Go to bait for Bass?

[HammerZ71]

I was gonna do this as a poll, but decided not to. I don't want any influences here. Like most avid fishermen (I fished club and smaller tour events for about twelve years from the early 90's till about five years ago), I tend to change patterns with the seasons. With fall coming, I will throw a lot more jigs, but it never seems to fail, I'll ALWAYS have a white pearl Zoom Super Fluke tied on one rig EVERY time I head out to fish. If y'all had to pick one artificial bait to throw, what would it be?

This ad is not displayed to registered and logged-in members. Register your free account today and become a member on Dodge Forums!

[dodgeboy1979]

I like the chartreuse mr.twister jigs, they always seem to work for me.

[Laramie1997]

Plastic is all we throw for bass. Never got into jigging. Never learned it, and haven't had a need/want to. My favorite plastic to throw is a Red speckled salty craw. It never seems to fail that when nothing else hits, it will.

We have good luck with Black worms as well too.

[AMCman10]

Go to jig would be the basic black and blue booyah with blue chunk (different styles of chunks, but always blue). My favorite is slow jiggin in heavy cover, trees/limbs mostly. When they hit it when its droppin from overhead, man its sweet.

Also always have some sort of perch crank setup. Whether it be shallow, deep dive with rattles, topwater, those have always produced results.

[HammerZ71]

Originally Posted by Laramie1997

Plastic is all we throw for bass. Never got into jigging. Never learned it, and haven't had a need/want to. My favorite plastic to throw is a Red speckled salty craw. It never seems to fail that when nothing else hits, it will.

We have good luck with Black worms as well too.

I've always thrown a jig, as a kid for smallmouth in the gin clear rivers of upstate NY if I wasn't fly fishin, it was usually a small jig, bounced along the rocks to imitate crawfish.

In the deep south you learn one of the most effective ways to fish dense mats of foliage or heavy cypress cover is to pitch or flip a jig into it...

[Billiam]

Yellow purple sparkled rattle trap, worked wonders over here... Till I broke it. Now its just tube jigs, various colors. They all work, you just need to know which one for whatever day.

[truckin151]

For large mouth bass we always use live waterdogs and have great results with them.

[Sheriff420]

zoom plum apple has worked well this year.
my tried and true worms are wave worms sweet potato pie, zoom bruised banana and wave worms junebug and redbug.
another one that works well is yamamoto smoke black blue and gold, it has a black/gray body with blue and gold flakes in it (maybe green too, i can't remember).
i rig all my worms weightless/weedless.
my girlfriends has had good luck this year with zoom magnum worms rigging them wacky style.
don't forget about night fishing. if you hit a pond at night with a big jitterbug it will yield some monsters.

[HammerZ71]

If I had to go fish for $ and could only take two rigs, one would be a 6' pistol grip, medium heavy rod with a Ambassador baitcaster with a Texas rigged 7.5" Culprit Red Shad Worm on it and the other would be a 6' 3" medium action spinning rod with a Shimano Spirex reel with a weightless White Pearl Zoom Super Fluke.
I bet more than 50% of my bass over the last ten years or so have come off of those two setups...

[dirtydog]

I've only ever used live bait for Bass. I'm not a fan of jigging although it keeps you occupied instead of sitting around with your thumb up your ass...lol
I need time to drink so the bobber deal is my ticket to catching and drinking.