Flipping Lures

[Guest]

what conditions do you guys prefer to Flip Beavers , Tubes, Craws etc......as in what time of the year...any specific locations you prefer over another..etc

i have not flipped much at all and was wondering how and what cause's you to Flip a lure

[2golforfish]

Biggest thing for me would be thick cover and stained water

[BassinHomer]

I like to do my flippin late spring, early summer anytime the fish are up shallow against the bank, it's also a go to for me when other techniques aren't working , I just put the trolling motor on high and flip to likely targets

[Stump9000]

I'm still learning so I don't know.

[Guest]

thats me Jim...still need some help on this one....just like the MoJo Rig...sounds easy but i bet theres a easy way and a wrong way and my luck i would choose the Wrong Way

[vol-fisher]

Spring when the water rises up into the buck brush and willow trees, black and blue jig or a zoom speed worm. Late summer into fall when they are pulling water down either a black and blue or texas craw jig fishing the ends of bluffs and the slides in the middle of the bluffs. I think spring is more for numbers as they relate to the trees once they are done spawning, but in the fall you are more likely to catch some hogs but not as many numbers as the smaller fish scatter in the fall chasing baitfish.

[SJK]

Spring to Fall.....any time there is structure to flip....I've caught some of my best fish flipping in the dog days.....like right now

[BANDIT]

into the buck brush and willow trees, black and blue jig or a zoom speed worm.

I heard that's how the PAA on Cherokee was won!

[Jtewes]

For me flippin tubes in laydowns, brush, etc. etc. is what I like to do. I have one tied on from mid spring to late fall. I've caught lots of good tourney fish in the past, but it hasn't produced this year like in the past. But, I guess you gotta go before you can catch one. :blink:

J

[brwnbass]

I like to pitch & flip in winter also, if there are a few warm days. you can wear them out on lay downs or big rocks in shallow water. Mostly use them in early spring in flooded brush tho.

[lunkerhunter1982]

I have 2 flipping sticks rigged in the boat pretty much anytime I launch. One keeps a jig of some sort on it and the other is rigged with a soft plastic or another jig. I flip plastics in water above 60, nothing but jigs in water under 60. Some of the biggest fish I have ever weighed in a tournament have come by incidental flipping. What I mean by that is something you come across while you are doing something else. As an example, I was in a fall tourney on Douglas 2 years ago. I was throwing a trap and flatside in a shallow, long pocket, and the nonboater was throwing topwater. I saw what was left of a tree on the left side in the back of the pocket and wind drifted to it. The guy in the back had cast a buzzbait to it a dozen times, but on my first flip with a big jig I roped a 7 1/2 pounder into the boat, and caught a 6 pounder under similar circumstances later in the day. There is no wrong time to flip. You just have to commit to it, and the key is accuracy and a quiet presentation, so practice. As far as what I flip, I will give you a general guideline. I flip jigs 12 months a year, and will have a 1/2 ounce jig on a rod at all times. Other weights are situational for me (for example, I have caught some giants in the fall on a 1 ounce white jig, flipping bluffs, and every now and then I will flip a little 1/4 ounce in clear water). As far as plastics, I flip tubes and lizards in the immediate prespawn and during the spawn. Brush hogs and baby brush hogs are good in postspawn and early summer. Big worms can be good in summer. And beaver type baits are good around vegetation.

[BassinHomer]

Come to think about it I guess I'm more a pitcher than a flipper,either way at least I'm not catcher!