Your Favorite Technique This Past Season

[Catch and Grease]

Mine would have to be a swim jig too, They have caught me a ton of fish this year and they are a blast to fish!

[Zach Dunham]

This was the year of the chatterbait for me. I probably caught 3 times as many fish on that over any other lure.

[SJex]

Topwater

[mprestonSEK]

1. Swim jig

2. Brush jig

3. Finesse Worm

4. Bladed jig

5. Fluke

[buzzed bait]

plastic worms were the most productive, jigs were my favorite, but the greatest improvement for catches/catch rate was easily the spinnerbait...  i really turned it up with the spinnerbait this year.

[PAGreg]

Pitching docks, followed by bombing norman weed walkers way back in lilly pads, followed by arashi wake bait.

For next year, looking forward to adding skipping docks to above.

[Slefler]

Swim jigs

Wacky Rig

Rage Rig

[Bankbeater]

I started deep cranking this past summer.

[greentrout]

 

Old school basser...

[pigeonlake]

10 inch worm texas style

[WhiteMike1018]

Lipless crankbait

spro arukushad 75

[primetime]

I have loved fishing topwater, shallow hardbaits, I am at the point that I throw the Sebile Flatt SHadd suspending which sits on the surface and is practically weedless, the Ima Skimmer, Chug bugs, Ripplin red Fins, floating Minnows, Love the Bagley Bang O lure with the rear prop, but dressing the trebles has opened my eyes to the power of a lure sitting still.....

[Felix77]

My favorite technique this past year was the Cavitron Buzzbait.  Never caught a bass on a buzzer until this year.  Once I got one I was hooked (pun).  Love those buzz baits.  (3/8 white)

 

Not necessarily my most productive ... that would be the good ol senko.

[nascar2428]

The good ole weightless t-rigged Senko.

[annexation]

Texas rigged everything. But mostly texas rigged pit bosses.

[ColdSVT]

Caught great numbers on frogs, dropshots, cranks and creatures

Cashed a check on deep cranks and beavers!

[Suspendingjerk]

I had the most fun with the dropshot, but as far as numbers go the weightless fluke prevailed.

Early to mid spring though I killed them with a floating jerk, and eventually moved on to a suspending.

[HoosierHawgs]

Shallow cranking was huge this year. So was topwater at night.

[corn-on-the-rob]

Got into chatterbaits which I loved the idea but wasn't having much luck until I slammed 4.5lb and 5lb largemouths which are pretty big in ohio.

 

This was my first year fishing jigs in heavy cover. Took me a while to gain confidence in the big profile. I always threw tubes or grubs, but I am starting to love the jig.

 

Drop shot isn't new to me but likely my favorite thing to do.

[JakeKeenom]

Mine has definitely been the jig and jerk bait bite that is starting to settle in now in these cold months... Catching some of the biggest sacks ive caught before this time of year.

[dwong]

It wasn't my most productive technique, but dragging a football jig was hands down my most favorite technique. I love slowly feeling the bottom composition. I love the anticipation of the bass thumping the jig. And most of all I love setting that hook. Before I got confident with the jig I was mostly fishing a drop shot and that wimpy lift hook set is just no comparison.