Techique ?

[unfrozen]

Okay guys, when you're bass fishing and using a baitcasting rod what's your most used technique?

How about with spinning rods?

[dfv87]

I like to cast lipless cranks and spinnerbaits... But i also have a Tx rigged brush hog always ready.

[LegattoAD]

Last year it was mostly pitching a weightless worm to cover on my baitcaster and wacky rig on my spinning setup. Before that, it was spinnerbait, spinnerbait, spinnerbait, crankbait on the baitcaster. I used the spinning setup for pannies.

Didn't really get into plastics or jigs until last season and I plan to continue feeding that addiction this year.

[TurnUpTheFishing]

My most used techniques last year probably...

Baitcast - swim jigs, crankbaits, skirted jigs, Tx rigs

fairy wand - drop shot, jig worm/shakey head, skipping docks with weightless plastics.

[Gardiner14]

My most used baits were tubes on the spinning and jigs and texas rigs on the baitcaster.

This was one of the first years i used jigs, and i used texas rigs more this year than past years. I caught more fish and bigger fish on jigs and texas rigs this year than i ever had before. They are now a "go too" bait for me and i will alway have a jig, Strike King Coffee tube, and a Brush Hog at the ready.

[slopmaster]

not a fan of spinning rod here either so for me its usually a baitcaster. If i do anything with a spinning rods its either shakey head or weightless softplastic jerkbait. I love pitching jigs or creature baits into heavy cover and around docks with a baitcaster though.

[mozy]

With a baitcaster the majority of the time it will be a jig, but t-rigs, spinnerbaits, swimbatis, and cranks also see use.

With spinning gear I'll throw dropshots, tubes, shakey heads, and weightless plastics(mostly flukes or wacky rigged Senkos).

[Lakeside_Nelson]

Jigs, spinnerbaits, and cranks

[RK]

Hiya -

Casting: flipping/pitching, jig and pig, football heads, texas rigging, carolina rigging, shallow and big deep diving cranks, rattle baits, hard swimbaits, spinnerbaits/buzzbaits, swim jigs, walk the dog topwaters, spoons and frogs.

Spinning: jigworms, grubs, finesse jigs, weightless plastics, skipping, tubes, jerkbaits, small cranks, topwaters, drop shot, split shot, soft swimbaits, hair jigs.

[fish2morrow]

I'm starting baitcasing so none for bait casting yet.

spinning - jigs, cranks, spinners, top water, frog, rattle traps.

What I realized is you can use what ever you like. Whether is cranks, spinners, jigs, or top water. When using a lure or jig you just have to find the right color and retrieve. So go with what you like. You will try them all and either like them all or come back to what ever it is you liked first.

[Doufish2]

I don't carry a spinning rod in my boat anymore. Everything is baitcaster. My #1 go to is texas rigged worm or hog. I have a 7'6" G Loomis that I use for my jig worm and an 7'11" G Loomis walleye rod that I use for drop shotting, it is incredible sensitive. There isn't anything that can't be thrown, with practice of course, on a good baitcasting setup.

[Moneymurphy]

Yum money frogs, anywhere, anytime. It doesn't matter if there's cover or not, i will catch fish with them. If you put them on a ribbit double take hook it will increase your hook up percentage significantly.

[BassNut33]

I may carry 1 spinning rod in the boat, it may get 5 percent of my use. I feel I can do everything better on a bait caster. I will use a spinning rod when I throw a shakey head, or drop shot. The bottom line is for me I am far more accurate and efficient with a bait caster.

[mww24]

One of my new found go to rigs this year was a wacky rigged senko on 6 pound fluorocarbon on a 6 foot medium light spinning rod.

[moviking]

Perfect worm hook with either a Baby Brush Hog, or a 7-10' worm. Or a jig with a trailer. I'm going to try drop shoting this year in the trees with a Berkley 5' Leach in black or green pumkin.

[prov1900]

When it comes to largemouths, I have been 100% baitcast, but this year I am going to drop-shot and am adding spinning gear more and more to the lineup. Gotta be versatile, at least on the pressured waters where I fish. Frogs will be new for me too this year. Bring on the open water!!!

[Fever]

Casting: flipping/pitching, jig and pig, football heads, texas rigging, carolina rigging, shallow and my big deep diving cranks, Lipless crankbaits, hollow belly swimbaits, spinnerbaits/buzzbaits, swim jigs, topwaters - like poppers or skitter pop type plugs, and of course a variety of frogs in the shallow slop.

Spinning: jigworms, weightless plastics, skipping under docks with tubes, jerkbaits, and stick baits, and occationally small-shallow cranks. I've tried drop shottin a few times but due to lack of confidence and lack of a quick bite / reward I didn't use it often and usaually oppted back to baitcasting and using a jig or t-rigged worm. I'll typically have about 8-10 baitcasting settups along with 1-2 spinning at anytime. I lean towards the baitcasters but am not hesitent to use the spinning if it fits into a pattern that is producing. I don't know of many anglers that are too good at skipping a very light wackyrigged senko, tube, or weightless worm twenty plus feet under a dock with 6-10 inches of clearence without backlashing. I can do that with a spinning set up but wouldn't try it with a baitcaster so its a no brainer at times. Plus it's hard to get good long casts out of a baitcaster when casting into the wind with a shallow running-light, baby minus one crank.

[ssaamm]

I love baitcasters because there is no line twist as with spinning reels. There is the occasional spool over run with the baitcasters-- tho there is less of them. The only thing I use spinning reels for is skipping docks and drop shotting. I'm slowly learning to do each with baitcasters tho. Anyone else had their fill of ice fishing yet? My wife can't believe the amount of fishing shows I can watch.

[mainbutter]

I strictly use spinning rods when I chase bass. My baitcasters are for still fishing bait (usually in rivers) or hucking big stuff for big pike and 'skis.

As far as my favorite technique.. that's a tough one. I switch between senkos, paddletail swimbaits, and crankbaits mostly.