When the fish have lock-jaw, what to do you turn to?

For me it's these three:

1. Carolina Rigged baby brush hog in Green pumpkin with a shot of chart on the tail. Use the rig if the fish are on a structure bite (ledges, humps, deep flats), where you still need to cover some water.

2. Strike King Bitsy Flip 1/4 oz Watermelon with matching Zoom Super Chunk, Jr.

3. 3/16 oz Davis Shaky Head (SL) with a Zoom Finesse worm in Watermelon.

Use the Shaky head and Bitsy Bug on deeper banks, bluffs, points, creek channel banks. Just throw them both until the fish tell you what they want.

Only moving bait presentation that works for me is to trigger a fish on a suspending jerkbait in late winter / early spring.

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I'm kinda stuck on the jig & pig these days, but I still recommend:

#1  GYCB Fat Ika

#2  GYCB Senko

#3  Micro Munch Tackle El Gordo tube

HJ-10 Tenn Shad

3" Salt & Pepper Kalins Grub on a jig head.

Texas Rigged Gene Larew Salty Ring Worm 7 1/2 Cinnamon Pepper Junebug Laminated (Camouflage)

I have a few go to baits.

Swim Senkos

Rat-L-Traps

Venom Tubes

Manns -1

GULP!

Finesse fishing.

Drop shot; doodling; s-l-o-w Texas rigged plastics; shaky head.

Carolina rigs on lakes or when fishing deep in rivers.

4" Proworm on a dropshot

Huddleston, because I figure that if I am gonna blank, I am gonna do it in style. Plus, sometimes when the little fish are off, the big fish are on.

1. 1/4 oz Terminator Pro Top Secret Jig, Western Melon with Green Pumpkin Zoom Super Chunk

2. Zoom Watermelon Fat Alber Grub w/ chart. tip, matching 1/8 oz. Tungstien bullet

65 or 78 LC Pointer

finesse jig and pork

4" senkos

Mepps Black Fury #3.

5in *** *** rigged weightless with a 3/0 EWG hook.

Hopefully after next year I'll be a little better with a jig and I can move it into my go to spot.

1. Zoom Finesse Worm, Watermelon Candy.

2. 4.5" Roboworm Straight Tail Worm, Warmouth.

3. 5/16 oz. Eakins Jig w/ Eakins Pro Craw Trailer, Black and Blue.

Mepps Black Fury #3.

They just can 't resist the ol reliable, can they ?  

4" ZOOM finesse worm on a drop-shot rig...

I like a blackblue jig, its my confidence bait and it usually works yearround. A jointed shadrap is close too though.

Search lures:

1.  3 inch grub with red flake on a jighead swam very slowly with many twitches.

2.  Shad rap on rocks or a lipless crank over grass.

slow moving lures:

1. Drop shot and a finesse minnow or worm

2. Tube bait under docks, in heavy cover, scooted like a crawfish, etc...

1/4oz Spot Remover with a Green Pumpkin Finesse worm with the tail dipped in JJ's Magic.

This has pulled me out of a hole more times than I can count and you just can't beat JJ's.

My go-to (and my all time Fav.) would have to be a 4.5" Webb's Baits Black Magic worm rigged on a shakey head (harsh hedz 1/4 oz)....This has probably cought the most fish out of all my lures....It shines when no other bait can get a bite.

Mine are:

A 1/2 oz Brown Rubber skirted Skinny Bear football jig w/ a zoom doubletail grub in watermelon red as a trailer.  (deep rocks and structure)

1/8 oz spot remover w/ a zoom finesse worm in junebug or watermelon red.  (docks, shallow rocks, and brush piles)

Zoom SS U-tale in watermelon red, texas rigged on a 3/0 gammi straight shank hook, and a pegged 1/16 oz bullet.

I never leave home without it!!

flirt worm on shakey head

4" power worm

bitsy bug with paca chunk  trailor

Green pumpkin *** and watermelon red trick stick.  I have so much confidence in both of these I could(never have to) throw them all day without a bite.  If I can't get  a bite on these i'm in trouble.

My go-to baits would have to be 4inch Powerworm (redshad, camo, pumpkinseed), 3/16-5/16ounce Black/blue Booyah Baby Boo Jig with a YUM Chunk Trailer in black/blue flk 3.5 inch, 4inch GYCB Senko Cinnamon Brown, or a Topwater frog when the season calls (hollow frogs, softbait frogs, I can usually do pretty good with them). But I gotta say the bait I probably get the most hits with gotta be a 5inch GYCB Kut-Tail (Cinnamon brown, Greenpumpkin) I can usually always catch a bass with that worm, but I rarely bring it out, its a last resort. Because the only way I can buy them is by either going to cabelas/bps etc which is 2 1/2 - 3hr ride, or ordering them online. So they are merely a last resort as I don't want to rip them up, and the sunnies like them too, and tend to rip the tail. I will always throw them during spawning season though, I don't play around when it comes to those beautiful size bass. But any other time during the month or when im looking to catch quality fish im usually throwing a black/blue booyah baby boo jig 3/16-5/16.

Ps. I guess I could consider the Fat Ika (black/blue flk) one of my go-to's also.