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Originally Posted by c312
what are shiners?
right now, I have a few bucktail spinners, one crankbait, a few jighead hooks that I put squiggly tail grubs on, a plastic hellgrammite, lots of flourescent yellow grubs, some "Gulp" brand grubs in yellow and black, a few plastic minnows, and some Berkely soft plastic worms. That's really mostly what I have. I've been using the grubs hooked onto the jighead hooks or the soft plastic worms on a hook with a texas rig....
what else do bass like? what's the best place to find them in a river? how do you present topwater bait usually? what size hooks do you usually use with softbait? what different types (shapes and sizes) of soft bait do you recommend?
any help would be appreciated.
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Texas Rigged = Weedless. Gulp bait is good, but it smells like dirty asshole. Bucktails are okay for like crappie, but I'd also pick up some spinner baits in an assortment of colors. You can usually get em cheap at like 50 cents a piece. Crank baits, both lipless and lipped, are my personal fav. Like I said before, I really prefer Yo-Zuri's.
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They come in alot of diff colors. For shiner matching, I'd go with black/silver. The way to present it depends on weather and such. If it's cold, work em slow with the occasional jigging in between. When it's hot, like now, work em at a medium pace. If they're super active, work em fast. As for your soft plastics, it all depends where your fishing and where the fish are. If you're fishing lilly pads, or shallow area, just weedless rig one your worm,frog or lizard and work it on top off the lilly pads or what have you. For your deeper water use a keeper/flutter hook. They're a little pricey, 6 bucks for a 4 or 5 pack, but really good.
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hook the front of your bait into the barbed spike part, then put the hook through middle of your bait. What you want to do here is make a long cast and let it drop to the bottom. When you feel the line go slack, just reel in some line and jerk up then let it flutter to the bottom again. What it's doing is when you let it drop, the tail end of your bait is making a more natural movement.