Entry 142-4
Randy Dearman's Five Favorite Fishing Tactics
Wanta Add Some Excitement to Your Fishing - Get a Buzz
Editor's Note: In 1983, Randy Dearman of Onalaska, Texas, started fishing the BASS circuit and also became a Strike King Pro. According to Dearman, "Strike King was my first sponsor, and I plan to stay with Strike King as long as I'm a professional fisherman. Strike King has always had great products, and over the years, the company has allowed me to help develop products for them. They consistently come up with new products, and I feel fortunate to be able to work with a company like Strike King."
There's no more exciting way to fish for bass than to use a buzzbait. When you see that huge mouth of the bass blow up through the water and inhale that buzzbait as the bass continues skyward, if your heart doesn't skip a beat and a surge of adrenaline doesn't hit you like a Mack truck, then you need to leave the lake, go home and start playing dominos for excitement.
I've been fishing buzzbaits as long as there's been buzzbaits, and I still get a charge of adrenaline when that goofy-looking lure comes splashing, squeaking and shaking across the surface. Another advantage of fishing the buzzbait is that like the flipping tactic, the buzzbait produces some really-big bass. I enjoy fishing any bait that a very-big bass will bite. The buzzbait fits that profile.
My favorite buzzbait is the 1/2-ounce Strike King with the little bell on the front of it that keeps grass from getting tangled-up in the blade. With that bell on the front of the buzzbait, you don't have to continually pick grass off the front of your buzzbait when you're fishing in grass. Although you have to let the bass tell you how to fish the buzzbait, I like to fish it really fast. But on some days, the bass want the buzzbait to come through the water slowly to make the "blub, blub, blub" sound that results when the blade of the buzzbait turns really slowly.
I like to fish a black Strike King buzzbait. I know that very few people throw a black buzzbait. Most fishermen fish either white or chartreuse. But I prefer a black buzzbait. I've found that whether the day is bright or dark doesn't matter about using the black. I think that perhaps one of the reasons the black buzzbait is so effective is because I'm the only person I know who uses it.
If you think about it, every time a bass sees a buzzbait, the bass either is looking at white or chartreuse for the most part. So when a bass spots a bait that sounds like a buzzbait and looks like a buzzbait but is black, that bass has a new something to eat and especially when you're fishing a black buzzbait on a bright-colored day. That tactic breaks all the rules of bass fishing. I wouldn't do it, except I've learned that often when you break the rules of bass fishing you catch the bass that other fishermen don't catch.
Now, don't tell anyone I've told you about fishing a black buzzbait because I want to continue to be the only fisherman on any lake I go to who's fishing a black buzzbait. However, if you do fish the black buzzbait, please don't fish it very often. Thank you.
Most of the time I'm fishing the buzzbait on 20-pound-test monofilament. However, I'll switch and use braided line when I'm fishing the buzzbait through really-heavy cover. If you want to add some spice to your fishing and see some explosive top-water action, then get yourself a Strike King black buzzbait. That's what I do.
Contents:
- Part 1: My Four Most-Favorite Techniques - Flipping
- Part 2: I Still Love a Spinner Bait
- Part 3: Love to Crank
- Part 4: Wanta Add Some Excitement to Your Fishing - Get a Buzz
- Part 5: All It Does Is Catch Bass
