preferred style
 

Successful fishermen have to learn to adapt to ever-changing conditions and feeding patterns. Everyone has to have a style of fishing that they prefer over others, even though it may not work all the time. I'm not talking particular brands of baits, but, the method in which you fish them. What is your favorite style....topwater, working mid-column with a floating or suspending jerkbait, Rat-L-Trap-style bait...even suspending a lure under a "strike indicator", or, bumping the bottom with your fav rubber bait? Again, this is not about brands.

i like topwater the best id say. obviously because you get to watch the strike. A close second for me would be working a suspending bait and just feeling the big thump when a good fish hits. also, i like feeling the bites that you can barely feel. when i set the hook on that fish it just makes me feel like he tried to fool me but lost

1 topwater
2 bumpin the bottom
3 jerk bait( only tried this for bass)
4 strike intidator!!! Lmao

5 cast net..... Hahaha

Winter
Cork style baits and plastics

Spring
Top water

Summer
Top water / plastic

Fall
Suspending baits / plastic

Sticking a 3/8" pointed stainless steel round bar through the breast plate of a 4 lb Flounder is my absoulute favorite, all though I dont get to do it much.

My second favorite is a gold spoon over a grass bed for big red's in the marsh.

I also like to tip a tube jig with a piece of corn under a cork and fish perch.

Inshore: I'm a bait kind of guy.

1. Live croaker or sand trout, 6-12", free lined.
2. Broken crab on the bottom.
3. Live shrimp on the bottom.
4. Live shrimp under a bobber.
5. Dead shrimp on the bottom.

bumping the bottom with your fav rubber bait

In my opinion you can not beat Top Water for fresh or salt.........Spro frog in fresh and super spook in salt

Fly Fishing is awesome too

Love fishing top water but have caught a lot more fish by just bouncing it off the bottom

Freshwater:
1) weightless soft plastics (flukes, ring frys)
2) Texas rigged soft plastics
3) spinnerbaits

Coastal:
Don't really have enough experience yet to rate this...most of my catches come from bumpping plastics off across the bottom - Kind of an extension of my fresh water habits

1. Topwater
2. Corky
3. Jig

Unless it is winter time or early spring, I will be throwing topwater most of the morning.

minnow jerkbait
cigar bait topwater
fluke or other long plastic on a jig head
free lining a 4" pogey with no weight

Top water
Tandem plastic
mawkit skrimp under a strike indicator.