How to Fish a Jigging Spoon
A jigging (slab) spoon is a heavy metal lure that flutters as it falls. How a spoon attracts fish, the snap-and-flutter retrieve Arkansas Game and Fish describes for winter bass, watching the line on the fall, where it snags, and the fish it catches.
How to Fish a Blade Bait
A blade bait is a thin metal lure weighted at the nose or belly that vibrates on a short lift. When cold-water smallmouth anglers use it, the short lift-and-pause, snaps, line and rods, and where to fish it, from Bassmaster and In-Fisherman reporting.
How to Fish a Chatterbait
A chatterbait (bladed jig) is a jig with a hex-shaped blade at the nose. Where it shines around the spawn, lead vs. tungsten heads, trailers for baitfish or crawfish, colours by water clarity, retrieves, the rod, and trimming the skirt, from an Outdoor Life guide.
How to Fish a Swimbait
Swimbaits imitate swimming baitfish. Hard glide and multi-jointed baits, soft paddle tails, line-through and top-hook baits, rigging a paddle tail on a jig head, the near-bottom retrieve and the mid-cast pause, from Wikipedia and a Wired2Fish technique piece.
How to Fish a Jerkbait
What a jerkbait is and why it darts, the crank-and-pause retrieve Arkansas Game and Fish recommends after a cold front, how long to pause, and which fish take stick baits, following Wikipedia, the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission and the Missouri Department of Conservation.
How to Fish a Spinnerbait
How a spinnerbait attracts fish, what Colorado, willowleaf and Indiana blades do, short-arm and long-arm frames, the slow roll, drop, wake and steady retrieves, trailers and trailer hooks, following Wikipedia and New York DEC's bass rig table.
How to Fish a Crankbait
What a crankbait is, how the bill sets the diving depth, floating, suspending and sinking types, choosing a running depth for the water, the retrieve and its variations, and which fish take them, following Wikipedia, New York DEC and the Missouri Department of Conservation.