Posted By: Gruber
Works for me! - 10/16/20 02:49 PM
Conditioned bass
Bass in lakes with heavy pressure can become conditioned, most anglers jump on the bandwagon success breeds copy cats, remember when fork first opened everyone and his brother in-law was throwing a white spinner bait.
A long tree line on fork just north of the west 515 bridge was fished by hundreds of boats everyday, all fishing horizontal presentation casting to the bank and retrieving back out, the bass can be very conditioned to this activity and so the always wanted to be different fish vertical presentation cast a worm to the far tree let it fall vertically then swim it to the next tree and fall vertical much more natural presentation, also dabbling a 3 inch white single tail grub next to timber works on conditioned bass.
I generally avoid the bass craze, the jig and pig craze, the frog craze, or any recognized standard like a white spinner bait in fork, be different.
Riprap
Everyone and there brother in law throws crankbaits on riprap, I never will, I’ll fish something nobody else would fish like a small frog or sassy shad or single curly tail grub or weightless twitch worm.
Docks, marina’s, tire reefs
Beatle spins, sassy shads, single tail white grubs all fished like crankbaits and vertical jigging pilings, small rapala’s over brush piles next to docks, small inline buzzbaits with a ribbon tail worm pulled off the banks near docks works well
Boat ramps
Rocky sides and the drop off at end of boat ramps always have fish regardless of loading and unloading activities, single tail white grub down the sides, split shot worms on the drop off and twitch worms on the ramp works good.
Pads
Even though frogs and buzzbaits are over used in pad and grass they still will work, try a large fat balsa wood crankbait in the pads
Grass walls
I fish fluttering spoons down grass walls
And any vertical structure
Bass suspended of creeks in fall and winter
Small rapala’s and crankbaits worked like a top water work well also twitch worms, in a heavy ripple on sunny days a torpedo works great with a steady retrieve bass don’t attack it but just suck it down.
Success
I’ve never had much success on crankbaits and don’t think I’ve ever caught bass on lipless crankbaits unless you count the Heddon sonic, that thing could sack em up. Black color
I’ve never caught anything on Drop shot either split shot or jig / worm are much better or Texas rigged
Not much success on Jig and pig from a boat, wadding is far greater success and I don’t know why, maybe the angle of the rod and being in the water your pulling along the bottom more than hopping it, I’ve had far greater success fishing small boats than big boats, and the greatest success in bank fishing and wadding, maybe your more focused on fishing and not on gadgets and boat positions and trolling motors, who know why but great are the memories! These are my experiences! There’s no right or wrong, the old sayings are the best. Works for me!
Bass in lakes with heavy pressure can become conditioned, most anglers jump on the bandwagon success breeds copy cats, remember when fork first opened everyone and his brother in-law was throwing a white spinner bait.
A long tree line on fork just north of the west 515 bridge was fished by hundreds of boats everyday, all fishing horizontal presentation casting to the bank and retrieving back out, the bass can be very conditioned to this activity and so the always wanted to be different fish vertical presentation cast a worm to the far tree let it fall vertically then swim it to the next tree and fall vertical much more natural presentation, also dabbling a 3 inch white single tail grub next to timber works on conditioned bass.
I generally avoid the bass craze, the jig and pig craze, the frog craze, or any recognized standard like a white spinner bait in fork, be different.
Riprap
Everyone and there brother in law throws crankbaits on riprap, I never will, I’ll fish something nobody else would fish like a small frog or sassy shad or single curly tail grub or weightless twitch worm.
Docks, marina’s, tire reefs
Beatle spins, sassy shads, single tail white grubs all fished like crankbaits and vertical jigging pilings, small rapala’s over brush piles next to docks, small inline buzzbaits with a ribbon tail worm pulled off the banks near docks works well
Boat ramps
Rocky sides and the drop off at end of boat ramps always have fish regardless of loading and unloading activities, single tail white grub down the sides, split shot worms on the drop off and twitch worms on the ramp works good.
Pads
Even though frogs and buzzbaits are over used in pad and grass they still will work, try a large fat balsa wood crankbait in the pads
Grass walls
I fish fluttering spoons down grass walls
And any vertical structure
Bass suspended of creeks in fall and winter
Small rapala’s and crankbaits worked like a top water work well also twitch worms, in a heavy ripple on sunny days a torpedo works great with a steady retrieve bass don’t attack it but just suck it down.
Success
I’ve never had much success on crankbaits and don’t think I’ve ever caught bass on lipless crankbaits unless you count the Heddon sonic, that thing could sack em up. Black color
I’ve never caught anything on Drop shot either split shot or jig / worm are much better or Texas rigged
Not much success on Jig and pig from a boat, wadding is far greater success and I don’t know why, maybe the angle of the rod and being in the water your pulling along the bottom more than hopping it, I’ve had far greater success fishing small boats than big boats, and the greatest success in bank fishing and wadding, maybe your more focused on fishing and not on gadgets and boat positions and trolling motors, who know why but great are the memories! These are my experiences! There’s no right or wrong, the old sayings are the best. Works for me!
