Senkos. A week later we tried again in the evening and crushed them. So it's definitely hit or miss. All of these times were in the same lake and same area at evening. I'm normally never up early enough for an early morning trip.

 

I had a weekend trip planned for a friend's cabin coming up so I ordered some Cavitron Buzzbaits from Cabelas because I had heard good things about them on here. I also ordered some Ragetail Menaces from Bass Pro for my Sieberts Swim Jig since Mike recommended them. Of course neither arrived on time for the trip, although they did arrive the day I got home. Luckily we were able to stop by a small mom and pop place, on our way down South to the cabin. I picked up both the Cavitrons and Menaces while my friend picked up some Cavitrons on my advice. He said they'd better work. I said I hope they do.

 

Well, we got out to the lake in the evening and fished with no success for the first hour as we moved down the shore fishing with different lures. We tried everything, swim jigs, Senkos, buzzbaits, Ragetail Toad, beetle spins, Rapala Scatter Rap, KVD Sexy Dawg, KVD Popper, and others. What we later found out about this lake was if one side was bad you should immediately go to another spot and you'll most likely find hungry fish.

 

As we reached the opposing shoreline we started catching fish on Senkos. My buddy put on his Booyah Buzzbait to no avail. I caught the first one on a Cavitron. It definitely planed quicker then the Booyah Buzzbait. Eventually we all changed to our Cavitrons and caught about 6 good bass on them. We started out immediately with stinger hooks on our buzzbaits because my friend said a friend of ours recommended them.

 

The next morning we went out around the crack of 11am. We caught fish on almost everything imaginable, Arashi crankbait, Senkos, Ragetail Bug Rage Rigged, Hollow Body frogs,KVD Sexy Dawg, KVD Splash Popper, Ragetail Structure Bug, Ragetail Toads, Scatter Rap, and Cavitron Buzzbaits. So I would definitely say it helped that the fish were hungry all weekend. We caught them all day on buzzbaits and into the evening. We did this the third day also until we left at around 12 noon.

 

 

Weather conditions:   Weather was bright, sunny, bluebird to overcast with rain sprinkles with glass calm to slight chop in the water. Most of the time it was bright, blue bird with dead calm. It was bright and sunny 98% of the time and only light rain and overcast on the last morning about 30 minutes before we left. So, bright and sunny and the fish were eating up the buzzbaits all day long.

 

 

 

So, do buzzbaits work in the daytime also?    Absolutely.

 

 

 

Try them out sometime in the daytime, you might be pleasantly surprised. If the fish are hitting any type of topwater, it wouldn't be bad to try one on.

 

 

 

***  Next time though we want to try a head to head test with the Cavitron Buzzbaits vs. Booyah Buzzbaits and others. It's just that the Cavitrons caught fish that first evening and the Booyah did not, so we stuck with the Cavitrons rest of the trip. Why change what's workin'?

 

 

We caught fish from 1' foot of water down to deeper then 44' feet of water with the buzzbaits, KVD Sexy Dawg, and KVD Splash Popper. So topwater can pull fish from nearly any depth.

 

 

 

Also, a all rubber net, I have a medium Ego 2 Slider clear rubber, is really great for non getting any tangles or the hook stuck in the net. The Ego 2 is also extremely compact and easy to use.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fish barely hooked. Good he had a trailer hook on the buzzbait. He caught 3 fish like this barely hooked on the stinger hook They would have been missed fish for sure if it wasn't for the stinger hook. I'd definitely recommend using a trailer hook on your buzzbaits.

 

 

[frogflogger]

I fish mostly in the midday hours - been using various top waters for many years - mostly frogs now - mid day is as good as any for big fish on top. Mostly it's a confidence thing.

[Catch and Grease]

buzzbaits and hollow body frogs are the only two top waters I have a lot of confidence in during the day...

[Bobby Uhrig]

I throw it all day long Uncle B Bobby b's buzzbaits are catching bass -Its also a heck of a lot of fun.

[papajoe222]

Outings like yours will contribute to your becoming a better angler. For one thing, the knowledge you gained from an outside force was reinforced with your personal experience. Those lessons aren't forgotten as easily. For another thing, you tested that knowledge in a somewhat controlled situation. You knew the fis were there. Congrats on a productive outing. BTW, you also learned that a fish's activity level has a lot to do with which presentation will or cannot work.

[einscodek]

Sure they work in the daytime.. do they produce better than other lures in the daytime?  ..not in my experience..

once in a while fish do cooperate better and take just about anything .. esp when you catch em when theyre real hungry.

[CDobber]

Yep....high noon today in an area there probably was no business being a smallie in bright sunlight, little protection and in 3-5 FOW of a large lake.  I was alternating between smallies a bit deeper and lmb shallow and near docks.  

 

My new PB.

 

 

[Marty]

Not just buzzbaits that work in the daytime, it's other topwaters as well.

[iceintheveins]

One of my best buzzbait days was during the middle of the day when a bunch of frogs were all over. They worked even better than hollow bodied frogs that day. It was every cast and the temp was 100. Never had a day like that again, but have caught them during sunny, bright day conditions during the day still.

[The_fisherman]

Never had luck with buzzbait.

[tcbass]

Never had luck with buzzbait.

 

 

 

Tried them tonite, not one bite. I did miss 3 on my KVD Sexy Dawg when it splashed down.

 

 

 

 

Keep tryin'  Eventually you will and it will be amazing!

[Bobby Uhrig]

never give uuuuuuup

[tbone1993]

buzzbaits and hollow body frogs are the only two top waters I have a lot of confidence in during the day...

get yourself some pop-rs. My list is pop-rs, frogs, buzzbaits, and the zara spooks.