I understand that lures, and some more specifically than others, require a good deal of technique to master/use and use effectively. However, there are times when in frustration or simple curiosity I'll throw a lure and use it "the wrong way", sometimes that has it's success, and often as expected, it's failure.

 

Lately I've been using a spybait all the wrong ways

 

Dirty water

50lb braid

fast - subsurface retrieves

slow - dredge the bottom retrieves

 

Basically all the opposite of the gin-clear-light-line-deep-slow-retrieve method.....which DOES work by the way

 

But using all the "wrong methods" that thing still catches fish. I don't know how on earth those bass even see it most of the time, let alone become interested by its subtle flash, it's props don't even really work up the water. What's fun too is that it's not always a bass at the end of the line, it'll bring up an occasional crappie or bluegill which adds a bit to the day.

 

But hey......who knows....sometimes it's worth throwing a lure and using it the "wrong way"....just might get you a bite or two

I have a cousin who only fishes a few times a year. Not big into it at all. He usually fishes with either a rooster tail or senko. Anytime its a senko, he always steady casts and retrieves.

Not sure if he just don't know any better, or maybe knows something I don't. Iv tried to explain to him how to use it, to no avail. He's skunked me like this before...

I don't believe there are wrong ways to fish.Just ways that others don't agree with.

^^^ Agreed! I would never swim a craw imitator just below the surface but a buddy of mine has done this and whacked fish. Good for him! (Even if it does look goofy)

I mentioned this in an earlier thread .....but my wife tied on a Cavitron buzzbait a few weeks ago and started fishing it like a spinnerbait; tossing it into laydowns and letting it drop....crank it a few times well below the surface and let it drop.....After a half-dozen casts I was about to gently point out something....when wham - she boats the big fish of the day.

I just watched an old FLW show in which Brian Thrift worked a jerkabait very fast, faster than I would fish a fluke or topwater, and caught the first 20-pound bag ever recorded in FLW history on Kentucky lake. 

 

Just goes to show, conventional approches aren't the only ways to catch bass. 

^^^ Agreed! I would never swim a craw imitator just below the surface but a buddy of mine has done this and whacked fish. Good for him! (Even if it does look goofy)

Here in south Louisiana this is one of the best ways to fish