Your wheelhouse...

[DitchPanda]

What baits are you strongest at? Maybe it's not even your favorite..but why do you feel most proficient with? For me id say a spinnerbait and a finesse jig. There's a lot of things I feel confident with but my confidence is highest with those two. They just make sense to me. Was also gonna include senkos but that's almost too easy and kinda cheating!

[slonezp]

Depends on my goals. If I'm fishing for big bites in my home water, it's jigs. If I'm fishing for numbers in my home water, it's not jigs.

[Hower08]

Flukes jigs and buzzbaits. I can fish those 3 things so many different ways I can pretty much catch fish on them any time 

[Mobasser]

T rig plastic worm has been my confidence bait for a long time

[Jig Man]

Numbers...Shakey and Ned

 

Size...1/2 oz jig with salt craw trailer and spinner bait

[nmatthes]

Jigs........Jigs

[Throwafrog]

Fluke. Little spinner bait. whopperplopper

[jimmyjoe]

   In spring .... twitchbaits and spoons.

   In the heat of summer .... spinnerbaits and spoons.

   In fall .... cranks and spoons.

 

   jj

[Hook2Jaw]

Jigs.

[A-Jay]

1 hour ago, DitchPanda said:

What baits are you strongest at? Maybe it's not even your favorite..but why do you feel most proficient with? For me id say a spinnerbait and a finesse jig. There's a lot of things I feel confident with but my confidence is highest with those two. They just make sense to me. Was also gonna include senkos but that's almost too easy and kinda cheating!

At this point, I feel pretty comfortable presenting quite a few baits so it's fairly difficult to select one or two presentations and say they were my wheelhouse. 

I do like to chunk & wind so that could be as close as I come.

However I can easily admit what is Not in my wheel house and probably never will be . . .

A Carolina rig and Glide Baits.

I'd rather spoon out an eye. 

A-Jay

 

[soflabasser]

Topwaters, swimbaits, jerkbaits, crankbaits, jigs, spinnerbaits, soft plastics, other lures.

[Teal]

Shallow water...does that count

[DitchPanda]

Sure...I'll allow it! I guess since I'm a bank angler shallow water is also my wheelhouse. Only time I fish deeper than 5ft is thru ice chasing panfish.

One thing that always amazes people is how shallow bass will get in cold water. I was out several weeks back when the water was I'd guess high 40s and a gentleman drove up to me and said hey man the waters still to cold so don't waste your time from shore. I responded huh that's weird I've been out a few hours and I've caught 6 already. Then I told him I caught a 7lber the week prior. He just said oh...and slowly drove away?

[Kdizzle]

Split shotting, Sliderheads, Ned Rigs, all the finesse river and creek fisherman needs.  Except dropshotting, I'm **** at that. 

[soflabasser]

42 minutes ago, DitchPanda said:

One thing that always amazes people is how shallow bass will get in cold water. 

Bass bite in shallow warm water as well. I have caught +8 pound bass in water less than 5 feet deep during warm weather. These bass where in areas with heavy aquatic vegetation so you need a rod with a good backbone to pull them out.

[WRB]

I like to use everything, it's part of bass fishing because they will strike nearly anything.

What I'am most successful using is plastic worms for numbers of bass per hour and hair jigs with pork trailers for numbers of giant bass per year.

My favorite is top water lures. I also like using big swimbaits followed by deep diving crankbaits because it 's active fishing.  Slowing down isn't fun it's more productive.

My record is clear, long casting using hair jigs.

Tom

[RoLo]

 

With respect to trophy-class bass, my most fruitful lure has been a soft swimbait (Gambler Big EZ, Keitech ~ ~ ~).

Confidence and success are inseparable, so it naturally follows that I fish them more than other lures.

On the other hand, my wife (who typically outfishes me), has landed most of her trophy bass on a skirt-jig & craw.

If it were just a numbers game, I'd go with a T-rigged plastic worm.

 

Roger

 

 

[scaleface]

  Texas rig , spinnerbait , buzzbait and  crankbait  . I'm working on Toads .

[Mike L]

T rig on the bottom 

Swim worm in the middle

Frog and spook on top

 

 

 

 

Mike

[Wildbillb]

Chatter bait and paddle tail swimbaits

[Patrick Reif]

for river smallmouth I feel at home with tubes, stickbaits, grubs and cranks.  Top water is always fun, but I still prefer a tube to just about anything once I've located the fish

[Oregon Native]

After chasing these critters for too many years to count....I just enjoy using all techniques seasonally.  A Carolina rig could be the last thing you see on my rod though...this may change due to my no treble rule now...now sure.

Tight lines

[ww2farmer]

I feel I'm at my strongest finesse fishing deep grass lines with light line and a spinning rod with any number of techniques. Past tournament results seem to always point to that as being what I have the most wins and high finishes on....Oddly though, it's not my preferred way to wish, more a product of necessity. I really really like to shallow water power fish, or fish thick grass.  Flipping, frog, squarebills, etc., and am good at that too. But the finesse stuff "pays the bills" more times than not. I'm also fairly comfortable and competitive when it's a "junk" fishing bite. Where I struggle the most is in deal where it's a timing bite on deeper, off shore pinpoint cover or structure...especially for brown fish. I'm also not real fond of deep water power fishing with big stuff. I can catch fish fine doing that stuff...it's just way down the list of favorite things to do, and or low on the confidence meter when money is on the line.

[Catt]

Give me a piece of plastic, a bullet weight, a hook, & I'm happy happy happy!

[papajoe222]

Post spawn through fall...........JIG. Even under cold front conditions, I'm confident that I can squeeze out a couple of good bites with a jig and, more often than not, they are quality fish. A Spook is the lure I feel I'm most skilled with, but it has its place A jig I will fish under most any condition.