Plastic Lizards

[playmaker47]

What is the best technique to use these at. I have been fishing for almost all my life (15 years), and i have caught bass on almost everything but ive been fishing plastic lizards for like 4 years and have never ever caught 1 bass on them. Am I doing somthing wrong. Please Help!! Thanks!

[D.Taylor]

I would say if you live way north the reason you dont catch fish on them is because they are not native but i dont really think that is the reason.

It is lack of confidence. Texas rigg them or carolina rigg them they are fish catching machines.

I use  6'Black power lizzards, 6' zoom lizzards in  junebug, redburg, chartruce pepper and If i can find them 6' watermelon chartruce flw lizzards.

in 4' i use a black with yellow spotted mister twister lizzard

I basically stick with those colors all year mainly fish them in the spring but they will catch fish all season.

[Shad_Master]

Playmaker 47 "your whole life" is not as long as some of my baits have been in the tackle box.  Lizards are a great bait for fishing brush piles and laydowns.  Texas rig 'em and let them fall through the branches.  They also work well durig the spawn as this is the time when fish are fighting them off of the nest.

[Will]

Lizards work great texas rigged, especially when pitched and flipped. Many people mainly throw them in spring, but they are good year round. As for retrieve I use a simple lift drop, sometimes I will just drag the lizard. Any color will do, I haven't used any bigger that 7" lizards.

[njbassin]

Creatures work really well during the spawn. Bass tend to attack lizards and creatures of this nature because the bass feel they are predators to there eggs. That is the only time I ever use them so you might not neccessarily be doing anything wrong.

[roadwarrior]

Carolina rig, slow retrieve (drag it along the bottom). 4" lizards for smallmouth, at least 6" for largemouth. I really like the Yamamoto laminated lizard with the white belly, but any dark color probably works.

[bowjunkie35]

My lizards are my go to bait and I have much confidence in them, year round. I honestly don't think that the bass always bites the lizard thinking it is one. I know we have salamnders here in Iowa, but I catch fish on a consistent basis throwing lizards and I just don't think that there are that many "real" ones in the waters here in Iowa.

My main lizard is Zoom in Junebug and my favorite color, which I think is discontinued, is Blueberry. I have alot but would love to find more!!

Also, I throw BPS tripple ripples in black and black with blue tail.

And finally, I like power lizards in black with chartreuse tail.

Yes, I love lizards, T-rigged, carolina rigged and weightless!

[bowjunkie35]

BTW, fished slowly, with the normal up down rod technique works best for me. Trying to remain in contact with the bottom seems to always be the key although I have had them attacked at the boat when swimming in for the next cast!

[alhuff]

I love to fish them weightless.  The last big bass I caught was on a weight less Cherry Seed color fished around a downed tree (5lbs).  I would try them weightless, swimming around downed trees and trough/over grass.  

I have found that the falling of the lizard in a pause looks natural and the bass respond by inhaling the lizard.  

Hope this helps....

Alfred

[bassackwards]

you'll catch fish on lizards.  I don't know how you fish them, but you can almost fish them however u feel at the time.  

steady retrieve, hop it off the bottom, drag it along the bottom, skip it along the bottom, and I'm sure there are other ways.

I usually fish them hopping it along the bottom slowly.  or jerk it twice, pause, and so on.

[Raul]

Odd, lizards work everywhere, if brush hogs work and they don 't resemble anything why shouldn 't lizards work ? C rigged, T rigged, even weightless they work, maybe the size you are using isn 't the right one.

[bassaddict62]

I use Texas rigged lizards a lot - they're great in shallow water worked very slowly. I get more action on the 4'' than the 6". Basically just use the lizard in any situation you would use a worm.

Now the lure I can't get to work for me is a buzzbait. I've tried them in the morning, the evening, middle of the day, etc. Maybe I'll force myself to use one all day until I finally catch a bass on a buzzbait!

[Okeechobee_Cracker]

Since i've started using lizards i;ve love em. ive caught some of my biggest fish on em thier my go to baits also ;D ;D 8)

[Max-in-Mn]

I really like this thread. Up here in the north nobody uses lizard baits. I never gave them much chance myself. However, next year I will dedicate much time fishing them exclusively as I believe, like the jig, they are a "big fish bait". Can't wait!

[cgs2004]

I'll agree that lizards are great!

Its as simple as that the lizard (or salamander) is hated by bass. Bass in return want to eat them up.

I know a guy down south who uses nothing but a 8" june chillbug (junebug/ red flake) and wins big bass in his tourneys almost all the time.

I really believe that an oversized lizard is one of the best "big bass baits" that there is.

[bass109]

There is a special time in the season that they just catch tons of bass.

[Curado]

The way I catch most of my bass on a lizard is C-riggin. I also like to crawl them along the bottom instead of hopping them like a worm or something else or slowly swim them through cover with a steady retrieve.