Bed fishing lures

[Slade Carroll]

Hey guys what’s your favorite bedfishing lure or lures what are your favorite bed fishing lures for North Carolina would the biospawn vile craw be a good choice

[WRB]

Bass will strike a marble dropped into the nest, lure choice isn't critical IMO.

The critters bass can't tolerate in or around a nest are what they precieved to be a threat or egg eaters. Salamanders (lizards), crawdads, minnows, any sunfish bluegill or crappie are all enemies to kill for a nest bass. Colors; use a color you can see. The bass isn't going to eat the lure, it strikes it to kill it and move it then spits it out, so timing your hook set is critical.

Tom

[Catt]

Big ol' fat tube bait! ?

[Mike L]

I've caught bedding fish on most every kind of plastic. 

Some with tail action and some without, there's no hard and fast rules. (As long as it's white) 

 

Sometimes you may have to cycle through a 1/2 doz to get bit. 

Most times It's not what you're useing but as @WRBposted, it's more about placement and timing both on your part and the fat lady's. 

 

 

 

 

 

Mike

[flatcreek]

Lizards

[drew4779]

X2 on lizards. 

 

I also do well drop shotting onto to nest.  

 

Caught a couple last year parking a gigantarel on the beds as well. They really hated that thing. 

[NittyGrittyBoy]

Another vote for lizards from this guy. I put mine on a shakyhead and work it slow.

 

That or a weightless trickworm 

[WRB]

As Catt noted a tube represents everything a bed bass considers a threat and most impotant is a compact size fitting into the bass mouth with ease. A drop shot rigged about 4"-6" above the weight, nose hooked,  pearls white tube is hard to beat for bed fishing.

Tom

[Graham]

Plastics for me!

[J.Vincent]

I find more success with shorter plastics like 3 inch tubes or Craws ...I've even gone down to a 2 inch Strike King Bitsy Tube in some situations. 

[Dorado]

2 hours ago, Active_Outdoors said:

I find more success with shorter plastics like 3 inch tubes or Craws ...I've even gone down to a 2 inch Strike King Bitsy Tube in some situations. 

X2. I use Bitsy Tubes and Gitzit Tubes  in natural colors

[NorthernBasser]

If I'm sight fishing, I like using a light/white color. If you can see your bait it makes things 10 times easier. One of my favorites is the 3.5" reaction Innovations Sweet Beaver. Make sure you split the larger appendages apart. 

[Robert Riley]

I've always had luck with white and I have no idea why. I like to use tubes, jigs and lizards, in white. 

[tbone1993]

Pegged t rigs work better over unpegged baits. Feel like unpegged weights tend to let the bait slide away from when you want it to go. Many times its the spot on the spot that triggers a fish. Normally have a finesse bait and a heavy flipping bait tied on. White, Pink , yellow etc anything you can visually see deep. 

[burrows]

Rage menace is my first choice 

[Munkin]

Around here we have such pour spawns that I just leave known spawning fish alone. Down south I guess it isn't as much a problem but in Pennsylvania is is illegal to intently target spawning bass.

 

Allen

[rangerjockey]

Anything white so I can see it.. I'm not a big fan of bed fishing either.

[Slade Carroll]

I live in southern North Carolina every bass the swims spawns here

So guys if you could only have one bedfishing bait for the rest of your life what would it be?

[Munkin]

Small casting net works great.

 

Allen

[craww]

A baby paca craw on a drop shot, long leader, cast past the bed with the sinker and work the bait as much/little as you want.

 

The fish are spawning in the river here right now. Today on my lunch break I slipped out and came across a 3lbr on a bed, directly under my feet with me standing 4' over her head on a wall dominating her view of the world. She was skittish, and had a hole smack dab in her top lip I could see while she was still in the water from being caught. Just kinda playing around on the walk back after half forgetting where she was and walking right up on her (there were a bunch on beds) I cast into the bed.  She spooked. With me standing there I worked the bait a bit, she wasnt having it. Keep in mind this fish is at my feet and Im standing there not even trying to be stealthy.  Leaving it in the water I just dead sticked the craw into the bed and stopped working it. She moves off the sweet spot about 6', just going back and forth.... Seeing everything from a safer distance....Im scaring this fish. Finally, she pulls back in, body tilted down staring and sucks it in and swims away. This fish was catchable no doubt. But in my mind the movement, splash, etc of multiple casts into 6"-12" of water wouldve at minimum made it take longer to settle her down. IF she did settle. That fish was aware of everything even when she pulled off.

 

JFrancho came to the similar conclusions regarding dropshotting for bed fish and has an excellent article here on this site, highly reccomend it.

[timsford]

My favorite is a mattlures ultimate or u2 full in the straight tail pattern. Its super realistic and a big mama can't stand a nose down panfish parked on her nest

[NYWayfarer]

My secret weapon for sight fishing beds at my local pond is a wacky rigged 3" Yum Dinger. I can cast over the bed, drag the dinger slowly across the surface of the water till it is right over the bed and let it free fall in front of the Bass. That slow falling worm will get a strike most of the time.

 

If that doesn't work I can lift the Dinger from the bottom of the bed and shake the tip of my rod. That imparts an action that draws a reaction strike.

[eyedabassman]

A deadly. bed bait is a Neko rig with a Z Man Hula Stick! Or any Neko rigged bait that is small,/ baby paca  craw, Z ManTRD, french fry,ect.

[MainelyBASS]

There is only 1 correct answer to this question. White bubba shotted super fluke, 3" leader from weight to bait. 3/4 to 1oz cannonball weight. The heavy weight is important for 2 reasons. 1) Heavier weight allows you to work the bait faster. 2)Heavier weight allows you to keep the bait on the bed for the entire time that you work the lure. If you are working any lure aggressively enough, youre going to end up pulling it off the bed. Not with a 3/4 oz weight below a bait.

[J Francho]

https://www.bassresource.com/fishing/dropshot-bedding-bass.html