Anyone fish for them regularly?  I mainly fish Lanier which said to be one of the best spotted bass fisheries in the country. For all of y'all that like to fish for spots, what's your favorite technique or favorite lures?

Personally, I like fishing docks in March,April, and May. Fishing these docks has always produced tremendous ammounts of wieghts for me. Usually with finesse jigs and flippin jigs for the big bites. Also fishing deep stucture and deep cranking are some of my other favorites....

I don't target them but catch a bunch in the east Texas lakes fishing for lmb. They reallly like the spot removers alot. Put a 4-7" floating worm on one and you will find them. They tend to be small around here. Maybe 12" average that I've seen. Sometimes I'll get one bigger and have seen them up to 6lbs but never caught one that big.

Yep, Spot Removers, and Spot Stickers are great for spotted bass. My biggest is 5.3 lbs.... They fight so hard, That's another thing I love about them.

It seems spots are a chamelon fish. In the OK lakes I fish, they are mixed in with LMB and SMB, as well as stripers, sandies, blues, crappie, or channels, and they also will be a singularly concentrated species. I find spots are more transient than either of the other 2 "bass" species, and then less transient than the other 2 "bass" species as well. I think spots are just 100% bait relational, whereas LMB seem to be cover on structure relational, and SMB seem to be loosely structure relational. They do seem to be very specific at times as to what they will bite. I make a pb&j&green 3/4 oz rubber skirt football jig that I catch almost exclusively spots on. They seem to like gulp a little more than the other 2 species, with SMB runnin them a close race. Split shots and high standing shakey head worms seem to garner more spot strikes, as do finnesse jigs with a worm trailer as opposed to a chunk or craw trailer. Spots are a quick limit fish for me in most cases, and rarely have I weighed in a bag at texoma without a 16-18 inch spot. In the lakes that I fish I never really fish a "spot" pattern as I would a SMB or LMB "pattern" because it seems that when the other 2 species get lock jawed, you can still always catch a spot. Doesnt matter if your drop shottin in 40ft, flippin flooded willows, or bed fishin, there are always spots around. the only thing a little disconcerting about catchnig a spot is that it really doesnt indicate much as far as overall fish positioning goes due to the fact that at times they seem to be so random.

Well you asked for my favorite techniques for catching spots so by a landslide my FAVORITE techniques is fishing for them with BIG 10 inch Swimbaits .  I guess you weren't expecting that one.  I accidently (don't ask me how) fished a 3 fish tournament on Lanier 2 weeks ago and had 3 fish going 16.2lbs .  Lanier will spoil you for sure.  Allatoona will turnyou into a man tho  

Mike

The only place I have fished for Spots is on Table Rock Lake.  In the heat of summer the best way to pull them up from the depths (20 - 50 feet or more) is to drop shot a small 4 inch worm.  I've also caught them in 8 - 15 feet of water with Senko type worms texas rigged.  I haven't had the opportunity to fish for them much so this information is not backed by years of experience.

I've caught several fishing deep channel banks with stumps, rocks, and other cover. My best baits are spot removers and small crankbaits.

Well you asked for my favorite techniques for catching spots so by a landslide my FAVORITE techniques is fishing for them with BIG 10 inch Swimbaits . I guess you weren't expecting that one. I accidently (don't ask me how) fished a 3 fish tournament on Lanier 2 weeks ago and had 3 fish going 16.2lbs . Lanier will spoil you for sure. Allatoona will turnyou into a man tho

Mike

LOL... I think Ryan mentioned something about that....   Swimbaits huh....  

WIND AND OR CURRENT REALLY SEEMS TO MAKE LOCATING THEM MORE PREDICTABLE (ACTIVE). SHAKEY HEAD / WORM COMBO OR JIG / CRAW ARE WHAT I HAVE BEST LUCK ON LATELY. LAKE JORDAN IN ALABAMA.

BAMANATE

natanestaban, That fish is cute

Holy Cow!

And I used to think of spotted bass as a finesse fish. That's incredible Mike :o

Roger

YOU GOT ME. (I AM BOWING)  SWIM BAITS ARE IN MY FUTURE.  MAYBE A CALL FOR A LESSON / GUIDE TRIP TOO.    HATE TO SAY IT BUT BUT - GO DAWGS

BAMANATE

I fish for em in the rivers around here, mainly the upper Pamunkey and the Rivanna. They don't get very big around here with the normal size bing 10-12" and a dandy would be a 15" or a 1.5-2lber. I target them around big rock piles in deep pools and shallow gravel flats with laydowns and deep water nearby, my most productive techniques are 3-inch tubes on a 3/16oz jighead, LC Pointer 78's twitched aggressively along breaklines, 4-inch roboworms on a dropshot, and 5/16oz finesse jigs bounced slowly along the rocks.

I caught 2 4lb+ , 2 3lbers and 2 lmb's over 3lbs on Lanier one evening last spring. All off the same shoal, C-rig 4 inch senko knockoff. Never had a day like that much less a couple of hours, but the C-rig junebug stickworm has paid off at Lanier since.