What is your favorite winter time bass lure?

[Dakota]

I like throwing x rap jerk baits. Pearl and clown color. Of course can't go wrong with the jig.

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[creekcrappie]

A green pumpkin jig drug allong the bottom as slow as you can stand it.

[Travis C.]

Zoom Ole Monster worm but its really hard to beat a free lined shiner.

[creekcrappie]

Zoom Ole Monster worm but its really hard to beat a free lined shiner.

They still bite worms in that cold water?

[Travis C.]

They still bite worms in that cold water?

I fish the ole monster year round. It's always on a pole no matter where I fish for bass. You just have to change up the retrieve. Sometimes they want it hopped, sometimes drug in spurts and sometimes cranked slowly along the bottom like a crankbait.

If I could only fish one bait it would be that in plum.

[bfish]

Floating fly or suspending jerk

[blink]

I use finesse jigs, shaky heads with finesse worms, deep cranks, slow rolled spinnerbaits

[Reel Tune]

DT20's, DD22's, and flukes. I want to fish jerkbaits, and jigs more.

[txnative]

1/8 oz scrounger jighead with a zoom tiny fluke in baitfish or baby bass. I've caught just about everything that swims on it in even the coldest weather. I also like to use a fluke rigged weightless.

As for bait, I have a hard time beating a free-lined shad or skippie. Shiners and large tuffies have also been reliable, but a 4-6 inch threadfin is almost like crack for predatory fish. The list of fish I've caught on them looks like the Fish ID section of the TN Fishing Reg's booklet.


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[nomad60]

That's interesting, Travis. I like using the Ol' Monster in summer but never thought about winter time.

[TNtransplant08]

Football jig and DT6 on sunlit rocky banks.

[Pinwheeled]

I always have a Megabass Vision 110, shad rap, and a football jig tied on in cold weather.

[Travis C.]

That's interesting, Travis. I like using the Ol' Monster in summer but never thought about winter time.

I think as angler's sometimes we pigeon hole ourselves into a certain way fishing seasonally. We fish with this lure in the spring, these lures in the summer, these in the fall and those in the winter. The bass don't stop eating certain baits because of season change or water temp change. They may not be in the same location or in the mood for that retrieve.

Try it nomad. The colder it gets the more I drag it slowly only hopping it to get over cover that it may run into. Also the colder the less you move the rod tip when dragging.

[Dakota]

Yes live bait is great too. I took a 5 gallon bucket with a lid drill holes in the side towards the top half and made a shad bucket and tie it on my boat into the water They never die. I also love throwing Cast net for live bait.


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[nomad60]

I think as angler's sometimes we pigeon hole ourselves into a certain way fishing seasonally. We fish with this lure in the spring, these lures in the summer, these in the fall and those in the winter. The bass don't stop eating certain baits because of season change or water temp change. They may not be in the same location or in the mood for that retrieve.

Try it nomad. The colder it gets the more I drag it slowly only hopping it to get over cover that it may run into. Also the colder the less you move the rod tip when dragging.

Travis,

I am always open to finding new ways to catch fish and am constantly experimenting...most of the time my ideas don't work out but they sure sound and look good the night before a fishing trip! My problem is, I get discouraged to easily and quickly if a certain lure isn't working and I end up reaching for my 2 old faithfuls, Senkos and jigs.

[creekcrappie]

Travis,

I am always open to finding new ways to catch fish and am constantly experimenting...most of the time my ideas don't work out but they sure sound and look good the night before a fishing trip! My problem is, I get discouraged to easily and quickly if a certain lure isn't working and I end up reaching for my 2 old faithfuls, Senkos and jigs.

Same thing for me!

[Travis C.]

Travis,

I am always open to finding new ways to catch fish and am constantly experimenting...most of the time my ideas don't work out but they sure sound and look good the night before a fishing trip! My problem is, I get discouraged to easily and quickly if a certain lure isn't working and I end up reaching for my 2 old faithfuls, Senkos and jigs.

Kind of a two sided sword. You have to have confidence in the bait/presentation regardless of what it is but for something new to your arsenal you have to take the bumps in the road.

Another thing with the "old faithfuls", don't put yourself at a disadvantage before the boat hits the water. IF the signs point to the fish being somewhere other than on that bank "you've always caught fish" don't waste time going to check it out. Use that time trying a new bank where they should be.

[jad2t]

Fishing in cold weather? South Florida blood doesn't enjoy that haha. I may try it this year though. Slow fishing plastic worms (zoom finesse being my choice), flukes, and deep crankbaits with a slow retrieve would be my first choices.

[Tennessee_fisherman]

Jigs and swimbaits

[XxthejuicexX]

My couch in sweat pants and socks are the best lures for me. Well if Im am in the woods hunting its my bow or .308

[SAMBOLIE]

Kind of a two sided sword. You have to have confidence in the bait/presentation regardless of what it is but for something new to your arsenal you have to take the bumps in the road.

Another thing with the "old faithfuls", don't put yourself at a disadvantage before the boat hits the water. IF the signs point to the fish being somewhere other than on that bank "you've always caught fish" don't waste time going to check it out. Use that time trying a new bank where they should be.

You are right. If you ain't where the fish are you may as well throw a hookless bait.

[nomad60]

Kind of a two sided sword. You have to have confidence in the bait/presentation regardless of what it is but for something new to your arsenal you have to take the bumps in the road.

Another thing with the "old faithfuls", don't put yourself at a disadvantage before the boat hits the water. IF the signs point to the fish being somewhere other than on that bank "you've always caught fish" don't waste time going to check it out. Use that time trying a new bank where they should be.

Figuring out the signs and where they should be are just more pieces of the puzzle that make up fishing...and I'll admit that I'm not that good at either. It's a little tricky for me to figure out the Cumberland river; every time I think I have finally figured something out, the next time when I go out under the same weather/water conditions, it's whole new ball game. But, that's what makes it fun (for me). If I was fishing tournaments, maybe not so much LOL.

Whenever my buddy's bass club launches here out of Clarksville, a lot of them make the run up to Dover so they can fish the creeks/coves and I've heard a few of them say they don't particularly like fishing the river locally because it can be tough.