Anybody used a wobble head (biffle hard head) in the winter time? 

 

I've done decent with them in the summer time but never gave them a try in the winter.  I've used a football jig with a lot of success in the colder water and figured I could use a fluke on the wobble head and drag it around rock and see how it goes. 

 

A swing head with a beaver is a bait I have tied on all year long and really produces well in the winter months.

Yes. two times I use them most is prespawn and summer. 

I have one tied on from the minute the ice leaves until the grass starts growing and other presentations are more efficient at coming through the grass...............but they don't get put away as they are still very productive in deeper rocky areas year round that don't get filled up with heavy grass growth. Then again in the fall they see a lot of use in the grassy areas with hard bottoms after the grass thins out heading into winter. My favorite and most productive baits on them have been chigger craws and pit bosses, they are especially effective on smallmouth around here, and I think every 5+ lb smallmouth I caught in 2016 was on one. My go to size is 3/4 oz.....as it's a presentation I want to keep bottom contact with almost 100% of the time, even in shallow water I am using the 3/4 oz most of the time. The heavy weight has two advantages for me................the previously mentioned constant bottom contact, and I can make ridiculously long casts with it and cover tons of water.

 

For heads, I am a big fan of the Mustad "fastach" weights, that way I can match hook size to the bait better. A lot of the 3/4 oz heads with the hook attached from the factory are often too big for the 3" chigger craw and pit boss that the smallmouth seem to prefer in the clear water I am fishing them in.

Never thought about dragging a fluke with one but I say go for it. I like fishing them year around, looking for sandy or rocky spots on an otherwise mucky pond bottom. 

In colder water I usually have a trick worm or a gambler little otter on there.

I like to fish them in Winter or after cold fronts as a Shaky head and cast toward a good area and barely move it as the swinging hook gives the bait more motion. I really like to use simple baits like a Trick worm but brush hogs work great.

 

There are lots of companies making good Biffle bug style Texas rig jigs that are good for grass, Ledges etc. You really can't fish them wrong, the key is getting the right weight, not to heavy, not too light but I like them as shaky heads/Fished Slowly when I know fish are in the area but I can't get bit.

 

hope that helps.

Thanks for the input. 

 

I'm off Wednesday so I'll probably hit the lake and give a couple different baits a try. 

 

Probably try:

fluke

trick worm

baby paca craw