Numbers game

[Random guy]

I asked this question on another topic but I thought it would be interesting to see as a whole how much time we spend using one type of bait compared to others.

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I was also wondering while reading through this topic what percentage of time we spend throwing top water baits? I would be curios to see a breakdown of top water/glider/jerk/crank/ bucktail/etc. The catch numbers tell us bucktails are were it’s at? I personally throw top water maybe 10% of my time on the water.

How often do the rest of you use topwater compared to other baits?"

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[ARMAN-21]

This is my break down:

Topwater = 30%

Gliders/Jerks = 50%

Bucktails/Spinner Baits = 20%

Cranks = 0%

later-

[RuKiddingMe]

Im guessing I fish my baits in these percentages.

Topwater = 20%

Gliders/Jerks = 50% (Maybe more)

Bucktails/Spinner Baits = 20%

Cranks = 10%

RU

I'm pretty interested to see what others break downs look like.

Ok now fuss up Jon, what are your numbers? Please include how often you throw RED... lol

[jeffro]

Topwater 50%

Bucktails 30%

Jerks 20%

Nothing beats a topwater strike!

[Random guy]

Buckails 20%

Cranks 20%

Jerks 40%

Jigs 10%

Topwater 5%

Cussing @ water 5%

[FigR8'EM]

Topwater = 10%

Gliders/Jerks = 70%

Bucktails/Spinner Baits = 15%

Cranks = 5%

I have a bulldog in the water more than any other bait in my tackle box. Cant beat 'em

Kano

[Bob Gray]

Bucktails: 40%

topwater:40%

gliders/jerks:20%

[AWH]

This is a nearly impossible question for me to answer. My percentages can change pretty drasitcally from year to year, sometimes day to day. But this year this is what I've been doing....

Bucktails - 70%

Topwater - 20%

Plastics - 5%

Jerks - 3%

Cranks - 2%

Mid October until ice up it'll be...

Cranks - 95%

Plastics - 4%

Jerks - 1%

Two years ago I was probably about 5% for bucktails. I would go for weeks without using one. Since I've been making my own, I've gotten back to using them a lot more. Jerks also used to be on the end of my line well over 50% of the time. They would move fish for me all the time. But I got smarter (or dumber) when I couldn't put fish in the boat with them and don't use them much at all anymore.

So in a nutshell, what are my percentages? Really, I don't have a clue. What I've been doing lately could very well completely change in a few weeks. But lately I've been in a bucktail rut. And to think that I used to hate using bucktails a couple years ago....

Aaron

[porterhouse]

Hard to say. Every year is different. This year its:

Jerkbaits 40%

Bucktails 40%

Topwaters 10%

Twitchbaits 10%

Brian

[Muskydanno]

I'm going to break mine down into periods since that is what dictates what i would use.

Spring-

Glider Jerkbaits-70 percent

Topwaters- 5 percent

Bucktails/spinnerbaits-25 percent

Summer on up to end of august-

Topwaters-25 percent

Bucktails/spinnerbaits-60 percent

plastics-10 percent

gliders-5 percent

Fall to ice up-

Gliders-60 percent

Bucktails/spinnerbaits-20 percent

Topwaters-15 percent

Plastics-5 percent

[Random guy]

Good point guys about the change up in fall. In the fall I probaly run 70% jerk/gliders. Big fish eat em!

[RuKiddingMe]

A very good point, in the fall my numbers change also.

Gliders/Jerks = 90%

All the rest = 10%