Bass Fishing Lures?

[frettr00]

I've done more freshwater bass fishing than anything else and overall either black, watermelon, or natural colored rubber worms usually produce the most consistent results. I'll usually use the powerbait variety. I'll occasionally use topwater crank/poppers if the water is shallow enough. The best bass fishing I ever had was in Canada in very shallow water (around 2ft or less). I was throwing out black rubber worms and they were getting strikes right as they hit the water, every cast.. Wish it was always like that.

[DanMarino]

My Favorite

My favorite bass to catch are smallmouth bass.

My favorite place to fish for smallmouth bass is the Upper Potomac River.

My favorite lures to use are:

Green pumpkin tubes.
4 inch yum dinger worms.
White buzz bait.
A regular ball head jig with a curly tail grub (smoke or green pumpkin)
Blue Fox in-line spinner.

The buzz bait is by far my favorite lure to use.

The green pumpkin tubes probably catch the most smallies for me.

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[MDSmith370]

Shockaholick, Redfish's description of the drop shot rig is right on. I usually use a 1/0 Gamakatsu extra-wide gap worm hook rigged weedless (hard to explain, look on Youtube). The only difference is, as Redfish described, if you use a circle hook you don't want to "set the hook" just reel when you feel the tension. I use a worm hook so I use a pretty firm hook set when I feel tension on a drop shot rig.

Put about 18 inches between bottom weight and hook.

[chimo]

I've done a bit of bass fishing in varying locations over the years with varying amounts of success and my favorite lure has to be a 5 or 6 inch senko or one of the other similar style lures. Rig 'em texas style, wacky rigged, weightless, wacky rigged on a jig head etc. Theres no end to how you can rig them. I think the most fun I have is skipping them under boat docks but I will fish them in deep water with the texas rig and wacky on the jig head, pitch in around shallow cover with them rigged weightless, along weed edges and drop offs weightless and wacky rigged etc etc. I also really enjoy throwing saftey pin style spinner baits, chatter baits, zara spooks, rubber frogs and texas rigged ribbontail worms. Most times I go out bass fishing I will keep at least 3 rods rigged and ready to go. A baitcaster with a 3/4 ounce spinner bait or chatter bait for covering ground between pieces of cover, a spinning rod for fishing the senko around docks, holes in the weeds, downed trees etc and either a frog on a baitcaster around heavy weeds or the spook on a spinning rod for topwater action out in the open. 2 other things that I've had a good bit of luck on over the years are the original Rapala floating minnow and trolling anytype of stick bait or crank bait along edges. Right before dark or in murky water, pitch the rapala out let it sit until the ripples die down and then twitch it, wait again then pull it under the surface for a couple feet and let it surface and settle again, If nothing real it in fast with plenty of hard twitches to get it to dart this way and that. Trolling will let you cover alot of ground and figure out where / what the bass are keying on when fishing new water. When you start getting a few bites you notte the location depth etc and then come back and fish it more throughly with the other lures. Good fishin

Chimo

[MDSmith370]

The floating Rapala is also a great choice. I prefer the jointed with a silver bottom and black back. I fish it the same way Chimo described.

I've also had luck with the Johnson Silver Minnow.

[Greasyskillet]

night fishing

Dan any of the lakes that you have a permit to can you night fish there the problem i have is Rockygorge, Tridelphia, and Centinal is just when the fishing is getting good its time to go is there any lakes near Columbia i can fish after dark

[DanMarino]

No Kayak Fishing at Night

As far as I know, you can not have your kayak on the Columbia lakes after dark. I have fished from shore at Lake Elkhorn and Lake Kittamaquondi and caught largemough bass. Triadelphia and Rocky Gorge you have got to be careful. The parking lot gates have timers that close at dark and there usually are WSSC police there at that time. But there are some ways around it because not all the launch areas have gates.