Forgotten or Underrated techniques and lures

[river-rat]

I'm still partial a Texas rigged Gene Larew 4" Salt Craw. I always start the day with this on one of my rods.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And I still use a Snagless Sally with a #11 Pork Frog especially around cypress trees and in the tidal marshes. 

 

 

 

There is no telling how many bass I've caught on these two over the years.

 

 

[roadwarrior]

16 minutes ago, Choporoz said:

Every time a thread like this pops up, at least a couple folks reminisce about Slug-Gos....and every time, I break them out for an hour or so....and every time, I wonder just wth you guys are talking about.....never had even a whiff of a bite with one....I must fish around younger bass who just point and laugh at what that geezer in the yak is tossing

 

 

[PressuredFishing]

Spoons fished like crankbaits or spinnerbaits, or like jigs on bottom.

[ATA]

On 4/5/2022 at 5:04 PM, GTN-NY said:

I loved Sluggos when they 1st came out. 

I need to buy some!

I really like them but for me it was striper lure, I start to use them for bass after Glens video on YouTube about them couple years ago.

[bowhunter63]

Guido bug or the snelled 3 hook Wordens wonder worm. Both those would still work if you could find some . 

[NYWayfarer]

Big in-line spinners. The kind you can throw with a baitcaster.
 

I watched Bill Dance use one in a video once. They are not just for trout and bluegill

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On 4/6/2022 at 11:32 AM, Bluebasser86 said:

Scrubbing a grub is deadly but has been completely replaced by boot tail swimbaits 

Yeah, of all the "will catch them when nothing else will" presentations, scrubbing a grub has to be one of the most forgotten. I was taught to scrub a grub in the 70s by a really old guy who learned it from his grandfather when he was a kid, according to him they used hair jigs back then (he didn't called them hair jigs), one of the ways to scrub a grub is what folks think of when they fish a ned rig. I remember having a pack of grubs that were actually labelled Scrub Grubs, but those tiny beaver tailed ones and cut tailed ones is what we mostly used. The inshore salt water guys in NYC did something almost identical for insanely large weakfish as well.

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On 4/23/2022 at 5:50 PM, NYWayfarer said:

Big in-line spinners. The kind you can throw with a baitcaster.
 

I watched Bill Dance use one in a video once. They are not just for trout and bluegill

Yup, I use number 3 through number 6 inline spinners for pike and pickerel, and some days I end up catching more bass than Esox, some good ones too, specially in the cold.

[gulfcaptain]

On 4/5/2022 at 12:06 PM, FishTank said:

Spoons. I don't know a soul that uses them. 

Shhhhh......it's a secret.  

Heddon Baits Torpedo line, the tiny, baby, and full size.   

[Boomstick]

On 4/5/2022 at 3:06 PM, FishTank said:

Spoons. I don't know a soul that uses them. 

Definitely not a common choice, but I was once shore fishing and nobody was catching anything besides this one kid who caught maybe 8 bass using a spoon.

[islandbass]

On 4/5/2022 at 12:06 PM, FishTank said:

Spoons. I don't know a soul that uses them. 

I still do, lol. 
 

Definitely agree on the floating Rapala minnow. My first bass was caught with the size 5. 
 

I don’t know about spotted bass as they’re not in my area as far as I know, but other “forgotten” lures:

In-line Spinners

shap raps

skitter pops

[waymont]

Fat Albert grub on a simple 1/8 ball jig head.