Lures everyone has, but never catch fish on

[Catt]

Tube bait....aint caught nuting on em  

[Guest btlva]

I don't have any baits like that...I only buy baits that I'm pretty sure I'm going to catch fish on.

If you're not catching fish on spinnerbaits its because you're using them in the wrong place at the wrong time. Don't throw them in highly pressured waters, on calm days, or in areas of sparse cover. They are about the most unrealistic lure there is so you've got to throw them when bass are actually feeding.

I fish alot of small lakes that get hammered by anglers all year and I rarely fish SBs in those waters, regardless of conditions. When I fish lakes up north that get little pressure I will throw them any day from May-October, and I will catch fish, lots of them. If I moved to southern California I would probably get rid of all of my spinnerbaits.

Also SBs are at their best in spring and fall. Find a windy shoreline and make sure that bait contacts cover on every cast.

[moby bass]

Swimbaits, like Storm, no success.  Crankbaits, don't work for me either.  However, I'll qualify that statement by saying I don't fish them much because I shore fish and they are running too deep by the

time they get back to the bank.  I had an old red head jitterbug (still have it) from years past, that I never

caught a fish on, but have had good success with a black Jitterbug at night. Right bait, right time and place.  Spinnerbaits are BIG producers for me.  MY PB was caught on one.

[KU_Bassmaster.]

Spinnerbaits for me too. I realy have no desire to learn them eithr. The Dances eel is the biggest let down ever. The bait looks great! it has a ton of action and the design was cutting edge. I KNEW this was a great bait back when I was a teenager. I never caught anything on it though. I do have a theory as to why it sucks. When I was a kid I would use crawlers and minnows and crawfish for bait. They all caught bass. I would even use bullfrog tadpoles but they didnt work. I had a small pond with pet bass and they would only eat the tadpoles if they were starving and they would spit a lot of them out. I think there is something about the taste of a tadpole that repells bass. The dances eel looks and swims like a tadpole.

THATS WHY IT SUCKS!!!

Thank GOD there's someone else in the same boat as me with Spinnerbaits. I can't stand them, yet I still have them for some reason.

Thank you Matt, you made my day!

Man, I was too embarrassed to mention it. Spinnerbaits are at the top of my "lures that don't do jack for me," list. The weird thing is that I catch them on inline spinners, homemade ones to boot. But if my life depended on a bass caught on a spinnerbait, I'd be pushing daisies in not time flat. :-[ Then again, I hardly throw them and haven't take the time to learn to use them effectively. I even caught fish on the flying lure!!! Come on, spinnerbaits, give me a break! ;D

I think there's more people that have no luck / don't like spinner baits then we think, they're just too shy to say it. When you hear spinnerbaits you think bass fishing, but I HATE them.

I use the Banjo minnow with 100 times more success then a spinnerbait.

Add me to the list.  I have two full spinnerbait boxes and I can count the number of bass I have caught on a spinnerbait on one hand .. and it doesn't take that many fingers

[largemouthslayer]

Spinnerbaits for me too. I realy have no desire to learn them eithr. The Dances eel is the biggest let down ever. The bait looks great! it has a ton of action and the design was cutting edge. I KNEW this was a great bait back when I was a teenager. I never caught anything on it though. I do have a theory as to why it sucks. When I was a kid I would use crawlers and minnows and crawfish for bait. They all caught bass. I would even use bullfrog tadpoles but they didnt work. I had a small pond with pet bass and they would only eat the tadpoles if they were starving and they would spit a lot of them out. I think there is something about the taste of a tadpole that repells bass. The dances eel looks and swims like a tadpole.

THATS WHY IT SUCKS!!!

Thank GOD there's someone else in the same boat as me with Spinnerbaits. I can't stand them, yet I still have them for some reason.

Thank you Matt, you made my day!

Man, I was too embarrassed to mention it. Spinnerbaits are at the top of my "lures that don't do jack for me," list. The weird thing is that I catch them on inline spinners, homemade ones to boot. But if my life depended on a bass caught on a spinnerbait, I'd be pushing daisies in not time flat. :-[ Then again, I hardly throw them and haven't take the time to learn to use them effectively. I even caught fish on the flying lure!!! Come on, spinnerbaits, give me a break! ;D

I think there's more people that have no luck / don't like spinner baits then we think, they're just too shy to say it. When you hear spinnerbaits you think bass fishing, but I HATE them.

I use the Banjo minnow with 100 times more success then a spinnerbait.

Add me to the list. I have two full spinnerbait boxes and I can count the number of bass I have caught on a spinnerbait on one hand .. and it doesn't take that many fingers

SPINNERBAITS.......WAIT TILL THE WIND IS BLOWING HARD TOU WILL CATCH PLENTY