How To Fish TOP Bass Baits

all right what's going on what's going on all right what's going on how do they do it in the film industry it's like take 14 but they got we need that little thing cut 14 so we've been interrupted by boats dogs three times another dog another time we've been another jet ski there's a jet ski right there almost swamped by a dang aluminum boat it's been rough getting this intro done i've been trying to tie me on some baits stuff like that too but me and hunter's been out here fishing a ton lately it's finally warm it's finally stable a lot of bass have already spawned over the past couple of weeks so we haven't been posting a ton of videos because the bass have been spawning and we ain't really been trying to film that much we've been trying to just catch them as fast we possibly can it's really fun this time of year but it's stable now and hunter had a really good video idea today but before we get into that here comes another jet ski and there's nothing against um riding jet skis or wake boats or having dogs or nothing like that but it always seems that they pop out when we're trying to film but anyways this video is sponsored by black rifle if you have not yet ordered using my code i think the code is welcher 15 but the code is in the in the description down below you can uh go get a discount on your first order but hunter had a really good idea today she said why don't i just film you while you're fishing you just fish because i know you don't want to stop and let me just film you and i'm going to just mention baits to you as fast as i possibly can and you'll give me the rundown of what a clarity time of year the conditions you really like it and what was the other one hunter depth yeah and the depth you want to fish in so it's going to be that i'm also going to throw in the rod the reel and the line that i throw it on and uh just kind of break it all down so hunter is going to be in control of what baits pop up and i'm going to try to catch a bass or two so let's go okay first bait of the day let's hear spinner bait spinner bait okay so what sticks out to me is all depths of the water column okay from shallow mid-range or deep and but i really prefer it pre-spawn but you can catch them all throughout the post-spawn even when the shatter spawning and stuff like that let's see what a clarity you can catch them in really clear water you got to really pretty fast spinner baits really one of those you catch them all the time but for me a little bit of stained water shallow water pre-spawn what's so little bit of wind a little bit of cloud always helps and the rod i throw it on 7.3 medium heavy and then i throw it on a 7.3 to 1 gear ratio reel when it's real cold i'll throw it on a 6.4 to 1 because i got a tendency to go fast 20 pound sunline shooter and that's about the spinner bait setup i have all year let's hear it squarebill squarebill crankbait another one that you can catch on all year but for me it's going to line up pretty closely to the spinner bait but i do catch them a little bit better on the squarebill whenever it's slick calm flat whatever but a little bit of wind a little bit of clouds always helps i'll typically throw it on 10 to 15 pound fluorocarbon i'd say the sweet spot is 12 i'm going to say the same thing again this is going to be a pre-spawn deal most of the time for me that's where i really am going to have it on the you know that little bit more stained water also helps it a good bit the rod i'm gonna throw it on is a 7.1 envy cranking rod it's uh you know got a little bit of fiberglass in the tip of it about to get ran over by pontoon boat again and uh 7.3 to 1 gear ratio reel on that also so pretty standard setup for the squarebill crankbait spro popping frog spro popping frog in my opinion that is the frog like whenever i say i'm throwing a frog that's the frog i'm throwing this is going to be a i'd say in florida you catch one year round some places you catch one year round i've caught them on a year round in alabama too but typically it's going to be a march to november type of a deal it's going to be a couple months where it's really cold in the winter where i don't throw it a lot this is going to be one of those things where open water frogging clouds not wind but clouds helps a little bit rain helps a good bit matte frogging you want it to be pretty pretty sunny pretty high skies and when you're skipping skipping under shade and stuff like that it does really matter you can throw it in a lot of different conditions and catch them morning i throw it literally all day a lot of times when i see the right condition i pick it up it's not an early morning deal or nothing like that so from march to november all pretty much conditions except for wind wind makes it kind of tough what's another one i gotta do clarity water clarity water clarity i don't like it super muddy like i don't like it really muddy as long as i've got a foot of visibility i got confidence to throw it foot of visibility all the way to as clear as it could and then uh the rod i throw it on seven foot six heavy envy and then a 8.1 gear ratio inception reel 50 to 60 pound braided line the line i like right now is the sx1 from sunline i've used the x plasma 2 that stuff is extremely strong the x plasma is the sx1 is so soft to me it just casts really well so and then water depth is obvious if y'all want to know water depth you know you got to kind of play the conditions but it's typically going to be the frog is about that deep in the water so that's uh but to be serious you know you can catch them over the tips of treetops where the treetops are 15 foot deep 20 foot deep or you can catch them you know skipping underneath overhang bushes where it's nothing so obviously the bait's going to be shot going to be shallow but you can still throw it over some pretty deep water pretty deep grass stuff like that so that's the that's the frog or as hunter called it the spro popping frog which sounds like she pointed at it in a catalog okay is this angle better for you i'm risking my life right now we're gonna like me on st john's here in about two minutes climbing over the side of the boat are you ready for your next one let's do it um weightless worm weightless worm this is going to be you want really clear water conditions are going to be i don't like it that much when it's cloudy but whenever it's cloudy i will throw a really really bright one for the most part it's going to be really close to the spawn you're talking about texas rig style not wacky rig right yeah okay it's going to be really close to the spawn pre-spawners spawning fish fry garters all that type of stuff's whatever i'm going to pick up the floating worm and uh i called it the wrong thing it's okay it's all good um 12 to 20 pound fluorocarbon that's why i throw it on all the time seven foot three medium fast rod eight to one gear ratio reel water depth obviously you're not going to be wanting to fish it deeper than about two foot as far as the bait goes three foot max and then you don't want i don't really want to throw it over cover that's any deeper than about five or six so for me that's how that one goes conditions all conditions but whenever it's sunny and there's shade lines that's when i like the best and am i missing anything what's your favorite color favorite color there's a um you know there's some bright red some bright yellows some green pumpkins all those natural colors and you got to kind of have a wide array of all of it because when it's cloudy i want the really bright colors or the more i want the really bright colors when it's high skies and clear that's when i'm gonna go with more natural like a red bug or a boss nugget or something like that that you know you can still see it pretty good it's still kind of visible but it's not super super bright it makes them like not want to commit to it so that's the floating worm see them run that line in a brief intermission for how to catch a frogfish they came up school right there must be some bluegill bed yeah it is i can see them i see bluegill beds yep they came up eating them bluegill ace jig ace jig that's what i'm talking about all year round all conditions all the time everything no matter what that's it ace jig throw it all the time um every color every color all the time but to me i really prefer to throw a jig i'd say so i throw one all year obviously but october until april they really really bite it they don't seem to bite it as good in april and may they bite it again good again in the summer so it's kind of it's kind of strange how the jig bite works around here but basically the conditions is i just vary it you know if it's cloudy i can still catch them on jig and if it's real sunny i still catch them on jig i just vary it to more natural colors or darker colors like a black and blue or bb smoke now water depth i typically throw that jig somewhere between three and eight or nine foot just because i use it to skip winter boat docks stuff like that a lot of will throw it in brush piles deeper all that type of stuff because it's one of those baits that you just throw all the time like you can throw it up in two foot deep under a dock you can flip a tree with it you can throw it you know offshore in a brush pile whatever you want to do that's just what a jig kind of is set up you're going to use that on is a seven foot three medium heavy extra fast so what i actually throw a jig on the seven three medium heavy extra fast the envy series 20 pound sunline shooter will go up to 22 pound sunline shooter if it's real clear i'll go down to 18 pound sunline shooter eight to one gear ratio reel and just put it in as many big fish places possible because that's what a jig catches is big bass i need that one i need that one home i'll hang it for my christmas tree swim jig is going to be for me i really like it between september october november it's really really good and it's really good february march and april may june july august september and december so did you say every month i think i said every month i just didn't say i'm in order okay so low light conditions optimal clouds wind all that stuff is optimal water temp i need i like for it to be over 50 50 plus 52 is like prime time that's whenever you can throw it the whole rest of the year when it gets over 52 um shallow for the most part you can throw it over brush piles a little bit deeper but i'm talking about me right now shallow for the most part if i'm going to throw a swim jig it's going to be on braided line it's going about that deep and i'm gonna watch every one of them bite it that bites it so typically it's going to be white black and blue green pumpkin all that type of stuff throw it on 50 pound braid for the most part seven foot three medium heavy or seven foot three heavy fast action rod eight to one gear ratio reel and work that sucker as fast as you possibly can when they blow up on it it's fun i was about to love this one let's go what is it drop shot oh man now you're pulling on my heartstrings i love a drop shot so much you almost stepped on the trolling water too yeah i'm trying to get the heck away from anything talking about drop shot so drop shot for me conditions are going to be when it's tough like that's when i throw a drop shot now you fish for small mouth that's different but down here in the south throw a drop shot when it's tough bluebird skies no wind no clouds all that type of stuff when you want to pick up a drop shot it's going to be mid-range to deep range now you can flip it around shallow obviously there's exceptions to all this but it's going mid-range to deep rain to deep depth and then we're going to a lot of times be fishing it what's other one in clear water but water clarity is going to be relatively clear time of year time of year is typically going to be postponed it's going to be you know from april may throughout the entire summer even into the fall whenever it's really tough to get a bite offshore that's when we want to throw a drop shot i'm going to throw it on a seven foot three medium fast envy spinning rod fast you know the fastest gear ratio spin reel you can get i throw a 2500 size so it's not quite as fast as some of the other other spinning reels but that's what i throw usually a 12 to 18 pound braid tied to a 8 to 10 pound fluorocarbon leader typically in the south i'm gonna throw like a 12 pound braid with a 10 pound fluorocarbon leader and that's gonna be the drop shot set up jerkbait now with this is gonna be i'm gonna go ahead and get the exception out right first and foremost with the new forward facing sonar the jerkbait has now became a year-round tool for everybody there's always guys that threw it all the time but now everybody throws it all the time typically you want to have clear water typically it's going to be a pre-spawn deal but obviously as we've seen this lasted all year now clear water pre-spawn deal water depth is going to be anywhere from i guess it'd be three to about 10 three foot deep to about 10 you can get it deeper if you want to and catch some on it but that's the primary deal you're gonna want to throw it on the conditions clouds sun wind all that stuff the cloud and the winds all that stuff helps i feel like i catch them the best on it when it's sunny and cloudy and windy though that's whenever i seem to catch some of the biggest ones on it but anyways throw it on a six foot eight envy medium jerkbait rod throw it on typically 10 to 12 pound i will throw it on eight sometimes but 10 to 12 pound sunline shooter throw it on an eight to one gear ratio reel because you only move the slack i see people throw it on a six to one a seven to one all that type of stuff but i don't know why because only thing you reel up with the jerkbait is the slack you jerk it real up some slack and then you reel the bait all the way in to make another presentation with it so i never understood how people throw it on a seven to one gear ratio reel i throw it on an eight let's do one of my new favorite baits okay you know what it is i got a good idea so what are you saying it is chatterbait chatterbait first and foremost hunter what gotta teach you some pro lingo a chatterbait is a vibrating jig can't tick off your sponsor you gotta say vibrating jig but i'm not obligating vibrating jig companies i can say chatterbait anyways that's going to be one of those ones that you can throw it all the time see we'll catch it on catch them on it all the time like literally all the time but for me it's really really good pre-spawn a little bit of stained water just those types of days where the reaction baits really seem to play now when those brim are up shallow you can throw a green pumpkin post spawn and all that type of stuff and still catch some really big ones on a chatterbait post spawn but for the most part it's going to be one of those deals where pre-spawn a little bit of stained water wind is going to help currents going to help clouds are going to help everything's going to help to help you get the fish to commit to that bait just a little bit more so time of year is going to be i'd say 12 months out of the year you can catch them on it but for the most part it's going to be a november to march type of a deal for me that's whenever i really feel like i'm going to catch them good on on a vibrating jig or medium heavy so i throw it on a lot of times now i do when i'm throwing on grass or something like that when i'm not trying to cast it very accurately i've got a seven foot four that's more of a moderate action bend rod i throw it on that sometimes but for the most part i like to cast really accurately and get it in there and i don't lose a bunch of fish on it so i thought on seven foot three medium heavy 18 to 20 pound sunline shooter and a 7.3 to one gear ratio inception real so that's the chadow wagon setup and action so hunter just came up with all these baits just from memory or probably what's laying on the front deck let's be honest but anyways leave us a drop shot on your front deck right now leave i like that you something wrong with you if you got a drop shot just laying on the front deck all the time anyways nothing wrong with a drop shot don't be offended my drop shotters out there hunter came up with all these baits though leave us a comment let me know what type of bait you want me to go over next time or if you even like it or if you like the video or whatever but also if you do something a little bit different than i do leave me a comment like if you throw your chatterbait on a different kind of rod reel setup than i do you throw a jerkbait on a different reel than i do let me know leave me a comment let me know what you do because i'm always trying to learn everybody's got a better you know there's always a optimal way to do stuff and it's always changing so if you got a different way you do it than me let me know i might want to do it your way we'll see but don't forget let me know in the debates i should go over next time we do this because i kind of like this video actually i kind of like it but props to miss hunter for thinking of this video and uh we'll see y'all next time