[TJE6996]

Near my house there is a small lake with alot of brush and fallen trees along the shoreline. I usually use a plastic worm(YUM Dinger) or a floating rapala and do just fine but at the end of the season more people were doing the same thing and I was catching less...Any new suggestions on how to catch more bass in brush?
THANKS,
TJE6996

[ghostbaits]

Flip a brush hog (creature bait) or sweet beaver type bait into the brush, let it sit there and just shake your pole tip for a few seconds....then hold on!!!

You can also throw a senko or finesse worm (rigged with weedless hook) wacky style as these work very well during the spring..

Jim


PS don't forget a good ole jig/pig combo!!!

[woodsac]

Spinner baits and shallow running square billed crankbaits

You're gonna lose a few baits, but the bites will pay off.

[badfish03]

Jig-n-pig (or chunk) or Jig-n-worm flip it up tight to the wood and shake it all the way to the bottom, let it sit about 15-20 seconds then hop it 6" to a foot let it sit a bit longer then try another location.

Dropshot rig with a 2"-4" soft plastic minnow.

Crippled herring jigging spoon fished vertical.

Weightless t-rigged soft plastic jerkbait try to walk the dog with it through the tops of the brush then let it flutter down at the edge or when it smacks into a branch.

Robert

[TJE6996]

THANKS for all the tips, I'll have to try them out once it warms up here!!!!
THANKS,
TJE6996

[rockhopper]

Originally Posted by TJE6996

Near my house there is a small lake with alot of brush and fallen trees along the shoreline. I usually use a plastic worm(YUM Dinger) or a floating rapala and do just fine but at the end of the season more people were doing the same thing and I was catching less...Any new suggestions on how to catch more bass in brush?
THANKS,
TJE6996

Yep I have the "rig" to change this for ever

"you sad you wanted "new"

I know that is a bold statement, but my wiggle rig allows you to remotely control your lure with it sitting in one spot, you lure's action follows the action of the rod tip, totaly follows it forward and back, allowing for a totaly natural equal vibration is both directions.

You make just one cast to the brush, and let the fish come to the lure, you can change the action to any amount you like, untill the fish hits the lure.

This changes fishing, it takes practice to master it, but it opens up a whole new world to fishing structure. If you want to be able to fish a lure for as long as you wish in one spot, this is the only solution. You have to see it , to believe it. I'm not saying that anyone can master the techniqe, but those who do, kick some major butt with it.

Yoiu can find out more from my web site, just click the wiggle rig link

[Handpoured916]

Is'nt that the same as a drop shot?

[rockhopper]

Originally Posted by Handpoured916

Is'nt that the same as a drop shot?

Not even close, well I guess it's close, but the action produced between the two rigs can not even be compaired, drop shotting uses gravity to pull the lure back down, you twitch it up, gravity "slowly" pulls it "DOWN", you twitch it a smug too much and you have moved the weight.

WIth the wiggle rig , you twitch it up the wiggle twitches it back towards the weight, in an "equal" twitch, you vibrate the rod tip, the lure vibrates equaly in both directions, (awesome in muddy or exstreamly low visibility water, as the bass's lateral lines pick up the vibrations and attack it) it makes a plastic minow actualy "swim" in a circle quivering, it makes a plastic worn turn and twist like a real night crawler was just droped into the water.

You can still use it just like a drop shot,, you can still let gravity slowly pull it down,, for fish wanting that dead fall, but the difference between the two is unreal,, this rig can be fished on the surface (we call this "Slapping") , it's like a buz bait, but it's in one spot, you throw the weight on the bank or the top of weeds or brush, pull the lure to the surface and as hard as you can machine gun the rod tip, the lure splashes water everywhere (awesome in mill foil, and hydrilla pockets and holes) this rig can be fished very productivly 75 feet from the boat in 8 inches of water, try working a drop shot rig like that.

The different ways and locations, you fish this rig and the different actions you can put on lures is endless, only limited to your emagination. It's a true remote control for lures

I could have never gotten a patent on a drop shot rig :-)

[LaPala]

Rockhopper:

Just for the sake of clarification on patent laws. Lets say I'm a real cheapskate & would not want to pay for your wiggle rig but appreciates it's property so I go out & jury rig up one with rubber-bands I got off the postman for free. The properties of rubber-bands might not work as well as spectraelastic but hey it sort of works too. What's my status then in this case? Am I infringing and ripping you off? And does it become worse if I tell my buddies about this cheapskate rig & they start using it too?

From what I see is some inventions are just so easy to do it in "another" way when someone has done the hard work of working it out & inventing the technique/equipment. So in this case how do you protect your own interest?

[ghostbaits]

Interesting technique Rockhopper. I will watch for guys to start using it as much as the down shot technique (drop shot).

Could be very useful down in the South around the hydrilla!!!