HookInMouth Posted September 11, 2019 Posted September 11, 2019 So far this year that has been the Berkley Choppo. All day every day. It just gets bit. Fishing shallow river FYI. Quote
Super User Ratherbfishing Posted September 11, 2019 Super User Posted September 11, 2019 Probably a Keitech Swing Impact or, in the early spring, a jerk bait. But I try not to pigeonhole myself or my baits this much. Quote
CHIP-MAINE Posted February 8, 2020 Posted February 8, 2020 always start with a #4 or5 mepps. silver or gold blade- yellow or white hair. use this for small or large bass-rivers or ponds. most of the time if they wont grab these they just wont bite anything Quote
Ogandrews Posted February 15, 2020 Posted February 15, 2020 In rivers for me it is either a regular sized rage menace grub on a ball head jig with an exposed hook, 1/8 in slower shallower water 1/4 in deeper water, a 3.3 keitech In whatever color is similar to their forage on a ball head or small swimbait head like a DJ guppy head, or a smaller jerkbait. What makes a jerkbait so good in especially small rivers is that if a fish is sitting in a small current seam, like being a boulder or lay down, you can fish a jerkbait right around that current seam for longer than you could any other moving bait and still give the bait a lot of action. For lakes my go to baits are a 2.5 inch power tube in green pumpkin, usually on a 1/16th oz ball head or 1/8th if it’s windy. Next is going to be a 3.8 keitech in whatever color imitates the forage on a Matt Allen swimbait head or his new finesse head that I haven’t tried yet but I know it will be good looking at the design of it. The last one is going to be a shadow rap, seems I can call fish from so far to come hit that thing. A little bonus one I’ll add in there is I have caught an unbelievable amount of smallies in musky baits, including some of the biggest of my life. There have been times when I have been on a great smallie bite and grab either a musky glider like a 6” phantom softail or a bucktail like a smaller bite back baits trilogy or an Essox assault single 8. Might seem like a weird answer but I have had it happen waaaaay to many times for it to be a coincidence. If the fish are being obviously aggressive, it can pay off to throw a lot bigger meal at them. Quote
RyneB Posted February 16, 2020 Posted February 16, 2020 3.5 inch tube. Green pumpkin with a little orange flake. 1 Quote
Super User Spankey Posted February 16, 2020 Super User Posted February 16, 2020 I’m sticking to my first reply about use of a curly tail grub. But a 4 1/2” Power Worm or RoboWorm is right there also. Quote
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