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Joined: Sep 2018
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Whats yalls go to bait for spotted bass in creeks and small rivers? We usually just throw spinnerbaits or small buzzbaits. Just wondering if theres something else that catches them better.
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1/4 oz (Smallest size) snagless sally with a twin tail trailer. There’s not a better creek bait made IMO. Spots and redeyes will crush it.
Last edited by abolt300; 01/08/26 08:02 AM.
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Small jig with a hergimite.
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Booner
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Hard to beat a spinner bait as a general purpose creek lure. If the creek is big enough to have shoals, I've found I catch more right in the shoals with a shad colored crank bait. In the slower water, I've got a lot of confidence in a 4" caffeine shad rigged with a treble hook. In the deep holes, few things will beat a Hit Worm rigged on a shaky head.
Most of the larger bass we catch in the river will have crawfish in them, so you can't go wrong with a bait that imitates those.
All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
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I’ve caught a blue gazillion in small creeks on a f11 original Rapala minnow and a mepps spinner
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"I dont quit.. And ill fight alone if i have to"
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Pumpkin - The Thermal Expert
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In the spring, watermelon seed finesse lizard will kill em
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Booner
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Like mine in black. Pop-R Super Fluke
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Small rooster tail, the one with the propeller spinner killer.
Love a good hunting story, love my family and friends. Some people you can't, but acted like do.
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We have so many blowdowns in the creeks and rivers we fish, its hard to use a roostertail or H&H because your constantly getting hung up. Basically have to throw something that is snagless. Havent thrown the smaller snagless sally in years, may have to give it a try again. Been so hot this fall/winter we did some floats instead of hunting. Caught over 100 spots on 2 floats, lot of dinks, but still lots of fun.
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We have so many blowdowns in the creeks and rivers we fish, its hard to use a roostertail or H&H because your constantly getting hung up. Basically have to throw something that is snagless. Havent thrown the smaller snagless sally in years, may have to give it a try again. Been so hot this fall/winter we did some floats instead of hunting. Caught over 100 spots on 2 floats, lot of dinks, but still lots of fun. Strike King makes a 1/8 oz spinner bait that's shaped just like a larger safety pin type spinner bait and it is far less prone to getting hung than a rooster tail. I couldn't tell you how many spots and redeyes I've caught on them through the years. Walmart has been carrying them since the 70s, one of the few things I know of that they always seem to have.
All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
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Beatle spin in crawfish color and a rooster tail.
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Beatle spin in crawfish color and a rooster tail.
Love a good hunting story, love my family and friends. Some people you can't, but acted like do.
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Beatle spin in crawfish color and a rooster tail. X2... almost any color beetle spin
You gonna pull them pistols, or whistle Dixie?
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Buzzbait when they biting in the summer is a good addition to any tacklebox for some topwater fun. Fished the Elk River backwater off a creek one time and caught seceral 3lb bass and other trash fish. Anything will hit it! Still remember catching a blackfish in one creek and a chain pickeral in another in Florida. Fun watching them bust it! Also, caught a 6lb bass in a small pond that was only about 30 yards wide behind a hotel up in Tennesse on vacation. Seeing them busting that topwater as a kid will always be something you will remember!
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