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The best bass fishing tackle for working a prop bait effectively is a 6 12- to 7-foot medium-heavy action casting rod and a high-speed baitcast reel with a gear ratio of at least 631. Throw the topwater bait past the timber and wind it steadily so the propellers create a V on the surface and wait for the strike when the lure passes by the cover.
New tries to slip the lure up under the overhangs and fish it directly in the shade or hell work it along a shade line edge.
How to fish a prop bait. Throw the topwater bait past the timber and wind it steadily so the propellers create a V on the surface and wait for the strike when the lure passes by the cover. Tackle For Prop Baits. The best bass fishing tackle for working a prop bait effectively is a 6 12- to 7-foot medium-heavy action casting rod and a high-speed baitcast reel with a gear ratio of at least 631.
Tie the prop bait on 15- to 20. Throw the topwater bait past the timber and wind it steadily so the propellers create a V on the surface and wait for the strike when the lure passes by the cover. Tackle For Prop Baits.
The best bass fishing tackle for working a prop bait effectively is a 6 12- to 7-foot medium-heavy action casting rod and a high-speed baitcast reel with a gear ratio of at least 631. Tie the prop bait on 15- to 20. Another way to fish these baits is with a simple cast and retrieve mixed with some pauses.
You can fish it just like you would a buzzbait with a steady reeling of the line. The cool thing about these baits is you can kill it when you by a target and give it a little twitch shares Lowen. Gear and Color Choices for Throwing Prop Baits.
New tries to slip the lure up under the overhangs and fish it directly in the shade or hell work it along a shade line edge. Emergent bank grass and riprap can be good in summer too especially in windy or overcast conditions. The key is to fish parallel to the cover with the bait.
Vibrating jigs are also a tough bait for most anglers to fish around wood because they tend to hang up a lot. The bait will either roll into cover or at times anglers will mistake a couple of limbs in quick succession for a bite and snatch the bait right into the cover. One of the most effective methods when fishing prop baits is ripping the bait across the surface in bursts.
This is done by pulling the bait a few feet at a time with your rod then reeling in the slack. While youre reeling in the slack the bait is paused there until you yank it again. This is a great method for triggering a reaction strike.
My next favorite way to fish and Chatterbait the finesse way to fish a tad bait slow and low. Im going to literally drag it across the bottom just fast enough to get that blade moving side to side dragging it across the bottom knocking off any structure thats down there. This is imitating bait.
Every time you hook a bass change to another topwater lure and repeat that process until youve thrown every topwater lure in your tackle box. If your results are anything like mine the importance of specific lure brands and lure colors. Will be brutally downtrodden and no lure will be left behind.
How to Fish a Topwater Prop Bait - JT Kenney how-to bass fishing instructional video. JT Kenney is on the water in Florida to show you how to fish and not over-fish a topwater prop bait Toggle navigation. Prop baits like the Rapala X-Rap Prop are considered a great choice for targeting bass on isolated cover but overlooked for covering water and finding fish.
They dont really mess with the inactive bream so try to rip your modified prop bait so it leaves a 12 to 18-inch bubble trail. Its a great way to get some of those bigger bites Simplify your color selection. If you spend some time browsing Tackle Warehouse youre going to see enough prop bait colors to make your head hurt.
Before you get overwhelmed however consider Murphys simple two. Randall Tharp discusses where to target bass with prop baits and how to fish them to trigger prespawn and even spawning fish. Rather than casting and jerking the bait around Tharp emphasizes the importance of tempered 6- to 8-inch pulls to generate the ideal sound and disturbance.
When that happens hell pitch the X-Rap Prop to every piece of cover he sees give it a twitch and then let it sit. The idea is to be patient giving the prop bait three to eight seconds in between twitches with the goal of aggravating the fish into finally biting. This class of bass fishing lures are topwater baits with either plastic or metal props attached.
Some baits have props on both the front and back and others feature them only at the end of the lure. The lures stay on top of the water and the propellers help to add some commotion as the bait. Topwater baits generally fall into four categories.
Poppers prop baits walkers and soft-plastic creatures. Many people consider jerkbaits topwater lures because some float. However they dive when jerked like very shallow-running crankbaits.
Prop baits like the High Roller Lures RipRoller and River2Sea Tango Prop track well displace a bunch of water and cause a unique commotion that other topwaters cant match. They are particularly good around shallow grass and for smallmouth. Prop baits are deadly around spawning bluegill docks grass lines and other shallow cover.