Whopper Plopper. Have quite a few. Only caught a couple dinks..

16 minutes ago, 928JLH said:

Whopper Plopper. Have quite a few. Only caught a couple dinks..

Same. Buzzbaits produce better that the plop flop

I have two, medium diving cranks with coffin bills that have an awesome, tight wiggle (IMO). Yea, look good to me, but fish don’t seem to like a tight wiggle I guess. 

I have yet to catch a fish on a whopper plopper. They look and sound really cool though....

Smithwick jerkbaits, I know they work because other people have success with them and I catch a huge number of fish each year on other jerkbaits, but something about smithwicks are impossible for me to buy a bite on

Oh man, I love my Smithwick Rogues! They get bit like crazy around here!! Sorrry for your loss ?

11 hours ago, Hammer 4 said:

 

For y all that don't want those glide baits, ect...you can send them to me @...

 

Give me till the end of the year Hammer.  If there are still no teeth marks on any of them by Christmas, you've got a deal.  

10 hours ago, Tizi said:

I think nearly any lure will work if you fish with it long enough and especially around active fish.  I saw a guy on YouTube catching them with a lego Chewbacca.

I saw that too! Hilarious video, especially how he dubbed the chewy voice in when the bass would jump 

Squarebills and other crankbaits.

 

I want to be a crankbait fisherman so bad, I really do.  I try my best to have good days on them and I have, but that has been around active fish.  So active they didn't even need to deflect.  Just wind and whop.

 

Sure, there are also times when I can smack vertical timber and get a reaction bite, and this past weekend I got hung in cypress roots and managed to get it free and as soon as I did I had a two pounder on.

 

Beyond that, I'm always dredging bottom and bringing back loads of leaves, pine straw, and algae.  My local ponds just aren't crankbait compatible.  The one lake I frequent is very clear and I've read crankbaits aren't the best presentation for clear waters.

 

I'm planning on hitting Clark's Hill this summer and learning to deep crank, though.

12 hours ago, keagbassr said:

Man is this a trick question?, the answer is NO! If it doesnt catch fish I don't like it.

Well, what I mean is a lure that you thought looked killer and didn't turn out to work for you.

12 hours ago, MIbassyaker said:

Anything by LiveTarget.

 

(Actually, that's not completely fair -- I've gotten the hollow-body frog and the crappie crankbaits to work. But they're all overpriced)

 

11 hours ago, Russ E said:

^^ this. I have a couple live target crankbaits. they looked awesome in the store.

 they are great at catching fishermen. they suck at catching fish. 

I thought so too...back when I equated everything LiveTarget with the baitball stuff.  I've since had great luck with Smelt Jerkbait and with the big bluegill lipless traps

I am going to get flak for this, but jigs.  Swimjigs, football jigs, flipping jigs, etc.  I have caught some fish on them but overall they just get hung up on rocks all the time or bring back a lot of vegetation.  I have lost far more jigs than I have caught fish...

But i keep buying them and have quite an assortment - 2, 3700 boxes full of them.  

 

I don't get it.  A spinnerbait catches so many more fish than a swim jig. And every other plastic outperforms other jigs...

28 minutes ago, JediAmoeba said:

I am going to get flak for this, but jigs.  Swimjigs, football jigs, flipping jigs, etc.  I have caught some fish on them but overall they just get hung up on rocks all the time or bring back a lot of vegetation.  I have lost far more jigs than I have caught fish...

But i keep buying them and have quite an assortment - 2, 3700 boxes full of them.  

 

I don't get it.  A spinnerbait catches so many more fish than a swim jig. And every other plastic outperforms other jigs...

Here’s some flack!!! Jigs are the only thing you can fish in the late summer/early fall vegetation around here. That or a frog, everything else gets gobbed up in it 

24 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

Here’s some flack!!! Jigs are the only thing you can fish in the late summer/early fall vegetation around here.

LIES!!! They don't work!  

I will add the Whopper Plopper too.   I tried and tried and tried with no success.  Then last summer I had a one week period where I slayed them in shallow water before the sun crested the trees.  Then it stopped.  Even under the same conditions.  

6th Sense Flat 75X.  I know this is just a me-problem and not a lure problem.  But I just can't get bit on these things.  Conditions haven't been just right yet....YET

I bit hard into the Teckle Sprinker. Not even a strike. To make matters worse every one I’ve used has issues with getting the tail to actually function properly. Last time I used one I got nowhere with it, switched to my Booyah Baby Pad Crasher and within five casts had two blowups on it (probably the same fish twice) but given I had just fished the Sprinker in the same place...well....

7 hours ago, JediAmoeba said:

I am going to get flak for this, but jigs.  Swimjigs, football jigs, flipping jigs, etc.  I have caught some fish on them but overall they just get hung up on rocks all the time or bring back a lot of vegetation.  I have lost far more jigs than I have caught fish...

But i keep buying them and have quite an assortment - 2, 3700 boxes full of them.  

 

I don't get it.  A spinnerbait catches so many more fish than a swim jig. And every other plastic outperforms other jigs...

I agree with this. If it weren’t for the fact I’ve bought Mike’s jigs as simply a person who admires his artwork, is never buy another one. I can’t get em’ to work for me. I gave them 4 seasons’ worth of a good shot and ended up with fewer than 5 in 4 years on them. Now they’re not even in my boxes. Oddly enough though, chatterbaits are a great early spring producer for me, and they look very much like a jig.

21 hours ago, MIbassyaker said:

Anything by LiveTarget.

 

(Actually, that's not completely fair -- I've gotten the hollow-body frog and the crappie crankbaits to work. But they're all overpriced)

You and my tournament partner are the same. Though he has caught a few but no matter what lake we're on, the bass that bite Live Target lures are always diseased, like covered in sores and gross looking. 

1 hour ago, Preytorien said:

I bit hard into the Teckle Sprinker. Not even a strike. To make matters worse every one I’ve used has issues with getting the tail to actually function properly. Last time I used one I got nowhere with it, switched to my Booyah Baby Pad Crasher and within five casts had two blowups on it (probably the same fish twice) but given I had just fished the Sprinker in the same place...well....

I also did not get any fish on the Sprinker. However, I was killing it all summer with a Toadrunner, which is basically an upgraded Sprinker.

I bought a couple walk the dog style lures by Fred Arbogast called " Phreds Phydeax" (Fred's Fido) and I am a sucker for walk the dog lures but as much as I enjoy working that lure and watching its beautiful glides it has never been attacked by old fish face! Has anyone else here got any of those lures?

Sadly - the Johnson Silver Minnow .

 

I even have the real Uncle Josh's black eel pork rind trailers for it too.

6 hours ago, HenryPF said:

Sadly - the Johnson Silver Minnow

I have to echo this one.  Love the look of it, don't think I ever caught a fish on it.  I grew up with the mindset that spoons were for pike, not bass.  Dardevle was the king in those days.

My wife taught me what an  “ oxy- moron “ was- because someone had called me that and I thought it meant ultra- moron and thought they were insulting me !!?

This is what you are asking. A lure you love but hate. I dont love any lure that doesn’t work, however,there are some I love the APPEARANCE of, but not the nature of ( that it doesn’t catch fish.) Its like the good- looking girl in high school all the guys are drooling over. But once you get past the outward appearance, you find that there isn’t much to desire in her head or heart!

Lures like that are the live target sunfish ( it may be called bluegill).Its a good likeness of the fish, but floats on it’s side. I have never had a fish sniff at it. I also have some pretty crankbaits that I have never caught a fish on. Another is the “ Christy critter” It looks like the bass would love it, but I have never had a bite with one. Also , a zoom magnum finesse worm- nothing. 
The list goes on...

@N Florida Mike - I forgot about the live target sunfish. I have 2 and they have never even produced a strike. Not even a sniff. 

Another vote for the Glide. In fact, any hard swimbait. I know I just haven't used it at the right time/place. The action just doesn't look very natural to me.

Big creature baits like the Brush Hog.

 

To the guys with no luck on the Whopper Plopper, use the 110 in late prespawn/early spawn when there are big bass shallow. They won't tolerate it. I got my PB on it and I can say my average is better than 3 lbs. on this bait. You will have to make many casts without a bite, but the bite will likely be good.

13 hours ago, HenryPF said:

Sadly - the Johnson Silver Minnow .

 

I even have the real Uncle Josh's black eel pork rind trailers for it too.

I've only caught a flounder on it. I was in a bait shop at the beach and the owner walked over and asked me what I was fishing for. I said reds-trout-flounder. He handed me a gold Johnson Minnow, some jigheads and Gulp mullets. He said you can spend as much as you want, but this will get it done.

On 2/17/2020 at 11:54 PM, Ogandrews said:

Smithwick jerkbaits, I know they work because other people have success with them and I catch a huge number of fish each year on other jerkbaits, but something about smithwicks are impossible for me to buy a bite on

I have several, but the only jerkbaits that I have confidence in are Rapalas.

For you guys having trouble with glides, slow it down.  Slow.  Slower than it takes you to bring near about anything back in.  They don't get bit often, but they do get bit, and when they do it's often a quality fish.

 

My glidebait retrieves probably take near a minute after I've chucked them 40 yards.