When it's really tough, I down-size and throw a shaky head, drop shot, or bitsy bug.

When it's really on in the Spring, and everything seems to work, what do you like to throw?

For me, in order:

1. Topwater (pop-r or Sammy).

2. Fluke in clear water

3. Jerk Bait in clear water

4. anything on a TX rig (lizard, tube)

I love the visual element of Tw fishing, and in clear water, I love watching a fish rollup on a fluke or senko (same with the jerkbait).

Also, love dragging a worm rig around when they're hammering it. Never know how big it is until it tugs back.

Albino Fluke

Texas Rig- its just fun to fish aroung people who dont really know how to fish and are amazed at how you know the fish are biting without a bobber

 

 

in the ohio river sweet beaver in the lakes around here football jig

Buzzbait!

Buzzbait, shallow crank, soft plastic toad

Pro Tournament Snag-Proof Frog

10"  worm, baby brushhog, Buzzbait, Jig

I love flippin', but if the bite is really on, spinnerbait for me.

Buzzbait, baby brush hog, and a med divin crank

Anything that lets you get a glimpse of the fish blasting it! I would have to go with....

spooks

subwarts

sluggos

Jerkbaits.

This is not my most productive technique, but it's my favorite.

A cigarette butt.

When the bite is really on, I like to use this window to dispell myths and prove a few points that I believe in like,....color matters VERY little, there is absolutely no need for a $25 finish on a bait, fish will eat just about anything that looks edible and catchable, etc etc

My 1st vid for 08 will show us catching on 10-15 DIFFERENT colors (from merthiolate to pumpkin) in the same day, on the same body of water, using the same bait (as an example)

1. Buzzbaits

2. Jerbaits

3. Crankbaits

I get out on the lake early in the morning and throw topwaters (spook, popper, frog, etc.) Then when the sun comes up I trade back and forth between a wacky rigged Dinger/Zoom finesse/Tiki Stik/other cigars, and a texas rig.

When I am out into the open water, fishing deeper structure/cover I tie on my peanut butter/jelly jig with my homemade jig trailer, my Rapala Countdown or drop-shot rig.

When I fish shallow I throw top waters, spinner-baits, floating jerkbaits, shallow cranks or weightless worms.

Anything that I can flip or pitch...

Anything topwater.  I'd rather catch two on topwater than three underwater.

1/2oz spinnerbait

Luhr Jensen speed trap

LC RC 2.5

Pop-R and a hollow bodied frog in the morning.  When the sun shows I will throw a jig or texas rig.

A cigarette butt.

When the bite is really on, I like to use this window to dispell myths and prove a few points that I believe in like,....color matters VERY little, there is absolutely no need for a $25 finish on a bait, fish will eat just about anything that looks edible and catchable, etc etc

My 1st vid for 08 will show us catching on 10-15 DIFFERENT colors (from merthiolate to pumpkin) in the same day, on the same body of water, using the same bait (as an example)

I hope I'm there for that 8-) I will be having fun watching you and watching them come up and kill my buzzbait or sucking down the Flukey  (in every color zoom makes)

When the fishing is really good i throw spinnerbaits so i can fish faster or ill throw a really big soft plastic and go for a pig.

1/4 oz Black Cavitron buzzbait or Yellow weightless trick worm.

When it's really on, I love to throw a Stanley Bull Ribbit frog over really thick grass and through shoreline cover, and I also love to pitch and flip jigs and t-rigs to shallow cover...

Low Budget Hookers is right on...just fish your favorite bait.  What do you do when you are hungry?!  You eat whatever is in your cabinets.  It may not be your favorite food, but it is there...and readily available.  When bass are heavily feeding...color and bait selection are at a minimum.

When everything is working and the fish are just hit like cazy, I go to a Booyah buzzbait and a Lucky 13.  It doesn't get any better than topwater.

if the topwater bite is on I love throwing a buzzbiat or fluke