Your 3 go to/favorite baits, and three you hate?
Your 3 go to/favorite baits, and three you hate?
What I love throwing:
Jigs
Jerkbaits
Senkos
Baits I hate and usually flat out refuse to fish:
Lipless cranks
Regular cranks
A rigs
Jigs
Jerkbaits
Senkos
Baits I hate and usually flat out refuse to fish:
Lipless cranks
Regular cranks
A rigs
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Re: Your 3 go to/favorite baits, and three you hate?
Love:
Punching
Frogs
Chatterbaits
Don't have luck/hate:
Kietech Swimbaits. Tails get bit off SO much
A Rigs. No confidence. I've thrown them by schools of smallmouth with NO luck.
Live bait
Punching
Frogs
Chatterbaits
Don't have luck/hate:
Kietech Swimbaits. Tails get bit off SO much
A Rigs. No confidence. I've thrown them by schools of smallmouth with NO luck.
Live bait
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Re: Your 3 go to/favorite baits, and three you hate?
Love:
Crankbaits
Jigs
Bladed Jig
Hate:
Drop Shot
Senkos / Wack Rig
A Rig
Crankbaits
Jigs
Bladed Jig
Hate:
Drop Shot
Senkos / Wack Rig
A Rig
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Re: Your 3 go to/favorite baits, and three you hate?
Favorites
Wacky / Neko rigged finesse worms. Mostly Flick Shakes
Paddle tail swimbaits. Mostly Rhythm Waves
Top water. Mostly poppers.
Don't really hate anything, but can become annoyed with bottom contact baits that are prone to hanging.
Wacky / Neko rigged finesse worms. Mostly Flick Shakes
Paddle tail swimbaits. Mostly Rhythm Waves
Top water. Mostly poppers.
Don't really hate anything, but can become annoyed with bottom contact baits that are prone to hanging.
Re: Your 3 go to/favorite baits, and three you hate?
Love:
Heddon Spook Jr
Dropshot, Roboworm, Don Iovino
Rapala Crankin rap
Hate:
Jigs
Large swimbaits
Bait fishing
Heddon Spook Jr
Dropshot, Roboworm, Don Iovino
Rapala Crankin rap
Hate:
Jigs
Large swimbaits
Bait fishing
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Re: Your 3 go to/favorite baits, and three you hate?
Love me some roboworm!! Aaron’s magic on a dropshot in early spring is killer! But wait you hate jigs?!zodiak311 wrote:Love:
Heddon Spook Jr
Dropshot, Roboworm, Don Iovino
Rapala Crankin rap
Hate:
Jigs
Large swimbaits
Bait fishing
Re: Your 3 go to/favorite baits, and three you hate?
Jigs just don't work for me, can't explain why. The dropshot I have to say, I am pretty good at.Samuel_b wrote:Love me some roboworm!! Aaron’s magic on a dropshot in early spring is killer! But wait you hate jigs?!zodiak311 wrote:Love:
Heddon Spook Jr
Dropshot, Roboworm, Don Iovino
Rapala Crankin rap
Hate:
Jigs
Large swimbaits
Bait fishing
Get your kids hooked on fishing, and they'll never have any money for drugs or alcohol.
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Re: Your 3 go to/favorite baits, and three you hate?
I use jigs this spring for shallow bass. You will build confidence with them. During 1 season, I went from not using them to them being a go to bait.zodiak311 wrote:Jigs just don't work for me, can't explain why. The dropshot I have to say, I am pretty good at.Samuel_b wrote:Love me some roboworm!! Aaron’s magic on a dropshot in early spring is killer! But wait you hate jigs?!zodiak311 wrote:Love:
Heddon Spook Jr
Dropshot, Roboworm, Don Iovino
Rapala Crankin rap
Hate:
Jigs
Large swimbaits
Bait fishing
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Re: Your 3 go to/favorite baits, and three you hate?
Order you a few Dirty Jigs Tour Level Finesse Football jigs from TW. Big Texan, Crystal River Craw, and Okeechobee 420 are some colors that work well most places. Pair them with a good craw imitation trailer and drag them over some rocks this prespawn and I guarantee you’ll start loving jigs. Jigs have a way of catching tanks!
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Re: Your 3 go to/favorite baits, and three you hate?
Problem is that the NED rig works as well, and it is so much fun catching them on 10 lb braid, and a BFS set up.ccass wrote:I use jigs this spring for shallow bass. You will build confidence with them. During 1 season, I went from not using them to them being a go to bait.zodiak311 wrote:Jigs just don't work for me, can't explain why. The dropshot I have to say, I am pretty good at.Samuel_b wrote:Love me some roboworm!! Aaron’s magic on a dropshot in early spring is killer! But wait you hate jigs?!zodiak311 wrote:Love:
Heddon Spook Jr
Dropshot, Roboworm, Don Iovino
Rapala Crankin rap
Hate:
Jigs
Large swimbaits
Bait fishing
Trust me, I have plenty of jigs, all brands, and they are all new. Lol Will have to force myself to try them again.
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Re: Your 3 go to/favorite baits, and three you hate?
Love:
Trig
Jerkbait
Frog
Trig will work when/where a jig won't. My mb68xti Diablo and vision 110's are unexplainably perfect for one another. Frog blow ups in the slop are tough to beat.
Hate:
chatterbaits
Drop shot
Ned rigs
Chatterbaits are pike magnets. Drop shots catch too many 6" bass. Even though I always have finess stuff in my boat I only like it when other people are using it. Finess gear keeps girls and newbs entertained. The gf likes to tease about how she outfishes me but also wonders why I catch all the big ones lol.
Trig
Jerkbait
Frog
Trig will work when/where a jig won't. My mb68xti Diablo and vision 110's are unexplainably perfect for one another. Frog blow ups in the slop are tough to beat.
Hate:
chatterbaits
Drop shot
Ned rigs
Chatterbaits are pike magnets. Drop shots catch too many 6" bass. Even though I always have finess stuff in my boat I only like it when other people are using it. Finess gear keeps girls and newbs entertained. The gf likes to tease about how she outfishes me but also wonders why I catch all the big ones lol.
Re: Your 3 go to/favorite baits, and three you hate?
Obz wrote:Love:
Trig
Jerkbait
Frog
Trig will work when/where a jig won't. My mb68xti Diablo and vision 110's are unexplainably perfect for one another. Frog blow ups in the slop are tough to beat.
Hate:
chatterbaits
Drop shot
Ned rigs
Chatterbaits are pike magnets. Drop shots catch too many 6" bass. Even though I always have finess stuff in my boat I only like it when other people are using it. Finess gear keeps girls and newbs entertained. The gf likes to tease about how she outfishes me but also wonders why I catch all the big ones lol.
Get your kids hooked on fishing, and they'll never have any money for drugs or alcohol.
Re: Your 3 go to/favorite baits, and three you hate?
I just don't get the finess thing. I would rather fish all day for one big bite.
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Re: Your 3 go to/favorite baits, and three you hate?
It's not for everyone, but sometimes it's the deal. Lot's of tournaments get won on finesse rigs. The guy throwing a t-rig or frog goes home early and empty-handed and the guy throwing a drop shot cashes $100,000 check.Obz wrote:I just don't get the finess thing. I would rather fish all day for one big bite.
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Re: Your 3 go to/favorite baits, and three you hate?
If you would fish it enough, you might just get that one big bite. I've thrown just about everything, and my two biggest smallies have come on finesse.Obz wrote:I just don't get the finess thing. I would rather fish all day for one big bite.
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