1 hour ago, txchaser said:

I keep eyeballing those. Did they perform different than a senko? 

 

New stuff for the year that worked:

6" soft swimbaits

duel 7+m deep crank

netbait 6" trick worms

shimano world boost jerkbaits

 

They dart more than shimmy.

Normally my fishing time is split 50/50 between local lakes and the river. This year I focused on the river starting in June which definitely are different baits.

 

Top producers:  

Ned craw

Popper

Evergreen JT 95

Football wobblehead w/zcraw jr

Fluke

Tube

 

I was really surprised by the number of fish caught in July on topwaters. They normally work early morning and late evening but we were catching them middle of the day in clear 18" FOW.

 

Allen

I caught most of my smallmouth this year on Mann's Baby 1 minus and Strike King 3XD cranks. 

 

I also threw tubes, jigs, and squarebills a lot.

3 minutes ago, PourMyOwn said:

I caught most of my smallmouth this year on Mann's Baby 1 minus and Strike King 3XD cranks. 

 

I also threw tubes, jigs, and squarebills a lot.

 

Last year the Baby 1- and a Bandit 100 were the go-to but this year nothing. Same with jigs, last year caught a ton of fish on a finesse jig this year 4 total.

 

Allen

Gliders - I threw gliders and other large swimbaits probably 50% of the time this year. 

Aside from jigs, which I use over50% of the time, a double prop topwater saw action from late April through September. That and the BPS version of a plopper. My favorite Spooks saw very little use. 

2 lures this year way out produced all the others.

 

-Chatterbait Mini Max (got my PB on this fella) early season

 

-Swim Jig the remainder of the year after spawn. 

 

Surprising me this year my favorite Spinnerbaits did horrible and I really tried to force it. The 2 years prior to this one it was my money bait and it just fell off this year. 

I bought an appropriate rod for froggin’ Black Friday 2022 so I threw the hell out of frogs over the summer.. it’s an addiction now.

Shallow Jerkbaits/crankbaits and 1/8-1/2 oz. weighted soft craws have worked wonders this year for me.

2023 was the year of the spinnerbait for me. Started in February and still have one tied on. 

I was fishing lakes and ponds in Oregon.  Mostly fly fishing.  However I did well with a Ned rig, original TRD on 1/16 jig.  Green pumpkin seemed to be the color.  Now in MS and things will be very different.