Favorite Tactic

[WI_Angler1989]

On 2/17/2020 at 7:20 PM, Born 2 fish said:

Me to hopefully within a month or so.

Seems so soon after the long winter (I'm in Wisconsin).

I don't have many jerkbaits: husky jerks, shadow raps, and a couple pointers. I'd love to try some vision 110's but can't swallow the $$ yet. One that I do plan to try is the Jackall Rerange. 

[Born 2 fish]

I’m in southeast Wisconsin I have a pretty good supply of jerkbaits. Mostly KVD and lucky craft. I also can’t bring myself to buy the megabass my luck a 18” pike would steal it on my first cast.

[WI_Angler1989]

4 minutes ago, Born 2 fish said:

I’m in southeast Wisconsin I have a pretty good supply of jerkbaits. Mostly KVD and lucky craft. I also can’t bring myself to buy the megabass my luck a 18” pike would steal it on my first cast.

Exactly! That's exactly why I haven't pulled the trigger yet. I've had that happen with countless jigs and Aglias as it is.

[Steveo-1969]

23 hours ago, WI_Angler1989 said:

I hear ya!! That's my favorite thing about the tube/craw setup I run: that THUNK!

I do fish a lot of Siebert Sniper Jigs too and they SLAM those

Yup. I've used the Sniper jig from @Siebert Outdoors and the smallies love them. Unfortunately my snaggy rocky river eats jigs for breakfast, lunch and dinner and I downgraded to the less expensive Strike King Bitsy Bug jig....

[ryanerb]

2 hours ago, Steveo-1969 said:

Yup. I've used the Sniper jig from @Siebert Outdoors and the smallies love them. Unfortunately my snaggy rocky river eats jigs for breakfast, lunch and dinner and I downgraded to the less expensive Strike King Bitsy Bug jig....

Or, due to the snags, have you switched / tried another kind of lure? Tube? Topwater? Swimbait? 

[WI_Angler1989]

4 hours ago, Steveo-1969 said:

Yup. I've used the Sniper jig from @Siebert Outdoors and the smallies love them. Unfortunately my snaggy rocky river eats jigs for breakfast, lunch and dinner and I downgraded to the less expensive Strike King Bitsy Bug jig....

A fair compromise. That would be a bummer though! I love his Sniper jigs... the pike steal them, I snag occasionally, but it's such a confidence bait for me.

[Steveo-1969]

17 hours ago, ryanerb said:

Or, due to the snags, have you switched / tried another kind of lure? Tube? Topwater? Swimbait? 

Anything fished on the bottom (including tubes) will eventually get snagged no matter how it's rigged. If I can get to it I can get it out, but I'm usually bank fishing or wading and sometimes there's just no way to get it back.

 

I'm allergic to treble hooks so that eliminates most topwater. I do fish small paddletail swimbaits a lot though.

[Ogandrews]

For rivers no question I’d say a 4” rage menace on a ball head jig. Fish it like a tube and it is an absolute killer. For still water I would have to go with a jerkbait probably a shadow rap. I very rarely have pike bite me off but if I’m worried about it get some tieable single strand titanium. It’s as supple as super light floro and I really don’t notice a big difference if the amount of bites I get

[DRFTR]

On 2/16/2020 at 10:01 PM, SCWatrboyo1 said:

My favorite for 100+ degree days middle of summer between river shoals. Turns river into pond fishing

Love some swim baits, but my absolute favorite is without underspin on 1/12oz 4/0 ewg with a ribbit frog. Hammers the smallies down south

Love a 1/20oz for flukes as well

Working my river more i think more and more of my rigs will look like this

[TnRiver46]

31 minutes ago, Cody Brinkman said:

Working my river more i think more and more of my rigs will look like this

Looks effective and very weedless!