TheSnag
New Angler
- Total Posts : 15
- Reward points: 0
- Joined: 2010/05/19 08:21:53
- Status: offline
Best Large Mouth Bait?
Seeing what you guys think is the go to lure for large mouth. I go with the rubber worm rigged wacky style
|
rippinlip
Pro Angler
- Total Posts : 2146
- Reward points: 0
- Joined: 2002/09/18 17:12:14
- Status: offline
RE: Best Large Mouth Bait?
2010/05/28 14:22:43
(permalink)
You should have been here yesterday.............. Streams are made for the wise man to contemplate and fools to pass by [Sir Izaak Walton]
|
Kreamy
Expert Angler
- Total Posts : 435
- Reward points: 0
- Joined: 2009/11/25 11:28:49
- Status: offline
RE: Best Large Mouth Bait?
2010/05/28 14:57:34
(permalink)
|
AK22
Novice Angler
- Total Posts : 89
- Reward points: 0
- Joined: 2009/06/19 18:56:10
- Status: offline
RE: Best Large Mouth Bait?
2010/05/28 15:18:28
(permalink)
Im a big fan of spinnerbaits you can cover lots of water and fish em a bunch off different ways caught my biggest bass on a terminator.
|
gizmos
Pro Angler
- Total Posts : 1190
- Reward points: 0
- Joined: 2006/09/09 20:21:10
- Status: offline
RE: Best Large Mouth Bait?
2010/05/28 15:47:03
(permalink)
Eat what you catch,troll for cows.
|
Fisherlady2
Pro Angler
- Total Posts : 2196
- Reward points: 0
- Status: offline
RE: Best Large Mouth Bait?
2010/05/28 16:17:30
(permalink)
Too many variables to answer that one simply... but in general.... warm water/shallow fish = top water torpedo or jitterbugs late evening/night, and spinners/noisy baits daytime that run shallow... cold water/deep fish.... plastic worms either wacky rigged or weedless worked slow along breaks, points and structure (jig and pigs in same areas) or deeper running rappala style baits with retrieve rate based on what fish tell you they are in the mood for... but ask 20 anglers and you'll get 20 different answers! LOL  good luck and happy experimenting!
|
leadmen
Pro Angler
- Total Posts : 1001
- Reward points: 0
- Joined: 2004/08/01 06:49:21
- Status: offline
RE: Best Large Mouth Bait?
2010/05/28 16:46:09
(permalink)
a cwacking duck works well for big bass and musky buuuuut aaa dont know the law on useing a hook
|
Mountian Man
Pro Angler
- Total Posts : 4118
- Reward points: 0
- Joined: 2007/04/16 10:33:36
- Location: THE ABYSS
- Status: offline
RE: Best Large Mouth Bait?
2010/05/28 18:48:11
(permalink)
Thread Killer Veni Vidi Vici...
|
Smallie Wader
Avid Angler
- Total Posts : 150
- Reward points: 0
- Joined: 2009/08/14 09:58:59
- Status: offline
RE: Best Large Mouth Bait?
2010/05/28 21:00:27
(permalink)
ORIGINAL: Mountian Man
Big azz shiners...
Oh yeah, especially early Spring and late Fall when the water is cold. Fires those bucket mouths right up. Warm months, I really like plastic worms, spinner baits or the always deadly nightcrawler as long as the panfish population isn't huge.
|
Mags00
Expert Angler
- Total Posts : 593
- Reward points: 0
- Joined: 2010/04/03 11:06:28
- Location: Greensburg, Pa
- Status: offline
RE: Best Large Mouth Bait?
2010/05/28 21:17:42
(permalink)
Funny to say but i've slammed some nice large mouths on Joe's flies and even thos stupid trout magnets... But i'd probably say plastic worms and spinner baits.. I also had some good luck with Mepps Agila's #2-5s
post edited by Mags00 - 2010/05/28 21:19:39
|
kill3ducks1deer
Expert Angler
- Total Posts : 699
- Reward points: 0
- Joined: 2008/06/20 22:48:50
- Location: Washington County
- Status: offline
RE: Best Large Mouth Bait?
2010/05/29 09:23:03
(permalink)
Jitterbug, no doubt about it
"Fishermen are born honest, but they get over it." Ed Zern
|
woodnickle
Pro Angler
- Total Posts : 8511
- Reward points: 0
- Status: offline
RE: Best Large Mouth Bait?
2010/05/30 08:26:27
(permalink)
ORIGINAL: gizmos
Black & blue tube !
|
Mountian Man
Pro Angler
- Total Posts : 4118
- Reward points: 0
- Joined: 2007/04/16 10:33:36
- Location: THE ABYSS
- Status: offline
RE: Best Large Mouth Bait?
2010/05/30 22:23:18
(permalink)
Thread Killer Veni Vidi Vici...
|
STEELYS MANFISH
Expert Angler
- Total Posts : 682
- Reward points: 0
- Joined: 2008/02/04 10:35:15
- Status: offline
RE: Best Large Mouth Bait?
2010/05/31 19:32:24
(permalink)
100+ rippinlip. I love toads and frogs. my biggest bass are caught with these baits.
|
rippinlip
Pro Angler
- Total Posts : 2146
- Reward points: 0
- Joined: 2002/09/18 17:12:14
- Status: offline
RE: Best Large Mouth Bait?
2010/05/31 19:56:45
(permalink)
Yea, I like the ones where the feets flap when you reel it in. Nothin beats the topwater explosion... 
You should have been here yesterday.............. Streams are made for the wise man to contemplate and fools to pass by [Sir Izaak Walton]
|
KMP
Expert Angler
- Total Posts : 439
- Reward points: 0
- Joined: 2009/07/06 18:32:29
- Status: offline
RE: Best Large Mouth Bait?
2010/06/01 11:35:16
(permalink)
DINGER! with a shakey head
|
TheSnag
New Angler
- Total Posts : 15
- Reward points: 0
- Joined: 2010/05/19 08:21:53
- Status: offline
RE: Best Large Mouth Bait?
2010/06/01 23:16:02
(permalink)
She crushed a rubber worm - she also had about a 12 inch trout in her mouth when I landed her
Attached Image(s)
|
rippinlip
Pro Angler
- Total Posts : 2146
- Reward points: 0
- Joined: 2002/09/18 17:12:14
- Status: offline
RE: Best Large Mouth Bait?
2010/06/02 06:39:36
(permalink)
You should have been here yesterday.............. Streams are made for the wise man to contemplate and fools to pass by [Sir Izaak Walton]
|
akitadog
Expert Angler
- Total Posts : 977
- Reward points: 0
- Joined: 2007/01/23 08:14:53
- Status: offline
RE: Best Large Mouth Bait?
2010/06/02 07:07:19
(permalink)
trusty old rubber worm hooked up weedless.
|
jon_e_si
Pro Angler
- Total Posts : 1103
- Reward points: 0
- Joined: 2006/05/04 07:47:42
- Status: offline
RE: Best Large Mouth Bait?
2010/06/02 07:48:16
(permalink)
There is no "best", only that which works! Always told my son, "use what works"! (this is for any species)!! One day (or time) it may be a worm or a minnow (real or fake), the next day something else. (fly verus spinner)!! Two fishermen could be side by side using the same bait, but how many times does one outfish the other?? Something to be said for technique and presentation! Don't be afraid to switch or vary your methods - your catch rate will go up! Yes, I've been skunked many times, but always try to evaluate what I could have done differently to make the day more succesful. Always enjoy my time on the water, but sometimes my evaluation is I should of stayed home! Tight lines - good luck!
|
World Famous
Pro Angler
- Total Posts : 2213
- Reward points: 0
- Joined: 2009/02/13 14:36:59
- Location: Johnstown
- Status: offline
RE: Best Large Mouth Bait?
2010/06/02 14:49:26
(permalink)
To reinforce Jon's comment; wife and I were wadeing the bay last year ,she was getting hits every other cast on a punkinseed worm with a staight tail. I has beside her with a punkinseed worm , twister tail of a very subtle color difference from a different manufacturer and was gettin bit every 30 casts. You never know and I has very suprised of the picky attitude of the bass that day. The previous day, the bass bit just as well on both types....WF
|
eyeofhorus
Avid Angler
- Total Posts : 189
- Reward points: 0
- Joined: 2007/03/20 13:46:10
- Location: Waterford, Pa
- Status: offline
RE: Best Large Mouth Bait?
2010/06/02 16:11:04
(permalink)
Shad colored Northland Mimic Minnow jighead with a 3" PowerBait grub.
|
Mags00
Expert Angler
- Total Posts : 593
- Reward points: 0
- Joined: 2010/04/03 11:06:28
- Location: Greensburg, Pa
- Status: offline
RE: Best Large Mouth Bait?
2010/06/02 17:03:40
(permalink)
Jon and WF do have it exactly stated 100% to the T... It's all in what the day holds, i've thrown cranks all day and nothing then switched to a inline spinner or a small jig/trailer and gotten fish...
|
mr.crappie
Pro Angler
- Total Posts : 2549
- Reward points: 0
- Joined: 2002/09/05 21:51:29
- Status: offline
RE: Best Large Mouth Bait?
2010/06/04 22:06:18
(permalink)
I have re-discovered the Johnson Silver Minnow. Works as well now in the weeds as it did 30yrs ago when I first tried it. With or without a trailer. Bass & Northerens love them & they come through the weeds very well.As usual different lures for different conditions. sam
|
REEL FORCE
Expert Angler
- Total Posts : 552
- Reward points: 0
- Joined: 2007/06/02 20:21:19
- Status: offline
RE: Best Large Mouth Bait?
2010/06/10 23:16:34
(permalink)
|
mr.crappie
Pro Angler
- Total Posts : 2549
- Reward points: 0
- Joined: 2002/09/05 21:51:29
- Status: offline
RE: Best Large Mouth Bait?
2010/06/11 22:52:50
(permalink)
GRRRRREAT PICS.,if you got either on a top water I bet the explosion would give someone a heart attack. thanks for sharing. sam
|
Ymesss
Avid Angler
- Total Posts : 121
- Reward points: 0
- Joined: 2010/05/28 08:25:51
- Location: Cochranton PA
- Status: offline
RE: Best Large Mouth Bait?
2010/06/12 11:59:10
(permalink)
ORIGINAL: mr.crappie
I have re-discovered the Johnson Silver Minnow. Works as well now in the weeds as it did 30yrs ago when I first tried it. With or without a trailer. Bass & Northerens love them & they come through the weeds very well.As usual different lures for different conditions. sam
I just got back late last night from a week worth of fishing at Bobs Lake, north of Kingston Ontario. Yesterday morning on my last session on the lake, i pulled out a johnson silver minnow, gold spoon, 1 1/8 ounce. If I was fishing with that all week i probably would of doubled my pike catch numbers, that spoon has some of the best flash I have ever seen. Btw if anyone was wondering, I was disappointed in the fishing up there, only caught 20 pike in about 50 hours worth of fishing. All under 22 inches, walleye's weren't hitting barely at all, and only caught around 40 large mouth bass, nothing over 18 inches. Meh i fished my****off, but not much reward.
|
gatordundee
New Angler
- Total Posts : 19
- Reward points: 0
- Joined: 2010/07/01 00:30:09
- Status: offline
RE: Best Large Mouth Bait?
2010/07/01 16:45:08
(permalink)
yum crawfish! haha there aint no best bait for bass fishing theyll hit a jig head if there hungry
|
leadmen
Pro Angler
- Total Posts : 1001
- Reward points: 0
- Joined: 2004/08/01 06:49:21
- Status: offline
RE: Best Large Mouth Bait?
2010/07/01 18:20:38
(permalink)
live baby duck or a large poper works too
|
Cold
Pro Angler
- Total Posts : 7358
- Reward points: 0
- Status: offline
RE: Best Large Mouth Bait?
2010/07/01 20:50:40
(permalink)
you all know the gob of blu powrbayt on a trebbel is where its at
|