My Trump Card Of Lures/bait

[BammerBass]

1/16oz jighead with 1.5 inch silver minnow panfish assassin attached to it. This has been a very, very solid set up for me this year, it is what ive caught the vast majority of my fish on so far this year even, and it elicited solod strikes whereas i could literally watch those fish just stare at a live worm. And though it is made for crappie/panfish, the largemouth bass have seemed to absolutely love this thing. Throw it out there, count down to about 8 or so, and then retrive it slow and steady to see if you could catch some crappie or some bluegill, which i did. And when i added a twitch to the retrieve, it just seemed to really get those bass absolutely excited. 4lb bass(my best guess going on length and girth) that snapped my line absolutely hammered this thing after the twitch, as did the bass that i posted a couple pictures of on here, it too juat absolutely hammered it. And I've caught some drum on the same size jighead, including a 17 incher, but with a "black shad" colored panfish assassin, also 1.5inches in length. Just something about these things that seem to work well when everything else doesnt. i have a variety of other lures that wouls probably work grewt too, but if i fail to even get a strike on this setup, that pretty much tells me to pack it in and go home.

[PersicoTrotaVA]

That is an awesome looking bait!  I also noticed that smaller baits caught bigger fish for me this year.  I caught my PB this year on a 1.0 KVD squarebill.  I also caught a lot on 4.8in jackall flick shakes on a 1/6th owner wacky jighead that were in the 4 to 5 lb range.

[BammerBass]

That is an awesome looking bait! I also noticed that smaller baits caught bigger fish for me this year. I caught my PB this year on a 1.0 KVD squarebill. I also caught a lot on 4.8in jackall flick shakes on a 1/6th owner wacky jighead that were in the 4 to 5 lb range.

it is, I think there is something about that tail when you twitch it that seems to really elicit strikes from bass, as well as that color they seem to really like, and with it being such a light wait, its much easier to avoid getting snagged, and I've hw d more than enough outings of snapping hung lines, than actually catching something..... very, very frustrating, lol. I had to go and grt a little different style jig head because that little "barb" just below the head was splitting the soft plastic of those things open and I had to keep going into the pack for another one, and now ultimately have just one left of that color in the pack. I've got black shad, electric chicken, salt and pepper, pumpkin seed, baby bass, and crystal shad colors, but they just dont elicit the strikes thst silver minnow color does, not from bass anyway. The salt and pepper has got strikes from crappie a lot, and the pumpkin seed has gotten a lot of crappie to bit too when the water was dingy, but none of em got bass to strike like that silver minnow.

[smalljaw67]

Now you did it!!! I use a different bait, a River Rock Baits Kiah's Shad, they have a slightly thinner belly and are just a tad bit longer but very close to the profile of that pan fish assassin. I use them on a 1/32oz jig head with a size #4 hook for crappie and I discovered that it makes a killer bait for lethargic bass during the summer. We saw a bunch of tiny fry in the water last summer, we  were trying to find what the fish were feeding on as we could not buy a strike so I saw the fry and decided to try my crappie bait on them. Well it was too light to cast really well so I used a small float and set it about 15" or 16" above the small bait and made a cast and just let it sit for a bit and then ever so gently moved the float about 6" and it went down with force and instantly the line was tight, I just reeled and leaned into the fish, I learned long ago that you can't set the hook hard with tiny hooks. I ended up catching 5 nice largemouth with the smallest being 10# and the biggest was a 19" 3lb 6oz beauty, and I also caught 11 crappie and 2 big bluegill. I would never had even tried that for bass had I not caught them before while crappie fishing with the grandson, now I make sure I have a handful of those with some small jig heads and a couple of floats with me every trip.

[BammerBass]

Yup, seems setting the hook hard on these small hooks just pulls it out of their mouths. As soon as I feel a littlr bump or see my line twitch when they are in a cold weather pattern, I just give it a decent upward tug. Last crappie and bass both were set solid, and they essentially swallowed the jig. These little jigs do seem to work really well when nothing else does, and I'm sure there sre plenty of other brands and styles that would work well too. Just kinda hard to come off something you know works, lol.

[Raul]

Normally you cast those baits with really light line and the secret of the deadliness of such offerings is preciselly the light line, it allows the action to express without the restriction of being tied to a rope, when the bite gets really tough is time when I pull out my light line tackle ( which adds the scary factor to the mix ), I normally don´t fish bait´s that small but I do have the jigheads with larger hook versión for bigger baits for example, instead of a Tiny Assassin on a 1/16 oz regular jighead I tie a BassAssasin rigged on a 1/32 oz jighead with a 4/0 hook tied to 4-6 lb test, man that combo is just deadly in my neck of the Woods when the bite is tough.

[Bluebasser86]

This is the trump card around here in the lakes with clear enough water.

[Hogsticker]

Keitech little spider on a light Owner ultra jig head, or rigged with a split shot has done me right this time of year.

[Darren.]

1/16oz jighead with 1.5 inch silver minnow panfish assassin attached to it. 

 

I used to throw a 1/32 oz jighead (lunker city) with

a panfish assassin, usually a chartreuse variety.

 

It was absolutely deadly when I was primarily a 

dock fisherman. Caught me everything from 24"

pickerel to 2 pound bass.

 

So it was my trump card then. Not so much anymore

with me out in a kayak. I still throw them but just

don't have the same success rate I did.

 

My trump bait during the summer is a tiny fluke, 

wacky rigged on spinning gear, or split-shot rigged,

watermelon red.

 

Haven't found a trump bait for the fall yet, LOL.

[Catch and Grease]

Right now for me its lipless crankbaits and swim jigs!