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How to Striper Fish with Slab Spoons on Freshwater Lakes
Slab Spoons are the #1 Striper Lure on Texas and Oklahoma freshwater lakes. They are very easy to fish and put big Striper in the net. Do not limit your slab spoon fishing to vertical jigging. Read on and find out how to put big Striper in the net with our top-four slab spoon techniques.
Vertical Jigging Slab Spoon Lures
How to Striper Fish with Slab Spoon Lures-Vertical Jigging
Our example will be in 25 feet of water in early Spring! Let’s say the water temperature is 68 degrees. You want to cover the vertical water column and find out if the fish you are marking on your graph are eating! Remember DO NOT SPEND MORE THAN 20 MINUTES at one spot!Striper Fish with Slab Spoon Lures-1.5oz Jigs
Drop your 1.5oz Chartreuse Slab Spoon to the bottom! Keep your thumb on the line and ALWAYS CONTROL YOUR DROP SPEED! Most Striped Bass Anglers miss fish on the fall or drop! Your lure has made contact with the bottom, now raise your rod enough to lift the slab spoon off the bottom! Most Striper anglers miss fish that are feeding near the bottom! These are usually the bigger fish too! Your first lift should cover from 25 feet to 24 feet! Pop or shake the rod once you have stoped your one-foot lift!Cover Water With Slab Spoon Lures
Drop the slab spoon back to the bottom with line control! On your second lift, bring the rod up two to three feet. At the top pop or shake the rod. If you do not get a strike or bite, drop the slab spoon lure to the bottom! Control your line on the fall so you don’t miss fish! Now you have covered from 25 feet to 21 feet of the vertical water column!Slab Spoon Lures-Move In 20 Minutes
On your third lift raise the rod as high as you can, stop and pop the rod! This last lift will cover water from 20 feet to 15 feet! If you start getting bites on the third lift, that’s the ZONE! You now know the fish marked on your screen are actively feeding at 20 to 15 feet! You next drop should focus on keeping the slab spoon lure at 15 to 20 feet! When the fish stop eating your slab spoons……MOVE TO A NEW SPOT! Remember the 20-minute plan!Yo-Yo Jigging Slab Spoon Lures
SEASON: Yo-Yo jigging is a summertime tactic and is usually done very fast! Warm weather Striper fishing means big fish chasing shad at 100 mph! It’s not uncommon to see big gizzard shad flying out of the water and big Hybrid Striper in hot pursuit! Think June and July on North Texas Lakes!
WATER DEPTH: 20 to 30 feet is common for Yo-Yo jigging Striped Bass! A common situation is schooling striper pushing shad to the top of the water column. When the top-water frenzy stops, move to 20 feet and burn slabs off the bottom!
LURE COLOR and SIZE: Holographic silver and chartreuse will get the job done! Striper will be chasing big gizzard shad, so break out the 1.5oz and 2oz slab spoons and hang on!
Yo-Yo Jigging is our favorite method How to Striper Fish with Slab Spoon Lures. We often call this burning slab spoons too!
Striper Fish with Slab Spoon Lures-Yo-Yo Jigging
This is a saltwater tactic that transfers great to Texas Lakes. A very simple and effective method and should be used all summer long. Drop the slab spoon lure to the bottom. Two or three quick reel retrieves, stop, jig your rod. Repeat this until you get back to the top of the water. We like the one, two, three, reel retrieves, stop! Then jig or pop your rod two times, then repeat.
Bounce Jigging Slab Spoon Lures
This style is very straightforward, you cast the slab spoon lure out away from the boat or bank and pop the jigging spoon off the bottom, and let it fall back to the lake floor. This tactic is best at a consistent lake level. So 15 feet of water from your cast and also the same water depth at the boat. Pop the slab spoon lure off the bottom one foot, let it fall on controlled slack. Repeat this until you get to the boat! For more information follow Slab Spoon Lures.
Top Water Jigging Slab Spoon Lures
It’s always nice to have Striper bust the surface while you are slab spoon fishing. If you do not have a top-water rod rigged up, throw the slab spoon and skate it on the surface. Yes, top-water fish a slab spoon. Hold your rod high at the end of the cast and reel very fast as the slab spoon lure hits the water. As the slab spoon skips on the surface, fish will strike the lure. Don’t set the hook until you feel the fish. If a fish misses your slab spoon, stop and let the lure sink 2-3 feet! This usually results in a hookup.
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