Bass fishing "Starting 5"

[BPBOB]

Read an article a few years back regarding a "Starting 5" approach to pike fishing- 5 approaches that are different from each other.

Here are my bass "Starting 5" for the weekend

* Big white spinnerbait

* Lipless crankbait

* X-rap

* Swim jig(complete rookie approach for me)

* Swim bait-Storm wild eye

Off the bench -depending on weather conditions

Buzz bait ,mepps in-line spinner, carolina rig/lizard, Texas worm, weightless senko.

Thoughts?

Hope everyone has a little tugging going on this week end!!

[bryguy247]

Starting 5 is exactly how many rigs I have set up for opener. Too Funny.

1) Texas Rigged Yuki Bug

2) Yum Dinger Wacky Rigged

3) Swim Jig Black/Purple

4) Stike King Sexy Shad Crankbait

5) The Ol purple rubber frog

I will have others on stand by if I need to, but these have worked well in the past for opener. I can't hardly wait anymore...

[bassfshin24]

1.) Strike King Red Eye Shad

2.) Lake Fork Crawtube

3.) Terminator Chart/White Spinnerbait

4.) Berkley Power Grub

5.) Strike King KVD 1.5

Bench: Senko, X-Rap

That's my starting 5 for Mille Lacs Saturday Morning.

[TonkaBass]

Swim jig, jig worm, finesse jig, crankbait, flipping jig, wacky rig, t rig... that's more than 5 but who cares! Lol

[mww24]

Texas rigged senko. White and charteuse spinnerbait. silver with black back lipless. Green pumpkin half ounce jig. silver and black rapala dt6. Thats five. I'll have more. though

[Deitz Dittrich]

I think a lot of bass will be on beds. hard to say.. I will probably try to search out pre-spawners still .. jerkbaits.. cranks.. on the outside edge of spawning flats..

[mww24]

its going to be a good opener i have a feeling

[Ufatz]

Let's make this the bass opener where people do all they can to avoid fishing to bass on beds.

Play fair.

[SledNeck]

Mine went like this

1. xrap

2. xrap

3. xrap

4. xrap

5. xrap

[TonkaBass]

Didn't see that coming... what about the senko?

[corncob]

Husky jerk,craw colored trap,1/4 oz.swim jig,senko Texas rigged,and top water frog.

[mww24]

I'll have a wacky rigged senko and a texas rigged senkon on a light tungsten weight. I just think the t-rig will work better than the wacky this weekend for me. Why don't you want us fishing beds Ufatz?

[SledNeck]

Didn't see that coming... what about the senko?

that was the 2nd weekend. 1st weekend couldnt buy a bass on a senko

[ShoreGuy1984]

1)Strike King Pro Model Jig, with KVD Perfect plastic JR chunk.

2)Yum F2 Dinger

3)KVD 1.5 sqaure bill

4)T-Rigged crawdad

5)White spinnerbait

[slipperybob]

Popper

Walker

Jerk

Crank

Spinnerbait

Those are my starters. Although I'm going to be using the Xrap Subwalk and a swimjig when my starters fail. Then have no choice but to go to soft plastics of various types. Finally I will just play around with my hard swimbaits.

[RumRiverRat]

Let's make this the bass opener where people do all they can to avoid fishing to bass on beds.

Play fair.

Why?

Nothing more fun then trying to get a Sow Largemouth to eat a bait.

Sight fishing for bedded bass is about the most fun you can have with your clothes on.

My starting 5

If I fish for Largemouth

4XS or KVD 1.5

Texas Rigged Berkley Havoc Wide Load

Texas Rigged TriggerX Big Moe, will be the go to bait if bass are on beds I think

Chatterbait

Soft Plastic swimbait, Berkley Flat Back shad or Hollow Belly or Big Hammer Swim Tail all rigged on 3/8 or 1/2 oz Jig

If I fish for Smallmouth

Tube, Strike King Coffee Tube, TriggerX Tube, Yum Tube

DT4, DT6 maybe a DT10 if the bass are on the deeper edge of the rock piles

Zoom Fat Albert Grub

Strike King Redeye Shad

Spinnerbait, probably Double Willow Silver Blades and Chartreuse and White Skirt

[Chris519]

1. Zoom horny toad

2. Buzz bait

3. 1-minus mid

4. Junebug super hog

5. Black/Red brush hog

[RK]

Hiya -

Sadly (for me) I won't be fishing bass this weekend. My father-in-law is a WWII vet, and Memorial Day is a huge deal for him, so I'll be in SW MN a couple hundred miles from my boat... But the next weekend...

LMB:

1. Swim Jig or Spinnerbait, depending on weather

2. Square bill crank

3. Texas rigged straight tail worm

4. Strike King Red Eye Shad

5. Jig and craw

SMB

1. Smoke grub on a jighead. (60% chance this is the only rod I pick up all day.)

2. LC Pointer

3. Tube

4. Weightless fluke

5. Strike King King Shad or topwater, depending on weather/wind

[Doufish2]

1) Marty Stone black and blue 1/4 oz jig with a blue Chigger craw

2) White spinnerbait

3) Wacky rigged green pumkin with red fleck Senko

4) Texas rigged Culprit 6" blue lizard

5) who cares after that, I am on the water!!!!!

6) ok, one more, a Dirty Sanchez colored 4" beaver

[Craigums]

Ok Ill play.

1) 1-Minus

2) Power Slug

3) 3/8oz Jig

4) Spinnerbait

5) Jig Worm or Grub

[ShoreGuy1984]

"Sight fishing for bedded bass is about the most fun you can have with your clothes on."

LOL

[Ufatz]

I can't tell you fellas how sad it makes me to hear guys talking about fishing for bass on spawning beds.

Shoot deer over apple barrels? Mallards over spread corn?

I guess us old guys really are out of touch with what sportsmanship is all about.

Or used to be all about.

[Fisherman45]

Here's mine

1.DT10/DT6 Crankbait

2.White and red spinner bait

3.Purple/black swim jig

4.Scum frog

5.Wacky rigged senko

Bench

1.Lipless Crankbait

2.Zara spook

3.Texas rigged worm

4.X-rap

The DT10 has already worked on a couple of small mouth on opener up on Fall lake by Ely.

[mww24]

Ufatz. I feel that most of us, (myself included) respect your opinion. Personally if I catch a bass off a bed I unhook it a.s.a.p And release it as close to the bed as I dare get to it. They are fun to fish.I don't take pictures of fish nor do I eat bass. I just don't see how fishing bedding bass is like baiting deer or waterfowl. Everytime we fish, we bait fish. Wether it be live or artificial bait. I guess I wouldn't walk up to a deer and shoot it while its sleeping. In hunting circumstances though if you shoot it theres no putting it back to its resting place. I'm not trying to start an argument or great debate, or Make you mad. I guess we'll all have to agree to disagree on this one. The same discussion was happening in another thread.

[IBFishin2]

My fav. 5 are:

1. Spro shallow fat Jon

2. Strikeking burner spinner 3/8 once

3. Texas rigged kreature 3/16 once

4. Weightless senko

5. Black/blue all-terrain jig with paca chunk 1/4 once.