Is there a need for speed?

[Chris]

Has any of you tried burnning a crankbait or spinnerbait ? Most of the time when i do it its durring summer and it works great. Mainly i feel that it triggers fish into biting. It kinda looks like a baitfish trying to get away. Anyone else have a need for speed?

[Nick]

Yep, in clear lakes such as the White River impoundments in the Ozarks, a downsized #3 double willow burned will sometimes catch bass when larger, slower baits just won't get touched in the clear water in fall.

On Lake Erie, the big smallies love that burned chartruese or white bladed spinnerbait in summer. Hold on baby.  Those bass are fast! Mke it bulge the surface!

The minus 1's and minus 4's are grrreat for this approach in the post spawn.  I wish  I had a 6-1 reel with a spool thrice the size of the ones I have now! And I don't fish them much, but  lot's of guys move that Trap at a fast pace too.

[Will]

Whenever I fish a spinnerbait I always try burning it before anyhting else. I keep the bait to where it leaves a wake. I don't know if I have ever really burned a crankbait.

[thewayweball02]

I LOVE burning a Speed Trap crankbait in beginning of spring all the way to fall. They hit it so hard! I have had some luck burning a chartresuse spinnerbait also.

[JT Bagwell]

Burning baits is a technique that works very well in a lot of situations.

One particular experience that I had was in the Spring. The water was still pretty cool and I found one little muddy area that was a few degrees warmer than the rest of the lake. I would cast a lipless crankbait as far as I could throw it. Then I would just reel as fast as I could reel. The fish just hammered the bait. If I recall correctly, I had something like 15-18 bass just out of that one muddy pocket.

JT Bagwell

[reellittlephish]

Yes.  Burning a crankbait, stickbait, swimbait, and of course the few spinnerbaits I own,  is one of the first things I try.  More tempted to try it for a time once water reaches 60°.

[Stickling]

bought a lucky craft lure and " burned " it, and the rattles were so loud in it i could hear it in the boat from about 5 ft deep.

[Bud_in_OR]

I accidently learned this 'pattern' about 25 yrs. ago, fishing a pond with a ton of  thick coontail about 3 ft under the surface. The water was extremely clear. I was useing a blue-back countdown Rapala.

Trying to 'count' it down to tick the weeds, I hung up about every other cast. It was, drag it in to get the crap off the hooks, cast out and load up again....Driving me nuts. After a while I lost it and reefed the sucker out of the weeds, ripped it a couple times to help clear it and burned it back as fast as I could crank...almost.

I was bank fishing at the time and, standing in the same tracks, I hooked and landed eleven bass in eleven casts. They were only two to three pounders but it was a super memory builder. I've used this, snag it and rip it, retrieve a thousand times since then. It has worked often.

Bud