Confidence flipping soft plastic

[10,000 lakes Bassin]

What soft plastic do you have the most confidence in when flipping and pitching? How do you like to rig it? 

[Pat Brown]

If I could only flip one soft plastic for the rest of my life it would be a weightless 5" watermelon Senko dipped in chartreuse spike it. 3/0 owner offset worm hook - 25 lb braid on a 6.5 foot spinning rod.

 

I know that sounds wrong BUT try to catch more or bigger fish with a baitcaster and a heavy t rig.  I dare you.

 

It's just easy to skip, works in heavy vegetation, sneaky, catches all sizes of fish and catches super pressured fish.  Works all year.

[LrgmouthShad]

17 minutes ago, Pat Brown said:

 

I know that sounds wrong BUT try to catch more or bigger fish with a baitcaster and a heavy t rig.  I dare you.

You ain’t from around here, are ya

[DinkDonkey30]

Give me a super salt super fluke any day. I use a few different colors but pearl white or black and silver are the most productive. Baby bass works well in greenish tinted water or when bass are overly aggressive.I rig them weightless, t rig, as trailers, punch with them you name it. Lighter braid on a medium fast 6 10ft-7 2ft rod or heavy braid on a 7 4ft- 8 ft heavy rod when I’m in the thick heavy stuff.

[LrgmouthShad]

21 minutes ago, August said:

What soft plastic do you have the most confidence in when flipping and pitching? How do you like to rig it? 

I spend a lot of time close quarters fishing with a jig and very little with a t rig which is certainly a mistake. But I do like a gambler burner craw by itself and think I should spend more time with the Yamamoto Flappin Hog, Yamamoto Ichi Worm, and Rage Tail Lobster

[Pat Brown]

2 minutes ago, LrgmouthShad said:

You ain’t from around here, are ya

 

 

I LOVE fishing my heavy t rigs and jigs on bait casters and wrenching giants out of wood BUT it's situational for me.  The weightless stick bait is ubiquitous confidence.

 

I am from North Carolina - which is truly a shining example of a state where the fisheries range from muddy rivers to highland impoundments with crystal clear water and everything in between.

 

You know all of this already of course - I'm just sharing for the thread!

 

Weightless stickbait just stinkin' works and it's very wise to go ahead and gain some confidence in that technique IMHO.

[Mike L]

Rage Bug 

Rage Craw

Sweet Beaver 

In that order depending on where and conditions. 
For sight fishing on beds the bug almost 100% of the time. 
 

 

 

 

 

Mike
 

[LrgmouthShad]

@Pat Brown I gotchu. Heavy t-rig on baitcaster isn’t called situational for us Stillhouse lurkers. It’s called a Tuesday. Hydrilla has a lot to do with that

[Zcoker]

I fish in south Florida everglades and if you don't know it's probably the most weed infested place to fish on the planet. And I'm really liking the weightless 12" Zoom Monster worms. It's heavy enough (weightless) to cast a country mile and it’s durable enough to catch a ton of fish before changing out--probably what I like most about it. Other than that, it just plain catches. It's massive size it no matter because it gets 'em all, from small to DD. For punching heavy cover, I'm really liking the Berkely Pit Boss. I've tried them all and always seem to go back to them. I do change out from strait shank to EWG, so the Pit Boss does offer up that ability without compromising the bait because it's designed for both. 

[scaleface]

I pitch more than anything . I like a 5 inch Dinger, dark colors like june bug , bama bug bream... with a 3/16to to 5/16th tungsten weight. 5/16 preferable. 7 foot hvy action rod. 17 lb trilene xl clear blue fluorescent. 3/0 offset worm hook not ewg. The hook has a bobber stop at the bend to stop the bait from balling up. Its 99.9  effective. I cant remember one time where the worm slid down the shank since using it. I like to run a garlic scented chartreuse Spike-It marker down the entire back of the worm. Dont know if that helps but it seems to.

[gim]

33 minutes ago, Pat Brown said:

Weightless stickbait just stinkin' works

 

I use these a lot too.  Nail weight them for deeper weed lines and skip them under docks all summer long.  Natural/dark colors in clear water with the sun out, brighter colors in stained water.  I also use a spinning setup for it.  I'm not targeting 8 pound Florida strainers here because they don't exist.

 

I just wish they were a little more durable.

[casts_by_fly]

@Pat brown is probably right that if you had to pick one for all situations year round.

 

But, you asked about me and I only own a single pack of senkos (and a pack of dingers).  I just don't fish them enough and never choose them as my first choice (maybe this is the next "all something" outing).  For me, a rage bug or similar beaver is my standard bait.  I have clear water and weeds.  0-15' depths pitching to cover, weed edges, rock chunks, etc.  A green pumpkin or blue craw standard sized rage bug is my #1.  I play with colors and sizes.  Sometimes I'll throw a palmetto bug because it is elaztech and I'm tired of plastics getting torn up (then I remember that I don't prefer elaztech for other reasons).  I picked up a pack of GP rodents to pitch into thick weeds since they are a little more slim.  I'll pitch a tube now and then in the same situations.  However, the standard rage bug is my #1 still.

[Texas Flood]

A Sweet Beaver or Pocket Rocket worm are my good to for flippin. I always have some bullet weight on because I have no patience for weightless. 

[TOXIC]

1 hour ago, August said:

What soft plastic do you have the most confidence in when flipping and pitching? How do you like to rig it? 

Since you said flipping and pitching, I assume you are throwing into weeds and cover.  While I am a Senko fanatic (as everybody knows😂), if I am going to pitch and flip I still use it and shy away from all of the creature/beaver style baits.  Preference is always to fish a Senko weightless on light line Texas rigged but in that scenario, depending on the cover and/or current, I will go up to a 1/4oz screw in nose weight.  I find it punches through cover much easier and I have used it extensively in Florida for that very reason.  

[Ryan N]

I don’t know why but a weightless watermelon dinger just catches fish as soon as it drops into cover. Pop it horizontally like a jerk bait or popper, bass just appear out of nowhere.

[Catt]

53 minutes ago, Mike L said:

Rage Bug 

Rage Craw

Sweet Beaver 

In that order depending on where and conditions. 
For sight fishing on beds the bug almost 100% of the time. 
 

 

 

 

 

Mike
 

 

Substitute a Ultravibe Speed Craw for the Beaver.

 

[Skunkmaster-k]

Rage craw is my go to. 

[Mike L]

1 minute ago, Catt said:

 

Substitute a Ultravibe Speed Craw for the Beaver.

 

You’ve said that before…

You convinced me

 

 

 

 

 

[TheSwearingAngler]

I’ve bought 60 bags of Yum Dingers in the last 2 weeks… 4 inch… slide it right into the worst of the worst, pull out a fish more often than not.

[gim]

39 minutes ago, TheSwearingAngler said:

I’ve bought 60 bags of Yum Dingers in the last 2 weeks

 

Hopefully you aren't losing them in the lake.  That's a lot of plastic.

[king fisher]

Zoom magnum trick worm June bug T rigged with 1/4 oz bullet wieght.

[TheSwearingAngler]

23 minutes ago, gimruis said:

 

Hopefully you aren't losing them in the lake.  That's a lot of plastic.

No.. they were on sale… I’m stocked up for the next few seasons.

[10,000 lakes Bassin]

34 minutes ago, TheSwearingAngler said:

No.. they were on sale… I’m stocked up for the next few seasons.

I was gonna say… 60 bags in 2 weeks is like 4 bags a day 😂

[Catt]

2 hours ago, Mike L said:

You’ve said that before…

You convinced me

 

My finesse tip of the day 😉

[FishTank]

X Zone Adrenaline Craw and Bug

Reaction Innovation Beaver

Zoom Z Craw

OSP Dolive Beaver 4in

 

I use a 5/8 or 3/4 oz tungsten weight and sometimes a 1oz with a either a VMC Flipping hook or an Owner Jungle Flipping hook. I use 16lb FC around wood and 50lb braid in grass.