junk fishing - five lures

[scaleface]

Your first visit to a 100 acre lake , elec motor only  and have taken five rod and reel combos .  You decide to just go junk fishing around the banks . You notice a rip rap dam , fallen trees and lily pads . What are the first five lures you tie on ? The weather conditions are , look out your window .This time of year . Water normal and stained .

[Mike L]

Scum frog

Spook

T rig Rage bug with and without skirt

Speed worm

Weightless stick worm
 

In that order

 

 

 

 

Mike

 

[Mobasser]

Spinnerbait, buzzbait, t rig worm, lipless bait, jig/craw combo

[Smokinal]

No order:

frog

ned craw or TRD on a ned head

senko

spinnerbait

jig

[Finessegenics]

Frog

swim jig w/ paddle tail 

Finesse jig 

wobblehead with creature bait

Ned Rig TRD

[JediAmoeba]

Top water fishing is a ways off for me.

 

Ned Rig 

Spinnerbait - willow/colorado tandem with silver willow and gold Colorado blades in bluegill color

Jerkbaits - Multiple sizes in perch colorations

S Waver 200

Lipless Cranks

[keagbassr]

Spinnerbait- white

Spinnerbait-not white 

Jig- craw pattern

Bladed jig- perch/ bluegill pattern 

Buzzbait- black

 

[DitchPanda]

I'm going based on normal temps for my area...this year has been colder than normal especially as of late

Finesse jig with chunk or twin tail 

Spinnerbait 

Bladed jig bluegill color black blade

Senko 

Black Buzzbait 

Last two are strictly for late afternoon into evening after the water has warned during the day and the fish have slid up

 

 

 

[redux]

3" swimbait

3/8 pitching setup

5" stick bait

3/8 jig

square bill

 

[WRB]

Strange title Junk Fishing.

Dee Thomas used to call Flipping junk fishing, targeting bass under floatsum mats of junk. Then Ike comes along and starts calling using multiple lures junk fishing, so I guess 5 lures are now junk fishing.

To be honest with everyone it's rare day I use more then 5 different types of lures.

New small lake I would 1st try to find a map to determine what structure elements are available. I need to know water temps to determine seasonal period instead of looking out the window. Right now wherecI fish it's still the spawn cycle so I would look for beds if walking the shoreline in the wind protected areas. No sign of beds then go up to the dam start, then to the 1st major point availble.

Bank fishing I only carry 1 outfit and it would be a sliding weight T-rigged soft plastic of some type with a pocket full of bullet weights between 3/16- 3/8 oz and hooks between 3/0-5/0. Soft plastics would be Yamamoto pearl white Kreature for bed fishing, 6" & 9" Uptom's straight tail worms in purple thunder and Black grape/blue neon, 7" Roboworm in MM111 and Oxblood w/ lt red flake, Yamamoto 5" Hula grub in 330 and 238 smoke.

Hard lure would be Pompaduer in black bone, this lure cast very good in the wind with my jig & worm rods and prefer it over Whooper Plopper.

Tom

[Bird]

Our weather but that pond.

 

Bone Jerkbait

Spinnerbait

Frog

Weightless Senko 

Buzzbait or fluke, can't decide. 

 

 

[GReb]

Current conditions: 70 degrees, sunny and windy. Post spawn

-3/8 oz white spinner bait with tandem gold and silver willows

 

- White fluke

 

- swim jig in bluegill

 

- 1/4 oz trig with green pumpkin creature

 

- squarebill in yellow/chart

[scaleface]

21 minutes ago, WRB said:

Dee Thomas used to call Flipping junk fishing, targeting bass under floatsum mats of junk. Then Ike comes along and starts calling using multiple lures junk fishing, so I guess 5 lures are now junk fishing.

The first time I ever heard the term was in Bassmaster magazine during the 80's . It was about Guy Eaker and he was a good 'Junk" fisherman .

24 minutes ago, WRB said:

Right now wherecI fish it's still the spawn cycle so I would look for beds if walking the shoreline in the wind protected areas. No sign of beds then go up to the dam start, then to the 1st major point availble.

Bank fishing I only carry 1 outfit and it would be a sliding weight T-rigged soft plastic of some type with a pocket full of bullet weights between 3/16- 3/8 oz and hooks between 3/0-5/0.

My wording is confusing . It was meant fishing from a boat but following the bank and fishing whatever cover you come across . I fish elec motor lake only lakes and fish my way from spot to spot .

[JustJames]

super fluke

chatter bait

neko rig

Fat Ika
Finesse Jig

 

[WRB]

11 minutes ago, scaleface said:

The first time I ever heard the term was in Bassmaster magazine during the 80's . It was about Guy Eaker and he was a good 'Junk" fisherman .

My wording is confusing . It was meant fishing from a boat but following the bank and fishing whatever cover you come across . I fish elec motor lake only lakes and fish my way from spot to spot .

Boat makes a big difference, I can take all my tackle and easily determine what's going on with the aid of my sonar unit. No limitations.

Tom

[Log Catcher]

Crankbait

Spinnerbait

Baby Brush Hog

Trick Worm

Jig

 

 

[Mobasser]

I've heard the term junk fishing before. I always figured weedless baits for this. Weedgaurd jigs and t rigs would probably be first choice.

[scaleface]

I  always thought of  it as going down the bank and fishing anything and everything that comes along . Whereas pattern fishing is focusing on certain cover , structure or somethinhg .

[Mobasser]

I've also heard the term " trash" fishing too. I'm thinking it's the same as junk fishing. Lots of good bass hiding around the trash and junk.

[Michigander]

I thought junk fishing was five fish, each at a different location and different lure. Jargon is fun.

[Tennessee Boy]

43 minutes ago, scaleface said:

I  always thought of  it as going down the bank and fishing anything and everything that comes along . Whereas pattern fishing is focusing on certain cover , structure or somethinhg .

That's always been my understanding of the term "junk fishing".  You pick a stretch of bank and start fishing it without worrying too much about how you fish it.  It's what you do when you get back to the weight in site five minutes early,  find a bank and fish for five minutes with whatever you have tied on.  Also, it's the last resort after you've tried everything you can think of to catch a fish with no success.

[roadwarrior]

Junk fishing?

Colors I don't like , but bought for lures I like.

 

[J Francho]

Junk fishing just means rotating through baits and cover each cast.  It's the opposite of pattern fishing.

 

 

  

[Tennessee Boy]

The opposite of pattern fishing?   Yeah, I would agree with that.  Now can we all agree on what pattern fishing is? ?

[TAFKABCF]

4 hours ago, scaleface said:

Your first visit to a 100 acre lake , elec motor only  and have taken five rod and reel combos .  You decide to just go junk fishing around the banks . You notice a rip rap dam , fallen trees and lily pads . What are the first five lures you tie on ? The weather conditions are , look out your window .This time of year . Water normal and stained .

For junk fishing around the banks:

 

1. Jig - For the trees and pads

2. Texas rigged stick bait - ""      ""

3. Buzzbait - for fishing the rip rap

4. Chatterbait

5. Swimbait