Your most versatile lure/technique?

[islandbass]

Mine would be a dropshot. Any depth, any soft plastic,any cover,or any structure. You can cover alot of water without a lot of "downtime". (casting past your target, getting the bait to the depth or location you want, reeling back to make your next cast, etc.) Just my .02

i have to say dropshoting also . nose hooked for open water or minimal vegatation , texas-rigged wide gap worm hook for thicker vegatation and rip-rap .

x3 It is by far my most productive too. You can even upscale too. It is not limited to finesse or "sissy" tactics.

[Muddy]

Hey Catt how do they do on frozen lakes?

They work wonders in frozen lakes. Just use a 300lb tungsten bullet sinker pegged with a broom stick. You have to cast it WAY up in the air and make sure that it lands nose down. Fish usually die upon impact and are washed up onto the ice by the tsunami. You may need to upgrade your terminal tackle a bit though. ;D

I may need to upgrade my right arm while I am at it

Thanks for the morning laugh Brian  ;D

[Muddy]

Here's a response you most likely weren't expecting but maybe stay away from a versatile technique. Sometimes those are the hardest baits to gain confidence in. For example a jig took a lot of time for me to develop confidence in. I was always afraid that I was fishing it wrong. Even when I would catch a fish I would wonder if a diffrent presentation would work better and all that second guessing drains confidence. A crankbait now is more of a simple bait. Basically straight retrieve, or stop and go maybe some switch in retrieve speed. The crankbait is a lure that is both simple to use but versatile in catching fish.

The sorriest thing I ever did was do what has been stated above. I had the hardest time learning to both bait cast and jig fish, since I have been a member here,I have put considerible time into each and they have become invaluable tools and have made me a much better fisherman. I took the easy way out, and i was catching fish, aquarium sized dinks on the shore. Now My catches while less in numbers have been better fish. Skunked once this summer on a short 2 hour pond/shore trip. Thats pretty good since I fished almost daily!

Listen to the fellas on here that know how to fish a technique then start picking thier brains, they will help you. I have found jig fishing, one of the oldest types of fishing is essential and deadly when you learn how to use it.

[fishfordollars]

Texas Rig Worm

Texas rig worm

Texas rig worm

[Paul Roberts]

Swim jig. It's not necessarily slow, and very versatile.

Then mine would have to be a single willow blade white/chart spinnerbait 1/4oz.

I like that one too.

[Thad]

I appreciate all the responses. I grew up fishing with my dad and if I have learned anything from him it has been patience. He is by far the most patient person I have ever fished with. He has fished the Texas Rig almost exclusively since I can remember and it's not because he doesn't know anything else, it's just that he prefers to fish slow and also because the majority of the water he fishes contains a lot of grass. So for most of my life, at least until I was about 16, I fished the Texas Rig. I started reading B.A.S.S. magazines around that time and started trying other things but I always found myself losing confidence and returning to the Texas Rig. I would say besides the Texas Rig my most productive lure has been a spinnerbait. I'm really just looking for something that I can gain as much confidence in as I do a Texas Rig and also cover water faster. I have several bags filled with hundreds maybe thousands of lures but I always return to some sort of Texas Rig.

[gatrboy53]

zoom ultravibe speed worm.i use it from top to bottom and fast to deadsticked.

buzz it on top like a buzzbait,swim it under the surface,t-rigged,c-rigged, as a trailer,flipped and i even pinch the tail off and its a senko style bait that i can even wacky rig.

i catch more bass yr. rd. on a speed worm than any other bait.

[Speed Worm]

zoom ultravibe speed worm.i use it from top to bottom and fast to deadsticked.

buzz it on top like a buzzbait,swim it under the surface,t-rigged,c-rigged, as a trailer,flipped and i even pinch the tail off and its a senko style bait that i can even wacky rig.

i catch more bass yr. rd. on a speed worm than any other bait.

Amen! and go gators

[jigandpig]

i agree that the zoom ultra-vibe speed worm is one of the most versatile baits out there. you can catch fish on it from top to bottom and it can be fished a million different ways.