What is the best retrieve for artificial lizard for largemouth bass?
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Also what is the best color, style, and size i use for 85-90 degree weather.
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rig it texas style and slowly bounce it across the bottom. color can depend on water conditions.
Match the color of the water ( dark water=dark bait) You can rig it weightless and work it through the weeds and shoreline or you can texas rig it with a bullet weight and jig it anywhere. Slow and stealthy!
Best lizard- Zoom…Size-6 inch,,,,color- junebug, redbug,watermelon, black, and plum
use it Texas rigged with a sliding sinker 18th or 14 ounce size and fish it with a high rod tip to let it sink slower, when it hits the bottom, slowly hop it for a few yards back to the boat or bank. The strikes will almost always be on the fall. That’s the reason for the rod tip to be high as the lure falls. You can feel the hits better that way.When you feel the hit or see the line moving, drop your rod, reel in the slack carefully so the fish wont feel the resistance and set the hook.
Texas style and slowly work it to you bouncing it slowly and easily of bottom.
Texas or Carolina rigged, black w/blue tail works good in stained water. Raise the rod tip slowly…reel down and start again.
I like a 6″ Zoom lizard fished on a Gamakatsu hook “Texas rigged”. Use a 1/8 oz. bullet weight and slowly bounce this bait off the bottom. This bait works great for spawning bass. Should be through spawning, though.
Take everything everyone wrote and think about this while you fish a lizard. Certain circumstances must give the reason for certain set-ups. I cast lizards onto down trees and sun drenched rocks or cliffs. (yes not into the water but into view from the water) i leave it there and jiggle it and let it fall into the water where it most usually is slammed by a line sider who feeds on fall in forage. I also use no weight or a light split shot thirty inches or so above it to swim lizards and worms over weeds and over their spawning beds. Usually never in deeper than four to five feet of water though. I will use a bigger split shot to fish rock piles in deeper water and a drop shot in the thick of weeds and submerged bushes or brush covered by lake rising water. My favorite colors are red with fleck, motor oil with red fleck, pumpkin with black fleck and grape jelly.
The lizard that seems to have caught my biggest bass during mid day summer windless conditions is red and they continually get caught off trees down and cliffs.
Go for it.