(dramatic music)
- [Narrator] Welcome to this episode of
The Cabela's Fisherman's Handbook.
On today's show,
we offer fishing tips on various techniques,
including flipping, pitching, and crankbaits.
All of the content in this show
is designed to help you catch more fish.
Let's get out on the water with Wade
and talk about one of his favorite ways to fish.
- Flipping and pitching, they're basically
short line applications that anglers use
in and around a variety of cover.
It's been related to hand-to-hand combat,
full on fight, two heavyweights going at it.
However you wanna look at it,
it is a battle between you and the fish,
and the battle can be as simple as
trying to figure out how to get a bite,
and then what to do with it afterwards,
and then how to recreate that all over.
And for me, flipping and pitching, it's an addiction.
It's been an obsession my entire life
when it comes to bass fishing.
It's, without question, one of my top three favorite ways
to go fishing for largemouth bass.
Oh, he got strong at the boat.
He came in pretty easy until he got to the boat.
When you start looking at the techniques
of flipping and pitching, and there are differences in them,
but for the sake of
this little piece we're doing right here,
we're just gonna kinda lump them together.
We're gonna talk about those presentations
where you're making an underhand cast,
letting the bait pendulum out
in your hand into a variety of cover,
and the gear needed to be successful
in those types of situations.
And there are a lot of different factors that relate
to that type of fishing to help you determine the bait,
the color of bait, the size of the weight,
little additions you may add to it
such as punching skirts or no punching skirts,
baits that are big, baits that are small,
the appendages, the actions of each bait.
Then, you can take it down into the size of line,
the type of line, fluorocarbon, monofilament, braided line,
the actual pound test of each one of them,
as well as the rod and reel combos themselves.
All of those will have a direct result
in your success or failures.
Now granted, you could use
anything we're gonna talk about in any fishing situation,
and you're gonna be successful to a certain extent.
But when when you match the right pieces of gear altogether
and that bite's going on,
you can have some of the best bass fishing
you're ever gonna experience.
There he is.
That's a good one.
(splashing) (Wade mumbles)
(fish splashing)
Come here, buddy.
Boy, these fish are fat, healthy, look good.
I've only got two different samples
of soft plastics right here.
They would work for
a flipping and pitching type of scenario.
(laughs) There's probably a thousand different ones
out there that somebody could hook onto their hook
and find success with, and what I've tried to do is really,
a lot of times in today's world,
is simplify some of my bait presentations.
You know, you look at this bait right here
from Big Bite Baits, it's a bait that's gonna be designed.
It's very compact in nature,
yet it still has some great appendages on there,
as I call them, to give it action
once it goes down into the strike zone.
But it's still compact enough when you're trying
to pick apart heavy cover that it's gonna flip in there.
So many times, you'll see certain baits
with too many loose pieces on them.
As you're flipping into that cover,
with a light weight especially,
it will hang on the cover, and deflect it,
and knock it off line where it's not gonna be able to go
right into the intended location where you feel the fish is.
That's why a lot of these style baits are so very successful
in that type of a flipping and pitching situation
because you can punch it right in there,
everything's nice and compact,
but you've still got some great action, swimming action,
especially when the bait is coming
into the water and out of the water,
and it's got a very good profile,
much like a lot of your bluegill or crawfish
that are gonna be up in those areas.
So, when it comes to picking your profiles,
comes to picking your colors and styles of bait,
don't overthink it.
Keep it very simple.
Pick some of the most basic colors like your neon black red
when you're in those muddy water situations,
green pumpkins, watermelon reds, your Okeechobee craw,
some of that when you're in
more clear water or lightly stained water,
and you're gonna find success.
Good one.
Get out of the tree. (fish splashing)
(grunts) Finky little guy.
He hit it swimming it out of that bush.
Come here (mumbles) got you coming that way.
Little fat fish there.
When it comes to choosing line
for this type of a flipping and pitching application,
there are a lot of different choices
that are gonna be available out there to you.
A couple things that I like to keep in mind
in that "keep it simple" motto when I go fishing is,
let's just say I've got semi-clear water
with a little bit of a stain to it, 20-pound fluorocarbon.
That's probably gonna be my go-to.
Next scenario up, maybe it's got a little more stain to it,
it's a little dirtier, or the cover is a little bit heavier,
I may go to 25 or 30-pound fluorocarbon
or maybe even go to a 25, 30-pound class type braid
in that type of situation.
The next scenario up, I'm going all out with
the biggest gear and guns that I can get out of my Sunline.
I'm gonna get up in the 60-pound plus braided line,
and I'm gonna go with a big heavy weight,
trying to get that reaction strike,
and that's gonna be in those situations
where I'm dropping it into hydrilla, coontail, deep timber,
or I'm dealing with really off-color water
where I think I can get away with it.
No matter which way you go, no matter what your choices are,
spend some time experimenting.
If the bite turns off one way or the other,
maybe they're a little line sensitive or a little line shy,
and you're not getting the action you're looking at,
so downsize.
If you're losing some fish, you can't winch them out
of that big cover, gun it up a little bit.
Go big and don't give up.
Keep flipping and pitching in there,
set the hook hard, and winch those big guys out.
- Now, that fish was definitely in that thicker patch.
Look how dark he is on his back.
Pretty fish, though.
(upbeat music)
(fish splashing)
- [Narrator] When we come back, we've got more tips
on catching fish when flipping and pitching.
And later in the show, the action continues
as Wade shares insight on crankbait fishing
and how you can use these baits to catch more fish.
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- I wish I could say there was just one thing
that you needed to go grab or buy
that would make you a better flipper or pitcher.
Number one, spent time on the water.
Number two, try to get equipment that is designed for that.
That could be your rod type scenario.
I've got the Cabela's XML rod series here
that is designed for flipping.
It's a great all-around flipping rod.
You know, it's gonna allow you good sensitivity, feel,
all the way down to the quality of the blanks
where you're gonna find success and be able to catch fish
in a lot of different situations.
But I'll be the first to tell you,
there are times where I need
a heavier action rod even than what this one is.
For instance, if I'm dropping one ounce and a half,
two-ounce jigs in heavy hydrilla,
basically I want something with more backbone
than this rod's even gonna give me
because that bite is such a reaction bite
and I've gotta winch them out of that grass.
Not to say I can't do it with this rod because I can,
but a lot of times in that type of situation there,
I need a very specialized rod.
Same situation applies to choosing the bait, and the hooks,
and the style while you're trying to figure that out.
What might work in flipping
in that one to three foot of water
like what Clark Wendlandt and I did on Lake Somerville
a couple years back, the fish were up in the shallow cover,
lots of little beanie bushes, little lightweight bushes
that had just recently got flooded,
we didn't need the heaviest gear in that type of situation.
Fluorocarbon line like a 20-pound Sunline,
a quarter ounce or maybe a little heavier weight
with just a nice soft plastic packaged up together
flipping in that cover produced
all the bites that we needed.
(mumbles) better bass there. (fish splashing)
Golly. (fish splashing)
Get up here.
- (mumbles) look at the belly on that guy.
(Wade laughs)
- When you get on a good flipping bite,
that's just so hard to not enjoy, isn't it?
- I love it because it's like,
it's hands-on combat is kinda the way I see it is.
You know, you've gotta make good pitches and a lot of them.
It's not one cast every once in a while.
It's actively making a good presentation to get a bite.
- Another situation to look at is a very similar scenario,
except in totally different conditions,
high, high winds, winds blowing 25 miles an hour.
I found myself up on Lake Fairfield
struggling to get a lot of bites.
Knew the fish would be shallow, knew they were up there
getting ready to spawn or already spawning,
and what I finally had to do was take a compact scenario
but use a big, big weight,
number one, so that I could make a presentation.
With the high winds, a light weight,
I couldn't feel it falling,
my bait was getting hung up in the top of the vegetation
before it even get into the strike zone, so I upsized.
I went to that one ounce weight
or three-quarter ounce weight,
took a bait like a YoMama from Big Bite Baits,
it has a great kicking action,
and put a skirt on there, punching skirt,
flipped it in there all as one compact unit.
If I didn't get a bite right away on the first drop,
I'd kinda hop it and swim it back out of there,
and begin to tear the fish up by using that technique.
So, that's going totally the opposite way,
but using very similar equipment.
Got one swimming that one up there.
That's two bites now I've had swimming.
I need to put a swim jig on.
Work it out of this cover.
You know, I've got my trailer on this is that swimming craw,
and it's got great action like what we're doing right here.
When it's coming through,
they're putting off a lot of vibration,
and we were at the back end of a pocket now
when that one there bit, so I caught him.
I mean, I flipped in, hopped it twice, and then swam it out,
and about the second rod pump while I was swimming it,
I saw the line jump, watched the swirl, and set the hook.
Now, you can see the bulk or the width, I should say.
Even better are those claws right there,
and when they're come through the water, they're turning,
and twisting, and constantly putting off a lot of vibration,
and it looks like a bait fish or a crawfish
trying to get away, and that's what
we're trying to mimic while we're up in here.
- [Narrator] Coming up next on The Fisherman's Handbook,
crankbaits can be one of the most effective ways
to catch a large number of fish.
Stay tuned as Wade shares his thoughts on crankbait fishing.
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(upbeat music)
- Yeah, I'd love to know
how many different crankbaits there are in the world.
I mean, it would be an astronomical number,
and the reason there are so many of them is
crankbaits catch fish 12 months out of the year every day
in a certain situation, and as a fisherman,
you've gotta obviously determine what that situation is,
and how to catch them, and the color, the action, the depth
as well as the gear used to fish the crankbait.
You know, it's not just something
that you tie on, and go out, and catch fish after fish.
Yes, you could probably tie any crankbait on that exists,
and you're eventually gonna get a bite on any given day,
but there's times when you can pick the right crankbait,
the right color, the right retrieve, and mix it all up
with the right gear and find great success.
- Oh yeah. (laughs)
Look at that one right there, boys and girls.
- When you start really dissecting crankbait fishing
as far as what a guy likes in choosing a fishing rod,
that, a lot of times, becomes a personal preference
a lot of times.
I look back to those fiberglass crankbait rods.
They had a lot of give to them.
I mean, when you hooked up a fish,
they'd be about that big around at the base, and I mean,
(laughs) it would bend from about a foot and a half
up the rod all the way down.
But that was very forgiving,
and that allowed a lot of guys
to be able to fight those fish.
What it didn't allow you to do a lot of times
was have control over that fish.
The fish, more often than not, was in control of the fight.
And when you look at a lot of people's choices now,
they want a rod that probably has,
and you can start to see it in this rod here
where it flexes and where it gives,
and it's more in the middle of the rod right in here.
And this is designed as a crankbait rod
on the Cabela's XML series.
Where I look back at some of those
flexible old-school fiberglass rods,
they would flex all the way down to right in here,
and you would kinda lose control a lot of times.
Now, good and bad in that situation.
Hang a big fish going on runs at the boat
or maybe didn't necessarily get the bait
as good as you hoped it would,
so some of that forgiveness was great,
but you lose control a lot of times
when that fish is making tremendous runs
and you wanna steer him away from cover,
so there's a trade-off there.
But at the end of the day,
my best piece of advice when choosing a crankbait rod is
find one that's designed specifically for crankbait fishing.
It's got some of the attributes there
that you're looking for.
And find one with a good moderate taper in it,
not too forgiving, but not so forgiving
you're out of control a lot of times.
And that'll be a great rod
for the average guy's crankbait needs,
that four to 10, 12 foot depth
where he'll be able to fish effectively,
have control of his baits, be able to feel the baits,
be able to feel what they're doing,
as well as manage the fish.
Got him that time.
He crushed it, too.
He's hooked outside the mouth.
You can see the fight.
You can watch that rod as it goes down,
and it's just so important when it comes to,
he's only got, now he's got two hooks in him.
He only had one.
Now, he's back to one.
You know, that helps provide,
it's a shock absorber, basically, when you're fighting fish.
Oh, you've got one hook, buddy.
Gotcha.
Gotcha, gotcha, gotcha.
Alright, I'll let him go back.
We talk about rods and the selection there,
you can see it in evidence in that fight right there.
Every time that fish would kinda go,
he'd dig, he'd dig, and he'd pull,
and you could see that taper, see that bend in there,
and that's what you want in a crankbait rod.
(suspenseful music)
- [Narrator] It's time for a break, but when we return,
we break down the different actions in crankbaits
and how these actions can trigger a fish to bite,
right here on The Fisherman's Handbook.
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(upbeat music)
- There's one right there.
Yeah, you can see him on the grass down there, coming up.
He's getting ready to jump.
He's gonna jump.
(laughs) You can watch him actually go up and jump.
Now, he's going back down under the boat.
He choked on that rock crawler.
Look at that.
Look where he's got that bait in his mouth.
(mumbles) that's a good one right there.
That's a good one.
Wow.
You know, crankbait fishing
in its most common form is a reaction bite.
You know, a lot of times, I look back when I was younger
and had a three little tier tackle box and everything.
I'd just throw it out there, and I'd just reel,
and I wasn't even throwing at anything.
And then, as I got older, I began to realize that yes,
it's a reaction bite, but boy,
there's a way to really pick apart specific cover,
especially when you understand all the different variances
in baits that are out there
and what each one of them's designed for.
There he is.
He's right there at the boat.
There is a drop off.
I can see it on my sonar right there.
Had my Panoptix out there.
It was kinda doubled up.
You're still seeing drops.
- [Narrator] As is evident from the fish catches
so far in this show, crankbaits can be used
to catch fish all across the nation.
One more key to cracking the code of crankbait fishing
is understanding what style of crankbait
to use for each situation.
- [Wade] You look at the rocks that we're fishing right now,
I mean, I'm sitting in five and half, six foot of water.
They roll out and eventually drop off in 10 feet,
and I want a bait that
I can throw up on these rocks and parallel it,
and it's gonna hit like six, seven feet
and bounce into these rocks.
Well, when I was younger,
I might've come up here with a bait that would go 20 feet.
It would be hung all the time.
Or I'd come up with a square bill type bait and just,
zoom, right across the top of these fish
and never get where they were setting up as an ambush point.
So keep it in mind, that yes, this is a great reaction bite,
and yeah, you can tie it on as a kid or an adult
and just go wind it.
You'll eventually catch one, but picking the right crankbait
for the right situation is so key
in getting these reaction strikes,
whether it's this type of cover or any other cover.
Oh, there's one right there, buddy.
Oh, feels like a good one, too,
but boy, they all feel good when they're first (mumbles).
He hasn't jumped.
Boy, he just... (groans)
Get out of those rocks.
Man, not bad, not bad.
Let's go this side with you, fish.
Get away from those rocks.
He's got it all the way down in there.
(fish splashing) (Wade humming)
Boy, he ate it.
It's there, right there, fish.
Yeah.
(laughs) He has a mouth full of treble hooks right there.
When you start talking about the actions of crankbaits,
boy, there's a lot of them out there,
and you've really gotta kinda dial it in
based on the time of the year.
A couple of things I like to keep in mind.
When the water's very cold, I've always felt like
a very tight wiggle is a key, key action that a guy wants.
And conversely, when the water temperature warms up,
especially past the spawn, something with a big wide wobble.
I always use the analogy
when it comes to looking at crankbaits,
think about how cold it is outside when you walk out
and how you're kinda bundled up.
Everything's kinda tight.
You're not as excited to be out there,
and you kinda, you're very tight in your walk.
Now, think about the summertime.
You're down on the beach, and you're strutting,
and wiggling, and walking around.
Bait action's the same thing.
Warm weather, big wobbling action baits
are some of my favorites.
When it gets cold, I like those narrower,
tighter actions a lot of times.
(fish splashing) Ooh, he choked it.
That's what you're looking for.
- [Narrator] That wraps up this episode
of the Cabela's Fisherman's Handbook.
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as well as help you catch more fish on your next trip.
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