What do you follow your search baits up with?

[Will1248]

I am revaluating my tackle box and im trying to plan out my follow up techniques. For example I follow Zara Spooks up with soft jerkbaits. Squarebills I'll use a shakey head. 

 

I'm trying to conceptualize what to follow up certain techniques with. Typically I downsize. But as I started branching out to new techniques things like lipless crankbaits I have no idea what to follow it up with. 

 

1. Spinnerbaits

2. Crankbaits

3. Lipless Crankbaits

4. Chatterbaits (Bladed Jigs)

5. Swimbaits (Paddle-tail)

6. Jerkbaits

7. Buzzbaits

8. Topwater

9. Swim Jigs?

 

Follow up

1. Worms

2. Drop Shots

3. Ned rigs

4. Soft Jerkbaits

5. Shakey head

 

 

 

 

[Swamp Girl]

I'll sling a wacky worm or fluke if there's a hit and miss. Something quieter and slower.

[Jar11591]

I don’t have specific search & follow up pairs. Like @Swamp Girl I will follow up a missed strike with a weightless senko or fluke. 

[Mike L]

I don’t have a universal follow up, as it depends what I was throwing. 
 

If I swing and miss a bottom contact bait I’ll just stay with that and maybe change the follow up angle, bounce it, slow it down or even speed it up. 
It’s more of change up presentation type deal. 
 

If a moving bait, since I already got a reaction out of her and she was moving to get it unlike a bottom bait, I bank on her awareness, reaction and aggressiveness to come back.
I may throw something different or not.
A lot depends on how she hit it 
 

I got her attention with what I threw, I may not with something completely different. 

But that’s me

 

 

 

 

Mike

[Swamp Girl]

38 minutes ago, Jar11591 said:

I don’t have specific search & follow up pairs. Like @Swamp Girl I will follow up a missed strike with a weightless senko or fluke. 

 

My approach is KISS: Keep it simple, Swampy!

 

 

4 minutes ago, Mike L said:

I got her attention with what I threw, I may not with something completely different. 

 

Interesting. 

[Mike L]

@Swamp Girl

 

I’ve found it to be true more times than not

 

 

 

 

Mike

[Swamp Girl]

8 minutes ago, Mike L said:

@Swamp Girl

 

I’ve found it to be true more times than not

 

 

 

 

Mike

 

Then I'm going too try it too, Mike. Thanks!

[king fisher]

I usually follow up a lure that gets bit with one that doesn't.  If I am already fishing a lure that doesn't get bit, I follow that lure up with a more expensive one that doesn't get bit.

[Bird]

23 minutes ago, king fisher said:

I usually follow up a lure that gets bit with one that doesn't.  If I am already fishing a lure that doesn't get bit, I follow that lure up with a more expensive one that doesn't get bit.

Classic 🤣 

Sometimes we just wanna be left alone on the water. 

[A-Jay]

@Will1248

I rarely use "follow up baits".

If & when a bass 'misses' a moving bait, I call it "a Poke",

as long as I do not believe she felt the steel,

I throw the same bait right back at her.

Sometimes it works, sometimes it does not.

But I'm for sure able to get a bait back out there much faster with what I'm already throwing,

than putting it down, picking up another rig and making that exact cast.

Besides, she deserves a second shot anyway and so do I.

Good Luck & Fish Hard

A-Jay

 

[Bird]

Misses are a common occurrences, happens a lot.

A follow-up plastic works, sometimes.

[greentrout]

Weightless Zoom Trick Worm ...

[FryDog62]

5 inch Caffeine Shad on a 

4/0 Owner Twistlock LIGHT

[GetFishorDieTryin]

IMO one of the best follow up baits is a senko,  You can throw them anywhere, rig them a bunch of different ways and they will cover th entire water column even when they are weightless. 

I do use small swimbaits, ned rigs, shakey heads and T/ rigs often to pick apart structure after fishing it with a swim jig, bladed jig, crank, or whatever.