Well we all started some where and some how and have come along way with newer lures and presentations , patterns ,etc. and this might not apply to those who started out,but for those of us that have been doing for a good while now , do you use more of old school tactics, and lures or say newer lures and tactics , if you had to choose just one? cause being without the old there be no new.

Why would I have to choose only one? My tackle box has room for old school stuff like in-line spinners and newer stuff (to me) like suspending Japanese jerk baits. You sound like you prefer the old school tactics. There's nothing wrong with that. If that's what you like, and you have confidence in, stick with it!

Hard for me to define "new"

 

Some "new" stuff would be the addition of fiber weedguards to jigs, shakeyhead jigs ? hmmm, not new, I´ve been pouring my own for more than 2 decades, swimbaits ? back in the 80´s we ( I and my friends ) used to hunt for big bass in Tamaulipas with saltwater and musky size baits, dropshotting ? we, ( I and my fishing partners ) used the "hook above sinker" rig to present the bait above the bottom weeds. Soft plastic stickbaits ? ain´t those super similar to the venerable French Fry worm ? Alabama rigs ? I remember them being called umbrela rigs for saltwater fishing. Something really new to me was the invention of the EWG hook.

 

Perhaps the "new" stuff has more to do with the availability of foreign tackle ( mostly Japanese ).

Great post, Raul!

 

There's precious little that's come along in the years that I've been bass fishing (about 50) that is really new. Most of what's marketed as "new" is a slight modification of something that's been around for years. 

It just sells better if the manufacturer can convince us gullible fishermen that it's new and revolutionary.

 

Tom

Raul, Rick Clunn recently started " every thing old has become new!".

The game's the same, the players have changed!

I am finding the stuff that I grew up with is working well again because others have abandoned it.

 

I guess my technique is to fish natural-style presentations, but do something to the bait or presentation to make it stand out. 

 

A lot of my spinners are Dad's from the '70s and '80s.  I caught my first bass of the year on a small vintage inline spinner with a trailer.

 

Josh

I find myself using older techniques more when fishing gets tough.  Swimming a jig for example when a spinnerbait isn't producing, or a small crankbait behind a C - Rig to get it deep when a deep diving crank is killing my wrist.  I do have a tendency to start out with some of the newer baits that are more presentation specific, but I think my confidence isn't in them as much as in the history of production of some of the older stuff.