Throwing finesse after power fishing

[NickBender]

Hi y'all!

 

Are you ever concerned with spooked bass throwing a finesse presentation, i.e. wacky rig, drop shot or ned rig, in an area after you run a power fishing technique through it, i.e. chatterbait, crankbait or lipless? 

 

I know there are several conditions to consider here, but in general...something I've always wondered.

 

Thank you.

 

[TOXIC]

It’s not uncommon to follow up a missed strike on a top water with a Senko or fluke and catch the fish.  Many times I have power fished a bank without luck and gone back with a Senko or other plastic, dropshot, Ned rig and caught fish.   Whether they bit because of the different presentation is up for debate. But I do not think power fishing will spook them or shut them down.  

[Deleted account]

Not usually, but there are specific times and conditions when running power presentations will put them off even further, certainly not the norm, but it does happen. 

[king fisher]

     Last Sunday I was hiding from the wind behind some trees in 2 feet of water.  I was tied tied to a tree, and could only cast one direction.  I threw a chatterbait, and spinnerbait for 20 minuets with out a bite.  I completely worked over that small area.  First cast with a Senko I landed a 10 pound bass.  I had to have ran both of the moving baits within inches of that bass and didn't spook her.  The water was dirty, around a foot of vis. and lots of waves from the wind, so that might have helped.

    If I new exactly where a bass was, I think I would toss the finesse bait first.  Why take a chance?  If I am fishing blind, then I wouldn't hesitate to fish finesse after working a spot over power fishing.

[gim]

There is a small river I fish here in midsummer for brown bass.  We float along with the current in a small jon boat.  I only take 2 setups with me: a BC with a fast-moving aggressive lure (usually a topwater or shallow crank), and a spinning setup with a soft plastic (usually a tube, ned, or wacky).  Quite often, the smallmouth will miss the first one.  So I toss right back to that spot with the second one and almost every time it works.  The first lure catches fish too, but they tend to miss is a fair amount - not sure how, because it has treble hooks - but they do.

 

I will say that in this river, I could toss the plastic in there first and get bit right away too because the fish hold in a very specific spot and precise, accurate casts are required.  I'm convinced that any lure will work.  It just has to be accurate.  I simply prefer to first do it with a topwater because its more exciting to me.

[Choporoz]

Not unusual to beat up a laydown or pad area with spinnerbaits, chatterbaits,  etc and then work more meticulous with plastics.  

   The one precaution I take is if I have to maneuver close, say... to flip or dropshot, I will just sit for a bit after I get my boat or kayak in position.   I find it helps, especially in pad fields.  I don't think the big baits had any lasting effect.  Another time I might let a target 'rest' for a minute is if a cormorant or otter came from near that spot when I pulled up.

I'm reminded of a B.A.S.S. event I watched some months ago.  One of the 'legends', whose name I can't recall, spent a good portion of a day throwing spinnerbaits at a single tree...and not like once every couple minutes...but bang bang....he wasn't worried about shutting them down....I think he was trying to tick them off...lol

[Bankc]

About the only time I throw a wacky rig is after I've missed a bite while power fishing.  It works pretty well in those circumstances.  I don't have much luck with it otherwise, but I always have one rigged up for that purpose.  

 

Finesse fishing doesn't work well for me.  The water is too muddy usually.  But if I can target an exact spot where a bass is and drop a finesse lure there, I can sometimes get a bite.  That means usually the only time it works is if I can locate deep cover on my sonar and somehow stay above it or get a missed bite to tell me exactly where one is.  Typically, if you don't hit them in the nose with it, they won't find it.  At least that's been my experience.  

 

But no, power fishing doesn't seem to bother the bass most of the time in my local lakes.  

[padon]

i think the boat noise or noise from trolling motor  or depth finders  would be more likely to spook them than a spinnerbait.

[TnRiver46]

I think I’ve made the whole top water strike follow up with worm thing work once out of hundreds of attempts. I’ve done much better just throwing the top water back in a second time. As far as approach, I typically like to throw the slow bait first, total mind bender for the fish I would imagine 

[NickBender]

17 hours ago, TnRiver46 said:

I think I’ve made the whole top water strike follow up with worm thing work once out of hundreds of attempts. I’ve done much better just throwing the top water back in a second time. As far as approach, I typically like to throw the slow bait first, total mind bender for the fish I would imagine 

Fish just like worms, ya know? The lakes I fish are small, and some get a fair amount of pressure. 

[Mbirdsley]

Short answer. No 

[HaydenS]

If this don’t scare ‘em, I wouldn’t be worried about a chatterbait...