Feb. 8 Techniques, baits, and colors you use for specific weather conditions

[Fishaholic]

Wolf Lake, Indiana
June, first really HOT day, light winds, slightly overcast
1/4 oz Johnson Minnow - Gold finish, with a 3" black worm on the back

At this time of the year, there's a lot of golden roaches spawning and the Gold finish spoon in combination with the black trailer presents itself as a good representation of one of these large minnows...when you see the minnows breaking water at the edge of the bullrush stumps, cast beyond where you see them and work the spoon back in a rapid hurkey jerkey motion...this usually triggers an explosive strike from a nice bass hoping to ambush a straggler.

[Trey]

In muddy wter, I like to throw a solid black or maybe a solid purple spinnerbait.  Those colors really stand out well against the muddy water.

Trey

[getthenet]

In the spring when its ice out and the sun is out  try a chatruce spinner bait just at the edge of  the ice  because of the quick motion and the sound you will get a strike.

[casey3535]

Laurel Lake, Kentucky, hot summer evenings , a berkley power crawl black and blue usually pays off it is the color of alot of the live crawl and it can be fished slow and deep.

[Trey]

Copper blades on spinnerbaits work well in stained water.  Another benefit is that not many people use them.  Terminator has a line of spinnerbaits with copper blades on them.

Trey

[OHbassaholic]

Hot lazy summer days wading on the Scioto River can be productive when using a tiny Bomber FatA in firetiger color/pattern when targetting smallies.  I make repetitive casts upstream and across the river.  The rattles draw the smallies in and the color/pattern gives them a good visual to hit.

[Trey]

If you want to get more vibration out of your spinnerbait, take the front blade off.  A single blade bait vibrates more.  if you dont' want to do that, try fishing it closer to the surface.  The closer you fish a spinnerbait to the surface, the more vibration it has.

Trey

[casey3535]

Douglas Lake , Tennesse, hot summer nights , I like a strawberry power crawl this is a red lake so this bait produces, when you need to slow down and go deep.

[cmegee]

 let me add to your post for Sibley lake earlier. Dip the tail in white dip it dye and the fish will go nuts, gives them flash back to the old purple/white tail days I guess

[Trey]

I like Bomber Long A's if I want to fish a jerkbait deep.  These baits weigh the heaviest among jerkbaits so they work the deepest.

Trey

[casey3535]

Cherokee Lake, Tennesse, cold winter days, very tough fishing but a float n fly can produce good fish it seems to catch suspended fish during winter when water temps are cold, this is a great way to catch a trophy fish not a big number of fish.

[OHbassaholic]

Fall season, reservoir, with falling temps a couple of days after low pressure/T-storms.  The water is dirty up around the bank so I fall back to points where the water starts to clear.  The Rapala DT series in "silver" makes one super weapon.  I run it from dirty to clear water and get hits on both sides due to rattle in the murky water and silver flash in the clear water.

[Trey]

The 4 best colors of worms are Green Pumpkin, Watermelon seed, June bug, and Red bug.  The first two are natural colors and work well in clear to stained water.  The last two are darker colors and work well in stained to muddy water.

Trey

[cmegee]

Early spring here on my home lake of Cane River in Natchitoches can mean a lot of rain and weather that can't make up its mind, one trick I have learned is that when we have a steady down pour (refrence the last 2 days) a black blue Creme Lures Big Tube pitched to the reeds on the upper end of the lake will produce fish when nothing else will. Texas rig the tube and peg a 1/32 oz weight. the light weight will make the tube spiral down and the fish seem to pick up the black/blue tube much better than any other color.
On the lower end of the lake it just gets colder water, not the muddy run off of North end. The I will take a watermelon Creme Trick worm and dead stick it around the edges of the grass. The prespawn bass, move to the edges and hold there until the water warms again.

[Skipper (ripnlips)]

Bilby Lake in summer when the weather is hot(can be suny or cloudy)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Throw a scum frog on the grass....hop on the thick stuff and stop it in open patches....good stuff

[OHbassaholic]

When fishing the depth line of light/dark in deeper water, I will add chartreuse dip-n-glow to my plastics.  That little bit of "glow" seems to give bass just what they need to find the bait when fast moving lures aren't getting hit.

[jarred]

Lake Fuqua
Oklahoma
The day is almost gone and its very sultry,in july and the crappie are bitting preety good
I was useing a 4 inch berkley pale yellow trout worm and dragging it in and out of the rocks and I limited out.Because they were in post spawm and still hanging around the beds.

[Ron Fogelson]

Skipping a spinnerbait  translucent with redflec skirt under a dock

The weather condition that provoked my choice HOT HOT Sunny summer days

why it works, its dark under the dock & the bass like the shade, its the only way to get a spinner way back up in the darkest spots, most in that area don't see a spinner in the home, the skipping and flash f the blades look like shade busting the water & none of my friends can do it!  

I use this method on Cypress Lake LA

[Trey]

Ribon-tail worms are great for swimming through and around grass.  Length should depend on the size of the fish you are after and the clarity of the water.  I usually use a watermelon seed or a june bug, depending on water color.

Trey

[Fishaholic]

Cokus Lake, Northwest Ontario
June, any weather condition, doesn't seem to matter
1/4 oz. round head jigs, red with 3" yellow Mr. Twister tails

Cokus Lake is actually a flowage, but where ever the rapids were to be found, would be where we fished...cast the jigs up current into the white water and work em towards the shoreline hopping em in and around all the boulders. Walleye on almost every cast were to be had...the averager size walleye caught with this technique was 22" with an occassional lunker.

[OHbassaholic]

Summer tournament fishing.  After the mid-point of the day, when I am following up behind several other anglers in a high preasure location, I will twitch a bubblegum Zoom Trick Worm.  When they have been pounded by every imaginable standard color lure this bright presentation often gets hit.

[casey3535]

Laurel Lake , Kentucky, mid spring calm mornings, a suspending jerkbait my preference being a Rogue silver and blue will catch alot of smallmouth that are coming off the bed. These smallmouth are generally not very easy to catch on top water but the shine and quick jerks on this bait draw good bites.

[cmegee]

In the hottest part of summertime when lakes are tough, Cane River in Natchitoches is at its best.
Take a Sizmic Toad, or H&H frog texas rigged weightless and run it over the lily pads
Hold on and use braided line. I suggest for the weak of heart don't try.

[Jared LeBlue]

The Gold Rogue  in clear water under cloudy conditions in the spring can be deadly. The golen flash from these baits makes them irresitable in the spring.

[Fishaholic]

Bass Lake, Indiana
December, just before ice, light winds, overcast
1/2 oz. chartreuse round head jig with a 4" fluorescent orange creme worm trailer

We tight line our jig presentation and drift along the 23-26 foot breaks slowly, using a wind sock to control our drift...if you don't feel the jig bouncing on the bottom, you need to let more line out...it's imperative to maintain contact with the bottom...great for Late Fall walleye.