8 minutes ago, HeyCoach said:

Does anybody throw a buzzbait or topwater all day?

Next time I go float for river fish, it's a high likelihood that I'll never pick up a jig rod.

37 minutes ago, HeyCoach said:

Does anybody throw a buzzbait or topwater all day?

I do when it's overcast and at least mid-May(in Iowa).

 

I feel like the "buzzer" type baits, be it toads, buzzbaits, whopper ploppers, Devil Horses, etc, have a tendency to garner bites all day.  Major reaction bite baits.  Not so much with walking/popping baits in my experience.  Those are more of a timing deal, in my mind.

5 hours ago, HeyCoach said:

Does anybody throw a buzzbait or topwater all day?

Yes .

On 4/20/2019 at 6:36 PM, scaleface said:

Dont set the hook until you feel the fish on

 

What I do is hold my rod tip high (10 o°clock), when the bass strikes I drop the rod tip, point it at the fish, let them take up slack, & then just rear back on em.

 

Another little trick I use if they're missing a buzzbait is to switch to a Stanley Ribbit, Zoom Horny Toad, Speed Craw, any Rage product, or even a ribbon tail worm.

 

All of these soft plastic make a similar noise to a buzzbait but are subtler & allow to bass to inhale em!

1 hour ago, Catt said:

 

What I do is hold my rod tip high (10 o°clock), when the bass strikes I drop the rod tip, point it at the fish, let them take up slack, & then just rear back on em.

 

Another little trick I use if they're missing a buzzbait is to switch to a Stanley Ribbit, Zoom Horny Toad, Speed Craw, any Rage product, or even a ribbon tail worm.

 

All of these soft plastic make a similar noise to a buzzbait but are subtler & allow to bass to inhale em!

I have skittered so many types of soft plastics on the surface; it really works well at times, even when its a craw or something meant to be worked on bottom.

On 4/23/2019 at 1:44 PM, HeyCoach said:

Does anybody throw a buzzbait or topwater all day?

 

Yes. One of my most memorable fishing days ever was a day when I threw nothing but the same topwater bait (LC GF AB 95) all day long. Never even cast another lure. They were on it from the first cast of the day until the last cast.

My all time favorite "searching" bait.  Yes, fish it often, n fish it slow...Anytime the water has warmed significantly and the fish have moved up.  I always kept a jig or worm rigged on another rod handy, and would buzz a stump or log or any good looking shallow cover, and as soon as I cleared the cover, switch rods and drop in the jig, right on the cover...Bingo...One of my favorite tactics when partner fishing is for one of us throwing a buzzer, with the other ready with the jig/worm to fire in there, right behind the buzzer.  Even when it doesn't produce a strike, it excites 'ol bucket mouth and when the jig or worm drops in right behind...it's on...

In fairly open cover I'd often hang a large treble on for a trailer.  I also used a "soft" rod and let him set the hook.