What has been your most effective method to catch bass?

For example, catching them Texas rigged with a watermelon seed crawl type plastic.

Number: wacky style senko black/blue or watermelon red
Size: black blue jig with same color trailer.

Gary Yamamoto 5" Senko #222
1/4 oz. Yellow Magic in the color BONE

Going where there’s lots of bass with not a lot of fishing pressure

Prespawn—lipless crankbait
Post spawn—weightless stick bait
Summer—swim jig
Fall—fluke
Winter—spoon

Texas rig baby brush hog watermelon red
Citrus shad shallow diver

Pearl weightless fluke....

Texas rig baby brush hog watermelon orange,5/8 tungsten

Blue pearl hologram with Gamakatzu superline EWG 3/0 hook

Smithwick rogue chrome/black or sunburst bass

As you can see everyone fishes their confidence baits depending on the conditions and times of the year. This is your starting point that all fisherman accomplish that have spent any time on the water to figure out their lake of choice. Once I reached this level of fishing; we then put together a system for two fisherman in the boat to double up on finding fish on a regular basis and getting them to bite. Here is my article on developing this System.

https://texasfishingforum.com/forum...5605/re-developing-a-system#Post13255605

Zoom Plum 10.5 worm... Texas Rig. Hundreds of fish on this.

Find a school and drop shot them all day. Cover water with a drop shot. Bed fish with a drop shot. But, yesterday, it was a frog bite. All day.

It depends on the lake conditions.

Some days I can catch fish all day on a shaky head zoom worm. Sometimes it’s a c rig.

I have caught the most fish, by a long shot, using a flick/shake setup with a Yamamoto Senko. But it doesn’t always work. Second is probably a Biffle Bug on a peg weighted 3/0 flipping hook. Those two setups are always on deck. I will adjust the other rods on the lake.

Texas Rigged Yum Dinger/Senko/Etc

Flipping Texas rigged 5 inch Senko or Yumdinger with 1/8 oz bullet weight to gentle sloping bank near deeper water. I use pumpkin seed color, but doubt that it matters.

Drop shot, and it’s boring me, but at least I’m catching a few fish.

Right now it's been an 8" black lizard either weightless or with a 3/16 oz. bullet weight.

Man, I love fishing a spinnerbait. Its a year round bait, catches big fish and I think I am pretty good at fishing one.

HOWEVER, if I had to catch fish, I would go with a light t-rigged Yum Craw Papi. That bait just flat catches bass.

go to lake picachos....pick any color senko,lizard,worm,frog,topwater and cast it toward the bank.....a bass will bite it......

1/8 oz lead bullet weight, 1/0 offset shank hook, tx rigged zoom finesse worm on 8# P-Line on a Stradic 1000. 6'8" MH spinning rod.

drop shot a zoom finesse worm in watermelon red with the tail dipped or a weightless fluke

I have done well on a CB, for YEARS. Got me my 1, 3 and 5 biggest bass. Other presentations that have been successful for me include SB, all the soft plastic rigs (especially weightless soft plastics), topwater *especially the 3/8 oz Yellow Magic Plus 1), weightless r lightly weighted rigs, all hard bait and soft bait presentations. In OGHER WORDS< ALL FISHING PRESENTATIOON and STYLES and WEIGHTS and each variation out there. BECAUSE I HAVE CONFIDENCE in myself to figure out what the fish want to bight. It took a LONG TIME to get the confidence, but once you get it, you catch a LT more fish. II have even fished a horny toad on a T and C rig and caught fish. DO NOT OVER THINK IT GUES, just present something they have never seen and get bit. THIHK OUTSIDE THE BOX A FEW TIMES A TRIP AND GET BETTER LEARNG WHT THE FISH TELL YOU AND LISTENN TO THEM.

Sorry about the shouting. Tight lines, keep safe and good luck.

Thad Rains

glad the fish tell you and not spell it out...

That is what posting while you are having an insulin reaction.

TR

usually a smiley face means a joke. you should go see a doc then, not the tff.

Roboworm 4 1/2” drop shot - color not real important
Xcite baits squarebill - copper green shad
Anytime of the year, day you will find these baits on my deck

Spinnerbait, 12 months out of the year. Caught several DD fish and big numbers. #2 is a Tx rigged zoom lizard,

Sorry, didn't see it. Better now. I have had Type 1 Diabetes Melitus for over 48 years, and the doctors often come to me to ask questions, because I am considered an expert on some thing with diabetes. Got it in March 1972. Never have followed the way they used to make us eat, because my grandmother was head diatition at Baylor Medical Hospital, so we just figured out what to eat from our normal list. No bragging, just stating facts/ Sorry I did not seethe smiley face. I apologize.

Respectfully,

Thad Rains

recently weightless fluke