Lure Sequence

[Texas Hawg Hunter]

How do you tend to cycle through your lures on a fishing trip?  I almost always start with a spinnerbait, then move to a jig or plastics, then maybe a different spinner or go to a crankbait, then back to a plastic...sorta alternating reaction vs. finesse lures.

[Catch and Grease]

Depends on a lot of things... Lately I've been starting with ethier a swim jig or squarebill depending on how active I feel the fish are.

[Ozark_Basser]

Depends on the cover or structure present, but I'll start off power fishing then go to something slower afterwards.  

[Heron]

I use the force.

[bigbill]

Early in the am before twilight it's topwater. Then shallow cranks, the diving to 10' cranks. Then back to to pop water repeat till it's twilight. Little by little ill add rapala minnow, inline spinners and spinnerbaits as the sun rises. As it gets lighter and the bass start to move to there deeper haunts its a c rig with senkos and brushogs plus deep cranks. Throw in some inline spinners and spinnerbaits. I work over the Rocky point with a jig, shallow crank.

On my first cast my topnocker 5/8oz and dripping wet with a scent. I throw it as far as I can in the channel away from me. This way the water is scented with the smell of the soup is on.

[Bluebasser86]

If the first bait I pick up is working well there may be no cycling through other baits. 

[PersicoTrotaVA]

"The head plays games, but the belly never lies"

 

I always fish what my gut tells me to fish.

[papajoe222]

It depends on which search mode I'm in. If I start shallow and work my way deep looking for active fish, it's topwaters, spinnerbaits, cranks. Deep to shallow, it's cranks or a C-Rig, spinnerbaits and jigs. About the only time I'll change up is if conditions haven't changed since my last outing, or I'm marking fish or baitfish schools.

Cold front conditions are a whole different scenario.

[roadwarrior]

Timely question as I am rigging up for a charity tournament this weekend.

This is my plan, but of course, always subject to change!

 

Starting line-up:

Cavitron

Chatterbait/ Rage Tail Structure Bug trailer

Megabass Ito Vision110

 

Later:

Rage Bug (Jika rig)

Norman Fat Boy

LC RC 2.5

Rage Toad

GYCB Kreature

Sworming Hornet/ LFT Live Majic Shad

Double Fluke Rig ( YUM Houdini Shad))

 

Panic Box:

Baby Rage Craw

GYCB Senko & Fat Ika

 

 

[Texas Hawg Hunter]

Timely question as I am rigging up for a charity tournament this weekend.

This is my plan, but of course, always subject to change!

 

Starting line-up:

Cavitron

Chatterbait/ Rage Tail Structure Bug trailer

Megabass Ito Vision110

 

Later:

Rage Bug (Jika rig)

Norman Fat Boy

LC RC 2.5

Rage Toad

GYCB Kreature

Sworming Hornet/ LFT Live Majic Shad

Double Fluke Rig ( YUM Houdini Shad))

 

Panic Box:

Baby Rage Craw

GYCB Senko & Fat Ika

 

 

 

Haha, "panic box" I like that.

[Catt]

A lot of anglers start their morning off shallow near shore, I start off deep & offshore

 

FYI: there is a deep bite going on at the same time as the shallow bite early in the morning & I find the bass bigger

[WRB]

I tend to fish where I believe the big bass are active at and use lures that are effective at those locations.

Tom

[Heron]

Really though,

 

Fishing from shore, I tend to approach it from 3 different levels.  Usually in this order, but not always.

 

 

Topwater

- Buzzbaits

- Dog Walkers

- Hollow Frogs

 

Middle Water

- Spinnerbaits

- Chatterbaits

- Swim Jigs

 

Bottom

- Jig/trailer

- Worms or LIzards

 

 

Thats pretty much my routine, in a nutshell.   

[Heron]

I tend to fish where I believe the big bass are active at and use lures that are effective at those locations.

Tom

This is far too complicated, Tom.

[J Francho]

Top to bottom, shallow to deep.  Cover and structure dictate what lures to use.

[primetime]

I like to pick apart visable structure first with weedless plastics and then start fancasting a bait I have confidence in and I can adjust weight and speed of retrieve with a soft swimbait/worm to figure out what they want. Same with a jig, you can swim it near surface, slow roll or crawl or hop it to figure out what else may work

[Bankbeater]

I usually start off with a weightless fluke, jig and trailer, some kind of t-rig, and some kind of crankbait. I will change the crankbait and t-rigged plastic if I don't get bites, but the fluke and jig stay on all day.