What technique catches you the most fish?

[Bluebasser86]

1 minute ago, OCdockskipper said:

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

A constant barrage of rain the last year has kept the Ned numbers way down for me. 

[IndianaFinesse]

Most years I would tell you the ned rig, but there has been so much weeds this year I haven't thrown it much.  I've also been trying to avoid fishing it, to force me to learn new techniques.  I couldn't pick a single technique this year, but a shallow crank, buzzbait, walking popper, frog, suspending jerkbait, blade bait, and early in the year half of a zinkerz on a 1/16 ounce mushroom head.  Deep crank's been catching me a fair amount of fish lately also.

 

[Bucky205]

12 hours ago, dan94 said:

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

Fishing where theres fish is my best technique. I try to throw things they eat on that particular water. When I was a kid, I saw my dad catch a bass on a silver Timex watch band with a hook to win a contest in his club.  He knew those fish were there and feeding on shad. Do some research on your water.  Research what they eat, when they eat it, and where they eat it.  You will know what to throw.

[chattooga_ basser]

T-rigged soft plastics usually a trick worm or gambler ribbontail, a jig would be a close second. 

[sully420]

Spring - jig

Summer - jig

Fall - JIG

WINTER - X-BOX

[Siebert Outdoors]

Jig and Rage Craw

Shaky Head with a Menace

[12poundbass]

The technique that catches me the most fish is getting my lure wet. If your lure isn't wet you're not going to catch fish. It's a numbers game, put the numbers in your favor. The more you line is wet the better your odds of catching a fish. You can throw this or that and catch fish, but if you're not fishing you won't catch them. 

  

Conclusion: the longer/more you fish the more fish you'll catch. The longer you fish the more fish you'll cross paths with. There is no magic lure so don't look for one. The trick is time on the water.

[geo g]

All year, all conditions, ponds, lakes, and rivers, from the bank or from the boat, without a doubt, senko's and U-vibes in watermelon red and junebug.  W/M in clear water, junebug in stained water.  Sometimes they want it slow, sometimes jerked, sometimes constant movement.  It worked from southeast to Midwest waters.

[riverbasser]

the answer will probably always be some form of plastic worm for me for numbers.

 

this year its the florida rigged ultravibe worm, followed by a wacky trick worm

 

big fish goes to the jig

[Mike L]

7 hours ago, Catt said:

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!

 

Ditto

Can't add anything more

 

 

 

 

Mike

[N Florida Mike]

Favorite: Put me into the t- rigged camp as Well.

And it's my favorite because I catch the most fish on them.

Specifically,my  best numbers baits are:

• T-rigged 4 inch senko.For some reason,I don't catch anything if they're wacky rigged.

• Zoom flukes.

•Zoom trick worms

•Culprit worms.

 

^^^^^^^

I often catch bigger fish with these too.

• For  bigger fish, Frogs and giant culprit worms.

I Will occasionall do live bream or shiners and not ashamed of it.I am a product of where I grew up and who I  fished with ! To me,its more work to catch bait and keep it alive and make the presentation than with artificial,but that's another thread !

• I am also gaining confidence with spinnerbaits, and have had my best year ever with them.

[DubyaDee]

I'll throw a jerkbait most of the time, so a jerkbait it is. The only exceptions are in the summer wher tubes and dropshots are all you need for smallmouth lakes.  

[ohboyitsrobby]

My favorite is a top water walking bait. I'm also that guy that'll put down what I'm throwing and launch it as every breaking fish in the area. As for most productive.... a Texas rigged watermelon red baby brush hog. I've caught fish on these everywhere I've thrown it.

[WRB]

I am not a numbers fisherman unless it's numbers of big bass.

Occasionally I fish with a partner who likes to target numbers of bass and keeps count to determine how many were caught. When fishing for numbers you should fish locations that have higher populations of keeper size bass and that isn't where the big bass are located.

Early low light summer mornings the bite is usually on top water Splash-It, white frog, buzz bait, Shad color lipless or mid deep diver as the Shad leave their night hiding areas. When the Shad are gone out to deeper water a split/slip shot or drop shot rig puts number of bass in the boat. Evening it's the reverse with crankbaits being a numbers lure followed again by top water.

My best numbers day was 18 DD big bass on a Scrounger with trout colored Sluggo trailer, now those are the numbers I live for.

Tom

[RMax]

Texas Rigs and senkos clean out the lake everytime I go.

[pondbassin101]

14 hours ago, hoosierbass07 said:

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

 

X2

[d-camarena]

Senko all year for me. This specially the bass have been loving it weightless

[crypt]

12 hours ago, Catt said:

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!

this..............

[scaleface]

4 hours ago, WRB said:

 

My best numbers day was 18 DD big bass on a Scrounger with trout colored Sluggo trailer, now those are the numbers I live for.

 

 

 That has to be a record .

[gim]

Favorite technique is some sort of topwater lure but most effective is probably a soft plastic tube or worm.

[NorthwestBasser]

At one time it was a dropshot, that transitioned to the crankbait, which I found to be a seasonal bite in my area. Then it became pitchin a jig with trailer into heavy cover and under docks, now it's a Texas rigged plastic with a punching skirt that I fish just like my jigs except I can put it in the really really thick stuff and not get hung up, no rope or cable snags under docks. And I don't get as many bites but when I do, it's always a quality fish

[LxVE Bassin]

Wacky stickbait

[Dorado]

21 hours ago, Bluebasser86 said:

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. 

Which of the bladed jigs do you recommend for both Largemouths and Stripers? 

[Hot Rod Johnson]

I fish on the botom all year long with, (#1 ) A drop shot with a 4 1/2" Roboworm Straight Tail Worm in Aarons Morning Dawn,   ( #2 ) 1/4 Oz. Football Jig with a 3" Berkley Powerbait Chigger Craw in Black Blue Fleck...

Edited September 11, 2017 by Hot Rod Johnson
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[WRB]

5 hours ago, scaleface said:

 

 That has to be a record .

During the 90's our SoCal trophy bass lakes were at their peak, 15 lb bass were common and only bass over 18 lbs raised eyebrows. Those days are long gone.

Tom