FS Digest

I’m always amazed when I go down to Florida/South Carolina and fish with my family down there. You have 1 bait and one technique that works to catch fish. You hook a live shrimp on the end of a hook, and depending on the current or how you would like it to fall you can add weight to it. if there are fish where you threw it, 99% of the time they are going to hit it.

Being a primarily bass fisherman I feel like this is so easy. For bass fishing I have finesse fishing (plastics) which has 100+ different techniques, spinners (offset in-line etc), topwater (buzzbait, whopper plopper, popper, etc), crankbaits, etc, etc, you get the picture.

That’s not even getting into the different colors. Live shrimp catches everything, snook, snapper, sheeps head, black drum, redfish, jack, black tip shark, bonnet head shark, ladyfish, catfish, triple tail, etc, you get the picture. Another thing that blows my mind is EVERYONE fishes with shrimp. With bass, typically they get wise to the hot new technique and they aren’t as effective as before.

With all that being said, what is the one technique for freshwater fishing that works for ANYTHING? With the amount of money I spent on different lures and plastics I would be willing to getting a way to keep live bait on my kayak if it flat out works.

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by robertdilbert

FS Digest

Bobber + hook + worm or minnow.

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by clear831

FS Digest

I am tempted to go back to my technique when I was 8 yrs old. Bobber and worms. About these minnows, you use live?

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by robertdilbert

FS Digest

Yup, if you get the large ones they will move your bobber around!

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by clear831

FS Digest

Have you ever bass fished with live shiners

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by surfzz318

FS Digest

I have not. Care to teach me how?

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by robertdilbert

FS Digest

With a bobber or a slip weight off the bottom then hook the shiner through the lips, or through the back behind the dorsal, just don’t hit the spine, toss out and let him do his thing. I think the lips make them swim down and the back makes them swim up. Live baitfish are basically the equivalent of shrimp at the coast.

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by AtAllCost33

FS Digest

Big bass go for these

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by surfzz318

FS Digest

If your talking artificial. A super fluke will work just about anywhere anytime. Very versatile as well. Can fish it many different ways. Top water. Slow drag. Texas rig. Carolina rig. Wacky rig.(it works) I've done it. Ned rig. Live bait works for anything anywhere. Catch the biggest blue Gill or a small crappie. Get a decent size hook and a bobber. You get some nice fish. If you want quantity over quality just use a small bait fish.

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by BAfisherman

FS Digest

A 3” black or white grub on a small jighead will catch any fish that eats other fish.

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by 5uper5kunk

FS Digest

Those live shrimp work great for catching largemouth bass as well. Not uncommon to catch a few while searching for reds in brackish marshes. I’ve actually seen about a 2lb bass caught on a Carolina rigged piece of frozen shrimp.

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by SoLaFisher

flyguy Loc: Lake Onalaska, Sunfish Capitol of the World!

There is a saying on the Gulf Coast that goes, "All fish eat live shrimp." That may be true, but live shrimp are hard to come by during the Winter months on the Coast and harder to come by at anytime, in MN.

dclarke61546

Same as minnow