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Every year this thread seems to evolve a little bit.

This one’s no different.  Something that I haven’t covered in previous versions of this thread is what is it that makes a bait “Productive” for me in the first place ? I mean besides the obvious, what characteristics am I looking for in a bait when targeting plus size brown bass on Lake Menderchuck ?

 

I may leave something out but here’s the gist of it; 

-When conditions require it, bait needs to cover water while still attracting bites. I need to be able to effectively control the presentation depth & speed.  Including complete pauses when indicated.  Needs to be capable of being casted a long way and still possess suitable quality hardware & terminal tackle to get a solid hookset at distance.  And be able to maintain that all the way to the net. Either way, I want to do everything I can, to remain UNDECETED.  Once they are alerted, this show is essentially over. 

Then there’s Bait ‘size’. This has been a very slippery slope for me.

Couldn’t possible list all the baits & various sizes that are effective on plus sized brown bass, there’s just too many.

I’ve gone round and round on this one and in the end this is what I’ve come up with.  Coming close to matching the size of whatever ‘prey’ I’m expecting my bait to mimic or be in the vicinity of, has paid off.  So two examples; bottom baits that might be thought of as crayfish seem to do best when they are close to the size of most of the crayfish in the system I’m fishing. When I’m looking to capitalize on fat smallies that are hunting the early season yellow perch spawn, 4-5 inch jerkbaits have proven themselves time & time again as big bite magnets.

 

Not saying that micro baits and even magnum size baits don’t get bites, because we all know they do.  My 2nd biggest SMB ever (6.94 lbs), slurped a ned rig and my very first 6 lb plus smallies hammered a LC 128 jerkbait (American Shad). Despite that, my overall confidence lies in the above mind set.

 

Finally I will always use the ‘lightest gear’ I can to accomplish the above.  But do not be miss lead, I’m not an ultralight angler. Far from it in fact.  I will always start out on the heavy side of gear and work my way backwards.  Tried it the other way and I got burned way too many times to go back. I’d rather get a bite from a plus size fish and land it.  If I am missing bites, I may not even know it, but I’m not losing heartbreakers that much either. It’s a tradeoff.

 

The Baits ~ Many of the same players seem to show up year after year here.  And for good reason.

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Super early season just days after ice out, with water temps in the low 40’s and all the way to the low 50’s,

My one two punch is a jerkbait and a vibrating jig.  Hard bait covers the middle of the water column, and the vibrating jig is my bottom dredge. It’s usually one of the other and on the rarest of days, it could be both.

 On cloudy days & or over dark bottom areas, I like a dark back bait.  Add some sunshine & wind or over sandy or light colored bottoms, I’m usually throwing something lighter colored.  The Clown color is an audible and something I send out when the mood strikes me.  But it gets bites !

 

Once the perch spawn is over, usually 45 degrees & above, these bigger fish abandon the shallows and start the courtship behavior.  I usually bounce from lake to lake looking to find bass that have yet to get to that stage. Once they are all on beds, I’m done for a while.

Then its post spawn, usually takes a full 3 weeks of recovery at least before anything in the 4lb plus class shows up.

This is when my fishing turns almost exclusively to either night time or very first light deal.  By now the recreational boating public is on the water in somewhat full force and I have no interest in being there for that. Fishing’s usually not the best during that chaos anyway.  So I’m on & off the water usually well before they roll out of the rack.

Regardless of where & when I’m out there, it it’s flat calm, I’ll target rock piles and the edges of steep drops off long main lake points with topwater.  If there’s a breeze, I'm still in the same areas, but burning a spinnerbait just under the surface. Both require stealth and a long cast.  With the water temps now on the 60’s plus, these fatties are supercharged.  The strikes & battles are epic. 

As we get into full on summer, and the biggest brown bass go to never never land, meaning I have no clue where or how to get 5 lb fish in July and early August here, so I stopped trying.

Instead, I wait, bide my time by prepping my boat and gear for the the final push.  Usually starts up in the 2nd or 3rd week of August and runs until say mid September.  Big fish come shallow again and they are looking to eat. At the same time the deep main lake point edges can produce again as well.  So while I hate wasting the time to do it, I run around a lot looking for biters at this time of year.

Still a super early morning deal with water temps as warm as they may be all season – mid to high 70’s here.  Smallies although pretty aggressive can also be sort of moody too, when it comes to baits.

The same topwaters are a good bet as are the spinnerbaits & vibrating jigs.  And when I’m really in a mood, The A-Rig Makes an appearance.  Some days they will just HAMMER that thing.  This season however was not one of them.  Kind of sad too.  Because that deal can get addicting and quick.

 

As September fades into October and those water temps really start cooling off here (doesn’t take long) and then two of my favorite & best presentations for sheer numbers come into play. A blade bait & a Swinghead. Honorable mention goes to a couple of small crankbaits as well. 

The blade bait really does require a fairly clean & hard bottom to be fished effectively. Conversely, the swinghead totally mugs them in a few inched of eel grass; a sand bottom is good to.  So the same stuff that would cripple a blade bait presentation, is pure money for a swinghead.

There’s a ton of blade baits out there now and I think they can all get bites.  However I have yet to find one that out fishes the Original Silver Buddy Blade Baits ½, 5/8 and ¾ oz in lead, silver & gold does it for me.   It’s how I fish it that is the magic sauce – less is more.  I change the hooks.

 

My swinghead choices are on the other hand very specific.

 The two baits that address and satisfy my desires/needs are the RPE Tackle Tungsten Swinging Football Jig (No Hook) and the Freedom Tackle Stealth Swim Jig.

 The RPE rig is obviously Tungsten, come without a hook, can be purchased in bulk, and possesses a unique and very secure hook hanging system. I use the ½ & ¾ oz only here and do add an Owner Oval Split ring to the front line tie.  Big Fan. 

The Freedom Tackle product is offered & sold as a complete bait.  And while I do retain the hook & quality skirt that comes with the bait to use in different applications, for my swinghead fishing applications, I am just using the head.  And what a killer head it is !   Available in different weights, the ½ & ¾ oz are lead and the ¼ oz offering is plastic – all have a very stout hook hanger.  Haven’t had one fail yet. This head design fishes much different than the football head.  It’s much more of a swimming, almost gliding action across & along the bottom; rather than bouncing & digging into it like the tungsten head will do.  Superior for shallower & light weed areas.  HUGE Fan of this one ! Trailers are either a SK Rage Bug or a Reins Punching Predator.  I’ll add some color to them too.

My hook of choice when throwing the swinghead for brown bass, with the trailers noted above, has been the straight up regular wire Gamakatsu 4/0 EWG. Works well, still lose a few but by & large this one did most of the heavy lifting. The balance between being stout enough to get the fish to the net and still be thin enough to enable long distance hooksets with 15 lb FC in a fine one.  I’ve had a few of these ‘open’ just a bit, which never makes me happy. 

However there’s a new kid in town which may take this ones place.

It’s early in my R&D but the Gamakatsu G-Finesse Hybrid Worm has massive potential IMO.

At 4/0 maintains the right shape & size BUT carries just a little bit more horsepower on the hookset.  Time will tell but until it proves me wrong, I’m going with it.

I’m looking for deep main lake basins or flats, a drop off that comes up to 10-15 feet can have fish around it (think hump).

I will always fish the top first and then sit on it and fish off it.

Hard Cover on a drop or a deep flat can hold many, many bass at this time of year.  I’ve exhausted more than half my blade bait supply in short order fishing them more than a few times.

   Bite windows seem to vary and while there’s often a decent early bite, it’s short lived not to mention often pretty cold.  Later in the day like 3 hrs before sunset and right to dark can be some of the best action I’ll see all day. Can make for quite a marathon if I stay for both bites.  At this point I usually pick one or the other. This deal usually takes me right to the end of the season & hard water.

Like right now.

So there it is –

Now let’s hear (and See) what were your best producing presentations in 2023 ~

Post them up  !

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1.  Spinnerbait w/ single #4 Colorado blade and 4.5" paddle tail trailer.  I bend them myself from .040 stainless wire.  I can cast it quite a ways, and I can fish it any depth.  Catches fish deep in cover and catches them in open water.  It catches them year round, and it's also responsible for my PB largemouth this year. 

 

2.  Lucky Craft Pointer 100 Jerkbait.  Another confidence lure of mine.  Mostly I use American Shad and Chartreuse Shad colors.  It's not as versatile as the above spinnerbait, and they won't typically hit it in the summer months, but it's killer December - March.  I have various other pointers and a few vision 110s but the regular old Pointer 100 gets the most use. 

 

3.  Zoom Magnum Trick Worm, watermelon red flake.  Most often I'll throw it weightless on a 5/0 EWG hook.  The Magnum worm casts further and it seems like I get bigger fish compared to regular trick worm.  Catches them year round but shines April - September. 

 

4.  Booyah Pad Crasher frog in black.  I've tried lots of frogs including live target, scum frog, etc but I like the Pad Crashers the best.  I bend the hooks very slightly and trim the legs to around 2" long.  

 

5.  One Knocker Spook in Bonehead.  I love the one knocker and Bonehead is a great color.  I can't wait to take it to the coast and hopefully catch some redfish on it.  Sits low in the water and easy to walk.  I also like how I can make it spit. 

 

6.  Lobina Rico popper in blue chartreuse.  I just got this popper, only fished one trip with it, but I absolutely love it already.  I can't believe how far and accurately I can cast it.  I can easily make it pop and spit in place, and it walks really well too.  It worked very well for me last trip and easily earned a top spot in my box.  I'm sure it will become another confidence lure.  I love the acrobatics from bass when they hit it.  I had several launch themselves completely out of the water going after it. 

 

I'll post some pics when I get home from work.

 

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  2023 All Star squad. Note the spinner on the rear of the Long A. Most productive top-water  plug I ever thrown . River smallmouths were caught on this tube\craw lure . Dont know the name of it. Just had a pack lying around.IMG_8578gg.jpg.3039564e4d02a478d5b830177761d159.jpg

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Here’s my most productive baits of 2023. No surprises at all here. 
Strike King Tour Grade double willow Spinnerbait with a Rage swimmer trailer, Megabass PopX and Pop Max, Siebert Brush jig with a Netbait Paca Chunk, a 5” Yum Dinger, and a midsize Rage Structure Bug. 

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Lets see - my top three catchers in order

#1: Ned Rig - 1/16 or 1/8 oz Owner Blockhead with this little devil

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Mr. Twister Ned Ringer in Green Pumpkin

 

#2: Wacky Rig with either Yama Senko or Yum Dinger in Green Pumpkin w/Black Flake

 

#3: Siebert 3/8oz Swim Jig in Green Pumpkin Candy with a Rage Craw in Green Pumpkin as the trailer.

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@MN Fisher, we have all kind of mister twister stuff on the shelves but I’ve never seen that one, I’m gonna check again! A black one would be a great helgrammite imitation in my local swifter waters 

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I wasn't able to bass fish more than a dozen days this year, but I was able to catch some big bass.

Largest bass was caught in early May and weighed in at 10.76 pounds, and was just shy of 27 inches. It was my PB for length, but not weight.  I caught it on a Junebug T rigged Zoom Magnum trick worm. Later in May I caught my best bag of 5 which was 42 pounds, all  but one hit the spinnerbait in the picture, and the other bass was caught on a Magnum trick worm.

I caught 3 bass over 10 lbs. on three different lures.

1. Mag trick worm.

2 .Spinnerbait

3. Storm Cover Pop

Other lures that caught bass over 7 lbs.

1. 6th Sense Magnum square bill. 

2. Rebel Pop R.

Many smaller bass were caught on a variety of crankbaits, Skinny dippers, jigs, Senkos, and Magnum Rage Bugs.

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Best baits for me were ; couple buzzbaits , a few spinnerbaits, frog, jerkbait and those double wides.Screenshot_20231206_211224_Gallery.jpg.ea0b2fe051fd8c50c828008f6e97653a.jpg

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Numbers: Jerkbait, Buzzbait, Jig, Worm, Underspin, Spinnerbait

 

Size: Frog, Buzzbait, Jig, Worm, Lipless, Squarebill, Fluke, Jerkbait, Glide Bait, Underspin

 

Standout products:

 

Owner Flashy Swimmer Weedless underspin (multiple sizes and blade colors)

Strike King Pad Perch Frog (white)

Nichols Impulse Buzzbait (white chart gold blade)

Accent Finesse Buzzbait (white silver blade)

Berkley Stunna (Tennessee Shad)

Lucky Craft Pointer (clear minnow)

6th Sense Quake (red craw)

Strike King Red Eye Shad (green gizzard shad)

Strike King Hybrid Hunter (green gizzard shad)

Siebert Swim Jig (shad patterns)

Siebert Brush Jig (black and blue)

Berkley Frittside 5 (black chartreuse)

Berkley Money Badger (red craw)

Bizz Baits Compact Tandem (TN Shad)

Savage Gear Glide Swimmer 9" (white ghost)

Savage Gear Shine Glide 7" (gizzard shad)

 

Honorable Mention:

 

Caught some good fish and numbers with very little effort on the 'poop baits' and I'm looking forward to tossing them more this winter.  

 

Soft Plastics that worked well for me this year:

 

Berkley Power Worm (motoroil red)

Berkley Chigger Craw (labbatt)

Berkley Pit Boss (black and blue)

Berkley Bottom Hopper (black)

Zoom Finesse Worm (gooseberry)

Zoom UV Speed Craw (blue sapphire)

Zoom Super Fluke (blue glimmer)

Zoom Super Fluke jr (blue glimmer)

Zoom Z Craw (tilapia magic)

Zoom Craw Worm (white/Cali Craw)

Zoom Super Chunk (black and blue/watermelon)

Zoom Big Salty Chunk (blue or red)

Zoom UV Speed Worm (Junebug red)

Zoom Mag II (plum apple)

Zoom Magnum Lizard (Junebug)

Strike King Rage Craw (blue sapphire)

Strike King Scounbug (blue craw)

Strike King Rage Menace (green pumpkin purple swirl/motoroil red/blue sapphire)

Strike King Ocho (KVD magic)

Yamamoto Senko (baby bass)

Yamamoto Tanuki (shad/brown craw)

Yamamoto Twin Tail Grub (cinnamon purple/black and blue/watermelon)

Yum Christie Craw (blue/green)

Yum Dinger (green pumpkin purple)

Yum Scottsboro Minnow (shad)

Storm Largo Shad (shad)

X Zone Swammer (shad)

Gambler EZ (red ear/Golden shiner/shad/black and blue)

Gambler Boxer Craw (black blue tips/blue craw)

Z Man GOAT (the deal)

Missile Baits D Bomb (GP3/Bruiser Flash/Hillbilly magic/White)

Missile Baits D Chunk (blue/green/shad)

Missile Baits mini chunk (blue/green/shad)

Manns Jelly Worm (grape fire tail)

Big Bite Baits B2 Worm (plum apple)

Big Bite Baits Craw Worm (blue/green/black red)

Bizz Baits Dizzy Diamond (red bug)

Bizz Baits Killer Craw (blue sapphire)

Bizz Baits Cutter Craw (blue sapphire)

 

Probably leaving something out but this feels pretty accurate.

 

 

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This year was a different ball game for me. My 2 best producing lures are lures I couldn't catch water on in any seasons past.

 

1) Z-Man Mini Max in spot remover with a Zoom split tail trailer in white. (my PB on this lure this year)

 

2) Dirty Jigs Swim Jig in white (or Pearl Ghost Shiner? been a minute since i fished) with a Keitech FAT Impact  in Tennessee Shad or Smokin White

 

honorable mention was a Z-Man Bang Stix and ZinkerZ

 

Ironically my best producing the last 2 years, frogs and spinnerbaits, were my worst producing lures this year. 

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Nothing surprising for me this year. 

 

1) Z-Man TRD on 1/16-1/8 jighead

2) Screamin Eagle Spinnerbait 1/2 and 3/4 

3) Beaver style bait on a swinghead, usually a rage bug

 

It wasn't the most productive year for me as I did not get to fish as much as I had hoped, and when I did, it was more of a multispecies affair. 

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8 hours ago, Pat Brown said:

Numbers: Jerkbait, Buzzbait, Jig, Worm, Underspin, Spinnerbait

 

Size: Frog, Buzzbait, Jig, Worm, Lipless, Squarebill, Fluke, Jerkbait, Glide Bait, Underspin

 

Standout products:

 

Owner Flashy Swimmer Weedless underspin (multiple sizes and blade colors)

Strike King Pad Perch Frog (white)

Nichols Impulse Buzzbait (white chart gold blade)

Accent Finesse Buzzbait (white silver blade)

Berkley Stunna (Tennessee Shad)

Lucky Craft Pointer (clear minnow)

6th Sense Quake (red craw)

Strike King Red Eye Shad (green gizzard shad)

Strike King Hybrid Hunter (green gizzard shad)

Siebert Swim Jig (shad patterns)

Siebert Brush Jig (black and blue)

Berkley Frittside 5 (black chartreuse)

Berkley Money Badger (red craw)

Bizz Baits Compact Tandem (TN Shad)

Savage Gear Glide Swimmer 9" (white ghost)

Savage Gear Shine Glide 7" (gizzard shad)

 

Honorable Mention:

 

Caught some good fish and numbers with very little effort on the 'poop baits' and I'm looking forward to tossing them more this winter.  

 

Soft Plastics that worked well for me this year:

 

Berkley Power Worm (motoroil red)

Berkley Chigger Craw (labbatt)

Berkley Pit Boss (black and blue)

Berkley Bottom Hopper (black)

Zoom Finesse Worm (gooseberry)

Zoom UV Speed Craw (blue sapphire)

Zoom Super Fluke (blue glimmer)

Zoom Super Fluke jr (blue glimmer)

Zoom Z Craw (tilapia magic)

Zoom Craw Worm (white/Cali Craw)

Zoom Super Chunk (black and blue/watermelon)

Zoom Big Salty Chunk (blue or red)

Zoom UV Speed Worm (Junebug red)

Zoom Mag II (plum apple)

Zoom Magnum Lizard (Junebug)

Strike King Rage Craw (blue sapphire)

Strike King Scounbug (blue craw)

Strike King Rage Menace (green pumpkin purple swirl/motoroil red/blue sapphire)

Strike King Ocho (KVD magic)

Yamamoto Senko (baby bass)

Yamamoto Tanuki (shad/brown craw)

Yamamoto Twin Tail Grub (cinnamon purple/black and blue/watermelon)

Yum Christie Craw (blue/green)

Yum Dinger (green pumpkin purple)

Yum Scottsboro Minnow (shad)

Storm Largo Shad (shad)

X Zone Swammer (shad)

Gambler EZ (red ear/Golden shiner/shad/black and blue)

Gambler Boxer Craw (black blue tips/blue craw)

Z Man GOAT (the deal)

Missile Baits D Bomb (GP3/Bruiser Flash/Hillbilly magic/White)

Missile Baits D Chunk (blue/green/shad)

Missile Baits mini chunk (blue/green/shad)

Manns Jelly Worm (grape fire tail)

Big Bite Baits B2 Worm (plum apple)

Big Bite Baits Craw Worm (blue/green/black red)

Bizz Baits Dizzy Diamond (red bug)

Bizz Baits Killer Craw (blue sapphire)

Bizz Baits Cutter Craw (blue sapphire)

 

Probably leaving something out but this feels pretty accurate.

 

 

This looks like credits to a movie …wow

 

I throw a worm…and a spinnerbait..followed by a bigger worm

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My numbers bait this year was the same as always, shaky head with zoom finesse worm. 

I branched out to learn new lures this year more so I don't really have a second place as I really got bit on a ton of different stuff at different times. 

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Oof. I'm not going to pull them all out of storage just for a picture, but here are my season's "heavy lifters", with a few pics from the archives:

 

4.3 Keitech+flashy swimmer underspin

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3/8oz Pepper Custom Spinnerbait:

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5" Yamamoto Hula Grub + 1/4oz Title Shot Jig

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3/8oz Cavitron

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3/8oz Jackhammer + Yamamoto Zako

3/8oz Siebert Fogy + Blade Minnow

7" Power worm

6.5" Zoom Trick Worm

6" Mister Twister Phenom Worm

6" Zoom Lizard

5" Zoom Super Fluke

5" Senko/Sassy Stick/Ocho/General

Rage Tail Space Monkey

Rage Tail Menace Grub

Whopper Plopper 75

Megabass Pop Max

Duo Realis Pencil 100

 

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Big fish, in no particular order:

flatsides (mostly 6th sense, shad colors were poor performers)

buzzbait

netbait's trick worm, both as a t-rig and a bubba shot. turned some average days into big fish days

chatterbait (jackhammer, caught bigger fish on BG presentation vs shad this year)

6" optimum boom boom soft swimbait

deps 7+ deep crank, i was fishing it wrong, but the results said otherwise

silent lipless (don't sleep on this deal) 

jackall 4m+ digle

keitech with owner flashy swimmer (green pumpkin, 4.3 or 4.8)

Shimano world boost jerkbait and dd jerkbait significantly outperformed everything else if the sun was out. The big ones couldn't stand it sitting still and flashing. 

 

I don't know what to do now/numbers/rescue bait:

Keitech 3.8 in bluegill flash, owner flashy swimmer

 

 

 

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On 12/6/2023 at 5:49 PM, TnRiver46 said:

@MN Fisher, we have all kind of mister twister stuff on the shelves but I’ve never seen that one, I’m gonna check again! A black one would be a great helgrammite imitation in my local swifter waters 

Have you tried the 3" Yum Hellgrammite? 

 

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On 12/6/2023 at 5:40 PM, MN Fisher said:

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Mr. Twister Ned Ringer in Green Pumpkin

 

On 12/6/2023 at 6:49 PM, TnRiver46 said:

@MN Fisher, we have all kind of mister twister stuff on the shelves but I’ve never seen that one, I’m gonna check again! A black one would be a great helgrammite imitation in my local swifter waters 

 

1 hour ago, NorthernBasser said:

Have you tried the 3" Yum Hellgrammite? 

 

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Believe it or not, I have a bunch of 20+ year old --long discontinued-- Mister Twister Hellgrammite baits that I got from ordering one of their "grab bag specials", years ago:

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I have never used them but I really should!

 

 

 

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The DOA CAL Shad has accounted for many redfish, snook, and rockfish; whenever I get the chance to fish the Bay again, I’ll be slinging a 3” DOA Shad. They work.


As far as black bass go, a 5” stickbait has done its usual wonders on largemouth and Florida bass. Since moving to Florida, I have found the Zoom Trick Worm in watermelon to be particularly effective on Suwannee bass when rigged on a flickshake head. Cast it ahead of a log or rock, let the current drift it by, then set whenever you feel a fish pick it up. I learned this method while fishing the Patapsco for smallmouth, but I have really put it to use on the Santa Fe. Beyond Suwannee bass, I have found the Dry Creek Tournament Tube to be an incredibly effective smallmouth lure. It has found its place in my river smallymouthing box this year. I highly recommend picking some up in Old Ugly. That color is natural, but more unique than your standard green pumpkin. Rig it on a 1/4oz jighead, bomb it out, and let ‘er drift. Once it reaches bottom, give it a double hop and let it sink again. The brown fish love it. 

 

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Top producers:

 

1) Poop baits

 

2) Minimax Chatterbait

 

3) Z-man GoatZ of all sizes for topwater.

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4 hours ago, Buzzbaiter said:

The DOA CAL Shad has accounted for many redfish, snook, and rockfish; whenever I get the chance to fish the Bay again, I’ll be slinging a 3” DOA Shad. They work.

In my photo there is the DOA Shad. I use it for bass . 

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Here are my favorite fellas of 2023

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BOOYAH HARD KNOCKER

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MEGABASS 110 +1

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RAPALA DT10

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ZMAN JACKHAMMER

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OUTKAST ELITE TOUCHDOWN 

 

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34 minutes ago, Texas Flood said:

Here are my favorite fellas of 2023


I take it you like purple?

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24 minutes ago, Buzzbaiter said:


I take it you like purple?

Shhh. Lets keep this secret between us.

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Biggest producers this year have been:

 

1) 4” Yamamoto Kut Tail - Rootbeer Green. Put good numbers in the boat on a dropshot. (Honorable mention to BPS “Amistad Gold” which has been a serviceable replacement)

 

2) 5” Robo Zipper - Shad/Gold

 

3) 3/8 oz Googan Zinger spinnerbait - Bluegill and Chartreuse/White. Got on a weird pattern this spring where they would smash a spinnerbait 1-2 feet off the bank and ignore virtually everything else.

 

4) Zoom 6” lizard - Cotton Candy

 

5) Whopper Plopper 75 - Powder. 

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