Favorite Rip Rap Technique?

[CShaver8]

Hey guys,

I ahve always been afirm beliver in fishign rip rap. My perosnal favorite technique is fishign a tube with a light bullet sinker on the rip rap.

What is your favorite technique for riprap?

[swilliams]

I have a couple, just depends on the depth.

I like a 3/16 to 5/16oz lightwire/ballhead jig (similar to eakins) or swim jig tipped with a craw trailer or yamamoto twin tail trailer in almost any depth. I like a pumpkinseed/white skirt, brown/orange or a shad colored skirt. If muddy water, I like a black/chartreuse skinny bear jig tipped with black twin tail.

Less than 7ft and I like a flat crankbait with a coffin lip (tapp, rapala dt 7, tennesse tuffy, or similar model.) Also like a brian's bee 6. Like to run it at an angle so that it bounces off the rocks or breakline where riprap meets the bottom.

Shallow water 4ft or less and I like a brian's little bee crankbait, bee 6, or a rapala dt 6.

Early in the morning, I like a topwater bait.

I don't like to texas rig or carolina rig the riprap because it is too easy to get hung up unless you use very light weights. Occasionally I will slow roll a spinnerbait or fish a jighead/worm combo, but mostly jig or crankbait for me.

I am getting ready to go to Pickwick in a month or so and may give your tube a try. I have had a lot of fun there with the tube.

Steve

[flathead266]

I like to use senkos straight hooked (weightless), flukes (weightless), cranks, spinners, all depends on depth. Might pull out a jig if its deep, I almost exclusively use the Eakins jigs now, I have had great luck with them.

[Bass Hawk 87]

I fish riprap several ways depending on time of year. Colder months, I like to use jerkbaits and jigs. I will also use Rat-L-Traps and spinnerbaits when there is some wind blowing on the rock.

During warmer periods, I like the Senkos and crankbaits.

[Ringworm]

I like to chunk a spinnerbait on riprap. This has been my favorite and best technique on riprap. I also like to throw a buzzbait on riprap early in the morning. A crankbait works well if the fish are a little deeper on the riprap.

[xx]

Spinnerbait or Trap

[Neilslure]

I like crankbaits and spinnerbaits the best jerkbaits can work too. Usually fish paralell to the rocks. Have had some great days when nobody else is even on the lake in the dead of winter. Think the chatterbait will be a great rip rap bait too.



These two were about 5 lbs a piece. One on a crank, one on a sb in late January.

[Ranger_man]

jerkbaits like the x rap and crankbaits

[Mike Adams]

Depending on the time of year and water temps, I like jigs, X-Raps and slow rolled spinnerbaits when the water is cold. From about Pre-Spawn all the way through until it ices over, I will throw Jigs, Tubes, Worms and Crankbaits. To many people around here throw Spinnerbaits, Lipless Cranks, and jerkbaits at or around rip rap. I just try to show them something different. If I see people throwing alot of jigs, I will switch to a finesse jig.

[CShaver8]

Great..thanks guys. What do you look for in a length of Rip-Rap..that would make that place better than another?

[Bass Hawk 87]

Again, it depends on when you are fishing it. In winter and early spring, the area with the most sunlight on it is a good bet. The rocks heat up and draw baitfish in close to them. During other times of the year, the baitfish are there feeding on the growth on the rock. I like to find areas where the wind is blowing into the rock and fish it.

The best area on rip rap year round seems to be an area where it makes a point with current on it, such as under a bridge etc. This area not only forces the current by at an increased rate, but also offers ambush points and deep water in close proximity, which is very important to me. Any area I fish will have deep water close by.

[Mike Adams]

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The best area on rip rap year round seems to be an area where it makes a point with current on it, such as under a bridge etc. This area not only forces the current by at an increased rate, but also offers ambush points and deep water in close proximity, which is very important to me. Any area I fish will have deep water close by.</TD></TR></TABLE>

Couldn't have said it better

[MidMO]

Curious to see how everyone works the rip rap. Do you hold the boat out and cast perpendicular into the bank, work the boat parallel working a specific depth, or cast at a 45 degree angle?

I've had a lot more luck when I'm working parallel (though with two people in the boat it is sometimes hard to parallel the rip rap) though I do all three at different times.

[Bass Hawk 87]

I normally work everything parallel, except when I am working deep rock ledges where the bait needs to fall.

Even with two anglers, I make a cast, and when it is halfway back, the angler in back makes a cast ahead of me. By the time I am ready to cast again, he is halfway back, etc. Keep the boat moving, and each angler has equal casts to areas first.