This is how I fish a stick bait 98% of the time throughout the year. Here in South Georgia, the grass never fully dies back and by April it's already almost up to the surface of the water. Wacky rigging, even with a weedless hook, in Sago Pond Weed covered ponds is impossible. T-rigged stick baits, Flukes, and Trick Worms are the only thing that will come through clean and I fish them all about the same. Thanks for the video!
Guys, I’m not sure if anyone else caught it. But there was a deer in the water AND he hooked into a fish!! 😂😂 all joking aside, love the content this channel puts it. Very informative and full of technique that I get to go out and try. Tight lines brothers and sisters! 🤙🏼
More times than not there's no better way to catch bass than on weightless plastics...shallow. I get more bass on that than all other baits combined. Spring, summer, fall.
Sounds like you may be over working the bait. Unless you are fishing it across the top of a grass bed, the technique should be: Cast out and let it sink to the bottom... Twitch...Twitch...Pause........ Twitch,Twitch...Pause........ Most of the time, the bass will hit it as soon as the bait moves or as it's falling, so the Pause is the most important step. If I'm fishing across the tops of grass beds, I'll fish it with no pauses or very brief ones. My goal is to get the bait to break the surface like jumping minnows. I get big topwater hits that way.
I will say most of the time I fish a stick bait weightless texas rig i want it to come to the surface. Specially during transition times. So my retrieve is Cast twitch twitch hard twitch pause for a count of 6-7 or until it rests Then repeat. Sometimes the bass key in on it when it crests the surface then they watch it fall down once you twitch it again they will either grab it during a twitch or the second it starts to fall again. you can change the sink rate with bigger hooks, thicker gauge hooks, different lines, and different stick baits. You can also vary your retrieval process to see what they are keying in on but a good start is that stated above. I have some stick baits that take like 20 seconds to fall a foot. I have some that sink like a stone. Its definitely something that you want to try different brands of bait to get the one that personally works the best for you and the fish you are fishing for. I am not saying go nuts and buy every brand because that adds confusion instead of confidence but simply branch out a tiny bit if that particular one isnt working for you.
Cool but you missed an outstanding video opportunity with two deer (only one we viewers saw looked like a Buck). Still appreciated the video. Thank you. Be well.
This is how I fish a stick bait 98% of the time throughout the year. Here in South Georgia, the grass never fully dies back and by April it's already almost up to the surface of the water. Wacky rigging, even with a weedless hook, in Sago Pond Weed covered ponds is impossible. T-rigged stick baits, Flukes, and Trick Worms are the only thing that will come through clean and I fish them all about the same. Thanks for the video!
Same thing up here in Minnesota. By far the best presentation I've ever fished. Spring summer fall.
Guys, I’m not sure if anyone else caught it. But there was a deer in the water AND he hooked into a fish!! 😂😂 all joking aside, love the content this channel puts it. Very informative and full of technique that I get to go out and try. Tight lines brothers and sisters! 🤙🏼
More times than not there's no better way to catch bass than on weightless plastics...shallow. I get more bass on that than all other baits combined. Spring, summer, fall.
I noticed you didnt mention winter. You live in an area where theres ice?
Whenever i use a senko it comes up all the way to the surface even when i let it sink to the bottom so my question is ,is this normal?
Sounds like you may be over working the bait. Unless you are fishing it across the top of a grass bed, the technique should be: Cast out and let it sink to the bottom... Twitch...Twitch...Pause........ Twitch,Twitch...Pause........
Most of the time, the bass will hit it as soon as the bait moves or as it's falling, so the Pause is the most important step. If I'm fishing across the tops of grass beds, I'll fish it with no pauses or very brief ones. My goal is to get the bait to break the surface like jumping minnows. I get big topwater hits that way.
twitch pause...use a little larger hook
I will say most of the time I fish a stick bait weightless texas rig i want it to come to the surface. Specially during transition times. So my retrieve is
Cast
twitch
twitch
hard twitch
pause for a count of 6-7 or until it rests
Then repeat.
Sometimes the bass key in on it when it crests the surface then they watch it fall down once you twitch it again they will either grab it during a twitch or the second it starts to fall again. you can change the sink rate with bigger hooks, thicker gauge hooks, different lines, and different stick baits. You can also vary your retrieval process to see what they are keying in on but a good start is that stated above.
I have some stick baits that take like 20 seconds to fall a foot. I have some that sink like a stone. Its definitely something that you want to try different brands of bait to get the one that personally works the best for you and the fish you are fishing for. I am not saying go nuts and buy every brand because that adds confusion instead of confidence but simply branch out a tiny bit if that particular one isnt working for you.
Is there a recommended timed cadence between twitches for this set up? I try to count 3-5 seconds between twitches with a Texas rig.
I have yet to catch a bass on a plastic bait! Doesn't mean I won't keep trying.
Cool but you missed an outstanding video opportunity with two deer (only one we viewers saw looked like a Buck).
Still appreciated the video.
Thank you.
Be well.
A “ruit” ball?? Lol. I guess this is just foreign to my southern ears.
Guys I think a deer jumped in the water