What are you throwing right now?

[DitchPanda]

Lots of threads lately where guys are lamenting how slow it is right now. Honestly it hadn't been to bad for me until this weekend...the past 3 days have been the worst of the open water season for me since right after ice out. I'm throwing everything I can...moving,bottom,finesse,weightless,topwater..shad color,craw color,gill color. For you guys having success..whats the program been? Any help is much appreciated.

[NorthernBasser]

Swimming the Cut R Worm through thick weed patches has been DEADLY for me the last few weeks. Black and Blue or Black Blue Swirl with a pegged 3/16 oz. weight. 

 

Love this bait. Just so versatile and will come through the weeds better than any other bait out there. Usually just straight retrieving it but sometimes I'll kill it when I hit an opening in the weeds and let it fall. For whatever reason, that's when I've been getting the bigger bites.

 

Tail thumps so hard, even a one-eyed pike can find it!

 

 

[Skunkmaster-k]

Purple worms 

[huZZah]

Last weekend nothing worked. Weekend before that jigs had some success. Today I got a 2lber amd a few smaller on underspins with rage swimmer trailer.  Hang in there. 
 

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[thediscochef]

Its been pretty slow for me too. The thing that consistently works just about anywhere for me are a chartreuse chatterbait micro, skirtless, with a trd of some kind but most reliably the coppertreuse finesse trd, kvd ocho baby bass/Amistad special/big tex, and molting craw TRD hogz.

 

While I've gone from catching 10-12 per morning (bank fishing the same spot way too much) down to about 2-6 I'm still catching with that. On hot days in still or slow water a lazy stop and go retrieve does it. In faster water or cooler days, a more steady retrieve does better. I fish it with action like a ned rig and get bit consistently. Nothing like catching a largemouth at 2pm on the bank.

[DitchPanda]

1 hour ago, huZZah said:

Last weekend nothing worked. Weekend before that jigs had some success. Today I got a 2lber amd a few smaller on underspins with rage swimmer trailer.  Hang in there. 
 

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Oh I'm hanging bud. I'm catching a few scattered fish...even some nice ones...but can't find a consistent pattern. Ill catch a few in a brush pile on a Texas rig then hit all the other piles and blank. Then ill pull up on a shallow sand flat with scattered rock and get one or two burning a lipless..then hit a spot identical  and catch a drum. Saw some busting on shad the other nite...threw a popper, swim jig and lipless to them...nothing. Saw one bust threw a Texas rigged baby brush hog into the shad..sank 2-3 feet then wham 4lber. Tried to duplicate it in several more shad pods after blow ups...nothing.

[LrgmouthShad]

On a spinnerbait bite right now along lily pad/weed edges. Others in area reported having good luck on chatterbaits. I have had a few on buzzbaits. Moving lures seem like the deal right now around here. Only a few bites on flipping jigs/punching and they have been smaller.

[ATA]

I also got sound last 4 times, I am only doing frog, I want to master it, So no frog bites for me. Next week I am going to have ned rig and drop shot as well to try to catch something and again ill start the frog.

[padon]

8 hours ago, DitchPanda said:

Oh I'm hanging bud. I'm catching a few scattered fish...even some nice ones...but can't find a consistent pattern. Ill catch a few in a brush pile on a Texas rig then hit all the other piles and blank. Then ill pull up on a shallow sand flat with scattered rock and get one or two burning a lipless..then hit a spot identical  and catch a drum. Saw some busting on shad the other nite...threw a popper, swim jig and lipless to them...nothing. Saw one bust threw a Texas rigged baby brush hog into the shad..sank 2-3 feet then wham 4lber. Tried to duplicate it in several more shad pods after blow ups...nothing.

yeah thats september.things in a state of flux. catch 2 on a worm in 17 feet think your on something, no fish for 2 hours. catch 1 on a square bill in 5 feet. I don't understand? fish seem like they could be anywhere.

[huZZah]

My problem is bank fishing now the water is so hot they mostly hang deep. I can’t reach them. I got a couple dinks lobbing my buzzbait a couple weeks ago, but it’s exhausting. I’ve been massacring bluegill on live worms when I get tired of trying to cast 50-70 yards. 

[PaulVE64]

Wading thru my local rivers in about 2 to 5 ft depth.

 

Smallmouth were crazy for a TR 3" yum dinger (wtrmeln/red flake) and a pearl fluke on an octopus hook

[Bankbeater]

Anything small with a small profile.  Most of the bass I am catching have been on jigs, finesse worms, and 4" senkos.  The topwater bite had dried up, and the crankbait bite has slowed way down from what it was in July.

[Jig Man]

We have a big jig off shore bite going on.  I’ve been using 1/2 and 1 oz jigs with craw trailers 25-35’ deep.

 

 

 

 

[DaubsNU1]

Fished at my sister's sandpit yesterday...from the bank. All I threw was a Green Pumpkin NED...landed four in the 16-17" range, lost another three trying to get cute : ) 

 

Nephew landed three that were close to 17"...he was throwing wacky-Senko and NED. 

 

Brother caught probably 25 crappie on jig+gulp minow...fishing deep. 

 

Didn't expect much...turned out to be a good day...

 

[Mobasser]

I'm still throwing my usual.plastic worms. Mr. Twister Phenom in any purple/grape color. Zoom finesse in the same colors. I'm hoping as it cools off a little, the trap, spinnerbait bite will pick.up. Ready for Spooks also

[Micaiah Freels]

I use a spinnerbait because of the bass schooling.

[roadwarrior]

3/8 Siebert Grid Iron G2 jig (black)/ Berkley Maxscent Flat Worm trailer

[scaleface]

Spinnerbait and Texas rigged worm . I caught a double limit of 15 inch keepers last Thursday .

[T-Billy]

T rigged 3.5" beaver has been my best producer lately. Rock and wood on mainlake points at night, shallow brush/beaver huts after the sun gets up. Hydrilla and Milfoil are dying off. Water is down to mid 70's. Better days are coming soon!!!

[Catt]

What are you throwing right now?

 

Nerve in my hip ?

[TnRiver46]

10 hours ago, Jig Man said:

We have a big jig off shore bite going on.  I’ve been using 1/2 and 1 oz jigs with craw trailers 25-35’ deep.

 

 

 

 

Fun times!!!

[padon]

apparently after todays disaster i need to start using depth charges because  i sucked today. only thing i could get them o eat was a weighted wacky senko in the grass. nothing over 2 pounds. im ready for 55 degree water and jerkbait and a rig bite.

[Bluebasser86]

Lots of small plastics lately it seems. I did miss 4 or 5 bites on a big swimbait after work last week though. None of them were big, but it was fun getting popped on it. 

[Spankey]

I’m not setting the world on fire but I am catching bass. Not doing anything much different than the usual Cranks, t-rig worms, shaky head, grubs and tubes. Getting bit on the slight color changes I’m making. I’m hoping I get to land my nicest of the year this month. Sept. is generally a good month for it. 

[Munkin]

Last thing I threw were both boat trailer hubs.

 

Allen