Baits You Hate Throwing, but Do Anyway

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Weightless Senko. Have better luck with them as a weighted wacky.

Jerkbaits. Just haven’t been able to work them right yet.

Dropshot. Will use when things get tough.

[Basser2021]

10 hours ago, Bankc said:

What do you hate to throw, but it works, so you throw it anyway?  

 

For me, drop shots and ned rigs.  They're so slow and boring!  At least with a shaky head I can give it some action, and not be afraid to scare off the fish.  I know you can fish them faster, but by the time I'm grabbing these rigs, I'm pretty much convinced that the fish aren't biting anything that moves, so these are my methods to slow it down to almost a standstill.  

 

I know some people hate throwing crankbaits because they get hung up so easily.  But at least using a plug knocker is doing something!  

It is chatterbaits for me. I don't like fishing with those things but I do well in the winter with them.

[PressuredFishing]

Gluidebaits, it's been rough man, hooked into my pb on a gamtarel, just for him to shake the hook, then the fin on the gantarel broke, and on another trip I took an s waver and got it caught on submerged wood, went swimming out to my neck in a nasty pond probably infested with brain eating bacteria....

[LrgmouthShad]

7 hours ago, Deleted account said:

I think it's the rod shaking thing

Colorado blades? Cmon man, you know this! 

 

Baitfish emit low-frequency vibrations. Bass can only hear frequencies below a threshold. At high enough frequencies, sounds are effectively silent. A single colorado blade vibrating softly and slowly is a dinner bell. 

[Deleted account]

5 minutes ago, LrgmouthShad said:

Colorado blades? Cmon man, you know this! 

 

Baitfish emit low-frequency vibrations. Bass can only hear frequencies below a threshold. At high enough frequencies, sounds are effectively silent. A single colorado blade vibrating softly and slowly is a dinner bell. 

LOL. I feel an on the water spanking coming on.  YT and InterWeb expert $ spends so good...  

[LrgmouthShad]

1 minute ago, Deleted account said:

LOL. I feel an on the water spanking coming on.  YT and InterWeb expert $ spends so good...  

I catch em pretty good on a single colorado! I sometimes need certain conditions for them and we already talked about that, but often I don't need conditions to be "perfect". I started fishing those little single colorados because of Bill Murphy's section on spinnerbaits.

 

The beetle spin is a single colorado! 

 

I didn't hear nothing helpful about single colorados on Youtube!

 

Anyways, like I've said before, you've got the experience more than I do and I will continue to listen to you for advice but I am nonetheless convinced nobody fishes a single colorado enough.

 

 

[GreenPig]

30 minutes ago, LrgmouthShad said:

I catch em pretty good on a single colorado! I sometimes need certain conditions for them and we already talked about that, but often I don't need conditions to be "perfect". I started fishing those little single colorados because of Bill Murphy's section on spinnerbaits.

 

The beetle spin is a single colorado! 

 

I didn't hear nothing helpful about single colorados on Youtube!

 

Anyways, like I've said before, you've got the experience more than I do and I will continue to listen to you for advice but I am nonetheless convinced nobody fishes a single colorado enough.

 

 

Enough! The single colorado doesn't really work. Quit pulling these guys legs.?

[LrgmouthShad]

1 minute ago, GreenPig said:

Enough! The single colorado doesn't really work. Quit pulling these guys legs.?

Lol! Occasionally I get a little excited... maybe it's because tomorrow looks like a good spinnerbait day if I can make it out there. 

[Deleted account]

12 minutes ago, LrgmouthShad said:

Lol! Occasionally I get a little excited... maybe it's because tomorrow looks like a good spinnerbait day if I can make it out there. 

I'll be getting wet tomorrow for sure. I probably won't be throwing a spinnerbait, I'm probably gonna throw a big swimbait. I haven't been catching many, but I'm getting a couple every time out and most are over 6, so I'll keep doing that while it holds up.

[LrgmouthShad]

2 minutes ago, Deleted account said:

I'll be getting wet tomorrow for sure. I probably won't be throwing a spinnerbait, I'm probably gonna throw a big swimbait. I haven't been catching many, but I'm getting a couple every time out and most are over 6, so I'll keep doing that while it holds up.

Good to hear . How far are you from me?

 

I'm actually rigging up right now as we speak

[Deleted account]

Just now, LrgmouthShad said:

Good to hear . How far are you from me?

I'm about 20 minutes south of DC (without traffic)

[LrgmouthShad]

3 minutes ago, Deleted account said:

I'm about 20 minutes south of DC (without traffic)

Okay gotcha. Still in NY here and will be for a while longer.  

 

Back on topic, I will not be throwing any baits I don't enjoy tomorrow ?. Riggin up a spinnerbait, swim jig, frog, and..... undecided

[Deleted account]

2 minutes ago, LrgmouthShad said:

and..... undecided

Plopper, or big spook.

[LrgmouthShad]

4 minutes ago, Deleted account said:

Plopper

I have a singular whopper plopper left because I couldn't sell my other one ?. If you insist; I tied it on. Ain't got spooks. 

 

Not exactly diverse in topwater abilities. 

[DinkDreams]

Crank baits. I bank fish ponds mostly so with the grass and the really shallow water near the shore it feels like I spend more time cleaning my hooks than fishing.

 

I will still throw square bills and shallow cranks but I’ve all but given up on anything deeper than 5 feet.

[Lead Head]

I hate cranks, but throw them quite a bit because the stupid fish eat them.

 

Now I'll speak some bassreasource blasphemy...

I absolutely loathe spinnerbaits. I'll use them, but rarely. I used them pretty much exclusively until I was about 20 and a friend taught me the magic of a t-rig. Now, when I'm throwing a spinnerbait it feels like regression. Between that and the monotonous cast and retrieve nature of the presentation, I'm miserable when I'm using them.

[Unk]

17 hours ago, Deleted account said:

Works even better with bacon.

Cannot believe you can bring yourself to put bacon on the hook  I'm so addicted to the stuff that it would never get out of the boat LOL . 

[schplurg]

 If a bait works I don't care what it is or how to fish it.

[cyclops2]

I agree totally.

[Bluebasser86]

Crankbaits and flukes

[scaleface]

Any type of walking bait . I get about a 25 Per cent landing ratio . 

[LrgmouthShad]

21 minutes ago, scaleface said:

Any type of walking bait . I get about a 25 Per cent landing ratio . 

Funny story, today while throwing a whopper plopper, a little bass hit it and knocked it airborne, but didn’t get any hooks on itself ?. Dunno if that’s a common occurrence for some people on here but it made me laugh

[DinkDreams]

42 minutes ago, LrgmouthShad said:

Funny story, today while throwing a whopper plopper, a little bass hit it and knocked it airborne, but didn’t get any hooks on itself ?. Dunno if that’s a common occurrence for some people on here but it made me laugh

Happens to me all the time! Always frustrating