I know this is a very general question but what has been your overall most productive style of retrieve (speed, pauses, jerks, etc) with these different baits on pressured waters?

 

1. Spinnerbait

2. Crankbait

3. Lipless crankbait

4. Glide bait

5. Swimjig

6. Wakebait

 

I guess I should volunteer my own experience first. 

 

1. No experience (I guess this is why I'm asking)

2. Steady slow retrieve

3. Steady slow retrieve

4. Medium fast steady retrieve

5. No expirience

6. No expirience

You won't be very successful if you only use one retrieve each for each different bait!  You have to experiment with speeds, twitching, pausing and so forth on each particular day.

1 minute ago, IndianaFinesse said:

You won't be very successful if you only use one retrieve each for each different bait!  You have to experiment with speeds, twitching, pausing and so forth on each particular day.

I know, I'm just asking what has been the most successful for people in general as a starting point. 

 

On 2017-06-28 at 5:02 PM, FCPhil said:

I know this is a very general question but what has been your overall most productive style of retrieve (speed, pauses, jerks, etc) with these different baits on pressured waters?

 

1. Spinnerbait

2. Crankbait

3. Lipless crankbait

4. Glide bait

5. Swimjig

6. Wakebait

 

1. medium - fast retrieve if fish are active and 

slow roll with random pops if bite is off

 

2. steady medium retrieve or pull the bait in with the rod and reel in the slack line (fish usually bite on the pause)

 

3. slow medium or fast retrive with jerks and pops depending on depth

 

4. fast retrieve with pauses and quick jerks 

 

5. Slow bottom bouncing retrive with jerks

 

6. Medium retrieve with quick pops

3 minutes ago, dan94 said:

4. fast retrieve with pauses and quick jerks 

 

Interesting you say this. I have heard so many people talk about fishing glide baits super slow so that is mainly what I did. Recently I realized though that most of the bites I have gotten was when I was retrieving it faster, usually because I thought it was a bad cast or trying to get it in position. 

a glide bait can be retrieved slowly and is probably a better choice for lethargic fish. But personally ive caught more fish burning the bait back with random pauses and twitches. The key is the pauses and twitches though, thats when the fish hit it. The speedy retrieval gets the fish excited and that pause n twitch gives the fish a chance to strike. Try it out next time your on the water  

4 minutes ago, dan94 said:

a glide bait can be retrieved slowly and is probably a better choice for lethargic fish. But personally ive caught more fish burning the bait back with random pauses and twitches. The key is the pauses and twitches though, thats when the fish hit it. The speedy retrieval gets the fish excited and that pause n twitch gives the fish a chance to strike. Try it out next time your on the water  

Will do!