Thread: White bass hook prefrence?

Originally Posted by mepperson

Around my area on KY Lake, we use 4-5 jigs on a rig at night under lights. We mainly use fle-fly jigs and they work great. We catch whites, hybrids and stripers as well. I wished I could find someone pouring the jig heads so I could tie my own. They are flat eye 60 degree hooks I think.

I was getting ready to tell you about crappiehappy and the jig he tied with the jig you wanted, I really like that jig he tied, check out skeetbums black and white jigs them really look nice also

I fish white bass at night or early morning when they are busting shad, i have had them loaded up at night on long points, the sha are 2 to 3 inches long. My go to bait is a calcutta 2 inch swim bait, only wish they made a 2.5 inch. You need that thumping tale at night.............Granite

1/4 to 1/2 oz cleos either gold or silver or a white jig

Generally use a #4 or #6 hook (usually long shank aberdeen) on any of the following: Wolf River Rig, Crappie rig (standard one w/double hook-lear) or Winneconne Fly Rig.

When they are busting shad just about anything will work. Favorite thing to do then is run & gun following the seagulls to stay on the fish.

My go-to baits are a #5 Rapala Husky Jerk or Shad Rap in the Blue Chrome with orange belly. Last year I started using 1/4-1/8 oz Kastmaster spoons with a bucktail dressed treble and upped my catches in the spring/summer jumps tremendously. The main lake that I fish does not have the massive size whites of other bodies fo water but it does make up for it with numbers of fish. I experimented with replacing trebles on crankbaits with the more expensixe Excaliber rotating trebles but that got to be too expensive when KVD started advertising with them for the LM crowd and their prices jumped again.

On Glen Elder in Kansas, chartruse and red turbo tailed roadrunners are the best. Any kind of chartruse jig or soft bait will work though.

we catch em on crawfish, carolina style off the points of islands.. if that don't work a white or chart curly tail jig on a 1/8 oz head will do the trick every time. We call em stripe but I think they are actually white bass.

Originally Posted by barrelslime

Id start a thread on the jig tying forum, and I bet you could find someone to pour you what ever you want. Im not familiar with that rig, but I cant imagine 4 or 5 whites on one line.

I have already tried that with no luck but thanks for the advice.

Originally Posted by ezgo

I was getting ready to tell you about crappiehappy and the jig he tied with the jig you wanted, I really like that jig he tied, check out skeetbums black and white jigs them really look nice also

I sent him a PM and he gave me some info but I still can't find them, I still need to search the 1400 ads on ebay though.