Are You Fast or Sloooowwwww?

[Smallies]

I know, I know, there's a time for both.  But I wanna know, what is your primary tendency?  I've been watching some Kyle Welcher Vids on the Tube, and man does that guy fish fast!  But I kinda like it, ya know?  Just throw some cranks or some jigs out there until you get a bite, otherwise just keep moving.  But I also like to work a spot, if there's fish, and I tend towards that more than anything in my fishing.  I like to try different lures, techniques, presentations in order to see what gets bit, but there's gotta be fish right?  SO, I'm thinking I might just Kyle Welcher it around the lake until I get hit, and then slow down in that spot. 

 

How do you guys do it?...

[LrgmouthShad]

I am a fan of using constantly moving lures slowly. I don’t know whether that is fast or slow. 
 

I also like to work some worms, especially senkos, deathly slow. Gonna do some of that tomorrow

 

In terms of how quickly and often I move around the lake, it is somewhat in direct correlation to how confident I am in my precise location. 

[Choporoz]

When I try to fish slow, I feel like the owl in the old Tootsie Pop commercial.....I'll count to 30 seconds....one...two... three...nope...can't do it.

Now, I will make 20 casts to the same branch...but I don't have the patience to deadstick or do a reeeaaallly sllloooow drag

[QUAKEnSHAKE]

SLOW

Im a bank beater and can stay in one spot (3 foot section) for hours at times. Just fan casting the area with LONG casts. Also one cast can last 5+ minutes.

[DitchPanda]

Slow and methodical

[Catt]

Movement without movement ?

 

I want my lure in the strike zone as long as possible.

 

To be productive ya better know both, they may want that jig drug horizontally on the bottom or stroked off the bottom. They may want it flipped/pitched or swam.

 

Regardless of lures that's a huge part of patterning bass. 

[CrashVector]

Moderate for me.  I'm a finesse fisherman, so I'll slow down if I'm pretty sure a particular spot is holding fish.

[RDB]

Fast until I get an idea of how and where they are positioning, then I slow down.  A lot of the tournament anglers want to fill their limits so they are often looking for the active fish.

[Bird]

I'm a power fisherman at heart, fast and aggressive at times.

But with new popularity in bass fishing and pressured water, I'm finding a new home with finesse.

[schplurg]

If bank fishing with the fishing spots spread out and very few, I go slow.

 

In the yak...

 

You know what, I don't know what the heck I do! I do both depending on my mood I guess. One year I fished cranks all year from the banks, next year I started T-rigged plastics and I've kinda been there for a couple years.

 

Now I have a yak, so we'll see what happens next season.

 

Shrug, been bassin maybe 4 years so still figuring it out.

[scaleface]

Both . I often fish my way from spot to spot . Slowing down when I reach a destination , fishing fast in between .

[Bluebasser86]

I lean more towards the faster side, but I'm plenty capable of slowing down when needed. Twice this tournament season, I fished a very small area the entire day over and over again to pick every fish I could off of them, winning one and getting second and big bass the next. 

[Hammer 4]

I'm a power guy at heart, But, if conditions dictate that I need to slow down, I will. I haven't tied on a drop shot in a long time. I do have baits that can be fished fast or slow, I let the fish tell me what they want.

[Mobasser]

I fish slowly much of the time.

[A-Jay]

I like to chunk & wind,

but that can be done at most any speed.

I like catching fatties so I'll do whatever it takes to get the bites.

I'd like to be able to describe my style as effective but that's a work in progress

and has been For A While  . . . . 

Fish Hard

A-Jay

 

[12poundbass]

I’m a power fisherman. I’ve tried slowing down and really struggle with it. I’m really going to make a true effort in 2022 to try my hand a finesse fishing. 
 

I rack my brain sometimes trying to figure myself out. I don’t have the patience to slow down when fishing, yet there are other things in life where I’m very patient and have been able to do finesse things with no issue. 
 

?

[Tennessee Boy]

I’m very slow…..I’m so slow I don’t even understand the question. ?

[TnRiver46]

Slow, with worms 

[Catt]

27 minutes ago, Tennessee Boy said:

I’m very slow…..I’m so slow I don’t even understand the question. ?

 

Dang hillbilly ?

 

[N Florida Mike]

48 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

Slow, with worms 

^^^^ I resemble this remark.

I rarely do well the faster I go. 

[gim]

I almost always start off with a faster, aggressive approach.  I just prefer to fish this way and if they're biting on this approach, I keep going.  It doesn't take long to figure out if they're going to bite on this approach.  If not, then I have no choice but to slow down and start finesse fishing.  Heck, sometimes that doesn't even work which makes for a really tough bite.

 

I should mention that I try to fish when the conditions are likely to produce fish with an aggressive approach though.

[Junk Fisherman]

Slow

 

I fish way too slow and don't change lures enough.  It is a problem I need to solve.  I'm hoping that adding Livescope this year will help me move faster when I do not see fish and change lures more often when fish do not respond to what I am using.  

[FryDog62]

I'm both, but since adding forward facing electronics - I've found more success finding the higher percentage spots and slowing down. I'm less in search mode now but still do from time to time. In general, I think I fished too fast for many years but it has its place...

[the reel ess]

Fast whenever the water temp allows. I'm a total junk fisherman so the quicker I fish, the better I do. But I have to do what the fish want.

[Catt]

11 hours ago, Catt said:

Movement without movement ?

 

I want that lure to have "movement" (action) while sitting still. I will impart movement by shaking the rod tip, sometimes it's aggressive, sometimes it's subtle.

 

I do this with minimal forward movement

 

Movement without movement! ?