I know I am late to the party, but finally caught one on a Deps Cover Scat today. I really did not know how to fish these things. I was just kind of hopping it off the bottom in about 10' of water and letting it drift back to bottom. It suddenly felt heavy and I set the hook. Nice fish. How do most of you retrieve these turd baits? Hop, drag, reel in slowly?

I also caught my first bass on a Karashi on BFS, so, I am calling it a win today.

@rboat I just caught a trophy smallie last week on a new bait I have never fished before. So trying something new can be rewarding. 

3 hours ago, rboat said:

I know I am late to the party, but finally caught one on a Deps Cover Scat today. I really did not know how to fish these things. I was just kind of hopping it off the bottom in about 10' of water and letting it drift back to bottom. It suddenly felt heavy and I set the hook. Nice fish. How do most of you retrieve these turd baits? Hop, drag, reel in slowly?

I also caught my first bass on a Karashi on BFS, so, I am calling it a win today.

 

I'm relatively new to it as well.  My best success has been post-spawn to early summer, working weed flats and breaks.  It shines for me when they're not very active, I like to double hop it off the bottom and line watch.  I don't let it sit too long, 10 seconds give or take if it's a large mouth fishery and repeat, I'll deadstick smallies a lot longer.  Popping them off steep breaks at the right time means they never touch the bottom and those fish have been my best.  There's also a fine strand weed on my lake that creates a dense carpet, this is the best bait I've found for getting down but not buried in that stuff.

 

What you really need is @RRocket advice...

 

scott

 

 

totally weightless rigging for me.  they cast so well anyways.

 

I fish it like a weightless wacky.  let it sink with eversodlightly ticks of my rod tip.  I usually get smoked on the sink.  

 

so much fun!!!  my Mexican fishing guide called them "caca-Bueno".  hahahah

If it moves in its own in the bass world it’s alive. With that said I have fished do nothing worms or French fries that have very little movement but bass ate the. So far poop baits haven’t found their way into my tackle bag, too many soft plastics that work better.

Tom

4 hours ago, softwateronly said:

 

 

What you really need is @RRocket advice...

 

scott

 

 

Thanks for the kind words.

 

But it sounds like you know how to fish them too!! 

10 hours ago, rboat said:

I know I am late to the party, but finally caught one on a Deps Cover Scat today. I really did not know how to fish these things. I was just kind of hopping it off the bottom in about 10' of water and letting it drift back to bottom. It suddenly felt heavy and I set the hook. Nice fish. How do most of you retrieve these turd baits? Hop, drag, reel in slowly?

I also caught my first bass on a Karashi on BFS, so, I am calling it a win today.

Congrats!! Such a fun, effective bait to fish! I'm a huge enthusiast of these and poop-bug hybrids ups.

 

Like @softwateronly , I too like a firm double twitch off the bottom. Reason? Cover Scat walks the dog underwater!! Research has shown that bass prefer crawfish with no claws. And the Cover Scat mimics this. And the dogwalking mimics the erratic movement of a fleeing crawfish. That's the theory, anyways. Who knows. So cast, let sink to bottom, count to 5-10, firmly JERK, JERK, let sink to bottom, repeat.

 

It's also great in cover. Think of it as an underwater weedless walking frog. Use your imagination here.

 

Or, the drag. Poop and poop-bug (mushi) baits work very well being dragged. So much so the technique has its own name among enthusiasts: HDD (High Density Dragging).  I generally use a mushi bait for this technique but I've caught loads with a CoverScat doing this. Again..is this the clawless craw thing in action again? Or is it a fat leach? Bug? Not sure..but it works! The strangest lure I've used recently for this was the Issei AK Punch. Totally bonkers!! 

 

In Japan, they fish them deep! I've seen guys fishing them in 30 feet plus with sink times of 30-60 seconds! That's too slow for me! So I free rig it when going deep. Now in this case since there's no appendages, I don't really need a heavy weight to activate them. So all I care about here is weight to bait separation once on the bottom. I'll often use a lighter weight with a slick, unobtanium Fuji ceramic weight slide so the weight REALLY separates fast without needing extra weight to do so.

 

Oh..and these things skip for miles! 

 

Congrats on the great day of fishing! Karashi is a blast! 

 

And here's a video asking whether poop baits are still relevant