I Caught More Bass On This Bait Than Anything Else This Year!
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1) Core Tackle Ozark Rig 4/0 Hook 3/16 oz. – https://www.tacklewarehouse.com/Core_Tackle_Ozark_Rig_3pk/descpage-CTOR.html?from=MSFG
2) Core Tackle Weedless Hover Rig 3/32 oz 3/0 Hook – https://www.tacklewarehouse.com/Core_Tackle_Weedless_Hover_Rig_3pk/descpage-CTHV.html?from=MSFG
3) Berkley Powerbait Pit Boss – https://www.tacklewarehouse.com/Berkley_Powerbait_Pit_Boss/descpage-PBPB.html?from=MSFG
4) Picasso Tungsten Little Spotty Finesse Jig – https://www.tacklewarehouse.com/Picasso_Tungsten_Little_Spotty_Finesse_Jigs/descpage-PTL.html?from=MSFG
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I was born and raised in Chicago, but after working 12 years in the financial Industry regulating the futures and options markets at the CME/CBOT I decided to pursue my passion fishing professional tournaments and left my full time corporate job. At that point, I moved to Junction City, WI with my wife Sara and two boys Hank and Duke. I’ve been fishing professionally since 2011 and full-time since 2015. I’ve qualified for seven MLF Championships and won over a half million in tournament winnings at the professional level.
No best bait. 2024 sucked! Bank or offshore hard to get patterns. It can all change in the blink of an eye. I am glad to be watching your videos. Thx
I finally gave the Ozark rig a try this weekend. I was using it with a Trick Worm. While I loved the action it gave the bait on the fall, I was disappointed with how often the head of the weight would get wedged and caught on wood. Where a Texas rig would just slide over a branch, the Ozark rig would get caught. It wasn't that hard to pop it off when this happened, but I found it annoying enough that I don't know if I'll be fishing it around wood much again.
Got to get me some of those pit bosses I have different ones in my tackle but none of those thanks Matt 👍🏻
Love the pit boss!!
I also caught 90% of all my fish this year on the R I Beaver ! 4,20 !
The pit boss is top 3 punch bait for me! I wish retailers would carry more sizes! I never see the smaller sizes, and it drives me crazy trying my best to support the local shops.
my bass fishing spirit guides are saying to say "Hi" to Rob from Bass Mafia. I see it as a good "posse". 🤑🎣🦅🎣
Best part is going smaller. for all lure designera…"Mr.Mojo Rising!" I'm having fun with tiny silicone minnows. they have the body weight. We need a tiny Ozark Rig. 90 degree jig hook
Thanks for the continued info. Really making my fishing better. Are you going to come out with the ozark rig in 2/0? What about the weedless tush.
I’ve had strange success with a wacky rigged Zoom U tail. I’ve caught bass and bluegill on it very well and it has been a truly awesome bait to use. Moccasin blue and chartreuse pepper are the best two I’ve tried but the runner up is the Zoom/powebait 4inch curly tail. It just flat out produces fish. Light Texas rig or on a jighead seems to be the best way to use it for me. Though I do use it as a mini swimming worm too!
Love the pit boss!! I did well with smallmouths on the Yamamoto Yamatanuki 2.5 in green pumpkin, and watermelon red fleck.
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Another interesting and informative video. I've had good luck with the 3 inch Pit Boss on the Ozark rig and as a trailer on skirted jigs. Your vids are the best
You need your own color pit boss. Ikes got one skeet had some big hes gone now. So there's a place for you to have your own custom. Blend of color. What would it be?
i go through packs of these like crazy, after you texas rig with them cut a little off and it makes for a good trailer haha junebug works really well for me or the watermelon red
1/4 and 3/8 jig with zoom super chunk jr. black/ blue, green pumpkin, and mixed combo of the two. 99 percent of the time all year long.
👍👍👍👍👍
The 3” is money.
Texas rig or as a trailer on a 1/4 or 3/8 jig.
I wasn't able to get out as much this season but when we did the X Zone Ned Zone 3" worked and just today I caught a 3 pound smallie on a 3" X Zone tube in a green pumpkin main body with clearish tentacles with purple flake. I love tubes and have been using for decades and I am loving the X Zone tubes. They last a good long time yet soft enough with lots of salt so the smallies hang on much longer then others I have tried. Will be looking to get the 2.5" Stealth tubes when they go on sale eventually.
I just caught a PB large mouth (19 plus inches and some girth) with a Core Tackle Hover Rig with a Paca Chunk Sr. on it – this has been my most productive set-up this year – thank you for all the fishing tips, tackle choices and videos ! I might give the Pit Boss a try (awesome that you get to fish with your family !)
Matt, The BPS Stick-O six inch rigged: t-rig weightless, neko and BEST of all the Ozark Rig. The Ozark Rig caught good numbers and most of my biggest LM bass up to 8lbs. Cold water in spring was a sp jerkbait (Jackall Rerange 110 sp and Pointer 100 sp). NE-KS & NW-MO area.
Thank you Matt . I am learning stage.
3/8oz Picasso skirted jig with a Berkley max scent creature hawg in gp. Mississippi River fish couldn’t resist!
My go plastic this season has been the Strike King Rage Tail Crawl. The way you use those Berkleys has been the way I did also with these. From Texas Rig to trailers to your Ozark rigs and your Swim Jigs. Guilty Pleasure and Shadilack are my favs. I like to tell folks I am going to go “Shadalack” some bass.
Matt, since I retired I’ve watched all your videos and learned more from you than the other thousands! This spring I caught 4 smallys 5lb or better in 5 days on a 4 inch watermelon Pit Boss on a wobble head jig. Water was dirty from wind so also dipped in garlic chartreuse spike it. Thanks, and good luck whatever you do next year.
2 mainstays in my arsenal and have caught a lot of Bass for me is the Ned rig , color : Meat Dog by Z Man, and Ribbon tailed worm by Yum. Color: Tequila Sunrise texas rig.
Wobble head.
I've caught the vast majority of bass this year on a NED rig. I use both a 1/6 and 1/10 mushroom jig head with a 2.75" Zoom Coppertreuse Finesse TRD. It seems to work in almost any water or weather condition.
Love the pot boss on
A swim jig!
My go to was flipping a jig or swimming a jig in or near grass lines. If the water clarity was 1 to 3 feet I did have a pit boss as a trailer. Green pumpkin or June bug were my two favorite colors.
Great video Matt, good info 👍 thanks. I miss the Havoc pit boss
Strike King Swim Jig paired with a SK Rage Tail Menace in Moon Juice color was my big catcher this year. Also, a drop shot rig with a Zoom 4" finesse worm.
If you had to state your preferred style of Tournament Fishing? It would be?!
One of my favorites as well.
I tell you what I use the Ozark rig with a bull flat and man. I did really well this summer
Whats your favorite colors
Another way to fish the pitboss is to rig it weightless on a ewg hook and if you reel fast enough it becomes a mini finesse buzzbait.
Not so much what I’ve caught, but what I have lost.
I have lost over 20 chatters to Pike . I have to use leaders with my Jacks , won’t loose those too
much $$$$$$
Thanks Matt General wacky and a day saver was a pittboss on a shacky heag
Caught a lot of fish on the rubber dice and the new Reins Umbrella Wire creature bait this year.
I have been messing around with new OSP HP fish . Unique little swim bait. You should give it a look, I think it is going to catch a lot of smallies for me next year.
Great bait but I get so many that come warped in the package.
I forget the name but your Core Tackle swim jig was on fire for me this weekend. I thought the day trip was a tough bite only catching 10-12 a day but apparently everyone else was getting skunked or only a couple each day.
Caddo Lake Tx side