I've been teaching the students in my class those retrieves. They all have great success using one of those three retrieves. I've been fishing at night here in Houston Texas for the last 4 days ,those retrieves have been a killer, people are watching me catch fish and cannot figure out what I'm doing different when they are using the same lure and color.😊
As a bank fishermen, I love your channel especially these retrieval videos of baits and lures I use. I have liked a few so far and plan on saving more. Thank you for a great channel and videos!
I really enjoy these kind of videos. You can watch lots of videos on all kinds of techniques, but there aren’t very many videos on how to work the different lures or techniques. I commend you for showing how to retrieve and work various baits. Please keep doing these type of videos for other techniques and lures. Thanks for teaching the part of fishing that I believe is the hardest to learn on your own.
I always like hearing different retrieve styles, we all think differently & I like trying different things & try to think outside of the box anyways. I was catching ton of schooling striper using that technique. Letting my dropshot pendulum swing from surface down through school. I had a 3" hazedong shad because they were on tiny bait. It was out fishing for bass & school of striper came up so I switched my dropshot bait & took advantage of situation. It worked extremely well & was ton of fun..
Thanks for the retrieve videos. Very informative. Your videos got me thinking. With all the baits we have available today, especially soft plastics, the different rigging techniques, it's fun but complicated. When I started fishing national tournaments in 1984 you were either a boater or a rider. Both anglers paid the same entry fee and fished for the same prize pot. Techniques were simple then. Today I see more of a division in anglers. I'm basically considered a power fisherman who likes to move with topwater, spinnerbaits, crankbaits and it's tough if I fish with a soft plastics angler. Wacky rig, texas rig, drop shot etc. The two just don't get along in the same boat. Of course I'm talking fun fishing not tournaments so I carry lots of rods and tackle and adjust to make everyone happy. Too many techniques.
I was in WI fishing one of the bigger lakes up there. I rip, stop, count few seconds, repeat. I was catching Smallies and Pikes over the standard retrieve.
Caught my PB smallie on a keitech this year. Got hung up 5 feet from shore in a river popped it a bunch of times until it came free then I was burning it so I could cast out again, and got bit a few feet from shore. My biggest smallies have come just after I was hung up and managed to pop free and wasn't expecting to get bit. Appreciate the retrieve videos.
Thanks Matt, definitely one of my weaker technics. I have 200$ worth of swimbaits and about 10 bass to talk about. I do vary retrieves but will give yours a try. Now show me how to hook a bass on a frog and I will hit the trail.
I was at Table Rock about a month ago and killed them on the Scottsboro swimbait with your guppy head! I used a mix of your #1 and # 3 retrieves, your head seemed to make a huge difference also, it worked better than the Matt Allen head I was using!
One variant of the first one that has gotten me some good fish when using the forward facing sonar is just killing it on a straight slow retrieve. If I see I have followers, I have a good shot of getting them to commit if I just stop reeling and let it pendulum.
If I remember right. I think you use to pour your own jigheads. Maybe I’m wrong. I’m curious if you’d use a 1/0 or 2/0 in a ball head 90degree hook for a 2.8”. For smallmouth, spots, and walleye.
I pair the Dirty Jigs Matt Stefan Guppy Swimbait Jig Head 1/8 oz 1/0 on a 2.8 Keitech Swing Impact FAT Swimbait on my Old 18 Suppressor - 7'0" Ultra Light Casting Mod-Fast rod pair with a Shimano Aldebaran BFS on 3lb Sunline Super FC Sniper Fluorocarbon. The fight is absolutely orgasmic, LOL!!! BFS Rules!
You have to keep in mind the eye angle, head shape and weight. All three are super important! The eye angle dictates retrieve. The head shape dictates the way the water pushed over the tail. The weight dictates how fast or slow the movement, roll and tail action of the bait will be.
Have you ever put a 3* or a 3.25 " swim bag, like some kind of ribbed swim bate kind of like a strike King paddle tail swimbait, and put a light bullet weight in front of it with your swimbait on a ewg style hook and fished it that way? Because I have caught them burning it like that and then stop the retrieve, and then let the bullet wait fall and it looks like that swimbait is chasing something to the bottom in a lot of times I will catch them on the fall as that swimbait is falling after that weight..
Could you make a video on the fluke style worm..? And the ways that you can fish it? My favorite way to fix it is Neko style because I think the end of that worm is designed perfectly for a nail weight! But I think there are a lot more ways that you can fish that bait, drop shot style, the way that I just mentioned with a nail weight in the end fishing it Neko style.. but could you make a video on that particular one? Thanks
With stuff like the Panther, you can power hop it. There are certain types of rod and line for this technique. The key is to feel the line and feel it when it makes contact with the bottom. Fatty Keitechs can be hopped to great effect on certain easy lakes, but the key to hard lakes is the shimmy and relatively fast drop. Yah.
Retrieves are elementary. Hopping it in the dark of night in the deep lakes is crazy. Also, hopping it in the deep currents for stripers. Those are the sickest I've seen.
Some swimbaits, like the keitecs, are flimsy and don't hold up well so I go thru a bunch of them. However, that Berkley Power Swimmer is pretty stout yet still has great action---perfect mix. My favorite swimbait.
I honestly don't throw a swimbait enough. My wife loves to throw it when we go fishing and I leave it for her, even though we are just fun fishing I don't want to "steal" the bites she could be getting. I always pass these tips along though because it's great seeing her crush a big bass from the back of the boat 🎣
I’m pairing down all my tackle to be as simple as possible. I’m trying to go with just one “Keitech” style swimbait in a few different colors at 3” and 4”. I’m also trying to stay brand loyal to Berkley for a multitude of reasons. Is there any place you would have to have a power impact fat over a power swimmer?
@@MattStefanFishing back at the local….caught a 6lb spot today and a 19 inch…my dad and I ended up with about a dozen total but quality was great….video of it all should be out in a couple days
It was a good guppy. It will surely be missed. Now you have to put a weedless Texas rigged bait on a new jig head and cast it around the yard until it looks all beat up. What is it with fish wanting to just smash beat up jig heads?
I fish Lake Lanier almost every day, and if I bounce or drag anything across the bottom that isn't weedless......I've lost that bait. I can't even fish a senko without using a weedless hook, it's just the nature of the lake being a reservoir with a forest on the bottom. So I sympathise with you having to break off that swimbait.
I really appreciate the series on bait retrieves. Thanks, Matt!
Glad you like them!
This be the only Channel I watch now. Hats off to u Matt.
Thanks!
I've been teaching the students in my class those retrieves. They all have great success using one of those three retrieves. I've been fishing at night here in Houston Texas for the last 4 days ,those retrieves have been a killer, people are watching me catch fish and cannot figure out what I'm doing different when they are using the same lure and color.😊
GLAD THEY ARE WORKING FOR YOU
As a bank fishermen, I love your channel especially these retrieval videos of baits and lures I use. I have liked a few so far and plan on saving more. Thank you for a great channel and videos!
Awesome! thanks for the support!
Matt always dropping the juice! I live sleep and breath fishing and I’ve learned so many tips on fishing baits from this channel.
Great to hear!
I really enjoy these kind of videos. You can watch lots of videos on all kinds of techniques, but there aren’t very many videos on how to work the different lures or techniques. I commend you for showing how to retrieve and work various baits. Please keep doing these type of videos for other techniques and lures. Thanks for teaching the part of fishing that I believe is the hardest to learn on your own.
Glad you like them!
I also like to use a small football jig head and bounce it on the bottom. Stands up real nice.
nice!
Thanks for tips Matt. Hopefully I can use these to improve my swimbait bite, which has been very low as of late.
Good luck!
Swimbaits are one of my favorites for deep water bass. They also catch walleye on those days when the wind has them in the shallows.
yep!
I always like hearing different retrieve styles, we all think differently & I like trying different things & try to think outside of the box anyways. I was catching ton of schooling striper using that technique. Letting my dropshot pendulum swing from surface down through school. I had a 3" hazedong shad because they were on tiny bait. It was out fishing for bass & school of striper came up so I switched my dropshot bait & took advantage of situation. It worked extremely well & was ton of fun..
good info thanks for sharing!
Thanks for the retrieve videos. Very informative. Your videos got me thinking. With all the baits we have available today, especially soft plastics, the different rigging techniques, it's fun but complicated. When I started fishing national tournaments in 1984 you were either a boater or a rider. Both anglers paid the same entry fee and fished for the same prize pot. Techniques were simple then. Today I see more of a division in anglers. I'm basically considered a power fisherman who likes to move with topwater, spinnerbaits, crankbaits and it's tough if I fish with a soft plastics angler. Wacky rig, texas rig, drop shot etc. The two just don't get along in the same boat. Of course I'm talking fun fishing not tournaments so I carry lots of rods and tackle and adjust to make everyone happy. Too many techniques.
I always tell my friends you can’t employ all of the techniques available today in one day!
lots and lots of techniques
All the retrieves are very helpful. Thanks
thanks for watching!
I wondered how you would break off the snag. Thanks for including it and making it real.
Glad to help
It's always great to hear your advice ,keep up the great work on the channel, have a great day .
Thanks, will do!
Thanks for the videos Matt!! Between you, Johnny, and Randy one day I’ll know how to fish.
for sure!
Who’s Johnny?
@@ricksonora6656 Johnny with fish the moment
@@mgdwj Thanks! I can’t keep the names straight. Yes, that’s a great channel!
Man your pretty much my go to. Even though I’m in the south fishing Lanier mainly all the content is applicable to my fishery.
awesome!
I was in WI fishing one of the bigger lakes up there. I rip, stop, count few seconds, repeat. I was catching Smallies and Pikes over the standard retrieve.
Nice!
Caught my PB smallie on a keitech this year. Got hung up 5 feet from shore in a river popped it a bunch of times until it came free then I was burning it so I could cast out again, and got bit a few feet from shore. My biggest smallies have come just after I was hung up and managed to pop free and wasn't expecting to get bit. Appreciate the retrieve videos.
Nice thanks for sharing!
Great tips! Thanks for the waterside demonstrations.
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks Matt, definitely one of my weaker technics. I have 200$ worth of swimbaits and about 10 bass to talk about. I do vary retrieves but will give yours a try. Now show me how to hook a bass on a frog and I will hit the trail.
You bet!
I was at Table Rock about a month ago and killed them on the Scottsboro swimbait with your guppy head! I used a mix of your #1 and # 3 retrieves, your head seemed to make a huge difference also, it worked better than the Matt Allen head I was using!
thats awesome!
Great stuff man. I just won a tournament by dragging a 3.8 swimbait on a swing head on points 17-20' deep.
What weight swing head ?
@@fishinfrenzy2544 3/8 oz was enough. I had no current that day.
awesome! congrats!
This series on bait retrieves is absolute 🔥🔥🔥. Wish you did one on the speedworm.
I did this one th-cam.com/video/PEjhCJNNhVk/w-d-xo.html
@@MattStefanFishing thanks Man I'll check it out as soon as I hit break here at work. #Nightshifter
Thanks for those great retrieving tips!!!Stay Safe & God Bless!!!
Thanks, you too!
Nice demo. Thanks Matt 👍
My pleasure!
One variant of the first one that has gotten me some good fish when using the forward facing sonar is just killing it on a straight slow retrieve. If I see I have followers, I have a good shot of getting them to commit if I just stop reeling and let it pendulum.
nice! thanks for sharing!
Just caught one today with the second retrieve. Regards.
Awesome!
Great video. Thanks. Why do you switch hands each cast? Why not just use a reel with handle on left side?
I use both and here’s why th-cam.com/video/O6DJ-2gdzoc/w-d-xo.htmlsi=VOc9XTwDKMPmyf_J
If I remember right. I think you use to pour your own jigheads. Maybe I’m wrong. I’m curious if you’d use a 1/0 or 2/0 in a ball head 90degree hook for a 2.8”. For smallmouth, spots, and walleye.
Both will work. I prefer a 2/0
Thanks bud, I like this series 👊🏼
great! Ill keep making them if you keep watching them!
I pair the Dirty Jigs Matt Stefan Guppy Swimbait Jig Head 1/8 oz 1/0 on a 2.8 Keitech Swing Impact FAT Swimbait on my Old 18 Suppressor - 7'0" Ultra Light Casting Mod-Fast rod pair with a Shimano Aldebaran BFS on 3lb Sunline Super FC Sniper Fluorocarbon. The fight is absolutely orgasmic, LOL!!! BFS Rules!
sounds great!
You have to keep in mind the eye angle, head shape and weight. All three are super important! The eye angle dictates retrieve. The head shape dictates the way the water pushed over the tail. The weight dictates how fast or slow the movement, roll and tail action of the bait will be.
thanks!
Have you ever put a 3* or a 3.25 " swim bag, like some kind of ribbed swim bate kind of like a strike King paddle tail swimbait, and put a light bullet weight in front of it with your swimbait on a ewg style hook and fished it that way? Because I have caught them burning it like that and then stop the retrieve, and then let the bullet wait fall and it looks like that swimbait is chasing something to the bottom in a lot of times I will catch them on the fall as that swimbait is falling after that weight..
yep i do it all the time
Love these videos is it possible to also add the line size rod size for matching what you are throwing
ill try to do better with that
Could you make a video on the fluke style worm..? And the ways that you can fish it? My favorite way to fix it is Neko style because I think the end of that worm is designed perfectly for a nail weight! But I think there are a lot more ways that you can fish that bait, drop shot style, the way that I just mentioned with a nail weight in the end fishing it Neko style.. but could you make a video on that particular one? Thanks
ill put it on my video list
Would this work for walleyes also?
give it a try!
With stuff like the Panther, you can power hop it. There are certain types of rod and line for this technique. The key is to feel the line and feel it when it makes contact with the bottom. Fatty Keitechs can be hopped to great effect on certain easy lakes, but the key to hard lakes is the shimmy and relatively fast drop. Yah.
thanks for sharing
Keep the good job... Saludos from Mexico
Thanks, will do!
Retrieves are elementary. Hopping it in the dark of night in the deep lakes is crazy. Also, hopping it in the deep currents for stripers. Those are the sickest I've seen.
thanks for watching
Some swimbaits, like the keitecs, are flimsy and don't hold up well so I go thru a bunch of them. However, that Berkley Power Swimmer is pretty stout yet still has great action---perfect mix. My favorite swimbait.
it is a great swimbait!
Great techniques. Thanks for sharing your information
Thanks for watching!
I honestly don't throw a swimbait enough. My wife loves to throw it when we go fishing and I leave it for her, even though we are just fun fishing I don't want to "steal" the bites she could be getting. I always pass these tips along though because it's great seeing her crush a big bass from the back of the boat 🎣
thanks for sharing!
Hi Matt, would you fish the same for a darter jighead? I have been hooked by your contents. Thanks.
pretty much so!
I’m pairing down all my tackle to be as simple as possible. I’m trying to go with just one “Keitech” style swimbait in a few different colors at 3” and 4”. I’m also trying to stay brand loyal to Berkley for a multitude of reasons. Is there any place you would have to have a power impact fat over a power swimmer?
Not a bad idea
Hope you do frogs soon, I can't get any confidence because every time I try, they just spasm to one side.
bummer
Great tips, thanks.
thanks!
Love the retrieve videos! Good information to the average guys to the pros!
Glad you like them!
A lot of good information💪🇺🇸
Right on
awesome
Thanks!
Very nice Matt
Thanks!
Does this also apply to weedless rigged swim baits?
yep
Thanks man nice
thanks for watching!
🍺Thanks Matt.
thanks for watching!
Matt, which blank is that? Is that your normal swim bait setup?
i use the CB905 - CB907 for swimbaits depending on the size
🍺More TW orders from your link arrived today. 🤛
awesome! thank you!
Seems like you switch between left and right hand retrieves in these videos, which blows my mind.
yep i use both and have for the past 25 years. i love both
Was out on Hartwell two days ago really could have used this video then lol
good luck next time!
@@MattStefanFishing back at the local….caught a 6lb spot today and a 19 inch…my dad and I ended up with about a dozen total but quality was great….video of it all should be out in a couple days
@@MattStefanFishing technically they are Alabama bass like the ones in the coosa so that’s why they are freaks for spots lol
It was a good guppy. It will surely be missed. Now you have to put a weedless Texas rigged bait on a new jig head and cast it around the yard until it looks all beat up. What is it with fish wanting to just smash beat up jig heads?
haha
I'm three days into fishing and just realized I've been holding the fishing pole upside down
Uh oh
The only thing i see is the swimbait on upside down on jig heads . I do like them upside down on bladed jigs . Thanks Matt
thanks for watching!
I fish Lake Lanier almost every day, and if I bounce or drag anything across the bottom that isn't weedless......I've lost that bait. I can't even fish a senko without using a weedless hook, it's just the nature of the lake being a reservoir with a forest on the bottom. So I sympathise with you having to break off that swimbait.
thanks...one of many
5:45 close call heh
haha
I love throwing small swim baits, but man do they get hung up. Risk reward though!
thats true
Head weight on the jig please.
that was a 3/16
😊
thanks for watching!
Must be nice fishing with no weeds.
i like weeds
@@MattStefanFishing me to!