Usually good blade baits used to catch just about most gamefish (eg. smallmouth, sea trout, yellow belly/yellowbelly, winter bass, smallmouth bass, walleye, stocked trout, lake trout and bass).

Saltwater fishing blade baits

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Can you troll with blade baits?

Blade baits are heavy. ... Depending on where walleyes are holding or feeding in fall, you can cast, jig or troll a blade bait and catch them. Blades look and act like wounded minnows, and so they trigger reaction strikes from walleyes, whether the fish are hungry or not.

“Blades are a reaction bait, for current-oriented fish. I use them to fish current edges, wing dams, along current breaks and in pockets. But you can fish them in reservoirs too, where the baitfish are deep, down where there's big shad balls and the walleyes are feeding on them.

Do smallmouth bass eat crankbaits?

Crankbaits and spinnerbaits are very popular smallmouth lures when fish are active. Burning these baits along rock piles and weed edges is very effective. These are better options for deeper water, from six feet to as much as thirty feet or more.

What do sea trout eat?

Sea trout feed mainly on fish, small crabs, shrimps and prawns. It is an anadromous, migratory fish, which closely resembles the Atlantic salmon in its form and lifestyle. In the sea, it makes long journeys and also swims upstream into small rivers in order to spawn.

How do you get a yellow belly in the winter?

In winter, schools of yellas cling tight to standing timber. Vertically rolling grubs such as up the trunk is a fantastic way to target deep-schooled winter yellowbelly. In spring, however, yellowbelly still frequent trees, but they tend to be holding on timber in shallower water.

What lures do winter bass like?

Some good examples of winter bass bait include a rapala shad rap, a hair jig, and soft plastic baitfish. If you use a hair jig, remember that you don't need a trailer. A bit of deer hair will work just fine.