What lure do you keep a secret???

[Bluebasser86]

I like to see other people catch fish almost as much as I like to catch them myself, so I'm always talking about what worked for me. Having a Youtube channel would be pretty counterproductive if I was trying to keep secrets also. I've seen too many times when 2 people in a boat are fishing almost the same thing and 1 of them is catching while the other isn't to worry about someone else fishing what I'm fishing with. 

[Swamp Girl]

14 hours ago, Dogface said:

 

A few years ago a few of us were sharing Musky info on a certain river on another outdoor website.  One guy never shared anything regarding location or tactics. I knew he was catching fish.  I called him out for being selfish and he defended himself by saying others would burn or ruin the spots.

 

A few weeks later one of the "regulars" asked about SM fishing at a spot I knew well. I told him where to fish and what baits to use and how to use them.

 

A week later he posted a picture of a picnic table completely covered by BIG dead smallmouths. I was shocked. I never expected him and his friends to kill the fish they caught. Many others on the site jumped all over him. I was sick but kept my mouth shut. I decided that I was not going to share info but I still do. I'm just more careful with who I share it and now I agree with the "regular" who did not want to share info.  

 

 

 

This would gut me. I'm so sad it happened to you. 

[AlabamaSpothunter]

I'll share anything and everything I know on here as that's what I'm hoping to receive from others who are members.    I'm learning far more than I'm sharing.    That's why I started a whole thread about a lure that I thought was "Secret", or not well known.   These forums are only as good as the members who are willing to share their expertise and experience.  

 

On the other hand, I'm a huge sand bagger on my homelake to anybody but a few fellow anglers I know are good honest people and would happily share info with me.   "How many you catching?"........"slow day barely catching anything" ?

 

I'm not even telling my momma the places that hold big fish on my home lake ?

[Skunkmaster-k]

15 hours ago, Dogface said:

 

A few years ago a few of us were sharing Musky info on a certain river on another outdoor website.  One guy never shared anything regarding location or tactics. I knew he was catching fish.  I called him out for being selfish and he defended himself by saying others would burn or ruin the spots.

 

A few weeks later one of the "regulars" asked about SM fishing at a spot I knew well. I told him where to fish and what baits to use and how to use them.

 

A week later he posted a picture of a picnic table completely covered by BIG dead smallmouths. I was shocked. I never expected him and his friends to kill the fish they caught. Many others on the site jumped all over him. I was sick but kept my mouth shut. I decided that I was not going to share info but I still do. I'm just more careful with who I share it and now I agree with the "regular" who did not want to share info.  

 

 

That’s crazy 

[king fisher]

     I was ordering things I needed, terminal tackle and line.  The Bait Monkey detected a moment of weakness, and convinced me to order a Bacca Burrito for $39. (Thanks to Tacktical Bass'n modern day bandits)

      I keep no secrets from fellow anglers, but the Bacca Burrito will be a secret kept from my wife. 

[MassBass]

If you have ever seen a spot that only you and your fishin buddies knew of, over 2-3 years become like the county fair, with people coming from out of state and the nearest metropolis, you learn to be vague or quiet about things. It only takes one guy with a 'the more the merrier' attitude to find out about the spot, and then forget it.   

[KSanford33]

As I've said in other posts, I primarily troll when I'm not fishing in a tournament. And for anyone who has trolled in or around the Great Lakes will know this is no secret, but it's not common for bass, or used in smaller bodies of water.

 

I use a deep diving crank bait with a swimbait tied on about 2ft above it. So if I have 3 rods going (the max allowed in NY), I can cover about 10ft of the vertical column with three rods. Once I figure out what depth is paying off, I'll adjust the other two rods to that depth.

[Aaron_H]

The only thing I won't share with strangers is my actual fishing spots. I've been burned from it before, had good spots completely trashed by people who told other people who told other people etc, eventually some of them bring buckets, illegally keep every single fish they catch, and leave all their trash on the banks.

 

However, I will share everything else about what I'm doing. I'll tell you the exact lure, what rod/reel I throw them on, why I throw it, how I work it, what kind of cover/structure I look for to target fish, etc. I love learning, and teaching, and seeing others find success in a hobby I'm so passionate about is hugely rewarding for me.

[looking45]

I make my own plastics and I have styles/colors that are available in stores. Are they secret baits? No. Anyone who fishes with me is welcome to use anything in the boat and if they want more that’s not a problem 

[Scott804]

In the past I would've protected it with my life... but Nolan Minor won a Hobie BOS on the Susquehanna on it and now its mystic status has been foiled. 

 

Evergreen Gizmo. I even have the specific rod built for it, not that you need it to use it. If you like throwing finesse-y topwaters like a popper, you oughta give the Gizmo a go. 

[killobet]

I make noodles out of Roboworms?

Deadly!!

[kingmotorboat]

Tokyo rig

[J Francho]

Meh, without time on the water, having some hot bait won't help you.

[Munkin]

I no longer give out info on spots because like others I have been burned.  Had a guy on another forum saying about how he couldn't catch any decent fish on the Upper Potomac.  Desided to take him out with a promise not to tell everyone. Well he did a YouTube video on the spot showing everything I taught him. The next time I tried fishing there it looked like the D-Day invasion with the number of boats. Put him on blast and was suspended from the site for months. 

 

Allen 

[Mr. Aquarium]

I don’t mind sharing lures and what I’m usin. I just don’t tell where I’m fishin. 

[Kyle46N]

 

[WRB]

I kept the lure a secret so long forgot what is is?

Tom?

[PressuredFishing]

On 12/10/2022 at 4:51 AM, Catt said:

 

 

 

Talk about fun in winter secret lure, waxpaper! fishing .0074mm (1.1lb) nylon

line with size 20-30 hook and tiny price of wax paper soaked in garlic  For Glass minnows, American shad, and golden shiner.(tanago) That's my secret fun. America doesn't sell stuff like this sadly, but in Japan the culture has a huge variety of angling techniques. I use a cdm xxul rod, but I am going to make a bamboo line thru rod with even lighter action similar to what Japanese anglers use. The reel fun begins when a largemouth takes the minnow that you hooked! I landed a 2lb bass with it, it peeled 200 feet of line before I got it in then I hooked up to a 2.5lb bass  a week later and swam 500 feet to a downed tree.... 

The bite is often be light and undetectable so I tie small 6 inch sections of orange into the main line every 3 feet on the line.

small floats, beaded indicators are also commonly used, but sense they are very hard to get hands on, I tie orange line into the clear line as indicator.

 

Some different food for thought lure wise going into a cold winter for the people who want to catch something, and a great time to practice as minnows seem to like to huddle the sun baked shorelines in the afternoon of winter, if you aren't one of the people so far up north.

 

P.S (I have splurged another this year jdm wise, more than I should, but this is literally the cheapest fishing technique to get into, I think each spool of line was 6$ (on sale) and hooks where $20 for 50 in sizes 22-30.)

[JustBassinThru]

8 hours ago, PressuredFishing said:

 

 

Talk about fun in winter secret lure, waxpaper! fishing .0074mm (1.1lb) nylon

line with size 20-30 hook and tiny price of wax paper soaked in garlic  For Glass minnows, American shad, and golden shiner.(tanago) That's my secret fun. America doesn't sell stuff like this sadly, but in Japan the culture has a huge variety of angling techniques. I use a cdm xxul rod, but I am going to make a bamboo line thru rod with even lighter action similar to what Japanese anglers use. The reel fun begins when a largemouth takes the minnow that you hooked! I landed a 2lb bass with it, it peeled 200 feet of line before I got it in then I hooked up to a 2.5lb bass  a week later and swam 500 feet to a downed tree.... 

The bite is often be light and undetectable so I tie small 6 inch sections of orange into the main line every 3 feet on the line.

small floats, beaded indicators are also commonly used, but sense they are very hard to get hands on, I tie orange line into the clear line as indicator.

 

Some different food for thought lure wise going into a cold winter for the people who want to catch something, and a great time to practice as minnows seem to like to huddle the sun baked shorelines in the afternoon of winter, if you aren't one of the people so far up north.

 

P.S (I have splurged another this year jdm wise, more than I should, but this is literally the cheapest fishing technique to get into, I think each spool of line was 6$ (on sale) and hooks where $20 for 50 in sizes 22-30.)

Interesting! Whatever makes fishing fun is great! I'm finding JDM items fascinating. 

[jitterbug127]

I keep all the lures that catch fish a secret. Problem is I keep the secret from me. 

[PressuredFishing]

2 hours ago, JustBassinThru said:

Interesting! Whatever makes fishing fun is great! I'm finding JDM items fascinating. 

Absolutely, plus I don't mind sharing because nobody is going to overfish the minnow and shad populations lol

[Primus]

I'm not saying I invented the " Ned " rig but I was throwing a version of this a few years before it became mainstream and it's likely that others were doing the same. Gopher tackle mushroom heads were out a few years before the Ned rig became mainstream and I'm sure I wasn't the only one that put 2 & 2 together using small soft plastics, but at the time I viewed it as another variation of the jig worm and I still do. 

 

Silent lipless crankbaits aren't a secret but I suspect not too many are throwing them , all I can say is they need to be in your rotation. 

 

The mojo rig isn't so much a secret but I suspect it's not being used very much, try a 3/16 oz sinker with a 4" ringworm , 2-1/2 " tube or a 4" Lizard and catch a pile of fish. 

 

 

[Munkin]

Carolina rigged buzzbait is the secret!

 

Allen

[RB 77]

None. I don't tournament fish though, so no biggie for me. 

[Dangerfield]

On 12/16/2022 at 7:07 PM, Kyle46N said:

 

Have you tried the Turbo Fattyz on that rig?

 

I'm waiting for someone to share the details/retrieve for the Megabass Flap Slap.