Favorite GoTo Fall/Winter Lures

[Swells]

OK, I got the deal on the original flounder pounder lures ... but what else is your favorite fall and winter lures besides that? I don't like buying bait much, unless it is live bluecrab in the late winter and I catch those anyway. Or is it more like use the same stuff but fish slower and deeper? I want to hit it pretty hard in between cold fronts and yep, I'm lookin' to stuff the freezer, lol. Speck trout is my favorite meal if that makes any diff, and I'm down south on the LLM.

Anybody have any luck with double lure rigs? Wanting to try something new besides the same old beaters and techniques I got.

Beware I'm a cold weather wussie so I need to score quick and boogie back into the house fer drinking the beer! I got the hot spots I know. Any help on the lures and style would be mucho appreciado ... sorry my Spanish ain't too good.
-sammie

[Jhua]

I use double rigs exclusively at night. Anywho, so far the hackberry hustler in morning glory is my go to soft plastic in the Galveston Bay area. It changes of course with the water clarity. The bite has been very soft, but as it gets colder, it will get softer. Work the soft plastics deep and slow. If you think you are going too slow, work it even slower.

[Mini-x Fan]

I use double rigs exclusively at night. Anywho, so far the hackberry hustler in morning glory is my go to soft plastic in the Galveston Bay area. It changes of course with the water clarity. The bite has been very soft, but as it gets colder, it will get softer. Work the soft plastics deep and slow. If you think you are going too slow, work it even slower.

Good advice.

[Curmudgeon]

Corky's are excellent winter bait, but I also use topwaters.

[aqua pimp]

My number one bait for catching numbers of Trout in the spring, summer, fall, and winter is a plum/char Bass Assassin. If I want numbers a want to score quick this is what I go to for me and customers. If they dont eat this they aint eat'n. Rigged on an 1/8 or1/16 ounce lead head. You dont always half to work a bait extremely slow just because its winter either. Between fronts Trout can still get pretty aggressive and go after a bait worked fast or real erratic. Another go to bait will be Redshad or morning glory. Just keep playing with your retreive to you find what works. Looking for bigger Trout I will go to a Corky or Topwater. But for quick numbers and staying in the boat I always go Assassins.

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[aqua pimp]

Also, when fishing an area like West Bay. I stay away from the clear water! When drift fishing if I can see the bottom in 3' or deeper I move. When wading, if I can see my feet in 3' of water I move. I like green of off colored water. West Bay gets gin clear in the winter time, way to clear. I will move around untilI find a mud streak or some green water thats not super clear. Its harder for Trout to feed and ambush bait in clear water. Plus, dirty water can be a few degrees warmer.

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[imhammer]

Tops, corky's, tops, mirrolures or tops.......um did I say tops?

[Lori77563]

Curly tail tube pounders are killer red crank baits especially hooked in tandem . If ur hooked on Gulp soak sum Qtips and shove the ends up the hole.

[ubermensch1324]

Muddy water/cloudy = morning glory anything. Popular baits are trout killers, hackberry's and bass assassin's.

Clearer water = plum chartreuse BA's

Tops = Any big super spook. Black/bone off colored water. Chrome anything when sunny. Spook jr.'s/skitters can come in handy if they want smaller bait.

Corkies = Anything chartreuse backed. Chartreuse pearl, pink and #91 are popular colors.


You can't go wrong with anything chartreuse colored. More important than color is your action and just making sure your bait is visible. I think everyone said everything so yall beat me to it. Try every retrieve and the fish will tell you what they want.

[scumLORD]

I usually just fart on my lures, or use teriyaki bang sauce, they cant resist.

[coachlaw]

Dead scrimps on a shad rig under a cork. When it gets real cold, dead scrimps on the bottom.

[scumLORD]

Don't forget to stock up on gaftopp in the summer time, because cut bait gaftop, psht...too easy.

[Jhua]

Don't be hatin on my source of food. :P

[trophytroutman]

Pink corky fatboy,catch 5 and topwaters and of course morning glory plastics.

[Swells]

I appreciate the hep and I picked up some pointers. Corkies don't seem as poplar down this way, but I'll try a few for grins and giggles. My favorite times in in between the fronts when the sun warms the flats, and if there's enough water the fish run out onto the flats from the deeper channels. This can be a fast bite but is rare - the water has to heat up pretty good and the tide has to be right because some years it is terrible low at neap low tide. Otherwise, the old timers anchor over the deep holes in the ICW. But now I got some new strategy - thanks and keep 'em coming if you got some tips.