The one lure fisherman

[roadwarrior]

One of our members fished a Bandit 200 exclusively and killed em at Pickwick.

Mostly smallmouth.

 

[BassNJake]

This thread is right up my alley!!

 

I throw a buzz toad 90% of the time March thru November

It's all about the blow up for me

 

My dad said I always used to love a jack in the box and this is the exact same feeling

Crank the handle, crank the handle, BOOM Blow up!!

 

 

 

[Choporoz]

I know a man who can spend an entire tourny day within a city block throwing nothing but a jig and regularly be in the money.

[deadadrift89]

Had a neighbor like that, 99% a junebug colored Zoom U-tail worm texas rigged. It worked for him with his old Ugly Stick ,Shakespeare spinning reel and Big game mono. Saw him catch a lot of bass. Me on the other hand got have it all I'm a tackle junkie ?

[redmeansdistortion]

Once I learned how to fish a plastic worm it was pretty much all I used for a few years.  It worked that good for me.  I was a kid and was invited to fish with my dad and his friend who was a big tournament fisherman at the time (late 80s).  We spent a weekend hitting the canals on Lake St Clair and put a good hurting on the bass with Mann's Jelly Worms.  Roy was a disabled fisherman, he was in a bad accident and lost much of the use of his legs and spent most of his time in a wheelchair if he wasn't on the boat.  What a great time I had and it's just as fresh in my mind now as it was 30+ years back.

[Columbia Craw]

I know a couple of club members who fish a white spinnerbait about 95% of the time but they will branch out and throw a Bandit 100 from time to time.

[Spankey]

I know a guy who will throw a firetiger crankbait almost exclusively on the river for smallmouth bass. He told me one day that's what him and some game warden were talking about as being the most productive bait is for the river.

 

I know a firetiger crankbait is one heck of a pattern. I'd like 10 cents for every smallie I've caught on one. But river smallie fishing goes deeper that the one trick pony firetiger CB. He's went home many of days skunked and chatted at the ramp about how bad the bite was. 

 

I know that I don't live or die by a firetiger pattern CB. Way too many other CB patterns that are just as productive. Way too many soft plastics that can be more productive on the river.

 

But to each his own. Probably no right or wrong. Do your own thing, all I can do is offer him some other suggestions, we've been river rats for years and years. 

[RB 77]

On 2/4/2020 at 10:29 AM, Todd2 said:

Not exclusively but I know several guys that keep it to two or three. If I was going to throw only one..it'd be a worm too. 

 

If was going to only throw one as well, worm for sure...

[kykayak]

One of the fastest growing forms of fishing in the fly fishing industry is called Tenkara. My basic understanding is you have a telescoping rod that is a cross between a cane pole and a fly rod. No reel, no fly line. Just a rod, a tapered leader, and a fly. One rod that breaks down into a 1 foot section a couple of flies and you're ready to fish for the day. This fishing seems to be popular with backpackers and people looking to get back to the very basics of fishing. While I haven't bought a setup yet. I'm very intrigued by the simplicity of this style of fishing.

[Team9nine]

41 minutes ago, kykayak said:

One of the fastest growing forms of fishing in the fly fishing industry is called Tenkara. My basic understanding is you have a telescoping rod that is a cross between a cane pole and a fly rod. No reel, no fly line. Just a rod, a tapered leader, and a fly. One rod that breaks down into a 1 foot section a couple of flies and you're ready to fish for the day. This fishing seems to be popular with backpackers and people looking to get back to the very basics of fishing. While I haven't bought a setup yet. I'm very intrigued by the simplicity of this style of fishing.

 

Don't hear it mentioned much in bass circles, but this is my largest Tenkara bass to date. Had one of equal or greater size hooked that I played for a while before losing it (it was a largemouth). This was on a Daiwa Kiyose 36S-F

 

[crankbait2009]

I'm almost a one lure person, almost.

I will throw a black bandit, 100/200 series, 98% of the time.  That other 2%, I will tie on one of my many plastic worms.  Try that for a tad, hoping for bigger/better results.  Then I switch back shortly after.  Cranks are my friend

 

 

[lo n slo]

texas rig 90% of the time ?

[mcipinkie]

I can only speak for me.  I consider myself a fairly accomplished angler.  I fished my first tournament in 1975 and have been fishing tournaments ever since.  Fished 20 years before then.

 

I'm lucky enough to be fairly well off financially and have almost every rod, reel, line, lure combination known to man.

 

But when the chips get down and I don't know what to do, out comes a Fish Boss Gary Klein Heavy Cover jig.  3/4 oz.  Black neon (yes black neon, not black/blue) a Yum Money Craw in black neon.  7'10 flipping stick, 50 lb braid, 25 lb BPS fluoro leader, and I go to work.  Clear water, dirty water, shallow water, deep water, wood, weeds, rocks, docks it doesn't matter to me.  I will get bit on that jig, somehow or another.

 

I've cashed checks on that jig when everyone else was drop shotting, wacky worming, ned rigging (I do all those too), every other finesse rig you can dream of.  When I pick up that jig, I KNOW I'll get bit.  I'll bet in a given year, I'll make 60% of my casts with that jig, and probably catch 75% of my fish.

 

It's a head game !!

[TnRiver46]

6 hours ago, lo n slo said:

texas rig 90% of the time ?

Are you sure we ain’t kin??? I will admit I put a lot of finesse worms on round jig heads now but Texas rig will always be the best. 

[billmac]

I have lots of baits.  But I have a hard time putting down my trusty jig and spinner with curly tail grub.

[WRB]

Bass fishing is all about trying to determine what to use where.

We all our favorites that catch bass where we fish, to say you don't is kidding yourself.

My favorite lure to fish is a my hair jig with pork rind trailer, it's always tied on. I also get out my Texas rigged worm rod but don't select a worm or soft plastic before luanching my boat. My crank bait, Swimbait, spinning bait, top water, etc, etc rods stay in the rod locker until I check out what's actually going on. My finesse rods are always the last choice to get out if I want to save the day and catch a few bass.

Tom

[Cranks4fun]

About 20 years ago I was fishing with a friend in Virginia who only used one bass bait. I had bait casting gear and high-end Shimano spinning gear and a box full of colorful lures and he was using a Zebco 33, a cheap rod, and Zoom pumpkin/chart. curly tail worms that he fished T-rigged and weightless... and he humiliated me!

  He out-fished me 3 to 1 at least. He would cast out into shallow water and then pinch the line between his thumb and forefinger to feel the pick-up. Then he would let the bass take it for 5 seconds or so before setting the hook. 

  There was a drawback. Most of the bass he caught swallowed the hook and he released (killed) lots of bleeders. I tried to discourage him from doing that but he thought I was being a sore loser, and I might have been somewhat. What made it all the worse was that he made fun of my high-dollar gear while beating me. 

   

[soflabasser]

It is better to know how to fish a handful of lures very well than fish dozens of lures and not know how to fish them well.

[Raul]

I can spend all day long with a 5" grub, with all the available terminal tackle that simple but mostly overlooked bait turns into a feesh ketchin machine.

[Fishin' Fool]

I threw a weightless senko 90% of the time last summer. I caught some nice largemouth fishing from a kayak for the 1st time. It's weird being a water level with the fish. I thought i would lose more.

[MassYak85]

Starting out a weightless stick-o either wacky rigged or texas rigged was 90-95% of my fishing. Fished it on a 4'6" UL ugly stick (I lost a lot of fish looking back cause of that rod lol). A few summers ago I had a whopper plopper tied on all the time I probably fished it 75% of the time I just couldn't keep fish off it and had one of my best days ever fishing a pressured lake on a holiday in near-whitecaps. The lure seemed almost magical that year. 

[ChrisD46]

Back in the day (Florida) I would observe an older retired fellow on a dock solely fish a 6' black grape trick worm T-Rigged with a small bullet weight ... He'd stitch that worm slowly through emergent bottom grass and catch big bass .

That's all he used was a purple worm or black / grape worm T-Rigged ... He might not have caught great numbers but his bass were all larger than average .

[Jaderose]

On any given day during season, I'd say 95% of my fishing is with a Blue/Black or Green pumpkin senko tipped in JJ's or a Frog.  Couple of areas will get worked with a Spook or Buzzbait.  I have 100 lbs of tackle and need about 2.

[Maxximus Redneckus]

Some guy  i read about only used devil horse...in every color all yr long  big ones and numbers ..then again i know some bluegill fishers that use nothing but a bobber and worm and constantly catch big bass and numbers all summer along with the intended bluegill...it truely is the indian and not the arrow

[Raygreens25]

I only throw a spinnerbait and i almost never get skunked, maybe it’s because most guys here in Cali throw senkos because they think the fish are so pressured its the only thing that produces. Most are surprised with my success from such a bold lure but I figure “either they bite it or get out of the way”.