Weirdest pattern you’ve ever been on?

[blongfishing]

I was fishing a tournament on Saturday, it was hot and the fish weren’t biting so my mind started racing. What’s the weirdest pattern you’ve ever fished? I remember a similar thread to this at some point and someone said flipping lower units and a couple of other things. 

 

Personally, I have fished some odd ones. Flipping trash on the bank, dropshotting grass mats, caught a bed fish off of a bicycle, and targeted floating inner tubes for a day once. 

 

Whats your weirdest pattern? Fire away!

[Brock_v]

punching trash mats

[Gundog]

Not unusual by any stretch of the imagination but beaver dams. There are quite a few ponds where bass will congregate around beaver dams and stay there. 

[Catt]

Chartreuse & Pink skirted spinnerbait with chartreuse double Colorado blades!

 

 

[geo g]

Tried crawling a worm along the bottom, nothing.

Tried a jig deep and slow, nothing.

Tried a Senko at various depths jerking, and dead sticking, nothing.

Went to a wacky rigged trick worm deep, and snapping off the bottom.  It was every other cast.  Same place as before with all the other baits.  It was magical for hours.

[WRB]

Flooding lake the pattern was picnic tables with rock fire pits.

Tom

[papajoe222]

Likely my weirdest was floating ‘inner tube’ style platforms.  In practice, the fish were holding to nearby docks, but come the day of the tourney, none. I looked for nearby deeper cover, but what little I found came up empty. 

For S&Gs, I ran a shallow crank under one of those tube floats and scored. Picked up three before moving to another a few hundred yards down and got two more. By the third one, I was culling. 

Dangdest thing I ever encountered. 

[scaleface]

Its crazy the patterns that happen in flooded water . I have got on a boat ramp and guard rail pattern a couple of times .

[Gundog]

5 hours ago, scaleface said:

Its crazy the patterns that happen in flooded water . I have got on a boat ramp and guard rail pattern a couple of times .

One time I caught 3 smallies and a musky behind the same guard rail next to a boat ramp. That was an epic day. 

[TOXIC]

Creek off the main lake.  Every place where there was a cow path entering the water (where they came down to drink) I caught fish.  Pattern held up all day and in different creeks as well.  Dead banks until you got the the cow path.  

[Mr. Aquarium]

fishing this one place at night. theres a series of  cement walls, that feed into another pond.  i really only do well here at night, everywere else in the ponds its slow.   one time pulling an all nighter in my yak, fished for 8 hours with 2 small fish. pulled up to the spot, got out of my kayak, stood on the walls, caught 6 bass 3-5lbs.

im sure if i fished it in the yak more at night it would be different, but fishing from shore at night is hard unless you fish this one series of walls the stick out into the water. i think its because theres very little shallow cover in the pond. its shallow around the shore line  in most spots, some access to deeper water from shore.   plus im able to reach a steep drop off from the end of the wall. 

[IndianaFinesse]

Weightless pink trickworms twitched around the surface like who knows what, I like to call it 4 year old girl fishing lol.  I like to fish them tied straight to high vis braid, especially when fishing with people that are believers in line shy fish and "matching the hatch" lol.

[Glaucus]

I don't call anything in bass fishing weird anymore because so much of what will work doesn't even make sense according to the "book."

 

However the other day was slow until I found some bass cruising real shallow. Started to throw a weightless Zoom Lizard right in front of them and caught quite a few. Was hilarious to watch them check it out and then start chomping on it. 

[Troy85]

Not for bass but for Trout and redfish.  Caught them fishing flooded cow pastures post hurricane.

[IgotWood]

Had a day about two months ago fishing standing cypress. My two buddies were throwing a blk/blue t-rigged senko and letting it fall right next to the trees. They must have hooked a fish on d**n near every tree they fished. I had the same exact setup, except mine was rigged wacky and I never had a bite. I finally gave in when it was getting dark and went to the t-rig and caught fish immediately. It was a painful lesson learned.

[river-rat]

Many years ago I was fishing a landlocked oxbow of the Mississippi River that is highly developed with houses/camps and boat docks. It was early February, and the weather was terrible. Temps about 45 degrees with light rain off and on and the wind was blowing 15-20 MPH out of the north.

 

I had a phenomenal day fishing a heavy jig on windy banks wherever I could find rip rap. The fish were right on the bank in water one to three feet deep. I tried out deeper but had no luck at all. Every fish came from extremely shallow water. 

[A-Jay]

If 'The Bass' could read this thread, their response might just be . . .

"Nothing's weird.  Expect the unexpected, you'll learn more,"

A-Jay

[Turkey sandwich]

4 hours ago, Mr. Aquarium said:

fishing this one place at night. theres a series of  cement walls, that feed into another pond.  i really only do well here at night, everywere else in the ponds its slow.   one time pulling an all nighter in my yak, fished for 8 hours with 2 small fish. pulled up to the spot, got out of my kayak, stood on the walls, caught 6 bass 3-5lbs.

im sure if i fished it in the yak more at night it would be different, but fishing from shore at night is hard unless you fish this one series of walls the stick out into the water. i think its because theres very little shallow cover in the pond. its shallow around the shore line  in most spots, some access to deeper water from shore.   plus im able to reach a steep drop off from the end of the wall. 

I think a big part of this pattern is the current.  If you have structure and current in a body of water that generally has little of either, you're likely to find fish.  This is why fishing below waterfalls and dams can be huge depending upon release/flow.  There was an Elite series event a few years back where Iaconelli launched his boat into the woods trying to run up a skinny river because the dam pattern was key. 

 

Back in high school, we found out that aggressive river smallmouth will take advantage of just about any current breaks near quality feeding areas. So, we'd take turns wading to 3' depth behind fast runs and just took turns fishing the current breaks/eddies we created just standing in the river.  Two of us bagged plenty of limits drifting grubs and helgramites this way.  It's wild hooking a fish 2' behind your buddy, lol. 

[the reel ess]

A friend of mine has a pond and his daughter has caught bass on strips of bologna.

 

This is not really weird by any stretch or a pattern but it was odd. I walked right up to a fish that was a few feet from the bank. It could obviously see me because it reacted by turning to look my direction but it didn't spook. I said to my friend "There's a 3 pounder right here that doesn't seem to mind me." I tossed my frog several feet in front of it and it smashed the frog. He was amazed because it's his pond.

[Mr. Aquarium]

42 minutes ago, Turkey sandwich said:

I think a big part of this pattern is the current.  If you have structure and current in a body of water that generally has little of either, you're likely to find fish.  This is why fishing below waterfalls and dams can be huge depending upon release/flow.  There was an Elite series event a few years back where Iaconelli launched his boat into the woods trying to run up a skinny river because the dam pattern was key. 

 

Back in high school, we found out that aggressive river smallmouth will take advantage of just about any current breaks near quality feeding areas. So, we'd take turns wading to 3' depth behind fast runs and just took turns fishing the current breaks/eddies we created just standing in the river.  Two of us bagged plenty of limits drifting grubs and helgramites this way.  It's wild hooking a fish 2' behind your buddy, lol. 

make sense,its not alot of current, it flows into the 2 walls which feeds into the other pond, i bet it would be better if it was flowing out.  
what boggles my mind is there are GIANT fish here, but yet i cant catch any fish over  5 here, especially at night at the walls.   this place is 50 feet deep, big and clear with alot of deep water.

[scaleface]

1 hour ago, Turkey sandwich said:

There was an Elite series event a few years back where Iaconelli launched his boat into the woods trying to run up a skinny river because the dam pattern was key. 

 

Huh ? How  is that not against the rules ?

[Turkey sandwich]

@scaleface well, he didn't launch the boat intentionally...

[Catt]

Here's one for ya @A-Jay

 

There's a little 1/4 acre island in the middle of Toledo Bend that I night fish quite often. If I pull up & notice the bats are flying it's going to be a productive night!

 

I don't know if that's weird, superstitious, or what but if they flying pull your hat down tight!

[A-Jay]

2 minutes ago, Catt said:

Here's one for ya @A-Jay

 

There's a little 1/4 acre island in the middle of Toledo Bend that I night fish quite often. If I pull up & notice the bats are flying it's going to be a productive night!

 

I don't know if that's weird, superstitious, or what but if they flying pull your hat down tight!

My 'guess' is that the bats are on bugs, which just might be the beginning on the food chain for the evening. 

And for the record @Catt- I hate bats.  

Not only because the are always buzzing my head, but what's even more frustrating is trying to determine if a bite is a bite - or a stupid bat 'ticking' my line.  Had to learn to fish 'rod low' - when I need to.

Don't like it, but I can do it.

A-Jay

[scaleface]

36 minutes ago, Turkey sandwich said:

@scaleface well, he didn't launch the boat intentionally...

Oh , I thought you meant he took { launched his boat} off from a different area than the rest of the field  . My comprehension skills failed   me .