White Bass - Lure Color Selections

[Feathers and Fins]

Jason its not expensive don't let these guys fool you in to thinking fly fishing is expensive, All you need is a little fly-rod and reel with line and a few flies. Oh and don't worry it is not addictive or anything like that.

[J-Doc]

Oh and don't worry it is not addictive or anything like that.

Said the drug dealer.....

[Feathers and Fins]

Said the drug dealer.....

Spring Fishing sales are coming up you need downriggers lol

[J-Doc]

Spring Fishing sales are coming up you need downriggers lol

Yeah, I know......I've got a plan in mind for that.

[kjackson]

Hey, mon, I can hook you up...

Depending upon boat, I may have a set of short-arm downriggers available. If you're serious about the fly thing, again...

At one point, my life goal was to be a trout bum, but then I got married. However, I still am interested in the waving stick part of the sport and have some extra stuff that may work. What I need is specs for what is best for stripers and hybrids. I don't have complete outfits, but I think I can fill a hole or two. However, if you start thinking about tying flies, you're on your own.

[Sore Thumbs]

Whites aren't too picky. I think they eat just about anything in their path. I use sqare bills and small deeper diving crankbaits in a variety of colors.

[Quillback]

Add Rapala Shad Raps, size 5 to the list of white bass catchers. I haven't tried them on whites, but I bet the white marabou Zig Jigs would smoke them.

[Bass Ivy]

White and Red in clearer water and chartreuse and red in staind water. And a rapala shad rap is about all you need for whites in Beaver. For daytime fishing but at night its a whole different deal. I dont know what it is, but that little shot of red makes a big difference. If you are on a wind blown shorline and there is a mudline from the waves I break out the chartreuse with a red head. Inline spinners work good and even the 1/4 oz horsehead with a marabou tail I like to use also. ill go down a windblown bank with a chartreuse horse head with a red head and catch whites, crappie, spots, blacks, big bluegill, hybrids and even walleye. Ive fished with guys and the whites start busting the water I like to use a spook. Ive had guys laugh at me when I pull out the ole horse head, but they usually are not laughing at me by the time we get done. They are usually asking me if i have another one of them they can use. LOL . Horse heads work good with grubs on them too. In white or chartreuse. There may be some newer lures that work better but I just stick with what i know works. And i have good results. By the time Ive put 20 or 30 big whites in the boat while they are still trying to find something that works, they are usually done laughing at me at that point. LOL Done it several times. Me and this other guy one time was down just north of the Dam in that pocket back in there by that picnic area. I knew the wihites were there cause i had been hitting that spot and starting to catch a few in the spring. The wind had blown all night long out of the SW and it was cloudy most of the day. The wind had been slamming that pocket all night long and all day. I knew them whites would be stacked in there. So I called my neighbor up and he was always ready to go fishing. We got out there and the white caps were big. It was all i could do to keep the boat in position right there. The boat would go up and come down and water would come over the nose of my bass boat. I just turned on the bilge and we went at it. Sometimes I would have to jump back in the drivers seat and start the big motor to keep us out of the trees the wind was so strong. there were probably 20 people trying to fish off the bank right there and they couldnt cast very far out right into that blasting wind. Me and that guy caught alot of fish. I dont know exactly how many but it was at least 80. All on Chartreuse Horse heads with a red head. You could cast with the wind right up against the trees let it fall and just real it along just fast enough to feel it tick on the bottom every once in awhile. and it was just about every cast. we slayed the whites until my trolling motor batteries finally got weak enough I couldnt keep the boat off the bank any more. It was just one of them trips I wont ever forget. If we could have contnued to stay out there no telling how many whites we could have caught. When the skin is about gone off your thumb from lipping fish you know youve been in them. LOL usually about 2 or 3 weeks after the run starts up in the rivers it will get good up on the North end of the lake for whites. Up in the back end of Indian Creek cove is a good place to get into the whites in the spring also.