Siebert Outdoors

Its like fishing in the dark. LOL sorry thats a real bad joke. Actually when I do night fish I dont use a black light or anything. I just fish by feel or sound. All I use is the boat light and fish. Your probably wondering how I cast to the bank? The answer is by color contrast from available light from the boat light.

I throw grubs similiar to that but on a carolina rig. Grubs work great for smallies, I use them on c rigs, t rigs, jig heads and shakey heads. They just work anyway you want.

with all this talk about lures and how many. It got me thinking. What are the staple colors soft plastic colors. Here is what I think. green pumpkin black watermelon brown These colors seem to produce in any water condition out there. If I had to pic one of them it would be green pumpkin. It just works in all conditions and water types.

This is the path I am headed to. More then 10 lures but not near what I have. I just have too much other stuff that needs used up. Once its gone its not getting replaced.

That is what this year is all about for me. One specific technique is wacky rigging. I am going to guess for 07 I will be at 75% usage on tackle. Thats not per trip though thats avg of the whole year. Here is my break down. Jerkbaits: rogues, x raps, lc(2) Spinnerbait: bunch of them Buzzbait: 5 Topwater: 10 Crankbait: 30-40 mostly bandits, rapala, norman, and manns Jigs: alot but all similiar colors/natural colors Soft Plastics senko styles, lizards, worms, creatures etc % I use these baits Jig 80 jerkbaits 1 buzzbait 1 topwater 1 crankbait 5 spinnerbait 2 soft plastic 5 That is an estimated last years usage. Like mentioned earliar this year I'm going to broaden my horizons and fish more baits. Well atleast try too.

I'm a huge line watcher. like others have stated its very important when jig/worm fishing. With practice you can tell the differences in the slightest movements. Sometimes the fish will sit on a jig and not move or he might be 15ft from where you casted. On extremely light bite days line watching and keeping a finger below the line in front of the reel is crucial imo

Gotta agree with Rolo. For smaller fish all I use is thill pencil float. Works great.

I really like the mustad triple grips. I did get some baits with daichii hooks and those might replace my triple grips. I will have to do more testing. I know there are sharper hooks out there other then triple grips but I just dont lose fish on them.

Happy Birthday Muddster. To many more and hope you catch some large bass

One of my all time favorite was a us tackle jig. I bought a bunch about 5-8 years ago and now I havent seen them again. Oh well good thing I make Poison jigs now.

I use to be a big plastics junkie, but not near as bad anymore. Once I figured out how to fish a jig most of the plastics just sit around now. Since I have started pouring plastics I'm going to start broadening my horizens and fishing more senko style baits, and other plastics. Jigs will still be #1 and plastics are #2. CJ I have to agree with you on the jig/no trailer combo. Except a swim jig that mimics shad.(hair jig)

Not a bad idea at all. I'd like to see a pic of that. Handle tape for a tennis racket works too.

Eakins jigs, Best productions finesse jig that I have used.

What I do is put the head back into the lead, after it has melted off then quickly wipe the hook eye area off with a towl. Got to be careful not to burn yourself or start the towl on fire. Usually there isnt enough heat there but I just wanted to throw that disclaimer out there.

I wish I could help you out with this one. But I cant shoot straight. Well atleast this year.

Thanks Craig. I was doing some research. The pictures didnt look exactly like the lake now. Then I looked where the docks were and a couple of coves. The pic is dated 1996. That is when they drained the lake and rebuilt the levee and spill ways. So knowing this there is about 5+ft of water where there is dirt showing on alot of the map. Hence the channels that look dry are not, they are flooded now along with some of my bluff that is exposed on that map. Sweeet.

I probably avg. 1 per trip. Mostly jigs or a worm hook. Very rarely do I lose a crank or anything like that. Why you ask? Lure retriever. BTW RW shopping carts suck. Lure stealers.

No thats not the channel. I didnt even know that one existed. Makes sense though, that is the water outlet for emergency drain of the other lake. There is a spill way now were that road is on the bottom right that flows into this lake from the one across the dam. This creek channel flows from the right and meets the left side of the lake creek channel in the top portion of the pic where that main point disappears. then the channel all combines and flows down the lake and towards the N. end it turns sharply I do believe or was deverted for the spill way. From your pic you posted Craig this shows how I need to document more of the lake I need to spend the time one afternoon and draw all this out according to the depth finder. If there was a way I could open this pic I could fill out alot of the depths on a majority of this pic from fishing it so much.

How did you do that? I've been working all day on trying to download and print this map. All I print off is a blank sheet with road names on it. :-/

here is a link to my fishing hole. I will modify this map I guess and make my own fishing map. http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&z=14&ll=37.930591,-90.234189&spn=0.03297,0.05785&t=k&om=1

The lakes I mostly fish are smaller man made lakes say approx 50 acres maybe more. I'm not a good judge on surface area. My question is has anyone taken the time to sketch thier own map. Nothing hugely detailed just main features like channels, points, drops, brush, rock piles, etc. Also, In the warmer months has anyone ever dove down to see features of a specific area. For example a cliff. Yes I know they make depth finders that read contour. ;D

Thanks for the ideas guys. This is one area I have fished and had little success. I will keep working at it because I know they are there. I will try all of your responses and see how it goes. PS once the lake unfreezes :-?

Thats what I was thinking when I read the topic.

awsome looking flys/jigs good job. 8-)

I've used 10.5" old monsters for pulling across weeds/lily pads works pretty good at times