What bait(s) are you using to pitch and flip now? Soft plastics? Jigs? Something else?

Will it change as spring turns to summer?

Just curious. I like to pitch and flip (the motion), but I don't get good results.

75% of the time, a baby brush hog in a watermelon or green pumpkin will catch you a fish pitching to logs and laydowns. It's probably the #1 confidence bait in anglers all over the country. Jigs can be difficult, but I would play around with trailers more than actual jigs.

Biffle bugs...year round. I catch at least 75% of my fish flipping.

Not a lot of jig flippin here either. Usually always some form of creature bait first and then I will experiment some with other plastics if it's not working.

Beaver style baits, really its depends on the lake.

Creature baits for sure I love me some speed craws and brush hogs

Pegged Missile D-Bomb for me, but i'll have to admit, lately I've been doing pretty well with Swindle's 3/8 Ball Head Jig.

+1 for the Missile D bomb. Or a jig in black and blue / bluegill color where I fish. Just depends on the day.

Rage Craw or Speed Craw mostly. If I'm on a lake that is predominantly dock pitching, I'm pitching a jig. Love a 3/8 or 1/2 Hack Attack jig in some sort of Green Pumkin

Rage Craw or lizard

Speed craw

Nothing like a jig bite but I just don't get bit on them as much so I stick with the craw 95% of the time.

Same here.

Jig

Jig

jig jig jig
speed craw on timber
pegged beaver or d bomb in the thicc stuff

I flip MAYBE 3%-5% of my fishing but when I do it�s 50/50 between a jig and a beaver type bait.

3/8 oz. Unpainted Tung. Pegged with a 7" Pumpkin Seed Power worm.
Also a Hand Poured Lizard as close to a Zoom as you can get. Pumpkin Seed with a Green Back

Baby rage craw on a quarter ounce tung

Rage Craw or Structure bug 1/4 to 3/8 oz sinker

Ok....I'll "bite" Donald. Why "unpainted"? Slicker?

3/8 oz. jig with an Uncle Josh pork frog 99.9% of the time... Dan

Don't think so much about the bait as much as the weight and shape of the bait.

Flipping/pitching= heavy cover=reaction bites. Color and actual bait should be more what your confident in. Sometimes the fish hit a fast fall, sometimes slower fall. A lot of hits you get with this technique the fish don't even really know what their inhaling....so there goes the color/bait theory! But then there are times......

Flash, I've heard this from others as well.

9 out of 10 times I'll use a brush hog. I'm going old school this weekend and will be flipping a hoo daddy. Just have a feeling

When pitching, I�m usually using a beaver style bait. When I actually flip, it�s with a punch rig and a creature bait.

1/4 to 3/8 pegged tungsten with 4.0 or 5.0 trokar flippin hook dressed with Zoom super speed craw (green pumpkin/purple with claws dipped in orange spike it or blueberry) or Zoom 6in. pumpkin seed lizard on 20lb BPS fluoro.

Baby Brush hog but my goal is to wean my self off of it and flip a lot more jigs! I want to catch bigger fish!

Caught a 10.51 on a baby brush hog Wednesday, you never know!!

I am not convinced of that bigger baits equals bigger fish either. At least that has not been my experience. I have caught little fish off of big swimbaits. My biggest fish came off a C-Rig with a bubble fry.

Agreed that small baits will work but there are statistically more big fish caught on jigs. I am going to play the odds and start fishing them regularly. Whenever I want to teach myself a new technique I use it pretty much exclusively until I feel like I am proficient at it.

Sinko

Jig 95% of the time.

50/50 between a beaver and hoodaddy

Jig right now, and a plastic with a little less action. As we get warmer, I still will use the jig but my trailer will have a lot more action, or my plastic by itself will have a lot more action. I will say this though, because I have heard it in person and online from pro's. That old school ribbon tail will work wonders. No one fishes them as much because we have so many options, like a kid in a candy store. But because we have so many options, that worm works because it is considerably less seen so compared to the beaver styles. Kind of the it has come full circle now.

Rage Craw, Rage Bug, Christie Craw, Zoom Z Craw Jr, Havoc Pit Boss

If the fish will bite a jig that is my first choice over any soft plastic but sometimes they just do not want a jig and that is when I go to the plastics.

I only pitch baits, I never flip, because I just like pitching better.

I always have a Tx. rigged baby brush hog on deck because it just plain catches fish. I also pitch larger creature baits, craws and craw tubes when the fish don't want a jig.

Whatever you choose to use I think getting the lure in the water quietly is key. Good luck.

havoc pit boss always!

Never fished them are their different sizes ? If so what size do you prefer?
J D

Before we had some many choices of creature style baits & jigs, I introduced myself to the skirted bullet weight. I didn't have any confidence in a jig at all in my early days as an angler.

Donnie Morris mad some great looking painted bullet weights that he sold around Lake Fork. He started putting skirts on them and they looked great. I would put a 3/8 oz skirted weight and tie on my fave worm hook. Then I would rig a lizard or worm on the hook.

Now everybody makes punch skirts. This is a great alternative to those of you that want to gain more confidence in a jig but don't like the fact they tend to hang up in heavy cover more than a T-rig.

Note: a 1/2 oz skirted weight fishes more like a 3/8 oz jig. A 3/8 skirted rig fishes like a 1/4 oz jig and so on.

http://dirtyjigstackle.com/products.php?cat=51

Buy a couple punch skirts of your color choice. Rig a 3/8 or 1/2 oz tungsten bullet weight on it then tie on a good stout hook. Now rig your Baby Brush Hog on the hook.

You can buy these too but the colors & sizes are limited. Plus it is much cheaper to do it with separate components.

https://www.basspro.com/shop/en/strike-k...oductextensions

Now just add water. Use good heavy line of your choice and throw this into the middle of the thickest brush you can find. Don't worry too much about how pretty your flip or pitching technique is at first. Just get it into the thickest cover you can.

Now get off the interweb thingy and go fishing!!