Your favorite baits for dead sticking?

[The Maestro]

What are your go-to baits when you need to let them soak in order to get bit? I haven't done much of this but I'm thinking a jig with a craw trailer that floats (like pork) and still has subtle action without moving it much. I hear senkos are good for this also.

[Bankbeater]

Senkos, flukes, tubes basically any bottom contact bait. I try them all. 

[bowhunter63]

Jig and zoom chunk trailer.

[tander]

Z Man TRD, really any of the Z Man products because they stand up on the bottom and will always have some movement.

[roadwarrior]

Gitzit

 

[Brad Reid]

A Keitech Shad Impact (soft jerk bait) or Easy Shiner (paddle tail shad) allowed to fall down through the water column, then fished off the bottom with just the slowest of retrievals or ever-so-slightly twitching it or full-on dead-sticking it? I have better results with this often times than I do fishing a rather stationary T-Rigged worm.

 

Gosh, we got into them late yesterday afternoon at the 2495 bridge on Lake Athens. Me, 4 other kayaker frineds, two boats pulled in lots of bass. Most all of us were fishing like this off the bottom.

 

Brad

[Black Hawk Basser]

Something with some appendages, like a zoom brush hog.

[Catt]

Whatever's tied on! 

 

I fish plastics & jigs slower that all y'all ?

[deep]

Surprised no one mentioned deadsticking topwaters, specifically topwater hard/ soft swimbaits.

 

The goal is to make your bait appear dying, not dead. A twitch or two every few minutes will do the trick.

 

It's a low percentage technique, but when you know/ think there's a fish in the area/ spot that will not bite, this often works.

[Dwight Hottle]

Jerk baits are killer dead sticked.

[Mobasser]

I've deadsticked plastic worms a lot. Plastic craws also.

[Mr. Aquarium]

Big swimbait.  Soft bait on bottom. Hard bait on top! 

 

One of my favorites is the Livingston lure walking boss. It’s a giant jitterbug with rattles and a noise system. Windy days and nights! Cast out and let it sit! Or cast out reel in slow then kill the bait and let it sit! The rattles will still keep going but the bait won’t move 

[GreenPig]

8" floating Huddleston Deluxe twitched in between naps or a BPS 5 3/8" sticko

[papajoe222]

My favorite to dead stick is a Havoc Bottom Hopper on a Megastrike Shakey Head jig. It's a killer presentation when things are tough. My other favorite is a tube jig rigged so the tail end floats off the bottom.

 

[anderb54]

On 5/27/2019 at 9:57 AM, deep said:

Surprised no one mentioned deadsticking topwaters, specifically topwater hard/ soft swimbaits.

 

The goal is to make your bait appear dying, not dead. A twitch or two every few minutes will do the trick.

 

It's a low percentage technique, but when you know/ think there's a fish in the area/ spot that will not bite, this often works.

Dead sticking an Original Rapala F11 with occasional twitches is a time tested method of really getting them riled up. I've had some of my most vicious strikes ever doing that... They come unglued.