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re: The Only 5 Largemouth Lures You Need (for beginners)
Posted on 12/2/24 at 12:35 pm to AwgustaDawg
Posted on 12/2/24 at 12:35 pm to AwgustaDawg
I have adopted the saltwater model for catching freshwater fish including bass and that involves throwing a cast net 4-6 times, loading up on whatever baitfish are present, and flat lining them. Most of the time all I do is skip a herring or a shad under a dock and hang on. Very simply, highly effective and I am usually done catching as many as I want in 3-4 hours. It ain't glamorous but I am only there to go fishing, I am not there to outwit fish and other fisherman. On our herring lakes it is possible to catch 70-80 spots in a couple of locations with nothing more than a herring and circle hook. And at times they are good ones. Most of the time there will be some 8-10 pound stripers and 4-6 pound hybrids in the mix and for real fun 10-20 pound catfish. I can kick my duck boat off the trailer, travel 500 yards from just about any ramp and start blind throwing a 8 foot net and in half an hour have as many baits as I could possibly use and as soon as I have enough I flip one out on a circle hook and start catching fish. Boat after boat blasting off down the lake with enough money invested in lures to buy a house and they won't catch a 10th of the fish I will in 4 hours. It just works. I don't know why more people don't do it. I get that it ain't glamorous or "sporting" but I prefer catching fish when I go fishing....
For anyone not in the know bridge rip rap always holds fish and they are generally eating. It doesn't matter what the water temperature is, doesn't matter if the lake is stained or clear, what time of the day or year it is, flat line a baitfish that fish are accustomed to eating and they will. Fish the same area all day with everything in the bass pro shop catalog and you may or may not catch a thing.
For anyone not in the know bridge rip rap always holds fish and they are generally eating. It doesn't matter what the water temperature is, doesn't matter if the lake is stained or clear, what time of the day or year it is, flat line a baitfish that fish are accustomed to eating and they will. Fish the same area all day with everything in the bass pro shop catalog and you may or may not catch a thing.
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Posted on 12/2/24 at 12:38 pm to AwgustaDawg
I catch a lot of spotted bass in a small river using crickets. This place has great bream fishing and while I don’t target the bass we usually catch a 8-12 during a trip.
When cleaning the bass I’ve noticed most of them are full of small crawfish so being the bright guy that I am I have gotten the same color and size crawfish to fish with a ned rig and Texas rig. I can’t get a bite on these. I usually try for about an hour but watching my son catch large bream and 1.5-2.5 pound bass while I catch nothing I usually give up.
Any idea what I’m doing wrong??
I have caught plenty of fish in this river with a white rooster tail with an inch long night crawler trailing it.
When cleaning the bass I’ve noticed most of them are full of small crawfish so being the bright guy that I am I have gotten the same color and size crawfish to fish with a ned rig and Texas rig. I can’t get a bite on these. I usually try for about an hour but watching my son catch large bream and 1.5-2.5 pound bass while I catch nothing I usually give up.
Any idea what I’m doing wrong??
I have caught plenty of fish in this river with a white rooster tail with an inch long night crawler trailing it.
Posted on 12/2/24 at 12:47 pm to upgrade
quote:This is the correct answer
Spinnerbait Lunkerlure (Buzzbait) Texas rigged soft plastic of your choice
Posted on 12/2/24 at 1:03 pm to bird35
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I catch a lot of spotted bass in a small river using crickets. This place has great bream fishing and while I don’t target the bass we usually catch a 8-12 during a trip.
When cleaning the bass I’ve noticed most of them are full of small crawfish so being the bright guy that I am I have gotten the same color and size crawfish to fish with a ned rig and Texas rig. I can’t get a bite on these. I usually try for about an hour but watching my son catch large bream and 1.5-2.5 pound bass while I catch nothing I usually give up.
Any idea what I’m doing wrong??
I have caught plenty of fish in this river with a white rooster tail with an inch long night crawler trailing it.
Can you wade it and are there any shoal areas? Most likely so...if there are spend some time with your son flipping over rocks...if he is less than about 14 and into the outdoors he will LOVE doing it. When you flip a rock over most likely there will be a small crawfish under just about everyone of them...they are quick but y'all will get the hang of catching them. Hook them through the tail and try to use as little or no weight as possible. Throw them upstream and keep them moving down stream.....they will try to get under rocks, keep them just out of the rocks. Every bass and big bream in a small creek or river will beat one another to death trying to catch that crippled looking craw fish. It is a BLAST in the summer when getting in the water is kind of the point to begin with. One word of caution though...wading up slow moving southern rivers and creeks with a bucket of crawfish is addictive....going to work the next day doesn't seem nearly as important.
Google Richard Gene the Fishing Machine...he has loads of youtube content and a lot of it is fishing live bait from the actual body of water you are fishing...and crawfish are the food of choice in most rivers and creeks. It flat out works and will out produce any lure.
Another live bait in such streams that are easier to catch (in my opinion) but harder to handle are hellgrammites. They are the larvae of dobsonflies and most rocky creeks with some leaves on the bottom in the south are crawling with them. When they are present fish may swim over 100 crawdads to eat a hellgrammite. They hurt when they bite but they aren't poisionous and fish can't resist them. Take a window screen, have your son hold it downstream of a shoal about 5 feet from you and start turning over rocks....crawdads will run off but hellgrammites with start washing down stream and get caught in the screen. Fish them the same way. They will bite like crazy and it hurts but its worth it....
Nothing better than creek fishing.
Posted on 12/2/24 at 1:53 pm to AlxTgr
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AlxTgr
what do you like?
Posted on 12/2/24 at 2:08 pm to mikeytig
quote:For me, it's season dependent and even that has changed over the years. I will probably have some sort of weightless plastic on at all times as well as a jerk bait. Late Winter through the spawn will be Chatter, spinnerbait, Carolina rig, Trap and Shad Rap. Post spawn is back to weightless plastics and jerk baits with jig head and minnow becoming more common. Top water as well.
what do you like?
One of my issues with the list in the OP is Ned rig. I think those are fine, but do not fit in many regions of the country.
Two popular baits that I do not use much, and are a "me problem" are cranks and a jig. It's not that I never do, it's that I do not as often as the general bass fishing public does.
Posted on 12/2/24 at 4:18 pm to AlxTgr
1: Weightless zoom superfluke. Color depends on the water. If Shad is a forage species, I get the smokin' shad pattern. Otherwise it's green pumpkin. Two sizes, the full size and the Fluke Junior size about 4 inches. Use the smaller one in smaller water.
2: Weightless zoom trick worm. Green pumpkin.
3: Rebel Pop-R..... Blueback has caught more for me than greenback or black back, but mileage may vary. A Pop-R vs Buzz Bait is a toss up really. Buzz baits let you cover water more quickly, and definitely catch bass, but you can fish a Pop-R much more slowly than a buzz bait if that's what the bass want that day.
I really don't have a #4 or #5. If I can't get anything to bite on those 3, I find something else to do.
2: Weightless zoom trick worm. Green pumpkin.
3: Rebel Pop-R..... Blueback has caught more for me than greenback or black back, but mileage may vary. A Pop-R vs Buzz Bait is a toss up really. Buzz baits let you cover water more quickly, and definitely catch bass, but you can fish a Pop-R much more slowly than a buzz bait if that's what the bass want that day.
I really don't have a #4 or #5. If I can't get anything to bite on those 3, I find something else to do.
Posted on 12/2/24 at 4:47 pm to deeprig9
quote:I have had so many memorable trips with this.
2: Weightless zoom trick worm. Green pumpkin.
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