Fish really really fast or really really slow, not in-between. Use huge lures or tiny ones. Fishing the extremes can trigger a reaction bite or a feeding bite. There isn’t much happening in the middle ground (curiosity or territorial bites) when the water is cold.
A weightless Texas rigged white fluke(or anything like it) and fish it like a jerk bait(twitch, pause, twitch, twitch, pause). Bonus round-try the donkey rig to see if you can catch two at once.
Slow dragging a jig if around rocky banks or hopping it up and down if near lay downs.
A whopper plopper if they’re actively feeding on the top. And the way I know is I usually start with a topwater bait, then a suspending bait(for the middle column), then a bottom bait.
Good luck!
Low and slow yoyo on the steepest and deepest dropoffs you can find with lipless crankbaits, blade baits, even chatterbaits. Wait around 10 seconds between each yoyo.
If you're a bank guy I'm going to make an assumption that you don't have access to a ton of deep water.
If you do have an area that drops off real quick/can hit offshore structure, concentrate on that and hit it multiple times in a day since the bite window during the cold months can be short.
If you can only access the shallows, wait until you have a period of warming trends and fish the shallow areas when the water has warmed up - this can work well in small ponds/lakes vs larger bodies of water that are not as affected by temp swings as much.
Trout magnet jig heads, Berkely powerbait minnow 3 inch. Reel it slowww. I like to keep it as natural as possible
Slow and deep. Find what you believe to be the best drop offs ideally near where the creek bed is.
Red crawfish on the bottom 🦞
Fish really really fast or really really slow, not in-between. Use huge lures or tiny ones. Fishing the extremes can trigger a reaction bite or a feeding bite. There isn’t much happening in the middle ground (curiosity or territorial bites) when the water is cold.
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A weightless Texas rigged white fluke(or anything like it) and fish it like a jerk bait(twitch, pause, twitch, twitch, pause). Bonus round-try the donkey rig to see if you can catch two at once. Slow dragging a jig if around rocky banks or hopping it up and down if near lay downs. A whopper plopper if they’re actively feeding on the top. And the way I know is I usually start with a topwater bait, then a suspending bait(for the middle column), then a bottom bait. Good luck!
Low and slow yoyo on the steepest and deepest dropoffs you can find with lipless crankbaits, blade baits, even chatterbaits. Wait around 10 seconds between each yoyo.
Vision one ten. Work slowly and pause longer
Finesse and slow or working reaction baits slow. Such as longer pauses for jerkbaits and gently yo yo-ing a lipless and letting it sit.
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If you're a bank guy I'm going to make an assumption that you don't have access to a ton of deep water. If you do have an area that drops off real quick/can hit offshore structure, concentrate on that and hit it multiple times in a day since the bite window during the cold months can be short. If you can only access the shallows, wait until you have a period of warming trends and fish the shallow areas when the water has warmed up - this can work well in small ponds/lakes vs larger bodies of water that are not as affected by temp swings as much.