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Does anyone here fish? what are your favorite lures?

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NTB

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What lures do you consider your "old reliables"? this is the kind of thing I'm looking for - nothing fancy, just the stuff that you use day in and day out that consistantly helps you catch fish. I'm curious to see what other people use. And I'm making a trip to Bass Pro Shop (St. Charles, MO) later today 😛 My main target is usually largemouth and smallmouth bass, but I also do quite a bit of ultralight fishing for crappie and other panfish, and some catfishing, too.

My favorite Bass lure is probably a 6", curly-tailed, Culprit plastic worm. Favorite colors are mostly "shad" shades: light on top, dark on bottom, in purple, black, and red. I also like pumpkinseed and motor-oil type colors.

Anybody else?

Nate
 
Originally posted by: Roger
I never use lures, I use earthworms with no weights or bobbers.
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ah, the ultimate "old reliable" 😛. I've been known to fall back on these on a regular basis as well. Though I usually tight-line along the bottom, rather than using a bobber. But I don't always bring nightcrawlers with me, especially if I'm just going for a few hours to a lake or river right around my house.

Nate
 
It's been quite a while since I've been fishing, I'm not up on the latest in lures. I always had some luck with RatL-Traps, anything shiny. Occasionally spinnerbaits too, white or chartreuse. I also have caught some stuff with blue & white mini-tubes (including a catfish of all things). Those small, soft plastic Beetle lures are pretty versatile too, you can catch bass and crappie with them. I never was very good with plastic worms.

This was all in murky, fairly shallow water (generally <15 ft). Diving crankbaits and spoons and stuff like that weren't very useful because they'd just get tangled in the weeds. If you're fishing deeper water and/or rocky bottoms, you'd probably want some of those types of lures. Topwater lures are also something that I'd throw out there sometimes, but the fish seem really picky about when and under what conditions they'll hit something on the surface. It's pretty exciting when they're in a topwater feeding mode though 😉

Live bait always was our fallback, if they weren't hitting artificials, we'd go after crappie with minnows, and panfish with crickets or worms.

Bass Pro Shops are insane 😀
 
SludgeFactory -

That's the kind of water I fish in most of the time too; shallow, warm, and generally a little stained, usually from moss/algae suspended in the water. Occasionally it's just mud though, especially during this time of year. Very rarely do I get to fish in crystal-clear conditions, though I do like to try when I get a chance. I like actually being able to watch the fish sneak up on the lure and then try to kill it.

Nate
 
white skirt spinner bait. <---always good

soft platics dark colors, crawfish color, with or without and chartruce tails <---always good

top waters <--- usually good
 
Originally posted by: NTB
What lures do you consider your "old reliables"? this is the kind of thing I'm looking for - nothing fancy, just the stuff that you use day in and day out that consistantly helps you catch fish. I'm curious to see what other people use. And I'm making a trip to Bass Pro Shop (St. Charles, MO) later today 😛 My main target is usually largemouth and smallmouth bass, but I also do quite a bit of ultralight fishing for crappie and other panfish, and some catfishing, too.

My favorite Bass lure is probably a 6", curly-tailed, Culprit plastic worm. Favorite colors are mostly "shad" shades: light on top, dark on bottom, in purple, black, and red. I also like pumpkinseed and motor-oil type colors.

Anybody else?

Nate
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Bill dance swimmin image...

caught a 10lb largemouth in florida, along with plenty of 5 + lbers!

😀

 
Originally posted by: yamahaXS
white skirt spinner bait. <---always good

soft platics dark colors, crawfish color, with or without and chartruce tails <---always good

top waters <--- usually good
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What he said.....
Crawfish looking stuff are generally good,
Same for small lizrd/ mouse types.

For general use, Spin and Glo, Kastmaster.

 
It's been a long time since I have been fishing, but I used to like using a broken back minnow. Green and silver. I also used to like using a medium sized lucky thirteen. I used these most of the time in my brothers pond and was always sure to come back with something. Usually a couple large mouths or pike. His pond is shalllow for the most part.
 
Why not make your own or just buy some to experiment with. If you have a boat, you can go jugging on the Mississippi River north of Saint Louis for some gaint Catfish where the Army Corps of Engineers placed massive rocks in the river to prevent large boats from traveling too far north on the river. All the big catfish hang around there rolling around in the falls/current. My jugs are just made out of some plastic laundry bottles with a string and hook attached and use some small fish attached. I travel upstream and place the jugs in the water north of the rocks and let them travel downstream over the rocks to where all the big fish are. Wait for the jugs to safely make it across and go and collect my fish. The fish end up being so tired from fighting the jug and the current, that it makes it easy to retrive the jug and fish. If I can find a photo of one of the 30 - 40 pund catfish I've caught, I'll upload it.
 
Well I usually fish for Bass off the bottom. I prefer Zoom brand plastic worms (purple with green glitter works best, no idea why) with a bullett sinker.
 
Generic 'J' hooks with fireball eggs for Trout/Grailing/White Fish

Pixie's for all salmon, along with home cured fish eggs for [Yum]Silver/King salmon.[/Yum]

Either a 12 guage shotgun or .223 Mini-14 for pike 😀. They sometimes get to over 6 feet in length if your in the right places. They need to be dead before you can safely put them in a boat. Otherwise it spells a big headache and/or damage to all the equipment in the boat.
<--- only hunts them every other year, their meat does not taste the greatest.
 
My old reliable is live shiners about 4"-6" long hooked through the lips on a bobber with about 3 or 4 feet of line below the bobber. (edit, make sure you don't have the reel engaged, you've got to let them run with it for about 10 seconds before you pull them in to get the hook in their mouth, otherwise, you'll lose them, and your shiner!) (2nd edit, let the bobber out about 20 or 30 feet behind the boat when trolling) Then, I'll troll very slowly in about 6 feet of water. While I'm doing that, I'll leave my shiner rod laying flat in the boat, and will cast an 8 inch plastic worm that's either grape or kind of a port wine colored worm towards the weedlines.

Never failed for me, even when nobody was catching anything.

I also did well flipping into hydrilla holes and heavy grasslines.

I primarily did this when I lived in FL. I grew up and lived in FL for about 30 years. It works just as well in central Illinois.
 
Depends. Sometimes I do the cane pole with no weight or bobber.

Bass fishing?

Rooster tails are good, but gaspergoo like them as much as bass.
6" Texas-rigged chartruse or bubble gum pink worm works well.
Ratt-L-Traps are ok, but I've had much better luck with the top 2.
 
Nothing beats a Mepp's Aglia Bronze, size 3 or so. I have caught more fish with that lure than anything else. I also use 4" dark purple plastic worms for shallow water bass, and 1/4 ounce spinnerbaits for deeper water.
 
Here in California, we have lots of places to go fishing. I used to frequent the reservoirs around here and used to catch trout using powerbait, mainly charteuse or red white and blue. I used to use nightcrawlers or earthworms for catching bass or Catfish.
Now Im more into ocean fishing and go to the beaches all along Half moon bay or pacifica and fish off the surf there. Mainly I aim to catch Perch but when Im bored, I use a 1/0 or 2/0 hook and have caught rays and a bunch of sharks. Of course I release them all. Sometimes Striped bass or stripers migrate in front of the beaches in Pacifica from the Sacramento Delta and you can catch them with frozen anchovies. Minnows would never survive in the salt water.
Mostly during June and July but stretching to October you can catch King Salmon at the Pacifica Pier. I remember last year I saw so many people catching them and this year Im going to try it out myself. Average catches are around 15 lbs or so.
When the fishing limitation is removed on June 30, Ill be out fishing for Rockfish as well. You can catch lingcods. cabezons, Kelp greenlings and other rockfish which make really good food.
All in all, Im hooked on fishing. Every weekend I take home about 3-4 dungeness crabs that I catch my my home made snare. I cant wait til summer when the schools of anchovies arrive under the pacifica pier bringing along predator fishes such as Halibut and Tuna.
 
btw I use 1~3 inches motor oil red flake grubs for perch. They seem to resemble pile worms so the perch hit them the hardest. Perch can be caught right behind where the surf breaks. Ive caught them in as much as 3 inches of water.
 
Pennsylvania largemouths: Usually fish in shallow lakes for them. Old reliable gotta be a chartruse buzz bait, 4 blade. Two blades just don't seem to work as well. Back up would be a black and chartruse jitter-bug.

Pennsylvania smallmouths: Only in the river and use live bait, almost exclusively stone cattys (about 4 inch catfish). The blackies around here just can't let them alone. Smaller ones (less than 12") usually don't mess with stone cats so you end up catching bigger bass consistently.



 
I've been a hardcore largemouth bass fisherman all my life. The lure I consistantly catch more fish with than any other is a 4" or 6" purple curly or ripple-tailed worm. I never use worms bigger than 6" - anything bigger and you just rule out all the smaller/medium sized bass that are fun to catch too. I've caught some of my biggest bass on a 4" or 6" so I know they will produce big fish. The only way I fish these worms is weghtless, weedless, and extremely slow. Throw them on into weeds, the bank, under a dock....reel in SLOW. Your line will float on the surface - watch for it to go taught (because you won't feel a thing), then BOOM!! Fish on! I consistantly outfish guys I'm with in any kind of weather conditions/season: early spring, summer, fall, using this technique.

Another great great lure is a beetle spin. It's a small grub (I use curly tailed black or white grubs) with a small spinner attached. Man, I've caught so many different varities of fish with this lure from bass to pike and everything in between. It can be fished deeper with a slower retrieve or fast in the shallows. My two rods ALWAYS have a worm and a beetle spin rigged up. My third rod will have random lures.

I'm also a hardcore smallmouth fly fisherman. I love fishing for these guys in small creeks. There is no harder fighting freshwater fish...I don't care what anybody says!! 🙂 I use a 9'2" 5 weight rod and usually always stick to poppers. I've found that a size 8, white popper kills em!! I'm tellin you...it doesn't get any better than smallies on a fly rod in a warm, lazy summer creek! 😀
 
Originally posted by: fonzinator
I'm also a hardcore smallmouth fly fisherman. I love fishing for these guys in small creeks. There is no harder fighting freshwater fish...I don't care what anybody says!! 🙂
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I totally agree. They don't give up. Pound for pound, nothing pulls harder.
 
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