How to Fish Soft Stick Baits for Shallow Bass

Stick baits are a staple soft plastic lure with virtually limitless rigging configurations but perhaps best know for wacky rigging. Wired2Fish’s Ryan DeChaine has come to rely on weightless Texas-rigged stick baits as an excellent alternative to wacky rigging and standard fluke-style baits. Weightless Texas-rigged stickbaits slide through cover with ease on a long cast -- this makes them an excellent choice for covering expansive flats quickly but with the subtlety of a Ned rig in shallow, clear water.

TACKLE USED:

DeChaine stresses the importance of using a medium to medium-heavy power spinning rod and reel setup for driving hooks home and hauling bass up and out of cover. A strong braided mainline to a 15-pound fluorocarbon leader transmits bites and drives hooks home with minimal stretch while the fluorocarbon leader preserves stealthiness. Bass bite and hold on to soft stick baits like few other lures so this is an excellent great rigging system for kids, newbie anglers, and pro fisherman alike.

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[LeatherNeck]

This is how I fish a stick bait 98% of the time throughout the year. Here in South Georgia, the grass never fully dies back and by April it's already almost up to the surface of the water. Wacky rigging, even with a weedless hook, in Sago Pond Weed covered ponds is impossible. T-rigged stick baits, Flukes, and Trick Worms are the only thing that will come through clean and I fish them all about the same. Thanks for the video!

[kboutdoorspnw]

Guys, I’m not sure if anyone else caught it. But there was a deer in the water AND he hooked into a fish!! 😂😂 all joking aside, love the content this channel puts it. Very informative and full of technique that I get to go out and try. Tight lines brothers and sisters! 🤙🏼

[edp]

Whenever i use a senko it comes up all the way to the surface even when i let it sink to the bottom so my question is, is this normal?

[johnjohnson]

More times than not there's no better way to catch bass than on weightless plastics...shallow. I get more bass on that than all other baits combined. Spring, summer, fall.

[trevorperrygaming]

Guys I think a deer jumped in the water

[thejeremymotley]

I have yet to catch a bass on a plastic bait! Doesn't mean I won't keep trying.

[nealatthecrossfishing]

A “ruit” ball?? Lol. I guess this is just foreign to my southern ears.

[kevinlynch]

Cool but you missed an outstanding video opportunity with two deer (only one we viewers saw looked like a Buck).
Still appreciated the video.
Thank you.
Be well.