What is the Best way to fish a rocky lake?

[manny1]

I was just wondering what is the best rig or fishing method to use when fishing a rocky lake? Everytime I use a drop shot or a crankbait or even a spinner bait I get stuck under some rock!! Could it only be the T-Rig??

[Chris]

Rig it on a linders snagless weight or a bottom bouncer. It will keep it out of the rocks.

[Chris]

or mark the depth and use a lure that either runs just above the rocks or bearly ticks the top of it.

[Bass_Akwards]

J-J-J-J-J I G S!

[Teal101]

or mark the depth and use a lure that either runs just above the rocks or bearly ticks the top of it.

This is how I do it.  I use rapalas DT series lures and tick the rocks back to the boat.

[Hammer 4]

Wolford..?

I was just wondering what is the best rig or fishing method to use when fishing a rocky lake? Everytime I use a drop shot or a crankbait or even a spinner bait I get stuck under some rock!! Could it only be the T-Rig??

[Big Bass Chaser]

J-J-J-J-J I G S!

x2, football head w/craw trailer

[BassnMan Mike]

I really like to toss football head jigs in the rocks but Senkos and Ikas work real well also.

[Shane J]

Rocky bottom to me means jig time, but you'll still lose some, just part of the game.

[NasTMcfingas]

I really like to toss football head jigs in the rocks but Senkos and Ikas work real well also.

X2 usually when I have the best success with those baits.

[grimlin]

I was just wondering what is the best rig or fishing method to use when fishing a rocky lake? Everytime I use a drop shot or a crankbait or even a spinner bait I get stuck under some rock!! Could it only be the T-Rig??

Weightless T-rigged bait...I very seldom lose one to rocks.

No matter what you'll still lose baits....It's just the way it is when fishing rocky lakes.You think rocky lakes are bad? Try fishing a rocky river system with heavy current.It'll deplete your tackle collection pretty quickly.

[aceman387]

I recently have been fishing a new forest preserve pond by me that has a lot of rocks on the bottom and have noticed the rocks fraying up my spool of power pro braided line so i switched spools and put on a back up with mcoys mean green line which seems to handle the abuse of rocks better.

[manny1]

Thanks guys Ill keep all those tips in mind. I guess the T-Rig is the best way to go and probably the cheapest if you loose it too. Thanks!!

[Captain Obvious]

Here is how I beat the rocks.

football jig- without a weed guard and size anywhere between 1/4-1/2 oz I prefer 1/4 if I can get away with it but the main thing is bottom contact

Soft plastic- I like a zoom ultra vibe speed craw but I also like a brush hog or a speed craw depending on the conditions

T-rig the plastic on the jig cast it and slowly reel in the lure keeping it on the bottom. Notice I said reel and not drag, your moving the bait with the reel not the pole. Bites will ether feel weightless or like a slight tap tap

good luck 

[smbrule]

I fish Lake of the Woods which is one big rockpile for SMB.

In the Spring a lot of the fishing is pitching around large boulders surrounded by smaller one to two foot boulders in two to 10 feet of water.

I typically use a 4 to 4.5 inch tube Texposed with an inside weight or use a tube hook inside the tube with exposed hook.

Most of the time use a open tube hook, but if am fishing the back side of a large boulder, pulling it over the top and dropping it down the front then I use a texposed rig to avoid hang-ups.

Used to use bass jigs or texas rigs but with the exposed lead those baits invite more hang-ups.

Also the large tube with a 3/16 oz weight just seems to drop slower than a jig or texas rigged soft plastics like worms or craws.

[blkbearklr2001]

Rocky bottoms, I am usually using a football jighead. Although it does get hung up sometimes. Not as bad as other lures.

Also will throw a weighted fluke down there and tap around the rocks.

Joe

[zach t]

I assume you are casting to the bank? If so, I would use a Spro Lil John. You can not beat the square bill to defelect off of rocks or the quick run-to-depth of those things.

[wounded minnow]

I like jigs and try to fish them as vertically as possible as long as the water is deeper...

[hmongkidBee]

use a rapala DT crankbait.  I love using them to trigger strikes in rocky lakes.

[thetr20one]

Tube jigs as using inserts as light as the wind will let you get away with. They are cheap and productive. If you get hung up its not gonna break you to lose a few.

[pitchNbass]

I fish a rock bottom lake almost everyday. Jigs, soft plastics (try a slip shot rig), and diving cranks banging off the rock bottom caught me my PB 9.1lb bass. I recommend fishing off ledges and down drop offs slowly with jigs, less hangups and you won't snap your line on rock ledges when you set the hook. If you like fishing up rock drop offs a slip shot works well, or even a t-rigged plastic will do. If you lose one, no worries. I just don't like losing my jigs.

[shamgar]

Great question, I will have to check out the snagless weights.

[Blades14]

I use the Texas eye jig with chin lock and pair it with Zman minnows, that eye jig rarely if ever gets hung up, rocks wood, don’t matter it jus works? And ya can fish it like a jig, or jus slow roll it like a swim bait, and pop and drag like a Texas  Rig, one of the best way I’ve found to fish rocky bottoms, and ofcourse crank baits 

[king fisher]

Depends on the type of rock.  Round rocks can be fished with jigs and Texas rigs.  Some types of rocks will eat almost any weight or jig.  I grew up fishing a lake that was completely made up of jagged basalt rock.  A jig or Texas rig would be snagged instantly.  Crankbaits caught fish, and could be deflected off rocks for awhile, but I never owned a crankbait that lasted long.  Spinner baits worked and could be slow rolled, but again I never had one that lasted a whole summer.  By the end of every summer, I would be fishing top water, because that was all I had.

[Hammer 4]

OP hasn't been on here since 2012...just sayin.