Pick 3 baits

[MediumMouthBass]

1 you dislike, 1 you cant stand using, and 1 no matter how many times you hear or see people talk about how great of a lure it is you just cant catch a bass on it.

 

Dislike. The Texas rig, i know i know its one of the greatest things to catch a fish on since humans evolved from cavemen. Comes through wood and weeds great, can be skipped into almost any type of cover too. Can be fished at any depth and in any condition, and the soft plastic choices are overwhelming.

But the fish in my lakes will go for a jig, Chatterbait, or lipless crank 10x more than any Texas rig.... Ive really tried, and tried way to much this season to get them to bite them more but each time i do, i know i probably couldve caught several bass already on the above baits.

This year tho ive decided to start using tungsten weights, im really going to try to fish them lighter and slower and try to become better at fishing it.

 

Cant Stand. The spinnerbait..... I know im not the only one either, i just dont get it. I have dozens and dozens, different blade combos, colors, weights....

Tried them for pike, bass, and pickerel and i just cant do it. After 10 minutes the line gets cut and something else gets tied on.

No matter what i do i cant feel what its doing, idk if im reeling it to slow and its buried in weeds on the bottom, or maybe too fast and its no where near the bass.... But night time spinnerbaits i really like, i can actually feel what the lures doing and i can also catch bass on them.

I bought some Terminator ones to try so if they dont work for me ill be selling off the rest of them.

 

The Bass just dont want it. JERKBAITS!!!! i didnt catch a single bass on them the whole spring-summer last year.... Ive got enough of them to fill 5-6 3700 sized tackle trays but the bass wont bite them, ive tried shallow, deep, inbetween, cheap ones, expensive ones, suspending, floating, small, large, natural colors, bright colors, translucent ones too.

Im thinking maybe the river smallies will be more inclined to bite them so thats my plan for them this year.

[LrgmouthShad]

Dislike: Chatterbait. It’s just weird. 
Can’t stand using: Weightless senko. Shoot me now. 
Can’t catch bass on: flukes 

[FishTax]

Dislike: jerkbaits. Haven't given them a fair shot though I'll admit. 

Can't stand: wacky rig. Can't feel bite, my yak floats away before it hits bottom, and it's too easy to gut hook with. 

Can't catch bass: Whopper plopper, of course 😎

[MN Fisher]

Dislike: Jerkbaits - can't seem to get my cadence down...I know - practice...practice...practice

Can't stand: Buzzbait - I dunno...there just seems to be something wrong with it...a 'spinnerbait' should not break the surface that much - nudge it occasionally, but not skip across it.

Can't catch Bass: T-Rig - I've tried weight variations, plastics variations, color variations, retrieve variations...I think the bass are laughing at me.

 

34 minutes ago, MediumMouthBass said:

I bought some Zman and Terminator ones to try so if they dont work for me ill be selling off the rest of them.

Or you could just donate to PAA

Poor Anglers of America - founding member right here.

 

[MIbassyaker]

Dislike: Lipless crankbaits.  Yes, they catch bass. I have caught bass on them.  They also snag on everything.  When people say they "come through cover well" or "you just rip them out of the grass", I have no idea what they are talking about. Nothing in my experience matches this.  I'm dredging either salad or sticks through the water on every cast no matter what I do.

 

Can't Stand Using:  Drop shot.  Fussy and boring.  I could forgive this if I ran into situations that really required a drop shot, but I don't ever seem to.  Maybe it's just the places and conditions I fish, but I've never once found a situation where a drop shot had any advantage over any of the million other ways to fish a plastic bait.  I tie on a drop shot and immediately want to take it off and use something else.

 

Cant catch bass on:  There are many presentations on which I have not caught a bass, but none that I think I can't.

[bowhunter63]

Dislike Jerkbaits

Cant stand chatterbaits. I really suck at em 

Cant catch bass on a hula popper. Some of the best bass art includes one. But I can’t catch anything on it 

[MediumMouthBass]

3 hours ago, MIbassyaker said:

Dislike: Lipless crankbaits.  Yes, they catch bass. I have caught bass on them.  They also snag on everything.  When people say they "come through cover well" or "you just rip them out of the grass", I have no idea what they are talking about. Nothing in my experience matches this.  I'm dredging either salad or sticks through the water on every cast no matter what I do.

Depends on the brand, the Berkley Warpig comes through grass like nothing else. I can rip it out of pounds of weeds just like i could a Chatterbait. The Strike King Red Eye Shads tho, while they are great and have caught me fish recently and horrible at fishing near grass. Even one small piece and the things done. It comes down to the hooks, and the design.

[MIbassyaker]

1 minute ago, MediumMouthBass said:

Depends on the brand, the Berkley Warpig comes through grass like nothing else. I can rip it out of pounds of weeds just like i could a Chatterbait. The Strike King Red Eye Shads tho, while they are great and have caught me fish recently and horrible at fishing near grass. Even one small piece and the things done. It comes down to the hooks, and the design.

 

I own and have fished both the Warpig and the RES. And, well, I'll just repeat myself: nothing in my experience matches this.

[MN Fisher]

5 minutes ago, MIbassyaker said:

I own and have fished both the Warpig and the RES. And, well, I'll just repeat myself: nothing in my experience matches this.

I have RES, Rattlin' Raps, V-Blades and One Knockers - and yes, they like to grab weeds and hold on...but the catch rate makes me put up with that - now if I can only convince the pike to quit biting them off.

[bp_fowler]

Dislike: Ned rig.  Yes it catches fish, but so does the shakey head, which gets hung up less and I don’t have to buy special Ned sized soft plastics to put on it.

 

Can’t stand using:  Pretty much any topwater.  I know heresy right?  Buzz baits? Nope.  Spooks? Forget about it.  Frogs? Thanks, but no thanks Kermit.  The only exception is the pop-r.  It’s the only topwater bait I actually enjoy fishing.  It’s also I’ve the only one I’ve ever caught a fish on.

 

Can’t catch a fish with:  The drop shop.  Believe me I’ve tried. Never ever even had a single bite.

[A-Jay]

Dislike: A-Rig.  I still throw it a bunch but my shoulders are never happy about it. 

 

Can't Stand Using:  Drop shot. Beside being painfully boring, it's a dink magnet for me.

 

Cant catch bass on:  Glide Baits.  No worries though. I sold every one !

 

😎

A-Jay

[king fisher]

Dislike -- Any bait that costs over $10  I have enough trouble keeping my head above water financially, with my tackle addiction, I don't need to start catching bass on expensive baits.

Can't stand -- Megabass, because they all cost over $10

Can't catch bass on -- Glide Baits. because they cost over $10 and I have never owned any.  Can't catch em on something I can't throw.

[Pat Brown]

Dislike: fishing the wacky rig.  Can't feel bites.  It's slow.  It's snaggy.  No thanks.

 

Can't stand: ned rig.  Shaky head or weedless neds only for me plEase.  Don't understand how the originals got so popular.  I've only lost them.

 

Can't catch bass on: Ned rig.  I've done fine with tiny bits of Senko or ned baits on weedless jig heads or small Texas rigs.  Put those same baits on an open hook light wire Z Man jig head and call it a Ned rig and it magically will get stuck on the first cast and not catch me anything.

[papajoe222]

Dislike: I have to go with a drop-shot. Yea, I'll throw it when the bite is tough, but that doesn't mean I like it.

Cant Stand: Bladed Jigs. Give me a spinnerbait, or a swimjig.

Can't Catch Bass: Toads. I mean no takers. Cut it off and tie on an Ultra Vibe Speed Craw and I'm into fish.

[Deephaven]

Dislike: Carolina rig.  If I have to resort to one it means everything I want to throw isn't working.

Can't stand: drop shot.   Eff that.  I'd almost rather not fish.  Not resorting that far.

Doesn't work for me: Deep diving crankbaits.  Trolling them or bumping them hard into things shallow i can do fine, but they are downright useless as casting baits for deep fish.

[Bass Rutten]

Dislike frogs, can’t stand frogs, can’t catch a bass on a frog. And I’m pretty sure the feeling is mutual.

[ironbjorn]

Dislike: Texas rig, but also most bottom dragging/hopping baits. Just gathers gunk and does nothing and needs 50 lbs of crap cleaned off every cast. Probably would not be the case in different water.

 

Dislike using: Flukes, but I do use them successfully. I just don't like to because it's a chore to get them to depth and to not break the surface regularly.

 

Catches nothing: Chatterbaits. Never again. I quit.

[GreenPig]

Dislike - Deep crankbaits. What a drag.

Can't stand - Drop shot. I'm not built for it.

The bass just don't want it - I've caught bass with every category of lure I own.

[Mike L]

I don’t and won’t…

Drop, Ned, Shake or Wack!!

Always better options 

 

 

 

Mike

 

 

[roadwarrior]

12 hours ago, LrgmouthShad said:

Can’t stand using: Weightless senko. Shoot me now. 
 

[gim]

Dislike: crankbaits in general.  I have some and I use them, but given how weedy it becomes in many lakes here by June, treble hooks constantly get fouled up.

 

Can't Stand: as others have already mentioned, drop shot.  Not only is it a can't stand option, its NOT an option for this guy anymore.  If that's what I have to resort to, I'm going home and coming back another day.

 

Doesn't work: also previously stated, whopper plopper.  I would also add other topwater lures in general to this category.  I used to catch a good amount of fish on a frog in the slop and a buzz bait, but they just aren't generating the bites that they used to.  I presume its from fishing pressure.

[MN Fisher]

Just now, gimruis said:

I presume its from fishing pressure.

Let's blame @Deephaven as he's always tooting about how well frogs work on Tonka for him.

[LrgmouthShad]

17 minutes ago, roadwarrior said:

😂 they work!  Super great bait. But holy smokes is it slow fishing. Matter of fact, I was working a Marina on my last trip with a senko on a free rig. I kept telling myself that I should go back through with a weightless one after I was done in case they wanted a slow fall, but I couldn’t bring myself to do it. 
 

I’ve thrown senkos down to 20ft and they will smoke fish

[Skunkmaster-k]

Dislike - drop shot 

Can’t stand - drop shot 

Doesn’t work - drop shot 

 

[Bankbeater]

Dislike - Hollow body frogs.  They work, and I can catch bass on them, but when I fish them it always seems like one of the hooks goes through a plant stem, and I have to go cut it loose.

 

Can't stand - Beetle Spin.  See Doesn't Work.

 

Doesn't work - Beetle Spin.  All of these baits have been moved to the tackle box for odds and ends.  This is after years of fishing with them and only catching one dink bass.