What's your go to technique that you have most confidence in?

[Fishin' Fool]

To follow up on my question of what technique you plan to try this year. A lot of you have mentioned drop shot, so I'm gonna try to help your learning curve by telling you how I fish it.

 

Rod- 6'10" to 7'3" ML to M fast or extra fast

Reel- 2500 Shimano Stradic FJ

Line- Either straight fluorocarbon 6-8 pound test or braid (12 to 20 lb) to a 6-8 pound fluorocarbon leader

Knot- Palomar and run the tag end back through the hook eyelet to make the hook stand out

Baits- Yamamoto shad shaped worms, Roboworms, Reins Bubbling shakers, Poor Boys Erie Darters 

Hooks- Gamakatsu split shot/drop shot in either size 1 or 1/0

Weights- cylinder shaped lead or tungsten (better feel and smaller) usually between 1/8 and 1/4

 

To fish it I cast it out and work back in slowly twitching the rod tip without lifting the weight. Over a certain depth say 15 feet it seems to work better dropping straight down. To set the hook just reel and maintain constant pressure. I hope this helps some of you new to this technique.

 

[ThePolkFolk]

Nice post, here is my go to setup.

 

Weightless senko.

Rod- 7' MF or MXF

Reel- Stradic CI4+

Line- 15lb Power Pro neon yellow to 10 lb Red Label flouro (5 ft)

Knot- Palomar for hook, uni-uni for leader

Baits- Yamamoto senkos, KVD ochos, Gambler ace (thanks to RoLo)

Hooks- size 6 octopus - 4" ochos wacky, size 2 octopus 5" wacky, 3/0 EWG for texas rig

 

I fish mostly wacky. I usually go with a pop-pop wait pop-pop-pop wait retrieve.

[RichF]

My go-tos:

 

7'11 H moderate fast St Croix Legend Extreme, Curado I 7.2:1, 50lb Sunline FX2, and a bulky 3/4 oz flipping jig

 

7'6 H Moderate fast Kistler Helium, Chronarch CI4, 17lb Pline Tactical Fluoro, and a bulky 3/4 oz flipping jig

 

7'3 H Kistler Magnesium, Daiwa Zillion TWS 7.3:1, 50lb Sunline FX2, and a Spro Bronzeye frog 

[Turtle135]

Rod: 7'1" Mojo Bass medium-heavy fast
Reel: Lew's SuperDuty Speed Spool Baitcast Reel
Line: Trilene XT Monofilament, 14 or 17 pound test in clear
Knot: Uni
Bait: 3/8th ounce Grid Iron Arky Jighead from Seibert Outdoors, Round Rubber Skirt, Baby Paca Craw as the trailer

[Jelvas]

Texas rig! I have plenty other techniques in wich i have confidence but at the end of the day the T-rig is allways the one i like the most, with jigs being a close second, there´s nothing better for me like feeling a bite and setting the hook...

[Jaderose]

Froggin.  2 types of fishing for me.  Froggin and everything else.

[TOXIC]

I will say "finesse" as a group.  I have at times had 5 rods rigged different ways with 5 inch Senkos on my deck at once.  

[Spankey]

Truly kicking off my bass season on Sunday. Do have some bad weather moving in. I'll have to deal with whatever is dealt to me. 

 

But I feel it will most likely be on a Rat L Trap or a Rapala jerkbait of some type. I picked up on this pattern over the winter (carbon). I'm hot to use it. If that doesn't do it maybe one of the old standbys will. 

[Adleyfishes]

37 minutes ago, ThePolkFolk said:

Nice post, here is my go to setup.

 

Weightless senko.

Rod- 7' MF or MXF

Reel- Stradic CI4+

Line- 15lb Power Pro neon yellow to 10 lb Red Label flouro (5 ft)

Knot- Palomar for hook, uni-uni for leader

Baits- Yamamoto senkos, KVD ochos, Gambler ace (thanks to RoLo)

Hooks- size 6 octopus - 4" ochos wacky, size 2 octopus 5" wacky, 3/0 EWG for texas rig

 

I fish mostly wacky. I usually go with a pop-pop wait pop-pop-pop wait retrieve.

Why the colored line?

[ThePolkFolk]

Good question @Adleyfishes. Half of my bites are feel-bites where I either feel the tap or feel weight on the line. The other half is seeing the line move off in an unnatural direction. In my personal opinion I don't feel that the yellow line drives off any fish so I use it to make it easier to see.

[A-Jay]

What's your go to technique that you have most confidence in?

 

Patience.

 

A-Jay

[Adleyfishes]

I throw a brush hog on a 7' mh blackout and pro max reel 4/O hook I target weed lines and small timber near the bank. 30 pound braid with leader or 12-15 pound mono depending on clarity I'm on a very tight budget.

[Fishin' Fool]

13 minutes ago, A-Jay said:

What's your go to technique that you have most confidence in?

 

Patience.

 

A-Jay

 

I've seen your videos you can do better than that

[sully420]

Duckett ghost 7'3" heavy fast

kastking speed demon

50lb power pro braid

3/4 oz strike king tungsten punch weight with skirt keeper

Boss bluegill skirt

Strike king menace grub rigged vertically

Trokar 4/0 flipping hook snell knot

I also add rattles 

[Bassin' Brad]

6'6" MH rod, braided line, 4/0 EWG hook 1/16 oz bullet weight (not pegged) and a 5" senko Texas rigged. 

[Fishin' Fool]

1 hour ago, Bassin' Brad said:

6'6" MH rod, braided line, 4/0 EWG hook 1/16 oz bullet weight (not pegged) and a 5" senko Texas rigged. 

 

How do you fish it?  Let it fall to the bottom on semi-slack line.  Lift and repeat.

[Bassin' Brad]

6 minutes ago, Fishin' Fool said:

 

How do you fish it?  Let it fall to the bottom on semi-slack line.  Lift and repeat.

Exactly like that. 

[riverbasser]

6'6 to 7' MH fast action rod 30lb power pro 3/0 straight shank gama hook. zoom ultravibe worm/ragetail cut'r 3/16 oz to 1/4 oz bullet weight pegged

 

 

jig is a close second with pretty much same setup

[Fishin' Fool]

1 minute ago, riverbasser said:

6'6 to 7' MH fast action rod 30lb power pro 3/0 straight shank gama hook. zoom ultravibe worm/ragetail cut'r 3/16 oz to 1/4 oz bullet weight pegged

 

 

jig is a close second with pretty much same setup

 

On your first technique you mentioned, is it a steady retrieve or fast retrieve? 

[riverbasser]

Just now, Fishin' Fool said:

 

On your first technique you mentioned, is it a steady retrieve or fast retrieve? 

 

depends on the day both of those worms work well when swam just above the bottom, always rig tail down and they mimic a paddle tail, most days they want it even slower though just pulled with rod and bringing up slack with reel like you would work a lizard or creature bait

[Darren.]

I would have told you a wacky rigged senko in the 

past. Then a drop shot the last 6 months.

 

The last several outings? Ned rig on 2 - 3 spinning

rods, all under 6'6" with 6, 8, or 10# fluoro or YZH.

1/5 oz weedless, and 1/20 oz weedless jigs.

 

Colors? Take your pick, but junebug is quite good.

 

Sunday late afternoon until sunset, heavy wind, 

much tougher bite than I anticipated. No takers on

TX, wacky. Didn't have a drop shot tied on.

 

Two Ned rigs, lost 3 nice fish near the boat, which

hit my confidence in the ML rod I was using at the

time...but I persisted. Ended up with a 2, 2.2, 2.6,

a 3, and a 4 pounder before heading in. Time of

day clearly played a part, as those came as wind

died down, but the Ned produced.

[LuckyHandsINC.]

I love dragging a football head along rocky bottoms. Feeling all sorts of stuff going on down there, then bam, fish on.

[Ratherbfishing]

This one can be all over the board because there are SO many possible scenario's.  BUT for the early spring in flats, I will often go to a jerk bait (such as a Shadow Shad Rap) and fish as slowly (pauses) as the water temp dictates.  I've done so well it's difficult to try anything else.

[Cgolf]

On the River

Plastic - Yum Crawbug on a slider head

Crank - Bandit 100

 

Lakes

Plastic - Tube or 5" Kalins grub on a slider head

Crank - RES, Bandit Flat Maxx and 100, and Norman Deep Little N have been my #1s for a while trying to expand that list trying more baits

[blckshirt98]

Nose hooked dropshot times a billion.