4 Proven Winter Bass Baits | Cody Huff’s Top Picks

If you're a serious bass angler, the winter period is an excellent time to build your skills with the lake to yourself. Rising star Cody Huff has mastered winter bass fishing with a handful of common lures. He shares his top 4 techniques and best winter bass fishing lures that will put some quality bass in your boat or on the bank during this challenging yet rewarding calendar period.

1. Damiki rig. The Damiki rig is an excellent wounded shad imitator when fished over the top of shad consolidations. Huff prefers working it with minimal action, letting the subtle motion and profile trigger bites during the cold-water period. A heavy jig is essential for getting the bait to the fish fast when using forward-facing sonar in deep water.

KEY TACKLE
DAMIKI RIG

2. Paddle tail swimbait. Always on the list, a finesse paddle tail swimbait rigged on a heavy jig head is a simple and versatile tool for covering water and generating bites.

PADDLE TAIL SWIMBAIT

3. Jerkbait. A jerkbait is Huff's favorite for targeting high-suspended fish over the tops of cedar trees, brush piles, or around points and bait. It tends to excel on cloudy days with wind and is deadly when used in conjunction with forward-facing sonar.

4. Gliding jigs. Lastly and perhaps his most productive winter tactic, gliding jigs such as the Rapala Flat Jig and Rapala Jigging Rap are the ultimate precision strike baits for catching deep water bass. Huff employs forward-facing sonar to locate schooling bass feeding on shad and pitches these heavy baits, which fall fast and accurate to the fish. He uses the lighter #9 Jigging Rap (7/8 oz.) when fish are less than 40 feet and the heavier Flat Jig (1-3/16 oz.) when they're deeper than 40 feet of water.

GLIDING JIGS
• Rapala Flat Jig (discontinued)

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[davidbrandjr]

Great video Cody! Looking forward to seeing you catch em in the elite series this year!

[shawneldridge]

This is a very great video, also it's a great demonstration and information that you're teaching us. I enjoyed watching the video.
I like to use the vmc pro series crayfish jigs,
They may not be all that thick or may not be all that big butt they do work great on
Largemouth bass, smallmouth bass and rock bass and sometimes they do work on perch and big brown trout too.
I guess it all depends on how hungry they are and their feeding habits are like.

[ralo]

Good stuff Cody! 🎣 👊🏼💯🇺🇸
Thanks for the tips my friend!

[YooToobz]

Somebody give that dude a hug. The tone is depressing. Cheer up big guy, spawn season will be here before you know it 🎣

[jonkludt]

You talk too much. Flat jigs are just cheaply made hunks of metal that break apart in walleyes mouths.