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Best lure for schooling bass

Posted By: SlowDown

Best lure for schooling bass - 09/01/15 12:57 PM

I need a lure for making long casts into schooling bass that push shad to the top of the water and don't stay up long enough to get close to them. Which lure works best for this situation?
Posted By: bccougar

Re: Best lure for schooling bass - 09/01/15 01:07 PM

Zara spook or a 3/4oz trap.
Posted By: CCTX

Re: Best lure for schooling bass - 09/01/15 01:11 PM

You definitely need something that casts a long distance for these situations

First choice would be a rattle trap or other lipless
I like to cast it just past where the school blew up/then disappeared let it sink on semi slack line for a count of four (looks like a dying shad if you let it sink), then retrieve

Other choices that cast far and have that dying action on fall
Spoon
Wingding or other tailspinner
Bladed swim jigs

If the school blew up closer, your options increase to include squarebills, soft swim baits, swim jigs, topwaters, flukes/sluggos/etc
Posted By: GarySHO

Re: Best lure for schooling bass - 09/01/15 01:28 PM

Best for that is a cordell gay blade in chrome/blue.
Posted By: SlowDown

Re: Best lure for schooling bass - 09/01/15 01:33 PM

Thanks very much for the replies. Appreciate it.
Posted By: Anchorman

Re: Best lure for schooling bass - 09/01/15 01:36 PM

I would probably go with the lipless crankbait too. Also, tie on a med diver suspending crankbait. Sometimes the bigger fish are below the smaller schooling fish. Big fish can be lazy. They'll follow the schools around and take their share. I used to run a shad color suspending crankbait under the schooling fish and catch some hogs on Cypress. Every evening in the summer there was this one point where the spots would school and surface. They were fun to catch but I would often pull some nice ones out right under them by cranking and stopping a suspending crankbait.
Posted By: ogles824 (aka Lakewaydr50)

Re: Best lure for schooling bass - 09/01/15 03:14 PM

1/4 oz. chrome blue Ratl-Trap
Posted By: cephusjoe

Re: Best lure for schooling bass - 09/01/15 03:23 PM

Mini Zara spook
Posted By: RangerBass21

Re: Best lure for schooling bass - 09/01/15 03:33 PM

Drag around a crig
Posted By: BassSacker

Re: Best lure for schooling bass - 09/01/15 03:37 PM


best lure I found yet! good luck trying to find one, Learned about it from the guides on Toledo bend in the mid 80's
Posted By: Tyler.Woods

Re: Best lure for schooling bass - 09/01/15 03:46 PM

Weightless fluke for me
Posted By: Rudy Lackey

Re: Best lure for schooling bass - 09/01/15 03:56 PM

Kastmaster 1oz
Posted By: hanson3708

Re: Best lure for schooling bass - 09/01/15 04:10 PM

If you can find them try a cotton cordell near nuthin.
Posted By: bigbass94

Re: Best lure for schooling bass - 09/01/15 04:30 PM

Paycheck Baits Repo Man



You can't go wrong with the Repo Man. I like it because the weight transfer system in this bait lets it casts a mile and it just seems to walk easier than other similar baits. Not to mention they have really cool colors.
Posted By: Fast Lane

Re: Best lure for schooling bass - 09/01/15 06:27 PM

Spook
Posted By: Bass N Beer

Re: Best lure for schooling bass - 09/01/15 06:52 PM

I've always had luck with Traps, Little George types, Pop R's, Spooks.
Posted By: James Biggs

Re: Best lure for schooling bass - 09/01/15 07:30 PM

Super spook Jr or a Boing top water.
Posted By: Mike Zachary

Re: Best lure for schooling bass - 09/01/15 08:35 PM

3/8 Kastmaster with a feather hook. I have a friend of mine tie a short shank No 4 with white feathers. That kastmaster matches the shad fry very well. Hit them when they are blowing and reel as soon as it hits the water keeping it high.
Posted By: 361V

Re: Best lure for schooling bass - 09/01/15 08:45 PM

I love a topwater like a torpedo or a Yellow Magic when they are schooling but when reach is an issue it's hard to beat a trap or a spoon ripped through the school. Also with the spoon you can kill it and often find the larger fish under the school.
Posted By: natebzy

Re: Best lure for schooling bass - 09/01/15 09:44 PM

Traps are a good choice but the recent schools ive been around wont touch em..need an under spin or something more along those lines
Posted By: Reds Bass Guide on Sandlin

Re: Best lure for schooling bass - 09/02/15 01:51 AM

What Gary said but I change my hooks to red !!
Posted By: Anchorman

Re: Best lure for schooling bass - 09/02/15 02:37 AM

Try a good ol Road Runner. That might just do the trick. But not many bass anglers have the larger ones in their arsenal. They work almost as good as an H&H! LOL
Posted By: lconn4

Re: Best lure for schooling bass - 09/02/15 03:46 AM

These still work.

http://www.rapala.com/rapala/lures/countdown-lures/countdownandreg/CountDown.html
Posted By: TxDanFishMan

Re: Best lure for schooling bass - 09/02/15 04:12 AM

Originally Posted By: hanson3708
If you can find them try a cotton cordell near nuthin.


This is your best option for schooling bass, the problem is finding these lures.

Add a flee-fly jig on a 18" leader and double the fun.
Posted By: Rudy Lackey

Re: Best lure for schooling bass - 09/02/15 10:10 AM

Originally Posted By: TxDanFishMan
Originally Posted By: hanson3708
If you can find them try a cotton cordell near nuthin.


This is your best option for schooling bass, the problem is finding these lures.

Add a flee-fly jig on a 18" leader and double the fun.
Posted By: Nutman

Re: Best lure for schooling bass - 09/02/15 12:03 PM

Originally Posted By: Anchorman
Try a good ol Road Runner. That might just do the trick. But not many bass anglers have the larger ones in their arsenal. They work almost as good as an H&H! LOL


This +1
Use the new 3/8oz Randy Runner with a trailer that matches what they are chasing in color and size. The flash of the blade gets em' on your bait.
Great new lure. Use it all the time on schoolers in Athens.
Posted By: GoArmy

Re: Best lure for schooling bass - 09/02/15 03:06 PM

Little George
Posted By: El Skeeter

Re: Best lure for schooling bass - 09/02/15 04:14 PM

keitech Swing Impact Fat in either 3.8 or 4.8 Houdini
Posted By: David Burton

Re: Best lure for schooling bass - 09/02/15 04:30 PM

Where would the good 'ole A-rig fit in? Right there!!!
Posted By: KingwoodCat

Re: Best lure for schooling bass - 09/02/15 05:11 PM

Originally Posted By: fish 'till I drop
I need a lure for making long casts into schooling bass that push shad to the top of the water and don't stay up long enough to get close to them. Which lure works best for this situation?


A Spoon.
Posted By: Scoundrel

Re: Best lure for schooling bass - 09/06/15 05:56 PM

'Nuther vote for the Near 'Nuthin
Posted By: Csafisher

Re: Best lure for schooling bass - 09/06/15 10:43 PM

lipless cranks
jerk baits
flukes
Posted By: SFAJACKS44

Re: Best lure for schooling bass - 09/07/15 06:16 PM

Chrome Blue Back Red Eye Shad...1/2 oz
Will reach out far and sinks with good action.
Posted By: Ken A.

Re: Best lure for schooling bass - 09/07/15 09:57 PM

3/4 oz jigging spoon. Throw it to them.. If they're on top when it lands start cranking it fast making it skip across the surface, If they are down, let it flutter down to them, rip it up off the bottom, them let it fall again. Repeat all the way back to the boat.
Posted By: RMOROTT21

Re: Best lure for schooling bass - 09/08/15 01:59 AM

A reaction innovations lil dipper
Posted By: ezbassin

Re: Best lure for schooling bass - 09/08/15 02:03 AM

Spoon or tail spinner (little George)
Posted By: txmark1959

Re: Best lure for schooling bass - 09/08/15 01:16 PM

I agree.....spoon or tail spinner !
Posted By: KingwoodCat

Re: Best lure for schooling bass - 09/08/15 01:17 PM

Originally Posted By: Rudy Lackey
Kastmaster 1oz

What he said, but I like to use a little lighter one, like 1/2 oz.
Posted By: reeltexan

Re: Best lure for schooling bass - 09/08/15 10:37 PM



Cordell CrazyShad
Bomber Fat Free
Yellow Magic

clear tiny torpedo if they get finicky.
Posted By: Karo

Re: Best lure for schooling bass - 09/10/15 06:56 PM

Popper. When we were at Athens a couple weeks ago it was the only thing the schools would hit. We tried many different baits and kept coming back to the Popper because that's the only lure that would get the bite. It was amazing watching the bass school all around us. We didn't know which direction to throw!
Posted By: LukeMcFarlane

Re: Best lure for schooling bass - 09/10/15 07:36 PM

blue shore minnow Zarra puppy. It will catch them even after they quit coming up.
Posted By: Jersey Dan

Re: Best lure for schooling bass - 09/10/15 07:48 PM

Rattle trap and schooling bass go hand and hand
Posted By: Phototex

Re: Best lure for schooling bass - 09/11/15 01:19 AM

I love to catch them on a trap, but usually will tie on a structure spoon that I've switched the hook to a single.They do tend to swallow it, and the single hook makes it much faster to unhook the fish and get the spoon back out there for another one.
Posted By: Arkansas10 bass

Re: Best lure for schooling bass - 09/11/15 02:39 AM

1/2 oz Rattle Trap.
Posted By: Minnerdunker

Re: Best lure for schooling bass - 10/02/15 07:09 PM

3/4 oz Humdinger
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