Favorite Largemouth bass lure??

[Narragansett]

So for the next few weeks, I am in Savannah, GA. The community I am in has a program where they stock and monitor 158 lagoons with LMB and other species.

I have always been a saltwater guy, but when in PA and being away from the salt, I got into LMB fishing, which I am trying out down here. So far( a few hours ) no luck.

I am using lures that I have caught thousands of LMB on, but no success. I do not know the water temps, but I presume it to be 60 or so. Current saltwater is 61.

I do not carry every lure made, That is a waste of money, when you have 3 or 4 go to lures.

Anybody got any suggestions?

 

[sceva]

Way back when I did a lot more fishing I had good luck with these old tried and true ones.

Shyster or ABU Garcia reflex spinner ( almost the same lure) Orange with black spots or Yellow with black spots

Shakespeare (or other) mousie top water lure

Arbogast Hula Popper or jitterbug

Plain old rubber worms

I imagine I am dating myself and I'm sure there have been many new lures out since then. Of course the old ones still work though ( and a lot of lures are designed to catch fishermen, not fish)

 

[yeti]

Too cold for top water, so I'd probably go with a Rat-L Trap or Rapala Super Shad Rap/Shad Rap.
Try dark colored lures for cloudy murky water and bright colors for clear water.

Have fun!

 

[4K2022]

Banjo Minnow

As a collector I've been wanting to share a resent experience I had. A friend of mine asked me to tag along on an errand and when we entered the house and made our way into the living room, This guy had about 144 square feet of floor space taken up with 5 gallon buckets of fishing rods! There must have been 500 of them! Everything from Penn Internationals to ultralights!

 

[444 Magnum]

Depending on the depth of the water, a plastic worm bounced off the bottom is my go-to. Color depends on water clarity. Pumpkin seed almost never fails. The split-tail pumpkin seed looks like a frog swimming and is a killer. Purple works well.

The Rapala original floating minnow also works well. Sized according to water depth.

Georgia fresh water fishing isn't like salt water. Loud and vibrant colors work in salt, not so much in fresh where the water is usually clearer.

Good fishing!

 

[SS336]

A 6" black rubber worm fished slowly on the bottom around cover should work anyplace. Kind of an all around bass bait.

 

[Dave.357]

Once the Lilly pads are up I like a weed less
Frog.

 

[Protocall_Design]

Once the Lilly pads are up I like a seedless
Frog.

Yep. Bass don't like to have to spit out the seeds.

 

[billwill]

At the right time and place, there is nothing better than seeing a big bass hit a Jitterbug. Long ago my first bass was landed with that lure.

 

[llowry61]

A jig head with nightcrawler. Slow but it will get em when nothing else will. I liked to hit an area with a 2 blade spinner bait then go back over it with the worm. Match spinner bait with water, light or dark.

 

[Nevada Ed]

The "Jig n Pig" has caught more large bass than most other lures used but

the "30-30" of the bass world is the old tried and true plastic worm,
in cold waters, to warm ponds as well as it's cousin, the "Tube".

For fast searching, the spinner bait will work shallow or deep, fast or slow
with either a willow or colorado blade, in white, chart or Blk/Blue,
with a grub type or "Pork"" tail added.

I also like a top water plug when the weather warns up a little or a
rubber frog, if you have lots of lily pads or surface grass to work.

A 1/16 oz. jig and crappie tube or small spinnerbait work on pan fish, if needed.

Wash your hands and use power baits or scents, if you want a little edge in more bites.

Tight lines.

 

[jtcarm]

A 6" black rubber worm fished slowly on the bottom around cover should work anyplace. Kind of an all around bass bait.

^^^^^^This^^^^^^^

For top water I love the Tiny Torpedo.

Sand bass on a stream, Chartreuse, spinner tail Road Runner.

 

[YeshuaIsa53]

Watched my Father catch many a big largemouth bass, early or late, with a Creek Chub Darter, 3 treble hooks, in frog green with spots coloration. They would clobber it.

My favorite early and late is a jointed Rebel, three treble hooks, in either silver or silver with light blue. One can do wonders with this once it gets underneath the water by twitching it again and again before it surfaces.

I completely agree with a worm during the mid hours. My favorite is a purple colored Culprit. Big shiners are great for large bass, though the shiners seem to end up in the pond from others. Not one of my favorite fish. Hook them through the eye sockets for safety if using them, and NEVER throw back the unused bait.

There are scads of others when these do not work, like the newer sinking crawfish. Patience and persistence pay off. What fun! Legal smaller ones come home with us.

Have a deep diver for deep holes and like to work it just above the bottom a foot or two...floater...in the shad color with a spot.

Almost forgot cranks baits. Great in tree tops and sticks. Nice to get a strike near the surface for much easier to deal with circumstances.

 

[RetCapt]

I only fly fish, so my approach differs. Our local lake is an excellent bass fishery, large and small mouth, along with trout (dependent on water temp). For a long time the CA state record small mouth bass came from this lake.

I go out in my float tube. I troll using a sink tip line, sometimes with an additional length of lead core to get deeper. My go-to flies are olive crystal Woolly Buggers, Zug Bugs and Prince Nymphs. I prefer them with bead heads. These work equally well on bass or trout.

As soon as I get a hook up, before seeing the fish, I can tell whether it is a small mouth bass, large mouth bass, or trout. They all three fight differently.

I see plenty of conventional gear anglers using boats. I have never run into anyone else here going after them with a fly rod.

I think a reasonably skilled angler using conventional gear will out fish me and my fly rod, but that is still my preference.

 

[lihpster]

1/2 stick of dynamite works.

 

[Smithboomer]

I prefer a yellow flatfish lure fished slow over weeds.

 

[DUSTYDOGDAN]

Z-Man Ned rig fishing kit for bouncing off the bottom or for top water a Whopper Plopper in Munky Butt color works good.

 

[arjay]

I did fairly well with Rapala's years ago

 

[SMSgt]

I always liked "Bomber" plugs, although I never caught anything with one. The reason I never caught anything is because I'd prop my fishing rod on the front porch and my hound dog Elmer would chomp on the plugs. Then I'd have to cut the barbs off to get them out of Elmer's mouth. A couple of chomps and there'd be no barbs left, thus the reason I never caught anything on a Bomber plug. I did discover Elmer would not eat plastic worms though. He said they tasted like rubber and could never stand the taste. Come to think of it, I never caught anything on a rubber worm either.

 

[TIMETRIPPER]

Any kind of top water plug. And that goes for Smallies too. Nothing beats the excitement of a top water strike... except maybe a dry fly hit. Which brings me to mention a light popper on a good fly rod, for bass or pan fish. It just doesn't get any better than that.

John