What technique catches you the most fish?

[dan94]

What fishing style or technique is your favourite or catches you the most fish? 

[RHuff]

Spinnerbaits and Crankbaits by far so I guess the search bait technique..

 

Topwater produces if the conditions adds up..

 

Flipping heavy cover on hot sunny days will produce consistantly...

 

I'd say these three makes up 85% of my fishing..

[HookRz]

That's easy to answer. Finesse. And it catches a good portion of my big fish too. But if I'm in a hawg hunting mood flipping big ugly jigs into ugly places gets the big uglies! 

[jr231]

Depends on season.... Right now its weightless plastics such as the senko, fluke, and hula grub. 

 

Followed closely by jigs 

[Bluebasser86]

So many variables, really hard for me to know because of the wide variety of baits and bodies of water that I fish. It's not crankbaits, 100% certain on that. I would have have to guess it would be either a swinghead with some kind of plastic, usually a beaver or brush hog type bait, a jig, or a bladed jig. I fish all 3 of them from January through December and catch fish the whole time, so odds are it's one of those 3. If jerkbaits worked year round, they would certainly be in the running also. 

[bowhunter63]

Lately it has been a wacky worm or split shot rig.Really producing well.

[hoosierbass07]

Always Texas rigged plastic worms/lizards/stick baits(Yum-Dinger).  

[islandbass]

Drop Shot is by far my most productive.  After that, I'd say the crankbait.  Don't tell anybody this, but I've never caught a bass on a spinnerbait or buzzbait. 

[Columbia Craw]

Depends on the body of water and season.  If I had one technique that I look forward to, it's cranking, deep or shallow.  Drop shot is right up there.  The most fun is when smallies crush a spinnerbait in the mid spring but it's hit and miss on that bite.

[Jar11591]

This year it's been a spinnerbait, followed closely by a jig and craw. In years past, my most productive has always been a wacky rigged senko. 

[Catt]

Ole Catt is a bottom feeder

 

Once the boat comes down off of plane the first thing I grab is a Texas Rig, Wacky Rig, Shaky Head, Weightless T-rig, Carolina Rig, Jig-N-Craw, Mojo Rig, Rage Rig, Drop Shot or anything that takes me to the bottom.

 

I'm gonna be casting, flipping, pitching, punching, hopping, dragging, shaking, dead sticking, or skipping.

 

I don't care if its grass, brush, timber, rocks, docks, pads, lay downs, shore line or off shore.

 

I don't care if its pre- spawn, spawn, post spawn, summer, dog days, fall, winter, morning, noon, or night.

 

Give me 2 rod-n-reels with any of the above techniques & Catt be happy, happy, happy!

[ww2farmer]

If I had to guess at what catches me the most numbers of fish each year, it would probably be a wacky rigged stick bait.

 

I know for a fact my biggest fish most years come on either a jig or frog.

[scaleface]

In my life its been the Texas rig by far  . For the last half dozen years crankbaits have been just as productive .

[Bankbeater]

So far this year I have been catching most of my bass on crankbaits.

[scaleface]

Its funny how lures get hot and cold . One year the jigging spoon was my top lure . It caught fish trip after trip for me .   It hasnt been productive since .

[NHBull]

Let me answer it this way.

Regardless of time of year, if a friend wants to catch fish, it is hard to beat the a weightless senko any time of year.  I have great luck, but I naturally like to fish faster

[Oregon Native]

This all made me smile a bit as I've lived on the west coast and now the east coast.  As mentioned above season's do change the lures and the presentations quite a bit although we all have a favorite we prefer throwing and hope that it works.  One bait that I "rarely" leave home without is a Dry Creek watermelon candy 3 1/2 inch tube.  Hands down tubes have done more for me than almost any other bait other than maybe a small jig back home.  Now....darn it...thanks to a certain person who did a video on this bait on this site I'm becoming addicted to the Rage bug!!!  My tube rod is right beside it but dang....I'm liking this bait too.  If I'm totally honest...I love figuring out what their biting and catching them on chatters, jerks, cranks, whacky's, dropshots, swimbaits and the list goes on.  I'm a bass fisherman and a tackle junkie.  But...the tube and the now bug...are staples.

Tight lines

[GrumpyOlPhartte]

What @Catt said!  I've had varying success with various lures at different times, but I have the most confidence in T-rigged creatures and worms. I can only take three rods in my kayak and one is always rigged with a 4/0 hook and a 3/8-oz bullet sinker. Even then it seems some days it has to be a Zoom Ol' Monster; other days only a BioSpawn Exostick Pro will get their attention.

 

As I attempt to learn more, I almost always start with something else, but invariably end up heaving a T-rig. This idea of starting with something else has paid off in one way. One sunny day I learned that Reaction Innovations flukes fished weightless can draw bass like gangbusters (the operative words being "sunny day").  This year on a cloudy day it was natural-colored  spinnerbaits!  But for consistent success, I rely on T-rigs.  With the overwhelming variety of lures available, I have to "strategize" my approach to avoid falling victim to the Bait Monkey.

 

One final thought: I have not been able to figger out how long to try something new before I give up. I arbitrarily use one hour and try to give it a chance on two days that have different weather conditions, but it's tough when my T-rigs are singing their siren song!

 

So much to learn, so little time and money!  

[Fun4Me]

8 hours ago, dan94 said:

What fishing style or technique is your favourite or catches you the most fish? 

 

Favorite technique or style is top water and a frog. Soft plastic worms and flukes usually catch me the most fish.

[spencer12]

If the bite is tough and I have to pick one bait to get a bite it's a no brainer.  I go with a texas rigged plastic worm, but not just any plastic worm.  It's a small worm (6").  I have probably caught more bass over 6lbs on this little worm than any other bait I own. 

 

If you can't get a bite, try going light.

 

A close second (and also would be my #2 for big fish over 6lbs) would be a spinnerbait. 

 

But again a worm has caught me more fish than any other lure.  I kept a log of my fish catches last year and with over 800+ bass caught I suspect 600 or more were on a worm of some sort.

[PAbasser927]

Tack me on to the weightless stick worm list.  If the bite is tough, I can usually turn my luck around with a wacky rigged 5" senko.  I am only in my first year of bass fishing, but all my PBs so far have come from a Texas or wacky rigged senko.

[A-Jay]

 So many great responses here so far - and in many situations, almost any one of them could be mine as well.

My favorite way to fish is to be throwing what they'll eat.  Sometimes I can find them and figure it out right away, other times it takes a while.

Still on a few occasions, it doesn't happen at all - not really a fan of this one but I try to learn something anyway.

But keeping it real - in the spring & fall for me it's almost Always something Moving.

Slower in the spring & faster in the Fall - but it's a moving bait - I'm usually smiling & getting bit.

Favorites include single hook baits; just because they usually do less damage to the bass & often make the hook removal process better overall.

However, Anything & everything is fair game here for me - in particular thispast fall & this spring - the jerkbait has been particularly effective for both numbers & bloated bass.

For the period in between, which basically means summer, the fish are deep here and I'll have 3 different drop shot rigs / baits ready to go.  Baits used vary far & wide and include worms, craws, & goby style deals.

And of course the exception to the 'rule' (and there is always is at least one) is the jig; which can & does come into play anytime of the year.

A-Jay

 

[Leftymuk]

Finesse/Senkos.........top water if it happens

[bagofdonuts]

That's a tough one but I'd probably say a jig, since I can count pitching and swimming.

[OCdockskipper]

To quote Bluebasser86 from a similar thread last year "Ned Rig, & it ain't even close!!".