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Week of 6/28/00 #136 It’s early morning. The water is flat and there is just a mist of fog over the winding cove you are have entered. The sounds and sights tell you that bass are chasing baitfish right up to the banks. Seems like a perfect topwater situation. You start with a floating stick bait (jerk bait), progress to a zara spook, a chug bug and finally to a buzzbait which you are throwing right on the bank and bringing it zipping into the water. Not a bite on any of these. Should you abandon topwater? If not what should you use? If so what do you change to? Winner I would try a soft jerk bait, and start by working it on top. If no strikes occur I would slow my presentation down a bit or add a small split shot up above barrel swivel to help keep it down below the water surface and continue working my way down toward the bottom until I hit the strike zone.
Week of 6/21/00 #135 You are fishing a tournament in an older reservoir. You did
not have an opportunity to prefish so this is it. The empoundment
has very little cover in it at all. Most of the banks taper down
to about six feet of water and then drop off quickly. There is
some scattered chunk rock and small boulders here and there.
The water visibility is about six feet. It is a partly sunny
day and the water temps are in the low seventies. You have not
found any fish yet and you feel you are running out of time.
What would you do next? Winner I would position my boat over the deep water and cast a carolina rigged green pumkin power tube to the bank and work it at a medium pace down the tapering slope and let it fall off the drop-off. I would let it free-fall until it hit the deeper bottom area, jig it a few times then repeat this pattern. I would then position in shallow water and lob into the deep water and work the scattered rocks and boulders slowly with this carolina rigged tube. Week of 6/7/00 #134 It is a bright warm sunny day in June. You have established
a pattern of fishing brush piles located in 8-10 feet of water.
You have been using texas rigged worms in black and june bug.
Along comes the cloud cover. While it is not raining it becomes
quite cloudy and the bite all but stops. What is your next step
in getting into some bass again? Winner The reason the fish was holding to the brush piles,is that it was a bright,sunny day,so they were holding tight to cover.When the cloud cover came,the fish started cruising shallower water.So I would try throwing a shallow,fast running crankbait,or possibly a topwater bait such as a top water jerkbait or buzzbait,and change up running speeds to see where I get the best results.Also you might want to change color selections,trying first some brighter baits,then if no luck,some neutral colors,possibly pumpkinseed or watermelonseed.Then if all else fails,try spinnerbaits in a colorado,willow combination,and try running at various depths and speeds,my best results come from a chartruse and white 3/8 oz. with a white twin tailed grub with just a 1/4" of the tails dipped in chartruse dipping die. Thanks,good Question,but you didn't give a couple bits of information that I also use to determine what I change my baits to? I also use water temperature and clarity to determine my changes!
Week of 5/29/00 #133 You are fishing on a warm summer day. The lake you are on has many boat docks lining the shoreline. Some of the docks are the floating type while most of them are built on pilings. You have established a pattern that finds you fishing the shady areas of the piling docks. What techniques are you using to get to the biggest fish which seem to be well back into the shade and in some cases well into the center of the docks? Winner If I am catching fish up under the docks on the shady portion of the pillars, I would be skipping a natural color Skirted grub under the docks, probably 1/4 oz to 3/8 nothing more. I would jigging it in a slow manner off the bottom.
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