Bass part 8 - Muddy water vibrators for bass
Buzz baits are a variation of the spinnerbait, they started out with the old Hawaiian wiggler, a great bait in its time, and still a good bait if you can find one. Most are in collectors hands and are seldom fished because they are worth $50 and up. Buzz baits have a single large flat blade that makes quite a commotion when reeled on the surface. They are quite weedless and can be fished in the thickest of cover with few hangups.
I also keep a plastic worm hooked weedless with no weight rigged on a medium spinning rod, when I get a hit that misses on the buzzbait, I instantly jerk it out of the water and back over my head, then cast the worm to the spot where the bass just missed the buzzer, this usually results in an instant strike. The buzzbait can be fished much slower than a spinnerbait, keeping it in the strike zone much longer. The strikes on the buzzbait are usually vicious, and hard, resulting in many large bass. The average size bass hooked on the buzzbait is usually much larger than those hooked on spinnerbaits.
I mostly start in the backs of brushy coves and cast it over, across and through any visible brush, stumps trees, weedlines or just plain shallow cover.Many casts are made to cover, trying to pass the cover and just bump it as you bring the bait by it. A lot of strikes come just as the bait bumps the cover. Sometimes I make casts out into open water and I catch the occasional bass out there too. This works best in clear water. Stained or slightly muddy water is best for fishing buzzbaits. In real muddy water a large single bladed spinnerbait fished slowly through the brush can be deadly.
The intense vibrations put out by these baits allow the bass to key in on the vibrations. When fishing muddy water, I use 25 or 30lb. test, as the fish can not see the line and some real hogs are in shallow muddy water. On very windy days the wind makes shallow muddy water on points and in the back of windward coves, this is an excellent place to throw big bladed spinnerbaits, and the DB3 Bagley cranks in the chartreuse color. I have caught many large bass after the wind has come up and everyone else runs for coves out of the wind, the muddy stained water makes it easy for the bass to catch their prey in water where the shad are at a big disadvantage as they don't see the predators very well but the bass can see the prey very good.
Also the muddy water makes it hard for the bass to see you. Big lures that put out intense vibrations are easy for the bass to key in on. Some of the largest bass of the year come from these scenarios. Try them, you will like them!!!!
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