14 hours ago, jbsoonerfan said:

I wonder how many lures Livingston sold after Howell won it? LOL

 

That bait was supposed to be magical.

I remember when Chris Lane won an Elite event on Toledo Bend using a whopper plopper.  Of course, sales of that stupid thing erupted.  I got sucked in too.  Now they're nothing but expensive Christmas tree ornaments.

15 minutes ago, gimruis said:

I remember when Chris Lane won an Elite event on Toledo Bend using a whopper plopper.  Of course, sales of that stupid thing erupted.  I got sucked in too.  Now they're nothing but expensive Christmas tree ornaments.

The hype on the Plopper was so great from that event, that most people forget that KVD actually won the tournament...not Chris Lane .  

 

(Not the first time I've seen this either )

19 hours ago, Cdn Angler said:

So he finds bass on livescope, drops a lure on their head and leaves it until they bite? 

 

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That's not fishing to me.

Profe$$ional$

20 hours ago, Cdn Angler said:

So he finds bass on livescope, drops a lure on their head and leaves it until they bite? 

 

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That's not fishing to me.

If you purchase one and install it on your boat, it won’t work quite like that. 
 

he also caught a lot skipping a jig under docks. And lots of competitors found bass on their live scope and didn’t catch them 

From Bass Blaster newsletter;

There are better baits to use for hanging the minnow (damiki rig?). Try something naturally buoyant. 
I don’t think yum plastics are naturally buoyant. 

13 minutes ago, Mat_ski said:

There are better baits to use for hanging the minnow (damiki rig?). Try something naturally buoyant. 
I don’t think yum plastics are naturally buoyant. 

 

4" zman scented jerk shad ?

Thanks for the replies everyone!  I knew I could count on you guys to get to the bottom of this “mystery” bait! 
I just might have the kids try a small fluke/light jighead combo on a bobber and see how effective it is!

10 hours ago, scaleface said:

Is this possible?

Wacky Senko on braid does a purty good job of this.

8 hours ago, Bluebasser86 said:

Looks a lot like a Berkley Power minnow/Twitchtail minnow. I'm sure it doesn't literally sit in one spot, but likely with a light jighead combined with braided line it has somewhat of a parachute effect that sort of hovers the bait in the fish's face. Pretty similar to how I fish a Ned rig with the swim-shake-glide retrieve. Moves so slowly and looks defenseless so the fish can't help themselves. 

exactly. this is nothing new.from what i could tell watching he wasnt fishing vertically.(damiki style) He was casting and swimming it. but on a relatively light head in 25 feet of water like you said you can make that bait kind of gluide and hover. a ned, tiny fluke or twitchtail minnow may have done just as well. not taking anything away from christie he went a little out of his comfort zone went to the spinning rod and caught them.

35 minutes ago, padon said:

exactly. this is nothing new.from what i could tell watching he wasnt fishing vertically.(damiki style) He was casting and swimming it. but on a relatively light head in 25 feet of water like you said you can make that bait kind of gluide and hover. a ned, tiny fluke or twitchtail minnow may have done just as well. not taking anything away from christie he went a little out of his comfort zone went to the spinning rod and caught them.

 

Well said, this is how a ned rig was meant to be fished according to Ned Kehde and you can knock them out of the park fishing a jighead and plastic this way. A light jighead is key. 1/16 oz majority of the time for me. Sometimes 1/10 and even 1/8 but that's rare. Constant but slow movement, it creates a gliding look which appears natural, at least to me. I can concede that a heavy current can make it hard to fish this way.

I Damiki rig below a bobber, I mean strike indicator... LMB guys are entertaining with the nomenclature.

9 minutes ago, Deleted account said:

I Damiki rig below a bobber, I mean strike indicator... LMB guys are entertaining with the nomenclature.

I’ve never heard a bass angler refer to it as a strike indicator - that's purely trout talk right there. The most technical you'll get from a basser is ‘float’ ?

13 hours ago, scaleface said:

Is this possible?

Yup it’s called a drop shot rig

1 hour ago, Team9nine said:

I’ve never heard a bass angler refer to it as a strike indicator - that's purely trout talk right there. The most technical you'll get from a basser is ‘float’ ?

It's a bobber here and I have some in my boat. I'm not giving up on my "float-n-Ned", idea just yet.

1 hour ago, Bluebasser86 said:

It's a bobber here and I have some in my boat. I'm not giving up on my "float-n-Ned", idea just yet.

I did it a couple of winters ago, because I was out of ideas at the time. It works, sort of. And like I've heard some complain about the float-n-fly, it caught fish but they were mostly tiny. If I'm at that point I should probably go home.

 

Fortunately because of the kind people around here I have more tools in the toolbox now. 

 

 

yup looks like a twitch tail minnow to me. again no disrespect to jason. hes a power fisherman by choice but he picked up the spinning rod and went to work. great versatility. thats why hes one of the best.

17 hours ago, Deleted account said:

I Damiki rig below a bobber, I mean strike indicator... LMB guys are entertaining with the nomenclature.

I've created a new technique in which I dont reel the bait in. Instead i cast out a crankbait and move the boat to pull the lure behind it until something bites. Somebody help me come up with a new "rig" name for it.

35 minutes ago, Vilas15 said:

I've created a new technique in which I dont reel the bait in. Instead i cast out a crankbait and move the boat to pull the lure behind it until something bites. Somebody help me come up with a new "rig" name for it.

I think that might be called trolling? ?

On 3/7/2022 at 7:11 PM, Bluebasser86 said:

Kind of what a lot of guys do bed fishing ?

 

I might have watched 5 minutes total of Classic coverage. Everything I saw of Christie he was flipping docks with jigs. YUM might be releasing a new bait and just wanted him to mention it because they know that's all it takes for a bait to take off for at least a while. 

He said on Ike live he had been fishing the FFS minnow for 6 years considering he is not a spinning rod guy that was the bait he was most comfortable with so seeing him actually using a spinning setup on the classic I’ll take Jason Christie’s word for it over yours any day!

 

Ps. “You can’t lie on that show either”.

1 hour ago, ProGoldfishAngler said:

He said on Ike live he had been fishing the FFS minnow for 6 years considering he is not a spinning rod guy that was the bait he was most comfortable with so seeing him actually using a spinning setup on the classic I’ll take Jason Christie’s word for it over yours any day!

 

Ps. “You can’t lie on that show either”.

The FFS minnow looks almost exactly like a Berkley Twitchtail/Gulp Minnow. That thing on an 1/8oz jighead was a fish catching machine for me for several years. 

 

JC used it a lot the first couple days but that bite died on him the 3rd day and he went flipping. You don't have to take my word for it, you can literally watch the Bassmaster's Classic on Youtube. Not sure which bait you want to attribute the win to. Both played a major roll in his win.