Your fishing style

[flbassmaster]

I Love throwing Jigs! whether swimming jigs or flipping and pitching. its mainly jigs or I will throw a worm Texas rig.

[J._Bricker]

Junk fishing 101... In thinking about it, this technique has provided me countless reasons to purchase numerous rods, reels, and tackle in pursuit of those little green fish. One day, I might be good at it...

[Munkin]

Junk fishing grinder best describes my style. While I have my baits I like best I resort to whatever works for tournaments.

 

Allen

[papajoe222]

Because of some physical limitations, I have a definite style of fishing. First off, overhand casting is reserved for long cast situations, so I limit myself or my outing is cut short by shoulder pain. As a result, I use a roll cast the majority of the time. Pitching is out of the question. That limits me to casting to the port side of the boat, otherwise I'm bouncing casts off the windshield. One season of fishing from the back of the boat and I went out and bought my own.

As a result of issues with my left wrist, I don't work my walking baits with my rod tip down. I'm a Spook freak and watching me, you'd swear I was a novice at it.

Another thing I do is work cranks and spinnerbaits through cover using my rod, not my reel, once the bait is in the zone. Nothing to do with physical limitations.  Sometimes I think  'Old Blue Eyes' had me in mind when he sang....................What was the title of that song?

[Drew03cmc]

I am a bass fisherman. If they want a jig, I'll give them a frog. If they want a frog, they're getting a Trick Worm. I can't explain it, but I seldom make sense when I fish.

[j bab]

I'm hard headed and I don't change techniques or colors very often. I should probably branch out more. 

[Alex from GA]

While my first bass was caught in the late '40s I didn't get really into it until about 1980.  I mostly saltwater fished with some trout thrown in.  A friend took me to a team tournament and we won and I caught the largest bass, 6 lbs.  We were on Lake Castaic and he's the guy that taught Don Iovino to doodle.  About 90% of the time I still use his finesse fishing techniques, Texas rigged worm dragged or doodled after I locate fish.

[scaleface]

I already had two answers but now I'm changing it . My style no matter if I'm fishing a shallow   dingy backwater or a deep clear canyon lake is to select several lures that work well in  the cover and structure I encounter   and hope to get lucky .

[Catt]

14 hours ago, papajoe222 said:

Because of some physical limitations, I have a definite style of fishing. 

 

Age has definitely changed every part of my fishing!

 

Gone are the 15-18 hr marathon days, my casting techniques aint nearly as fluid, & some hookset actually hurt.

 

[WRB]

5 hours ago, Alex from GA said:

While my first bass was caught in the late '40s I didn't get really into it until about 1980.  I mostly saltwater fished with some trout thrown in.  A friend took me to a team tournament and we won and I caught the largest bass, 6 lbs.  We were on Lake Castaic and he's the guy that taught Don Iovino to doodle.  About 90% of the time I still use his finesse fishing techniques, Texas rigged worm dragged or doodled after I locate fish.

Don't mean to hijack this thread but you must be older then me! 

Iovino credits Herb Curley for teaching him to shake Smity worms back in the early 70's when Castaic was filling. I recall meeting Don tied up the the forebay bouy line and fishing live Shad with his son. Iovino is still fishing local tournaments, selling his tackle (TW) and doing on the water instruction of Lowrance sonar units.

Strip bass have invaded Castaic and eating all the shad, the bass are hanging in there and now has Smallmouth bass in the mix.

I spend about 1/2 my time fishing jigs and worms, 1/4 swimbaits and 1/4 everything else. A day on the water is now about 6 hours instead of 15 hours.

Tom

[The Bassman]

3 hours ago, Drew03cmc said:

I am a bass fisherman. If they want a jig, I'll give them a frog. If they want a frog, they're getting a Trick Worm. I can't explain it, but I seldom make sense when I fish.

Sounds like me.  I'll get on a decent bite then switch, thinking something else is even better. Eventually I'm back where I started after wasting time. This is one reason some of my best outings have come when I walked out the door with one bait that's already tied on and that's it. (I bank fish and usually close to home). As far as my style I really enjoy moving baits like lipless and wakes but finesse catches more for me.

[N Florida Mike]

I fish with soft plastics. 

I occasionally use something else. 

That pretty much sums it up.?

[Russ E]

after thinking about it for a while I came to the conclusion that I don't have a particular style. 

I try not to lock myself into one technique. I used to throw soft jerkbaits 95% of the time, but finally realized I was limiting my success.

there are usually 6 different rigs ready on the deck, that will all get used sometime during an outing.

I look at an area I want to fish and let conditions decide which technique to use. this has increased my success dramatically.

 

[Bankbeater]

I don't think that I have a style, but the first thing I usually do is to fish the thickest slop I can find.

[EWREX]

I try to be diverse with utilizing many different techniques. A few I am for sure not very confident with. My confidence "styles" are finesse fishing shallower water up to 10ft, flipping grass with creature baits, and power fishing with chatterbaits/swimbaits. This year I want to focus more on jigs, crankbaits, and dropshotting in deeper water

[GReb]

I’m a shallow water power fisherman. I like to move fast hitting spots. I do fish a lot of jigs and plastics but its almost always directed at cover and I rarely work either a full cast. 

 

That’s my weakness and I’m actively trying to improve my deep water game. But I’m surrounded by shallow water lakes and resorvoirs so there’s never been a reason to fish anything deep. Also my boats electronics are old and suck which makes it much tougher

[HenryPF]

My fishing style is what I call entertaining. I throw the dumbest lures I can buy because I know what works and catching fish on stupid lures is hilarious to me. I do this usually when I'm lazy and still fishing from shore.

 

For instance: string cheese fished wacky style, old dried cheese as a swim baits, boiled hot dogs cut up in the form of a fluke, Chuck Woolery's lures, powerpak lures (same thing), LunkerHunt turtle, Savage Gear's Fruck, snake, etc. and my personal favorite, the hover lure. Honorable mention to the gimmicks that go with lures, the bobber with the prop on it, inline bait chummers, Hummingbird SmartCast as a bobber, etc.

 

I do not throw gimmick lures or any "fishing system" lures which are just a hyped up version or something that works (Banjo Minno? It's a fluke).

[Glaucus]

Yeah everyone has a unique style. It's hard to describe my style or any one style. Just have to see it. Nobody will be the exact same. 

 

An example I can think of is I fish a Senkos differently than anyone I know. Guys will lift the rod and let it do it's seductive sink back down. Not me. Most of my bites, most of my aggressive strikes, and most of my bigger Senkos fish happen differently. I cast it out, let it sink, and then instead of lifting the rod, I give it a snap. To work the way I want it to I need to feel the snap in my rod, a connection to the bait. The Senkos darts erratically and then does the seductive sink. Sometimes I'll snap it 2 or 3 times before letting it sink.