Blade bait

Grass helps but is not a must. I throw a trap all winter long on the rock pits in North Texas with good success. Points, channel bends, rip rap, and boat ramps are all great places to throw it. Most days I burn it looking for the reaction strike, but there are some that you need to give it an erratic action to entice the fish. Kill it for a few seconds, give it a nice rod tip jerk and let it flutter (red eye shad), ect...

Excuse noobness. So if I understand this right. Lipless cranks is considered a trap? Not just the Rat-L-Trap name givin baits. So with throwing it in grass does the swimming action provide hook protection from getting caught up in the grass? I am not afraid to throw anything into any place, However at the same time I Dont want to be getting caught up all the time?

If you are going to fish "traps" it's always a good idea to have a lure retriever handy. Just fish it over the grass. If you are constantly in the grass reel faster, if you never touch the grass slow down.

I also like jigging spoons in the cold of winter. Slow presentation that will catch big bass.

My alltime winter favorite is to slow retrieve a strip of Strike King Pork-o.And if it is slow to draw bites,just cut the end so about 2" of it is sliced and it flutters.Big fish cant resist.

when does the color realy matter? pumpkin, watermelon red, chartuse pepper, When and how do i make that distiction in the cold weather or even like this tourny, alake i have never been to?

If the lake has grass, even with water temps in 40's, its a red lipless ripped out of the grass, if there is no grass its a jerkbait.

As far as color, i stick with basic bait colors, red or orange represents a crawfish, and they are most active when water temps hit 60's, up or down. If im not doing that its shad colors, with chrome on sunny days. The only time i stray from those 2 basics is when water has murked up, then i will throw firetiger.

i like a buzzbait in the dead of winter too

so Ive been running a slow roll with char pepper and doin ok but what says i cant run watermelon red. I guess my question is what am i immitating come december in 30-40 degree weather. or is it anything as normal just really deep?

shad have a hard time when water is below 45 and lots die, that is why a jerkbait resembling a dying shad work so well in cold water. You can run any color you feel like, the fish will tell you what they want.

where are you finding 30 degree water??????

nice see that make alot of sense thanks bro
how long? and where would i fish this? ft?

not water just temp water is about 58-61

just get out there and let the fish tell you, i have seen people kill them on traps but i cant get bit on one and it has went the other way before too, throw what you have confidence in, it will work out for you most of the time

I guess im trying to build confidence in my fishing and not just in 2 or three baits. cause if those baits arnt working i feel like a naked kid in school lol