Hover Strolling! The Most Underrated Bass Fishing Technique (Hover Shot)
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- Hover strolling (Hover Shot) is extremely underrated and is one of the best bass fishing techniques I use!
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I was born and raised in Chicago, but after working 12 years in the financial Industry regulating the futures and options markets at the CME/CBOT I decided to pursue my passion fishing professional tournaments and left my full time corporate job. At that point, I moved to Junction City, WI with my wife Sara and two boys Hank and Duke. I've been fishing professionally since 2011 and full-time since 2015. I've qualified for seven MLF Championships and won roughly a half million in tournament winnings at the professional level.
I love how gentle you are with the bass, I bet a lot more fish survive getting caught by you then others.
Treat them with respect
Love the on-water instruction, Matt. Thanks!
you bet!
Just received my order from Core Tackle, so I went back to watch your older video on the hover shot technique. Ready to give it a try, as soon as it warms up a bit in Michigan.
GOOD LUCK!
Looks like a fun trip. On the water instruction catches my interest. Thanks for explaining this technique new to me.
stay tuned ive got a special hooked designed for this technique coming out in a few weeks!
100% agree the worm must have a flat bottom for the correct fall. Been fishing it only this season and yep its a winner. KVD fat baby finesse worm is a good one for H.S. The tail has a concave pocket which helps with the random fall for this technique. I've gone down to the 1/32 size nail weight, works great in 4-6 fow. Looking forward to summer pattern deep outside weed edges. It's gonna give my 1/8oz tube a run for it's money. Thanks for the vid.
awesome! thanks for sharing!
Thanks, Matt !! That looks like a Great Technique !! Appreciate the tip , my friend . I will give that a try, for sure !!
Have fun!
Other than the one week anomaly we had in May, it's been a great spring. From my prospective in the TC, we're about two weeks later than what is now, normal .
Enjoy your videos ! Crappies and Bass, as always, have followed the water temps.
thanks for watching!
Steve Walker is rubbing it in, I'm happy with the 74 we managed today w/rain. Yeah, I think they're 3-4 weeks behind myself. It had been a long and brutal winter. Snow at the end of April I didn't need.
nice!
That's some good fishing Matt. Thanks for getting out there and showing how it's done. 👍
You bet
I live on Table Rock Lake , purchased two pks of those hooks back a couple of months ago on one of your videos definitely going to try it out .
Good luck!
Matt you can get the same type action out of the Osp dolive stick or the osp dolive gill. With the gill you get that blue gill profile and it is all over the place as it falls. I love your channel thank you for all you share
Thanks for the tip!
When you did the other video on this, I melted the lead off some jigs and wrapped the shank with lead wire. I was sitting on the front seat of the boat and was just screwing around with it, seeing how it looked. I thought it was cool and WHAM a 4lb largemouth zipped out and inhaled it!!
The dock is where I do a lot of messing around with baits, trying different things, etc... Plus it gets hammered by people fishing as well. My point is, these bass see EVERYTHING LOL And they really fall for this! I am tearing them up on a different bait right now, but I always have this tied on.
awesome! im working on a special hook as well for this presentation
hey Matt, somehow I missed this vid when came out. I’m always looking for ways to catch prespawn cruisers that don’t want a magdraft. lol. I will definitely have to add this to the Arsenal. Thanks!
prespawners love the hover rig...stay tuned my new hover rig hook is coming out later this week!
Every body of water in my area and beyond are so pressured and its always a grind to catch bass, until I started using this technique and you can tell they've never seen this type of action because they just can't resist and bite every time now..
It’s so good!
This looks like a great technique. Thanks Matt. Gotta find those hooks!
links in the description I added the decoy hover strolling hooks since tackle warehouse got them in as well. they work great too and theres a weedless version!
Great vid, Matt. After watching, I tried hover-shotting the other day and caught a few, but each time the nail weight would fly out of the flatworm when fighting the fish, so I ran out of nail weights. Any tips to not lose the nail weight each time you hook a fish? Thanks!
Stay tuned I have a solution for this that you will want! In the meantime super glue is a good option
What size hook is most universal? Love your channel! Solid and honest content.
i like a 1/0 personally
Learning something new. Please keep these coming. Hope you finish strong in your tournament
will do
Totally off topic question, but say you're wife buys you an early Father's Day gift - an Abu Garcia Max ZS spinner 200 size with 5.2:1 gear ratio and a 7' Medium power rod to put it on. How do you rig it up and what baits would you throw?
This set up is what I fish the most.
Uni filament braid like nanofil as your spool fill then a uni knot to a 10- 15lb fluro leader ( unless you want to fish topwater with it, them mono). Really the only techniques tou can't do effectively with it are techniques that require a heavy weight like punching. Spinning rods aren't great for flipping but it can be done.
sounds like a good squarebill set up
Great video!!! Like the technique!!! Will have to put that in my arsenal!!! Stay Safe & God Bless!!!!
Right on
Love to try it if I can get my hands on some of those hooks 😊
Sounds good!
Hey Matt great video I like useing those finesse baits on the spinning rod I never knew about this technique now I do. Excellent information god bless you and your family your pal fisherman Mike.
You bet!
Love seeing the kids fishing
they love it!
That was cool new rig for me. Thanks.
awesome!
Is it possible to target suspended fish with the hover stroll without forward facing sonar? If so, how would you go about approaching that?
Yep look for bait and fish it around break lines, points and humps
Just wondering a little curious with this what would be the difference in the hover and just a 1/16 or 1/8 jig? Falling action?- I usually use a 1/8 jig head and zman trick shotz- good video to I’m gone try it this weekend in NC!
falling action
Looking forward to trying this in the next couple of months. What size hook are you using? I bought the Ryugi hover shot size 1...it seemed alittle small. Is that the size you are using in this video?
i will be launching my own hook with the weight molded on next week!
@Matt Stefan Fishing that is awesome...where will they be available?
Awesome looking rig! I am going to try that next week at Table Rock lake, should work its clear water dont you think?
Yes it will
Great video. Getting your reps in!
Appreciate it!
Matt when are your hooks going to be out? What size hook for the Berkley Flat worm?
3/64 oz 1/0 hook. Available as of today www.coretackle.com
@@MattStefanFishing are they going to be at TW I don’t like Pay Pal?
A weird discovery I made. I ordered Decoy Worm128 Neko hook, but find it smaller than I thought. I noticed the line tie sits 90 degree like the Ryugi Hovershot and would make a killer Texas rig Hover Strolling hook. Compared it in the tank, it seems to sit more horizontal vs a Ryugi, but I'll find out how falls, etc in the Spring.
interesting
Is the hover shot any good in 5 to 6 feet of water? We fish a lot of ponds and small lakes with maximum depth of about 6 feet are use live scope I’m assuming it would be fairly effective if I can drop it right on and kind of work it back slow and keep it a little bit off the bottom I know it’s ideal to have it above them a little bit
yep most of these fish were caught in less than 5 ft
Super cool looking rig , thanks for showing it bro
thanks for watching!
Very cool..and simple! Thanks Matt! Hey! How do you think that would work with that Power Bait Water Bug?? Seems like a forgotten bait..just crying for a purpose like this!
Should work great! Now im going to try it!
@@MattStefanFishing Wondering if it will spiral down with the "kicking tail." 🤔
Love that setup
THanks!
I really like your own the water videos.
Thank you!
How long of a leader are you using in that clear water and the yellow braid? I always worry the bass are going to see that yellow. Looks a neat technique
15FT leader
Off topic but does the maxscent jerk shad have a slit in the belly? I know the flat nose minnow doesn’t.
Jerk Shad does
Love the Tvs spinning seat. How do you like the elite x?
love them
Man, your hands are really banged up. Was it a plumbing or carpentry project?
woodworking haha
haha I been talking about this rig for a little. I talked about on a live it def is an interesting technique and does work Gamakatsu makes a hook now for hover strolling called the horizon head and has a little bit of weight to it but I learned it from Kenta kimura on his lurenewsTV episode from couple years ago and finally started messing with it last year.
sounds good!
Matt, another great video! Keep up the great work . Question: Would you use this as a search bait during a bass tournament or main way to get 5 keepers.
both
What size hook was that and would it be advantageous to have a swivel up the line to avoid line twist
i dont use a swivel and it was a size 1
I love it would you recommend it for a co-angler
yes!
Do you have any small finesse presentations that are good in grass?
yep ill put a video togethor
awesome stuff!
Glad you think so!
I come across the same questions with spawn or prespawn.
its very odd today
Looks like it would b a good bait. I like throw different worms & flukes with just hook& nail weight or a weighted hook & now nail weight. I went out yesterday caught 1 decent bass & few small ones. & Came across a 10 alligator that blew her back up & was hissing at me. I slowly got outta that area she must of had a nest near by. Definitely different fishing down south I didn't have to worry about gators kayak fishing in Ohio...
nope
Sweet technique
thanks!
Good stuff matt
thanks!
Looks cool. Are you wearing a coat today?? It’s gonna be 106 today in Texas.
wasnt warm
The bass have convinced me time is near for post spawn action caught several yesterday fishing for trout .I know why we don’t hear more about it ?the price of nail weights is going up .no bells or whistles.lures catch fisherman.let’s take or favorite lures for a swim .this lake looks great for a day the water
thanks for sharing!
Is this a clear water only technique?
nope
On the water is my favorite 🤩
nice!
Could you rig it like a Texas rig for heavy grass lake?
Theres a weedless hook in the video description you can check out that works well in grass. I havent tried a texas rig but you could give it a whirl
What size hook were you using?
here are the ones i just designed 1/0 size! www.coretackle.com
Yo Matt what the hell did you do to your hands? Sick video man!
Haha! wood working injury and a burn. both hands are beat up...they are always bleeding. I just cut them now as well installing a window air conditioner for the lady that owns the rental house im staying at for the james river event.
@@MattStefanFishing lol geez man our hands look about the same. Just finished a house remodel
Thanks Matt , I wish I could find flat worms.
they have some at tackle warehouse www.tacklewarehouse.com/Berkley_Powerbait_Maxscent_Flat_Worm/descpage-CLF.html?from=MSFG
Were you fishing in Virginia?? Seen ya camped out at WalMart in the Valley
Haha! That was me and Miles burghoff camped out on our way to the james river for the tournament this week!
@@MattStefanFishing awesome! Well I had to stop a take a picture! Such a nice setup you got, wish you the best of luck!!!
@@MattStefanFishing that’s my home town, come by sometime and let’s do some fishing!! Lol
haha! thats awesome!
I’m not sure but I think this may be what taku won on the st Lawrence with. He said it was a neko but
interesting!
one of many techniques that will work when you actually see the bait and the fish on your live view....far too many people still don't have it, can't have it, or can't afford it....
this works with and without forward facing sonar
@@MattStefanFishing sure, but so does anything when you put it in front of a bass's face, which live view allows you to do....fishing this technique WITHOUT that advantage, is fishing like most of us do all the time: VOLUME, with the hopes of achieving that proximity eventually......Oh, yes, we cut down the odds a bit if we are targeting obvious cover, and there are other deep structure situations that also help with normal sonar interpretation. But the key is the live view: there are already a good dozen variations of this hover fishing with the usual lure companies competing to be the "top dog", including Rapala. I will add hover strolling to my deep water arsenal, because where I fish, bass are in deeper water for a good part of the season.
Is this more of a clear water bait?
yes but can be used effectively in dirty water as well
mike iaconelli show me this technique for walleye also it works great
awesome!
How would you differentiate this technique vs the Berkeley flatworm on a 1/16 or 1/32 oz mushroom head ned jig (Z-Man OG or Mule Fishing jigs)? where would you apply one vs the other. thanks.
its a completely different action than using a jig head. jigheads fall vertical. ths technique allows the bait to glide and spiral. i was using this in grassy areas where i wouldnt use a jighead. otherwise a lot of similar presentations
I bet that Hover shot would work great using a slip bobber! Suspend over the weed beds!
it does ive done it!
What size hook Matt?
2
I'll be damned...very nice looking rig👍
thanks!
What is that on your arm?
a burn
Oh, I thought it was some kind of brace. Thanks for the reply, hope all your gear dried well. Good luck.
hook size?
2
Couldn't I just use a 1/16 split shot up against nose of bait ?
no thats the same as a jighead and will pull the bait straight downward. you need the weight transferred throughout the body of the worm for maximum gliding.
How can buy them please
www.coretackle.com
Well you learn something new everyday lol
yep
That lake kinda looks like lake kaubashine....
never heard of it haha
thhis technique is for reeling. You are fishing it like a darter head. Huge difference
and it catches a pile of fish as seen
I am willing to bet not one of the guys that disrespect your tournament performance ever qualified for the Classic. I’d say that doesn’t leave very many guys in any position to comment. Danny isn’t giving you a problem is he? LOL
No problems here
@@MattStefanFishing I thought I was commenting on Randy's video, lol. Randy roomed with Danny who way back.
Beautiful lake but, way to many docks. I can see why it's so pressured. Just a beautiful area though. 🙂👍
yep!
That’s a nasty looking gouge on your thumb
hurts like heck!
This is a very basic walleye fishing technique. The reason why you don't hear about it is because it is not making the sponsors money. Somebody changed the name to and a slight variant of a bango minnow. The fall might not matter most days. But there will be a day only that works. This guy is a pro. He better be able to do that with a half dozen different lures in those conditions. Sorry for the rant. I get tired of hearing the term elite in fishing circles.
ok
Great job
thanks! stay tuned Ive got a bait coming out for hover rigs!
What size hook were you using?
Size 1