I've always used buzzbaits off and on since I fished when I was a kid. I watch some Ott Defoe, and he loves his buzzbait, but mostly, it seems that it's a lure that folks have moved away from. Am I mistaken there?

 

How much does everyone here throw one, and how much do you see or know of others throwing one?

I throw a lot of topwater lures. Poppers, spooks, crawlers, frogs….I don’t throw a buzzbait very often. It’s more situational for me. I’m usually fishing buzzbaits around specific cover, like rows of docks I can cast between. Or timber that I don’t want to risk throwing a treble into. 
 

On most of the lakes I fish though, throwing a buzzbait as opposed to another style of topwater, is a good way to increase your esox:bass ratio. That is something I don’t want. 

Thanks for sharing Jesse.

I’ve posted it in the buzzbait thread, but a buzzbait is my favorite and #1 topwater, full stop.  I hope it is getting less popular because there is nothing else quite like it that drive bass nuts.  

I use a buzz bait the last 45 - 60 minutes of the day.  It is a very productive lure for me during this time.  The rest of the day it is not a productive lure for me except for the fall where is can good throughout the day.

I love to throw a buzz bait. It’s my #1 top water confidence bait.

If the wind has been blowing in one direction over night and the temps are right. I will parallel the wind pounded bank with a buzzbait first. I move fast and the bass let me know in 20 minutes if I need to adjust.

A pond if not weed choked always sees my buzzbait at dawn for a few minutes.

I love a buzzbait. I throw one on most if not all trips. 

Retro: back in the Nineties the buzz bait was boss on the professional tour. Good time to be there.

Good Fishing

Haven’t much this year. But I love a buzzbait. The sound the action. And the bite. First top water lure I ever had success with! Had one from Walmart for years that I loved lol was one of those $1 ones 

My favorite lure. Not my most productive but the funnest to throw.

Frog and buzz bait and floating/buzzing plastic are 99% of my top water game regardless of season or cover etc

 

They work extremely well and catch giant bass that aren’t easy to catch on the surface.

 

Buzzbait is my default top water of those three for covering water and saturating an area with casts quickly and then moving to another area.

 

Buzzbait is hands-down my number one confidence top water technique and it has been a technique that has produced my big fish for the day or even all of the fish for the day on multiple occasions in multiple seasons.

I have not fished a buzzbait in a long time. I made need to try again. Normally, if I want that type of presentation, I just fish a spinnerbait high and fast.

I use them year round here in south Louisiana. I only use two colors - black/black blade or white/gold blade. 

Throw them a lot , Especially now through fall

I wouldn't bother with it this time of year around here but spring and fall for sure. 

I think the plopper craze a few years back moved some away from it me included but I still love throwing it

Caught my 2nd largest bass on one.  Also had a gator eat one but didn't hook it, have the blade with a tooth mark.

It's the only topwater that I have serious confidence in using.

It’s getting a whole lot less popular here…. Third early morning this summer that Ive thrown one significantly and not touched a fish on my home lake. I know it’s not the buzzbaits fault but come on…

8 minutes ago, casts_by_fly said:

It’s getting a whole lot less popular here…. Third early morning this summer that Ive thrown one significantly and not touched a fish on my home lake. I know it’s not the buzzbaits fault but come on…

 

The best thing about buzzbaits is that after you try them for a few minutes you will know pretty quick if it's going to work or not.   When I am buzzbait fishing I usually keep a spinning rod with a wacky rig handy and I will throw it at the fish after a missed strike.

7 minutes ago, Pumpkin Lizard said:

 

The best thing about buzzbaits is that after you try them for a few minutes you will know pretty quick if it's going to work or not.   When I am buzzbait fishing I usually keep a spinning rod with a wacky rig handy and I will throw it at the fish after a missed strike.

yeah. It didn’t feel like a buzzbait morning today- it was super quiet. No bluegills sucking, no frogs, nothing. 

Topwater frogs and buzzbaits are my best producing topwaters.  

 

I tried catching fish on walking and popping style topwaters this weekend and 1 bite...I picked up a 1/4 oz buzzbait with a horny toad trailer on it and caught 6 fish within 30 minutes.  It is hard with that kind of production to not fish it.  All smallmouth and decent ones at that.  

43 minutes ago, dwtaylor said:

1/4 oz buzzbait with a horny toad trailer on it  

 

What buzzbait do you throw?

 

I only have one and it's 1/2 oz and I'm just not a fan of it.

 

I think I'd much prefer what you are throwing.

 

Oh, one last thing.

 

GO HAWKS!!!!!!!     

Buzzbaits catch big bass!

7 hours ago, HawkeyeSmallie said:

 

What buzzbait do you throw?

 

I only have one and it's 1/2 oz and I'm just not a fan of it.

 

I think I'd much prefer what you are throwing.

 

Oh, one last thing.

 

GO HAWKS!!!!!!!     

I have a 3/8 gold blade strike king I really like runs nice and true. I hate when a buzzbait runs crooked