What's your least favorite technique?

[Rattlinrogue]

This is gonna sound crazy.With all of the various ways to fish plastics,my least favorite is an old standby.I LOVE fishing drop shot rigs,C-rigs,flipping/pitching tubes and creature baits,Senkos,and the split shot rig.The old time favorite that I USED to rely on and caught a ton of bass on,now bores me to death.The Texas rigged worm.

[Bankbeater]

I'm surprised the amount of c-rig responses. I thought it was just me.

[roadwarrior]

Flipping, but dropshotting is a very close second. I rarely (never) do either. However, if I were a tournament fisherman, I think I might spend 75% of my time fishing those techniques! It seems to me that nothing is more productive than a dropshot rig for catching small fish quickly. Flipping has nothing to do with the way I like to fish, but again, VERY productive.

[Hillbilly_Hooker]

I'll add my vote to hating the C-rig.  I don't know how to do it effectively and I hate it enough not to want to learn.

[Guest the_muddy_man]

WORK

[LrgMouthCatcha]

Add another one to the C-rig crew... i just haven't got the confidence in it yet. Maybe one day

[dink]

I say the dropshot simply because I lean towards big baits 80% of the time.  

I am amazed at the amount of C Rig responses.  I was not a fan of it either..... until I was showed how and where to fish it correctly and efficiently.  It is now always at arm's length.

As with a number of finesse presentations (weightless Senko included), I have little confidence in something that I can barely feel.  That being said, I also do not own a spinning combo set up for bass fishing.  Also, many of the lakes that I frequent are more on the stained side rather than clear.  I will figure it out someday... but I won't like it! ;D ;D  

[The Duke]

Loading the boat.  

[Fisherman]

Drop shot; simply because I don't own a boat, mostly fishing on the bank.

[Matt Fly]

Fishing a spoon vertical that doesn't require any movement.    I like spoon bites that requires some kind of action to get bit.      Can be boring and cold, but effective.

Matt.

[justfishin]

Crankbaits and Senkos. I still fish them because they work but, I just don't like to. A dropshot is right up there as well. I would have to say my no. one is a crankbait though. I am a jig,worm or spinnerbait kind of guy.

[bass_101]

This is a hard one... probly as a general bait the crankbait or jerkbait simply because i've never taken time to use them.  i am 50/50 when it comes to the c-rig.  

[BassKing813]

Carolina rig. I absolutely hate it.

[Got Bass?]

I hate CRANKBAITS

[jomatty]

im a little surprised at the disdane for c rigs just because of how effective they can be.  sure its not as much fun as other techniques but i cant dislike something that can be that effective.

for me it would probally have to be spooning. i keep trying to get into it but am having a hard time.    

[edbassmaster]

Probably my least favorite technique is holding a 5" senko in my teeth and dipping my head in the pond and waiting for a bite. Last saturday I nearly drowned.

[JiggaMan512]

ditto to the C-Rig because its just such a drag

haha funny and true at the same time.

[Millerman]

Well....least favorite technique would be anything over 12 ft deep, don't matter what lure or technique.

AS for the c-rig, I absolutely despised it until last July. I fished a Stren Series Tourney and both of my partners threw it in at certian times.  So, I thought I should learn how to use it. Honestly, I fished it from August through october and found it to be very productive at specific locations and times. IT for sure has it's place. It would even out produce my previously favorite techniques in the certians locations.  It is now a mainstay. For those that don;t believe, try it more than once and you will be a believer too!

[Okeechobee_Cracker]

It would Def have to be the CrankBait

[amesl]

I would say dead sticking a soft plastic worm. It works, but painfully slow

[Ranger_man]

dropshot

[pete s]

any technigue or bait that i have been throwing for the last few hours that is not productive. and, my new favorite technique or bait is the one my kid(who just started fishing) just threw in and caught a large bass with. im going to try to figure why the bass struck that bait. (size,color,brand,type,size line,type of line,type of structure,weather,or technique) moral of the story, none should be your favorite. you have to be adaptable to ever changing mood and unpredictability of the beast we chase. if we can do that,we will all be better fishermen. you can have favorites,but you have to be adaptable;or you can be waxed by the 6 yr old kid in the back of the boat. or worst yet,everyone in the tournament will load the boat with the technique that you refuse to use.

[eastkybass]

My least fav is probally drop shotting.  I haven't used it much and just not very confident in it.

[Munkin]

Well....least favorite technique would be anything over 12 ft deep, don't matter what lure or technique.

I too am a shallow water fisherman  So this year I have decided I need to learn to fish deeper water. Like a lot of you I hated the C-rig until I spent some time in MO. Someone showed me how to use it and I could catch fish all day long on zoom lizards. Here in MD I haven't had much use for it until this year. One day I tried fishing deeper water with it but came up empty handed. I ended up flippin jigs and creature baits into shallow cover about 3-4' deep. After breaking off lures on 4 rods I started throwing the c-rig with a 3/4oz sinker into the same places as the other baits. It was not because it is a secret technique or anything I just didn't feel like tying on anymore baits. I started to catch fish on about every cast which amazed me. That sinker couldn't of made any more noise entering into the water but the fish did not care.

Allen

[rocknfish9001]

Almost all hardbaits. I know i can hardly be a fisherman without tossing cranks, topwaters, jerkbaits, and the like. The thing is, i just dont see them nearly as realistic as soft plastics, and i just feel plastics will outfish the fast moving, attention getting hardbaits. Now i KNOW that just isnt always true, and im still not sure why i dont use the cranks more often.