What’s yours?

 

i like sassy shads, white single tail grubs, no. 7 rapala’s and twitch worms

A ton of factors weigh into what I'm throwing at rocks. This time of year, it's a lot of squarebills and traps. I fish a lot of shakyheads, jigs, swinging heads, bladed jigs, Ned rigs, topwaters, swimbaits, and wacky rigs along it too.

For me, it's more about how to fish riprap, than the bait.

 

 

I like cranks best . Deep Wee R's and Model A's follow the contour down pretty well . Cast shallow at about a 45 degree angle, let the crank follow the contour down to about 8 foot .

^^^^^This also is my way^^^^^
 

Rapalas, Bandits, Bombers, SK’s. My comfort zone cranking is down to about 15 feet. Was a lot shallower when I was strictly a river rat. Lake riprap and the lake fishing in general has forced me to fish deeper. 
 

1000 way to approach I guess. I don’t fish heavy jigs but this is another way I like to go at it. Just not heavy. 

Jerkbait. Check out hank cherry's classic win on guntersville earlier this year

Everybody and their brother in law throws cranks so I prefer something different!

   Since I'm casting from shore, my attack is backwards from the boatman's attack. I use spinnerbaits, squarebills and occasionally a spoon.     jj

I fish at a 45 degree angle and throw in to the shallows and work the lure down the rocks slowly. I like a weighted swimbait hook with a creature bait or large curly tail the most, if fish are pushing baitfish up against the riprap then a paddle tail swimbait of correct size can rule. 

Literally anything will work well on rip-rap because it often holds fish. I just match the conditions and throw based off that. But I do like throwing a swinghead over those rocks and sometimes it produces very well. I usually use a Speed Craw as the trailer.

Most Texas riprap has thread fin shad so I fish white pearl or silver, anyone fish a tail dragger, I cast a no. 7 rapala behind the boat and secure the rod, the boat gives it its action while I fish the riprap from the front, catch extra bass and stragglers that way

I might be the weird one, swimjigs. White or blue gill color. bouncing it off the rocks. 

Weird? It’s all good as long as it works for you.

Another good riprap bait is white maribou jig 1/8 oz fished steady parallel to the riprap the tail swims like a shad

I agree it’s more about how to fish rip rap than the lure used.

 

Lures I do tend to use most if windy: 

 

Trap

spinnerbait

single tail grub/jig head.

 

calm:

 

jignpig

tube jig

senko

 

 

 

Faster moving lures like diving crank baits, jerk baits,spinnerbaits and top water. Just about everything except jigs and worms in the rip rap. Jigs and worms are used along soil to rip rap rock transitions and any wood or cover.

Tom

4 minutes ago, WRB said:

Just about everything except jigs and worms in the rip rap.

I cant fish them in rip rap . They get wedged on most cast .

34 minutes ago, scaleface said:

I cant fish them in rip rap . They get wedged on most cast .

They are tough to fish in rock for sure. I don’t fish a tube often but it’s one area I tend to grab one. Senko works too. Like Tom said it’s more about covering water with a moving bait, when you get to a piece of cover or a change in bottom that’s where a jig would be a player. 

Squarebill crankbait is probably my favorite bait of all to work along riprap when it is possible and productive to do so, they deflect off of cover extremely well, and they float, which may seem like a silly thing to note as an advantage, but as long as you avoid doing something stupid like setting the hook when you hang up in the rocks it's almost impossible to lose one, just let it sit on a slack line and it floats out of wherever it was stuck and you can carry on as usual. 

On 10/20/2020 at 7:55 PM, Sissyfishing said:

What’s yours?

 

i like sassy shads, white single tail grubs, no. 7 rapala’s and twitch worms

Buzz baits.

2 hours ago, Sphynx said:

but as long as you avoid doing something stupid like setting the hook when you hang up in the rocks

I cant help it .?

18 minutes ago, scaleface said:

I cant help it .?

I have lost my fair share of them, the problem is I always assume the rock is a fish because I don't wait, and bury the stupid thing in where it gets stuck, but there's a few rocks that I get hung up in regularly in one of my fishing holes, and I am pretty good about not swinging on those rocks