Hey everybody, still kinda new on here and this my first idea for a thread so here goes.... What's your go to stealth presentation? By stealth I mean any time you need to sneak up on the fish, shallow or deep, cloudy or sunny, windy or glassy, boat or bank. For me it's a 4" senko or dinger in green pumpkin or watermelon red thrown on a 2500 Lews lazer speed spin and a 6'6" ML spinning rod (okay, its an ugly stik) and #8 yozuri hybrid.

Lately I've been seeking out really shallow warm and sunny water and it got me wondering what else might work besides what I usually use.Thanks and good catchin!

4 inch finesse worm, flung weightless on a spinning rod.

Green pumpkin senko or tube bait on a spinning rig, 10lb braid with a 6lb flouro leader. That usually gets the job done, but I have one pond that even that will spook them. It's maddening when you see a huge *whoosh* by the bank and know you could've had a good one on! 

Most anything plastic that isn't a chatter trailer or paddle tail.  I have been working hard on my ninja skills the past year.  If it isn't a reaction bait, I think subtleness and stealthiness has to be a positive 95% of the time.

A Fly Rod ~

 

It just reeks of Stealth . . .

 

A-Jay

Spinning rod, 6 lb line, and a weightless Berkley Gulp! Minnow

 

Still managed to spook a 7 lb or 8 lb Bass the other day...  

Same lure 4 different presentations given the conditions.  15lb Smackdown, 8lb Invizx FC

 

Finesse Worm

 

Drop shot

Mojo Rig

Shakey Head

Weightless when very shallow

Anything on Briery: 6'8" Lamiglas 5 power (yes I broke the tip), 20lb braid, Power team lures craw d'ourvre texas rigged on a 2/0 gamakatsu with 1/4 oz. weight.

Anything else: 6'6" St. Croix Med/Fast, 12 pound mono, Weightless Yum Dinger baby!!

A weightless Zoom finesse worm dragged slowly across the top of the weeds. 

Easily drop shot Yamamoto shad shape worm

6lb line, 1/16oz shaky head with a 4.5" finesse worm.

Most of you confuse stealth with finesse. A 60 yard cast using a 10" swimbait or a 50 yard cast with a jig & pig can be stealty, nothing finesse about those presentations and they do not spook bass unless the lure lands on top of them.

Tom

I have 1 suggestion you may want to check out since I am a fan of Yo-zuri Hybrid line as well.

 

I don't have the chart in front of me, but I am pretty sure that the 6lb test is almost the exact same strength as the 8lb test, plus it is a thinner line which will give you more stealth and longer casts, if you visit the Yo-zuri site they have a chart.

 

I believe the 6lb Hybrid breaks at 12.6 and the 8lb at 12.8 or something like that, the 10lb I believe is something like 16.4 so I have always purchased the #4 (it is over 8lb) #6,#10 for spinning tackle and I am comfortable with the 6lb Hybrid on my spinning gear and even the #4 early in the year and I am not a huge fan of the new ultra soft, it just doesn't seem to be as abrasion resistant.

 

Hope that helps, and I hope that is accurate but pretty sure it is close as I remember using my phone when buying spools of it last year.

Double prop buzzbait.

Zoom Trick Worm with a split shot.

Weightless T rigged bento minnow.