Bass Fishing Blasphemy

[NYWayfarer]

sometimes, just sometimes I would rather fish for Bluegills than Bass.

[J Francho]

I fish for trout with bass pattern swimbaits.

[.ghoti.]

33 minutes ago, J Francho said:

I fish for trout with bass pattern swimbaits.

I have actually caught brown trout with a baby Bass color super fluke. What goes around comes around.

[Team9nine]

Hmmm....

 

I've fished shakyhead, cranks and topwaters with a 14" or longer tag line just to prove to myself the bass don't care.

 

I haven't thrown a traditional Texas-rigged worm in nearly a decade, or a Carolina rig in nearly 2 decades.

 

I honestly can't remember the last spinnerbait fish I caught.

 

I've spent days not setting the hook on fish just because I wanted to see how long they'd hold certain baits.

 

I only have a single bait caster at the moment spooled with mono, and only 1 spooled with braid (frog rod). Everything else is straight fluorocarbon.

 

I haven't used any type of scent or spray in nearly 30 years.

[RoLo]

11 minutes ago, Team9nine said:

Hmmm....

 

I've fished shakyhead, cranks and topwaters with a 14" or longer tag line just to prove to myself the bass don't care.

 

I haven't thrown a traditional Texas-rigged worm in nearly a decade, or a Carolina rig in nearly 2 decades.

 

I honestly can't remember the last spinnerbait fish I caught.

 

I've spent days not setting the hook on fish just because I wanted to see how long they'd hold certain baits.

 

I only have a single bait caster at the moment spooled with mono, and only 1 spooled with braid (frog rod). Everything else is straight fluorocarbon.

 

I haven't used any type of scent or spray in nearly 30 years.

 

 

WOW, that's a keeper right there...Keep up the good work!!

I thought I had the blasphemy market cornered, but I'm afraid you've got me beat 

 

Roger

[RichF]

13 minutes ago, Team9nine said:

I've fished shakyhead, cranks and topwaters with a 14" or longer tag line just to prove to myself the bass don't care.

 

HA! My dad does this with his jigs because I always bust his chops about it.  He still catches just as many as I do. 

[NCbassraider]

20 hours ago, Preytorien said:

 

 

I don't use, and won't use Flouro anymore other than the occasional leader. Which I'm quickly eliminating leaders from any of my fishing...which segways into...

 

I use braid for EVERYthing. It's strong, casts well, has almost no memory. I used to use mono, and for a brief time flouro, but I lost some GREAT fish that wouldn't have been lost if I used braid. So I made the switch and the confidence is reassuring. 

 

 

 

 

I'm straight braid as well. No leaders, they're unnecessary and just ad another complication that can go wrong.  No backing either, straight braid to reel with a little electrical tape to prevent slipping.

 

My fishing life is so less complicated now and I love it.  My hookup rate is much improved, I almost never have a backlash but when I do, it's simple to pull out and I don't worry about lack of stretch.  I fish with the drag a little looser, problem solved...if there was one.

[SOCALFISHIN]

1 hour ago, Team9nine said:

Hmmm....

 

I've fished shakyhead, cranks and topwaters with a 14" or longer tag line just to prove to myself the bass don't care.

 

I haven't thrown a traditional Texas-rigged worm in nearly a decade, or a Carolina rig in nearly 2 decades.

 

I honestly can't remember the last spinnerbait fish I caught.

 

I've spent days not setting the hook on fish just because I wanted to see how long they'd hold certain baits.

 

I only have a single bait caster at the moment spooled with mono, and only 1 spooled with braid (frog rod). Everything else is straight fluorocarbon.

 

I haven't used any type of scent or spray in nearly 30 years.

Very curious as to which baits they held on to the longest.

I'd greatly appreciate a top 5.

 

Thanks!

[the reel ess]

1 hour ago, Team9nine said:

Hmmm....

 

I've fished shakyhead, cranks and topwaters with a 14" or longer tag line just to prove to myself the bass don't care.

 

I haven't thrown a traditional Texas-rigged worm in nearly a decade, or a Carolina rig in nearly 2 decades.

 

I honestly can't remember the last spinnerbait fish I caught.

 

I've spent days not setting the hook on fish just because I wanted to see how long they'd hold certain baits.

 

I only have a single bait caster at the moment spooled with mono, and only 1 spooled with braid (frog rod). Everything else is straight fluorocarbon.

 

I haven't used any type of scent or spray in nearly 30 years.

If you were fishing with a Chigger Craw they'd still have it.

[J Francho]

2 hours ago, .ghoti. said:

I have actually caught brown trout with a baby Bass color super fluke. What goes around comes around.

 

Brown trout eat ANYTHING.  I've found bees, mice, worms, a god knows what cleaning them.  I know a guy that throws mouse pattern flies for them.

[hoosierbass07]

2 hours ago, Team9nine said:

 

 

I haven't thrown a traditional Texas-rigged worm in nearly a decade,

 

 

  Wow, that is really blasphemous!   

[Team9nine]

1 hour ago, SOCALFISHIN said:

Very curious as to which baits they held on to the longest.

I'd greatly appreciate a top 5.

 

Thanks!

 

Don't have an exact list of specific baits, but I can tell you a variety of soft plastics are at the top. I've had them hold onto trick worms and the like for 45 seconds or more. Others like tubes and shakeyheads can easily go half a minute. All these are not scented outside of whatever the manufacturer may have put in. After that, jigs are probably next longest. Can often get 10 or 20 seconds out of one, and sometimes they'll spit/drop it and then grab it right back again. Hard plastic baits are a little harder to judge. I've bent down hooks on cranks and removed them from topwaters. Seems like you've got a few seconds but it's tougher to judge, especially cranks which can be hard to tell a hit in he first place. Frogs and toads will go for a bit if the fish has room to run, otherwise line tension either gets them to drop it or pulls it out of their mouth. Soft plastics in general are that way it seems. If a fish can run with the bait they seem to hold it longer than if they're tight in cover and you drop it on their head with no place for them to go.

6 minutes ago, hoosierbass07 said:

 

  Wow, that is really blasphemous!   

 

I've never been a fan. When I fished tourneys I always preferred a jig because I could fish it faster and feel cover better. I only carried 1 bag of worms as a desperation measure.

[wisconsin heat]

This thread is making me Sick! 

[JustinCT]

I have never used a baitcaster and have no plans to.  Don't fish texas, or carolina rigged worms.  Almost never throw jigs.  Yeesh, that sounds bad after typing it out.

 

[SOCALFISHIN]

On 3/7/2017 at 11:24 AM, Team9nine said:

 

Don't have an exact list of specific baits, but I can tell you a variety of soft plastics are at the top. I've had them hold onto trick worms and the like for 45 seconds or more. Others like tubes and shakeyheads can easily go half a minute. All these are not scented outside of whatever the manufacturer may have put in. After that, jigs are probably next longest. Can often get 10 or 20 seconds out of one, and sometimes they'll spit/drop it and then grab it right back again. Hard plastic baits are a little harder to judge. I've bent down hooks on cranks and removed them from topwaters. Seems like you've got a few seconds but it's tougher to judge, especially cranks which can be hard to tell a hit in he first place. Frogs and toads will go for a bit if the fish has room to run, otherwise line tension either gets them to drop it or pulls it out of their mouth. Soft plastics in general are that way it seems. If a fish can run with the bait they seem to hold it longer than if they're tight in cover and you drop it on their head with no place for them to go.

 

I've never been a fan. When I fished tourneys I always preferred a jig because I could fish it faster and feel cover better. I only carried 1 bag of worms as a desperation measure.

Thank you very much! Great information here.

 

-BK

[scaleface]

On 3/7/2017 at 2:36 PM, JustinCT said:

I have never used a baitcaster and have no plans to.  Don't fish texas, or carolina rigged worms.  Almost never throw jigs.  Yeesh, that sounds bad after typing it out.

 

What are you , a perch jerker  ?

[dmainor]

I fish spinning lures with a Popeo Pocket Fisherman i keep in the car for when I drive by water than looks just too good to pass up.   It works.  Not great, but it works.

 

Dug

[toni63]

When I get bored and the bass aren't biting, I keep some crappie tackle rigged up and with me and fish for crappie.

[bagofdonuts]

I think bass are delicious. There I said it.

[Dmacster1]

On 2/11/2017 at 3:05 PM, jimf said:

I use only mono fishing line.  

 

I only use 12lb test mono on my baitcasters because I hate trying to untangle braid backlashes. My top water rod is a 7 foot medium abu that is missing the last eyelet. I fish in a sit inside "touring kayak" that I somehow fit inside my car with all the windows and doors closed. I caught my pb on a 6'6" medium Hank Parker rod that I got from walmart for $13.

[Silas]

I only carried one ice chest. ( no live well). 

 

Cold drinks and sandwiches stored on top of ice. 

Put bass I caught in same ice chest. ( family actually ATE bass! The Horror!)

And yes, DRANK DRINKS WITH FISH SLIME ON IT. ( sometimes "rinsed" them off in Swamp if we caught a bunch of fish. 

never occurred to me to bring 2 chests. No room. 

 

Still fish a SNAGLESS SALLY WITH UNCLE JOSH GREEN POLKA DOT PORK CHUNK!

AND CATCH A LOT OF BASS!!

 

"Scaled" bass by placing them in Croaker Sack (burlap bag) put bass in sack, tie rope to it and motored down the bayou--fish cleaned by time we got to landing. Sometimes sack broke or knot came loose and lost days catch!  

[the reel ess]

On 3/14/2017 at 1:00 AM, Silas said:

I only carried one ice chest. ( no live well). 

 

Cold drinks and sandwiches stored on top of ice. 

Put bass I caught in same ice chest. ( family actually ATE bass! The Horror!)

 

GASP!!! You cretin! Yeah, I eat them too sometimes. You can't live in nature without being a part of it and when you take and eat game, you're fulfilling part of your natural directive. There's nothing like the feeling of being part of nature.

[runt4561]

I don't fish a senko weightless. if that is the only thing the fish will bite, I just wont catch any fish.

 

I don't throw a spinnerbait very much. maybe once or twice a year.

 

I don't throw topwater plugs very much either. again maybe once or twice a year.

 

I throw a texas rig on mono.

[Tin Man]

I prefer shorter poles to the 7 ft. plus models.

[sully420]

I'm right handed and only use left handed retrieve 

i use steel leaders on all moving baits(mr pike is a problem up here) 

I like slither/punch rigs more than grass jigs

i use the biggest jigs and creatures I can find and fish them 90% of the time