Thread: Twitch'n is what it's all about!

Always looking for that perfect bait and combo that works the best , most of the time

Gillchaser, you said it all with that statement.
I guess that's why I tinker making hybrid (Frankenstein) soft plastics - always trying to find more 'toys' to play with. The majority of those shapes/actions affect the fish's senses which include motion detection (especially very subtle finesse actions) and sight (which confirms the shape and actions of the moving body and tail (if any).

Twitching is a presentation unlike that used for most bass lures. Bass lures such as heavy skirted jigs with trailers, spinnerbaits with large blades (with and without trailers), 3" crankbaits with larger diving bills, 4" surface lures and Texas rigged 8" plastic worms with 1/8 - 1/2 oz. bullet weights, all have actions and visuals that are far more extreme, that move faster and steadily.

My twitch-retrieve is this:
I use a combination of slight rod tip twitches - raising the tip no more than 1" and lowering each time along with slight turns of the reel handle - not only to take in line slack but to impart more slight movements in between rod tip twitches. Even lures with no tails have an action fish can't ignore and that drives them nuts! such as two grub bodies melted together - totally unique and sold nowhere:

Just one example of what Gillchaser stated about finding perfect lures for most situations. Only twitching makes this lure work to the max along with 40 or so other designs I've discovered - modified or right from the mold. Even molded lures have parts I can use to add to others, and man, I got a lotta molds!

There are other lures that benefit from twitching: the 2.5" Floating Rapala a good example. When twitched, the balsa lure dives slightly as it wobbles forward 2", creating surface rings. I pause it between each slight rod-tip twitch/slight reel handle turn (some say it copies the action of a dying minnow). Of course the Rapala can be retrieved by cranking steadily past targets in open water, but fish gotta be in a chasing mood for them to attack.

Twitch'n focuses on suspended fish that are semi-active, waiting for that opportunity to show a moving object who's boss and then relaxing with fellow slouches. Unlike large bass lures that are more dramatic, finesse lures and retrieves are super-subtle exuding a. 'please, please don't hurt me as I wiggle & twitch in place!'