New bait to try
 

Just wondering if anyone else is like me and tries some new bait every year. I'm having trouble deciding what I'm going to experiment with this year. What are y'all going to try this year?

God Bless

Coach

I always like to try to use new baits. But it never lasts long for me. lol


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I have given up on the new flavor of the month baits, I look at them and see what "old" bait they imitate and use that.

I used to need two tackle boxes to hold all the baits and numerous colors of them but now I am working my tackle box down to just 2 or 3 baits in each style (hard, soft plastics, and topwater) and 2 or 3 tried and true colors (bright, dark, and multicolored)

Well my choice was a jerkbait (bass guy btw), because I have always heard it's an excellent cold water technique. Well two months in, and I must say it's going to be tied onto my rod for a while, I love to fish it! Glad I chose to learn it. Next on my list is probably drop shotting or Carolina rigging. I hate c-rigs...

My favs are c-rig and texas rig.... Ive done awesome in some ponds with dropshot too...

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I've actually never thrown a drop shot... Only caught maybe 5 fish on c-rig. Confidence isn't there. I can fish the crap out of Texas rig

Did the drop shot a couple of years ago, shaky head, punching with heavy weights last year have stuck around and will always now. Jerkbaits are something I really want to try just don't get a chance to get out there in the winter too much, and therefore won't put the money there yet. Really do not get along with spinnerbaits (I know, laugh, south LA river fisherman and usually don't even carry one). I don't know what I want to try this year, still looking for ideas.

I love fishing a shaky head and a football jig.


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I never liked fishing a crank bait until last year. One random day I decided to throw one and mashed em. Once I figured out the pattern and why they were eating it like they were I started using it at different places with success.


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Cranks are hard to beat man. Even this time of year, I've been doing really good on lipless in 47° water

I've heard it a million times. lol And I've tried and tried and could just never hit it right, ya know. I've caught fish on em before but the confidence just isn't there, ya know


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That's how I am with C-rigs, I know they work and I know they catch giants. I just don't like my bait just floating and dragging. I like to jiggle it lol

lol. I know what you mean. I grew up fishing shallow water so I never really got the feel for c-rigs and crankbaits and such. Caught my fair share of em on flukes and topwater and such though. lol


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c-rigs in the spring are the ticket for giants

Never fished a dropshot either....this past fall I started throwing a swim jig with a berkley pittboss trailer and loved how hard they hit it.

You just cast and real? I was always intrigued by that technique. Never tried it. I fished a chatterbait for a while. They ok

Fish a swim jig just like a spinner bait. Let it fall over logs and in holes and what not. They think it's a perch or something. They inhale them.


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Pit boss trailer.. Imitating a perch... Lmao jk man. I'm in need of trying this technique. I sometime cast and reel my flipping jig, but I can't ever recall having one hit while reeling. What brand and colors y'all find work good for this? Typically I'd throw black/blue, black/green with red flakes, and some other darker colors.. Is that what y'all use?

Yeah even the crawfish trailers when swam on jig look a lot like a bream the profile of it is right on. That's what makes a jig so good is its versatility.


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I like those hack attack jigs. Color depends on water but Im a big fan of Green pumkin with a little orange. If I'm fishing a swim jig I like a 1/4oz.


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Paca craw for trailers a lot of times.


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Or a reaction skinny dipper for trailer. It all depends what they are keying on. Shad spawn or a lot of shad around I'm throwing a white jig if it's spawning time (pre/post /during) I'm gonna throw a darker one.


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Found this online. Perfect example. Attachment 62459


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I had better luck pumping the jig...they would hit it on the fall. I was using a 1/4 oz V&M jig.

Havent bassed fished in several years but now that my boy is older and interested im slowly gearing back up and getting ready. Back when I chased them I always figured if ya dont catch em on a texas rigged worm, spinnerbait, or gold rouge there obviously wasnt any fish in the water.lol. Then one day my buddy handed me my azz flippin a jig. Now that im back to it I will spend some time learning them. Need more topwater time too. I always set the hook to soon when fishing topwater baits.

Nothing better than smacking bass with a frog over grass.


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You can say that again! That's bass fishing at its finest!

Gents

Would like to switch gears for just a second.

Can you still find Norm baits around there?

I am in the Marine Corps and have not fished Louisiana waters in about 20 years. I only have two Norm top water wooden baits left and I remember those guys where awesome while fishing the birds in Black Bay during the spring. I am moving back home in a few days and would like to restock my tackle box before spring.

Thanks

You right.

And the only thing better than that is a fluke over grass.


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I'm a saltwater guy. I have had tremendous success with the Matrix shad (vary colors) so far this year with both specs and redfish

you guys want to have a ball go out with some bass worms to fish specks and reds.

but bring plenty because they will shread them, they must thing its eels or something but they go after it like pirana.

only trouble I have is where to put the hook because they steal it after two or three casts and never seam to get hooked except by accident. no lie you miss about 10 strikes before you get a hookset then your 6" worm is about 2" left lol

Thread a stinger hook thru the worm to stop all the short strikes

tried that and they stole the middle so I put one in front one in middle and one in the tail and I got cleaned out without a hookset and had about 1/2" worm left on each hook.

thems some sneaky little buggers for sure but they do love the bait.

I think I shoulda let em run with it but I really didn't want to gut hook em and kill fish I wasn't keeping. a went with one pack of 6" worms and they were gone in less then ten minutes so I didn't get much chance to learn and adjust.

I tried them at the wd40 rigs offshore and they never hit bottom but a got a few line strippers before they broke off. again that trip I got nothing in the box as a result but they definitely went after em like crazy and I did catch two small snapper I released

I been wanting to try learning to use them in a productive way but im so used to my normal baits I don't get around to it because im always waiting until I have my limit before I start "playing around" and by then its time to head in.

once I restock the freezer I can play around with it some more