If you are willing to divulge, what are some unorthodox techniques that you have used with success to catch bass?  Techniques that you either thought of on your own, or modified, or lures that someone wouldn't expect to catch bass on.  What we're some of the results?

i caught a bass and pick stroking a tube last week i couldn't get hit with any thing till i did that for the fist time it really works

i caught a bass and pick stroking a tube last week i couldn't get hit with any thing till i did that for the fist time it really works

I thought stroking your tube in public was illegal!

i caught a bass and pick stroking a tube last week i couldn't get hit with any thing till i did that for the fist time it really works

I thought stroking your tube in public was illegal!

;D ;D ;D

LoL. I guess its only illegal if you get caught. LMAO ;D

I'm sure that most of my bass fishing techniques could be pigeonholed as "unconventional".

The beauty of our sport is that nothing is carved in stone, where heterodox is the norm.

(Stay flexible and experiment).

Roger

There is a lake that I fish on a lot and it has tons of blue gill - often, if you feel a tug or see your line move, it will be a blue gill - I discovered that if I'm fishing in a highly productive are, but letting the bg's run with the lure and waiting until they change directions that I would be more likely to stick a bass that was trying to take the lure away from the bg.  This pattern held up all of last year on that lake, I haven't had a chance to try it out this year.

I don't know if it meets the definition of "unorthodox", but there's never a time I don't try topwater (except in cold water). Even in summer, on afternoons with bluebird skies, I've caught plenty of bass, including large ones (large by my standards).

i'm not sure if there is such thing as "unorthodox" in bass fishing...

I've caught some big bass on a zoom finesse worm and a circle hook fished on spinning gear.  I thread the the worm on the hook so the top is nearly a semi circle. The hook is exposed and I twitch it on retrieve.  It zig zags and darts around.  there are days I have used this and caught alot of bass as well as some up to 5 lbs.

Fish a Ribbit under the water.

Fish a Ribbit under the water.

I Texas rig a Stanley Bull Ribbit 

i'm not sure if there is such thing as "unorthodox" in bass fishing...

You're probably right but watch.  I'll go fishing tomorrow and see some guys using a "Crankait and Pig."  Nothing like slapping a Yum Super Chunk on the back of a Rapala DT-10.   I'll probably see some dude putting Jig skirts on a 10'' swimbait, or drop shotting a spinnerbait.

Spear, dynamite, poison.....

Just kidding.  Look up Charlie Brewer Slider Fishing.  Not exactly "unorthodox, but is quite different than the power techniques we are bombarded with.

Fish a Ribbit under the water.

In what situation would you prefer to do this?

In grassy areas, I like to throw a plastic worm out and bring it back like a crankbait. I will run it just over the top of the grass.

In grassy areas, I like to throw a plastic worm out and bring it back like a crankbait. I will run it just over the top of the grass.

When fishing the ribbit under water, do you use a lift and drop retrieve on a Texas Rig or do you work it faster?  Has the worm on top of the grass out preformed other baits, like frogs?

I don't fish toads that much.  I started running the worms fast after I started getting strikes when I thought that I had left the strike zone and was reeling in the bait.

Tarpon fly on a spinning rod, with and without a casting bubble.......... often hand pulling the line in. Do the same exact thing in the swash at the beach for snook.

Last Friday - 2 to 3 ft visibility - water temp 65 + or - a degree or so depending on where in the lake I was.  Main past of the lake was cooler than coves.  Dogwoods fully bloomed out.  According to Guido Hibdon, when the dogwoods are bloomed out, 80% of the fish in any given lake are in 8 ft of water or less.  OK - for reasons too numerous to list I don't think spawn was happening yet.   I was marking quite a few fish on the bottom, next to bushes and thorn trees in 5 to 7 feet of water.

I threw at maybe 60 different bushes, using several different jig colors and a couple of different weights.  No takers - not one.  3:30 pm or so I'm thinking - someone told me once that Japanese fisherman compare every fishing technique they come across to the drop shot.  So I figure I'll drop shot some.  4.20 Beaver - 3/0 hook - 3/8 oz weight.

I rig it so there is  just 4" between the bait and the weight - maybe 5.  1st bush - bam - a hit.  I miss it.  In the next 40 or so minutes, I get bit a dozen times, land 2 16" keepers and 2 dinks.

I'm stunned.  No hits on a jig all day, yet a drop shot with a 4" leader gets bit first cast.  Color wasn't an issue.  The beaver I threw was roughly the same color as the jig I was using.  Same rod - same line (14 lb fluoro)

Next trip, the jigs are going to the bottom on the bin and I'm going to fool around with drop shot much more.

If you are willing to divulge, what are some unorthodox techniques that you have used with success to catch bass? Techniques that you either thought of on your own, or modified, or lures that someone wouldn't expect to catch bass on. What we're some of the results?

A few summers ago, my wife and I did a lot of nightime bass fishing. One night we were both bumping junebug ole monsters off the bottom, and for some reason without the usual success. She got a 1/2ounce jig head out that I normally used for striper fishing, bit off about 1 1/2" of worm, and threaded it on the jighead. She took this and started swimming it. Within 2 casts, she hooked up with a nice bass, and ended up with 22 that night.

Of course I copied her after the first fish.

In grassy areas, I like to throw a plastic worm out and bring it back like a crankbait. I will run it just over the top of the grass.

When fishing the ribbit under water, do you use a lift and drop retrieve on a Texas Rig or do you work it faster? Has the worm on top of the grass out preformed other baits, like frogs?

let it fall under pads and give quarter turns to your reel instead of a straight retrieve

try it.

try it.

I've seen this video on the forum before.  Do you think this will work in more heavily pressured areas, and from a bass boat?

Ive done it in the boundary waters from a canoe and it does work as long as your shadow is behind you. I have caught fish in pressured waters like this also but mostly 1-2 lb dinks.