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How do I fish with lizards?

Fishing with lizard lures is a versatile technique that can be highly effective for bass fishing, especially during certain times of the year. Here's a rundown of the proper techniques based on the video context provided:

  1. Rigging the Lizard: Start by Texas rigging your lizard lure. This involves threading the lizard onto a hook so that the lure is weedless. You can use a bullet weight above the hook to help the lure sink, but sometimes you might leave it weightless or use a light sinker, like an eighth ounce, to allow for a slower fall.

  2. Line and Hook Selection: Depending on the cover you're fishing and the size of the lizard, you'll want to use a heavier line, typically 17 to 25 lb test line for pitching into heavy cover. For hooks, a straight shank hook is often recommended, and the size should match the size of your lizard lure. For a 4-inch lizard, a size 2 EWG (Extra Wide Gap) hook is a good choice.

  3. Pitching and Flipping: These are precise casting techniques used to place the lizard lure into specific areas where bass are likely to be hiding, such as around stumps, boat docks, lily pad stems, or cattails. The idea is to get the lure into tight spots without spooking the fish.

  4. Working the Lizard: Once your lizard is in the water, work it slowly to mimic natural prey. This can involve twitching the rod tip to give the lizard a lifelike movement. In shallow water, you can even swim the lizard just under the surface to entice bass to strike.

  5. Seasonal Tactics: Lizard lures are particularly effective in the spring when bass are in shallow water, with water temperatures between 55 to 70 degrees Fahrenheit. During this time, bass may be hunting for bedding areas, and the lizard's profile and movement can trigger aggressive bites.

  6. Color and Clarity: Choose your lizard color based on water clarity. Green pumpkin is a versatile color that works well in clear to moderately stained water. In murkier conditions, darker colors may be more effective. Adding a chartreuse or orange dye to the tail can enhance visibility and attractiveness.

  7. Carolina Rigging: While not as commonly used by Randy Blaukat, a Carolina rig can also be an effective way to fish a lizard, especially in deeper water or when bass are more spread out.

Remember, the key to successful lizard fishing is to adjust your technique to the conditions you're facing, from the weight of your sinker to the speed of your retrieve. Experiment with different presentations and pay attention to how the bass are reacting to find the most effective method for the day.

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5 Techniques For Lizard Fishing Every Angler Should Know by Intuitive Angling With Randy Blaukat → around clean stumps sometimes I'll leave it non pegged but that's usually the setup that I like to use for with that um and most of the time I'm pitching it on 17 to 25 lb testline but here's the situations where a lizard really works good as far as the exact scenario and conditions if you again your your temperature window zone is like 55 to 70° in the springtime of the year for the most part and shallow shallow cover is going to be the best cover for this now it has to do something I guess with the profile of the bait and the legs and the wet Falls but when I'm talking about flipping shallow flipping and pitching shallow cover you got a lot of different lures at work you got your jigs your creature baits or plastic worms tubes soft plastic stick baits and they all work in different situations but guys I have never found another lure that works as good if those fish are really shallow like say for example you got those fish that are in less than 3T of water 1 to 3T of water a lizard in really really shallow water just catches them it gets it gets an aggressive bite it gets more bites than about any soft plastic that you can use out there especially if you can really pick those pieces of cover real slow with like an eighth out Sinker
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The Small Window When A Lizard Outproduces Any Other Lure… by Intuitive Angling With Randy Blaukat → concrete whatever it may be in there behind boat docks whatever and these fish that are in there the these bass although the lizard will work pitching around bedding bass these fish that are in there and bite this lizard they are the ones in their hunting beds hunting bedding areas they're cruising looking for bedding areas sometimes there's males sometimes there's females but whatever the cause there's something about the profile the look the way a lizard falls in the water that will get those fish to buy better than a beaver better than a brush hog better than a tube better than a jig better than anything during that window the key on this guy is there's two keys though to get these fish to bite other than just throwing the lizard number one is the color number two is the weight you want to use the key to getting lots of bites during this window is you have to use a light sinker so i'm using an eighth ounce sinker no more than the 3 16. if it's really windy out or something i'll put a 3 16 on but most of the time i want an eighth ounce sinker that causes this lizard to fall nice and slow on top of that i'm not pegging it i'm just letting it slide up and down the line usually have anywhere between 15 to 20 pound test 4 carbon line and usually a 4 oz straight shank hook
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5 Techniques For Lizard Fishing Every Angler Should Know by Intuitive Angling With Randy Blaukat → little bit a little bit pressured more maybe after a front rolls through seems like the little smaller lizard Works a little bit better but primarily guys my favorite is the zoom 8in lizard now this it's an 8 in lizard but it's still it's not like a real big bait but there's something about 8 in lizard that's just really appealing to the fish the size of it so as far as during the course of the year I probably use the 8 in size about 75% of the time and then I'll use the little 5 in one you know the other 25% of the time but I do prefer the 8 in lizard because it'll get you a big bite but and it'll still get you a lot of numbers now I pretty much just used three different colors based upon the Water Clarity my favorite and you can't beat it is just the straight green pumpkin um green pumpkin pumpkin and I usually dip the tail chartreuse in it or maybe some orange but a green pumpkin is going to be your most versatile color a lot of it depends again on the water Clarity and the sunlight conditions but anytime that I'm using a green pumpkin I usually am looking for water visibility of like over two over twoot Clarity 2 and 1/2 ft or greater and most of the time about the cleanest that I'll fish a
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5 Techniques For Lizard Fishing Every Angler Should Know by Intuitive Angling With Randy Blaukat → also guys if you have a lake that has lily pads in it like and in the springtime a lot of them aren't bloomed out they still have the lily pad stems flipping a lizard and Lily Pad stem or flipping a lizard in Cattails and reads is a really good way to catch them with that light 8 oun Sinker making those real slow methodical pitches in there with that um I and I don't I really don't do much Carolina rigging anymore but Carolina rigging is really effective like we talked about a little bit earlier in the video too now one other thing I will tell you guys that's really good with a lizard is sometimes like ride around those fish when they're starting to spawn you can take the lizard with no weight at all just take the just Texas Rig it just like that with no no weight and do the same thing just cast it and Pitch it and flip it around that super shallow cover and a lot of times I'll cast it and Pitch it out there and I'll sort of slowly reel it back and twitch it and try to keep it just maybe an inch or two under the surface and like swim it by that shallow cover and they'll come out and hit it just like a swim jig but anyway guys coming up on it it's going to be another month or so it's going to be lizard
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