Your Favorite Way To Fish A Bluff Wall?

[RHuff]

 You can cast, flip, or pitch with a spinning, baitcast, or zebco. All it takes is a little practice. 

[RHuff]

To answer the OP through, I would bank a all-terrain jig off the rocks and let it fall slowly to the bottom and dance that puppy around in a nice slow retrieve. 

 

Another option is maybe a whacky rigged sinko to let that thing squirm and dance as it drops. Most of the bluff's in my area are steep rock with hardwoods above them. Why not imitated a worm or caterpillar that may have fallen from a tree, or a bug that fell from the rocks. 

 

I've also had luck throwing a dark colored spinnerbait at an angle and running it sorta parallel for a while to the rock. If the fish are loaded up around this bluff, they are gonna be active. 

[gardnerjigman]

are you joking? A flipping jigs isn't going to be good on almost ANY spinning rod. Thats not what spinning rods are for.

I drew a boater in the one bfl tounament I fished at grand lake that could skip, flip, and pitch a jig with a spinning rod. Made it look so freaking easy. Any set up can be versatile if you practice and apply yourself.

[Choporoz]

I really like the weighted hooks and swing-jigs along rock drop-offs....I imagine its because the flukes/beavers/worms, etc are falling horizontally most of the way down -- I toss them into the side of the bluff and let them slide down...jerking off the rocks occasionally until they hit bottom...rinse, lather, repeat

[slimshad]

I put my boat right next to the bluff and throw either a sp jerkbait or a shad rap.  Keep it in the strike zone.  I seldom throw a bottom bouncer anymore.  If i throw a t rig it will be a weightless senko.  Good luck and let us know how you do this year with all of these.

[basscatcher8]

are you joking? A flipping jigs isn't going to be good on almost ANY spinning rod. Thats not what spinning rods are for.

 

 

A lot of folks do it. You get a more vertical fall from your jig when using spinning gear rather than baitcast gear. You can get the same effect with baitcast gear by pulling line off manually but usually it will fall in an arc from where the bait hits the water. I've done it before to get the bait to land right at the base of a grass bed.

[Amarley]

I fish the walls a lot different than this guy with a jig. I'll have to try that method. I have success keeping the rod tip up and dragging the jig down the wall. I try to keep in contact with the wall as much as possible. It seems like he is trying to get reaction strikes on the fall more-so than the "pecking" strike of a bass hitting the jig as it rests.