Winter Bank Fishing Baits?

[Brock Grigsby67]

What are some of yalls favorite baits to use when bank fishing in the winter? I was thinking about slow rolling a white swim jig or a jerkbait.

[basshole8190]

Dynamite! Jk it's hard getting bites from the bank in winter

[Texas Pride]

I been useing spinner baits jigs and slow reeling crank baits and poppers i tryed a jerk bait but couldent get the feel how to use it

[Bluebasser86]

Jerkbaits and jigs when it's really cold. If you get an extended warming trend then I'd add a single Colorado bladed spinnerbait and a trap to the mix.  Probably 90% of the time I'm fishing a suspending jerkbait though. I really like the Erratic shad when the water gets really cold. They have almost no roll on a slow, soft jerk that the big girls like when it's cold!

[HoosierHawgs]

Flat sided cranks or rattletraps. I know they make floating traps, but if they make suspending ones those would be the best winter hardbait.

[Catt]

Down here it's jigs, T-rigs, & spinner baits in that order.

[Hogsticker]

I agree with bluebasser86. Then again, I love throwing a jerkbait. It's way more versatile than what a lot of folks give it credit for. So many ways to fish it. If you're patient with your pauses and selective with your cadence, it can be a deadly cold water bait.

[jdl2425]

I like to throw jerkbaits mainly (I'm not much of a jig fisherman). If a warm front comes through, or even better, a warm rain, then I like to throw red eye shads with a yo-yo retireve.

[tholmes]

Flat sided cranks or rattletraps. I know they make floating traps, but if they make suspending ones those would be the best winter hardbait.

 

 

Ask and you shall receive

 

http://www.lurenet.com/cotton-cordell-suspending-super-spot

 

Tom

[Senko lover]

This is my first season winter fishing, and I haven't had a lot of success. I've caught one so far on a finesse jig.

[HoosierHawgs]

Ask and you shall receive

 

http://www.lurenet.com/cotton-cordell-suspending-super-spot

 

Tom

 

Why thank you! Also, I've caught a lot of cokdwater dish, including the big one in my profile pic (my pb) on a silent sqairebill crank. Seems when it gets cold and the skies and water are clear, they can't get enough of it. I caught like 10 fish total on silent cranks that trip.

[Brock Grigsby67]

Thanks guys!

[Ozark_Basser]

I been useing spinner baits jigs and slow reeling crank baits and poppers i tryed a jerk bait but couldent get the feel how to use it

All it takes is one good bite with that jerkbait then you're hooked.  No wrong way to fish it as long as you jerk it in my experience.

[primetime]

we just has a few warm days here in the south and I went out for a few hours before a rainstorm and the fishing was really good after a good week of cold weather which made the bite super tough..We were hitting local ponds and trying new lures out and modifications, but they were all over topwaters and really wanted the dressed treble hook on the rear with maribou/flashabou and even though the materal gets destoryed fast, it breathes and looks alieve, and in the cold I like to throw a Popper like the sebile splasher or Rebel Pop'r with a dressed treble longer and larger than normal since weeds are not an issue, and neither is action since we barely move them, just twitch it or pop it once after it hits the water and then simply let it drift or move the rod an inch or two every 30 seconds..It sometimes will work in the dead of winter, although I like a prop bait in winter like a torpedo or devils horse, I have caught fish on them at night in cold weather, usually smaller fish however.

[Ozark_Basser]

we just has a few warm days here in the south and I went out for a few hours before a rainstorm and the fishing was really good after a good week of cold weather which made the bite super tough..We were hitting local ponds and trying new lures out and modifications, but they were all over topwaters and really wanted the dressed treble hook on the rear with maribou/flashabou and even though the materal gets destoryed fast, it breathes and looks alieve, and in the cold I like to throw a Popper like the sebile splasher or Rebel Pop'r with a dressed treble longer and larger than normal since weeds are not an issue, and neither is action since we barely move them, just twitch it or pop it once after it hits the water and then simply let it drift or move the rod an inch or two every 30 seconds..It sometimes will work in the dead of winter, although I like a prop bait in winter like a torpedo or devils horse, I have caught fish on them at night in cold weather, usually smaller fish however.

I bet the winter gets real nippy down there in Tampa lol.  Poppers in winter.  Geez.

[BasshunterJGH]

Jigs, lipless cranks, jerkbaits, dropshot rigs, and swimbaits are a few of my favorites in the winter (I'm almost always bank fishing)

[Angry John]

Jigs, lipless cranks, jerkbaits, dropshot rigs, and swimbaits are a few of my favorites in the winter (I'm almost always bank fishing)

This is the truth.  Never overlook the dropshot.  Use a crappie jig or a drop tube in your normal lake colors.

[John G]

I bet the winter gets real nippy down there in Tampa lol. Poppers in winter. Geez.

It does get a little nippy down here. Hell, even the Yankees wear jackets! LOL