What technique won't work for you

[bassinbob]

No matter how many times I've tried I just can't buy a hit burnning a spinnerbait. Never have any trouble with other retrieves but burnning them. I get it to swim just under the surface and nothing. I guess we have physically challenged bass up here in Pa.

[crankybait]

Originally Posted by bassinbob

No matter how many times I've tried I just can't buy a hit burnning a spinnerbait. Never have any trouble with other retrieves but burnning them. I get it to swim just under the surface and nothing. I guess we have physically challenged bass up here in Pa.

Yeah... I can't get a bite burning them either. I'm probably just doing it wrong, I guess... fish have bit the most ridiculous presentations i have given them while just messing around.

[keithdog]

The spinnerbait is probably my most successful lure in my bag. I've caught tons of bass and other species on spinnerbaits. But I've never caught any fish by burning a spinnerbait.

[islandbass]

Originally Posted by bassinbob

No matter how many times I've tried I just can't buy a hit burnning a spinnerbait. Never have any trouble with other retrieves but burnning them. I get it to swim just under the surface and nothing. I guess we have physically challenged bass up here in Pa.

Wow! I know now that I am no longer alone! If my life depended on me catching a bass on a spinnerbait to save my life, I'd be pushing daisies!

At least you're better off than me. I have never ever caught a bass on a spinnerbait, regardless of the retrieve.

Ironically, I can catch them with inline spinners. Go figure.

[Rebbasser]

Strong wind.
Bank the wind is blowing into.
Throw parallel to the bank.

That is my favorite place to burn a spinnerbait.

[screwballl]

Spinnerbaits seem to be my least successful presentation out of them all so I tend to only use it sparingly. Swimbaits and senko worms have always produced for me when bassin.

[lilmule]

Weeds over them if not topped or by islolated grass balls late in the season,try burning them with the rod held high and like a wakebait.
There are days when they will hit a spinnerbait burned near the top or at top and wont hit a buzzbait.

[AUFred]

By burning do you mean buzzing a spinnerbait?

[CamG]

There is a time and place to burn a spinnerbait. Burning seems to work best over shallow grass. The key for any spinnerbait presentation is wind!

[BassinNC]

Spoons. I can't catch anything on a spoon.

[BeaverIslander]

When you burn/wake a spinnerbait, you have to briefly let the blade break the water's surface every 5 or 10 feet. That's the trigger and thats when you'll get hit. This happens all the time by accident anytime you try to fish a "wake bait" when there's moderate to heavy chop on the water, and the fish seem to be easily triggered by it. Thats one reason why I frequently fish wake baits when it's windy.

I've seen more followers when waking a spinner than with any other lure, as well.

I have no luck with chatterbaits. They only seem to catch dinks for me.

[brushhog]

Jigging. I know, I know, it's the greatest... every guys go to presentation... catches more big fish... I just haven't had any luck and consequently don't try it very often.

[WaffleJaw]

Jigs....I spent alot of time fishing jigs this past year...Crawling em,pitching em, popping em....rattles,no rattles,all kinds of trailers.....never caught a single fish

BI- I had tremendous luck with chatterbaits this fall...My presentation was to let the lure fall after every 5-10 revolutions on the reel...Then raise my forarm (like popping a worm) to give off a fast/violent vibration...and repeat.
For some reason (i cant explain) raising the entire forarm instead of the wrist seems to give off a better action on the lure....its more fluent and natural I suppose..But almost always they would hit it on the fall.

[MallenManson]

Originally Posted by BassinNC

Spoons. I can't catch anything on a spoon.

I don't think I've ever had a bite on a spoon, and I've tried everything from Daredevils to Swedish Pimples.
I don't even carry any in my tackle bag anymore

[MississippiBoy]

Originally Posted by BeaverIslander

When you burn/wake a spinnerbait, you have to briefly let the blade break the water's surface every 5 or 10 feet. That's the trigger and thats when you'll get hit.

Interesting...I've actually heard the opposite, that if you break the surface with the blade, you're less likely to get a hit. I don't know, I'm just passing along what I read in an article a while back. I can't find the article now that I need it, of course, but that was the gist of it.
Maybe it said that you don't want the blade to break the surface of calm water, whereas you're saying with choppier water, let it surface every now and then. I don't remember enough details to say for sure. I wish I could find it.....

Originally Posted by brushhog

Jigging. I know, I know, it's the greatest... every guys go to presentation... catches more big fish... I just haven't had any luck and consequently don't try it very often.

Apparently, it's the cat's meow for everybody except you and me. I've caught a couple fish on a jig, but not many. I'm planning on trying it more this year, so maybe I'll figure out its secrets.

My biggest "no producer" is buzzbaits. I've never had a strike or bump or any followers (as far as I could tell) while throwing a buzzbait. Spooks, poppers, propbaits....I'ev caught fish on all of those, but the buzzbait secret eludes me.

[MallenManson]

Originally Posted by MississippiBoy

Interesting...I've actually heard the opposite, that if you break the surface with the blade, you're less likely to get a hit. I don't know, I'm just passing along what I read in an article a while back. I can't find the article now that I need it, of course, but that was the gist of it.
Maybe it said that you don't want the blade to break the surface of calm water, whereas you're saying with choppier water, let it surface every now and then. I don't remember enough details to say for sure. I wish I could find it.....



Apparently, it's the cat's meow for everybody except you and me. I've caught a couple fish on a jig, but not many. I'm planning on trying it more this year, so maybe I'll figure out its secrets.

My biggest "no producer" is buzzbaits. I've never had a strike or bump or any followers (as far as I could tell) while throwing a buzzbait. Spooks, poppers, propbaits....I'ev caught fish on all of those, but the buzzbait secret eludes me.

I'm gonna throw a buzzbait for the 1st time this year. Hopin' I'm one of the guys who does have luck with em. We'll see. Still haven't really fished a jig much. Tried it a few times last year, but nothin.

[cassidyta]

I know this will be blasphemy to some, but lipless cranks are fishless cranks for me. No matter how, when, or where they just don't catch fish for me.

[BeaverIslander]

Originally Posted by WaffleJaw

BI- I had tremendous luck with chatterbaits this fall...My presentation was to let the lure fall after every 5-10 revolutions on the reel...Then raise my forarm (like popping a worm) to give off a fast/violent vibration...and repeat.
For some reason (i cant explain) raising the entire forarm instead of the wrist seems to give off a better action on the lure....its more fluent and natural I suppose..But almost always they would hit it on the fall.

Thats how I've been fishing minnow-imitating swim jigs and tubes for some time with good luck. Snap jigging I think they call it. I've tried doing chatterbaits that way, but like I said...dinks. I need to give it more time I think. People around here love the chatterbaits. The stores can barely keep them in stock.

[BeaverIslander]

Originally Posted by MississippiBoy

Interesting...I've actually heard the opposite, that if you break the surface with the blade, you're less likely to get a hit. I don't know, I'm just passing along what I read in an article a while back. I can't find the article now that I need it, of course, but that was the gist of it.
Maybe it said that you don't want the blade to break the surface of calm water, whereas you're saying with choppier water, let it surface every now and then. I don't remember enough details to say for sure. I wish I could find it.....

Just letting the blade break the surface for a split second, just enough to toss a tiny splash, is what seems to be the trigger. Bass love to follow a waked spinnerbait, and to a bass that little splash could possibly resemble a minnow kicking it into high gear to try to escape once it realizes it's being shadowed by a bass, and breaking the waters surface for a second.

We've all seen it... Minnows flipping out of the water when presumably being chased from below.

[Raul]

Man, buzzbaits ! can´t catch a cold on them.

But I´m persistent, been persistent for 20 years and I´m still trying, one day ....

[jooleyen]

Originally Posted by MississippiBoy

Interesting...I've actually heard the opposite, that if you break the surface with the blade, you're less likely to get a hit.

Same here. I was watching The Bass Pros and Rick Clunn was saying that he never caught a fish when the blades broke the water.

[muddy]

Two I dont use becuase I do not enjoy fishing them

Spinnerbaits
Dropshot

[MallenManson]

I can see where dropshotting could get boring, but what is it about spinnerbait fishing that you don't like?
Just curious, since my 2nd most enjoyable fishing last year was spinnerbaits

[muddy]

Most of my friends are spinnerbait feinds and highly sucessful. I have a bad shoulder, Mallen. I can not take pain meds because i am in recovery for over 17 years, most of the relapses I have seen in those 17 years started with the sentence" Then I filled the prescrition", I have been through bariatric surgry, heart surgery and 2 hernias, and it's no fun without the meds( once you get home, that is), it is difficult to say the least.I aint whinning here just answering your question, its a lot harder using drugs and being homeless than sitting through pain, fisrt hand knowledge here.
So for me to be throwing around a collection of parts from a hardware storee all day, is dangerous and could lead to surgery. Good question, as the spinnerbaits most definitely catch fish and lots of them

ps This will be a concern with the few swimabits i have bought over this winter

[TN_Bassin]

Not wanting to sound cocky, but I really don't have a problem with any technique specifically. When used in the right time and place and presented correctly any technique can catch fish.

If I had to pick one however that I don't have the most confidence in using it would have to be the drop shot. Reason being is that I don't use it often because of the way I fish i guess.