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shot an email yestersday. cant wait to try em out! love the old shak-e's.

thanks five.bass.limit, ill have to try that next time i go. the weird thing is, i randomly have a norman dd 22, i might have found a good use for it after all, lol and thanks low budget hooker, im glad i found this site!

so there is some ky folks on here. i have to say i have never fished any of those lakes, mostly because of me being 16. do fish talorsville a lot though. its right outside of louisville.

thanks for all the input guys. you know, i didnt find out shad were in there until this year. last year, i used a little lure that caught me a lot of fish, a rapala minnow rap. this year, ive tried everthing but it. mostly noisy baits, u know, buzzbaits, colorado blade spinners, ect. came up with nothing. are shad a "noisy" fish? im thinkin i should throw a more finnesse bait. maybe thats why i caught so many last year, ;D

ok, if yo know for a fact that there is bass in the pond, i woud recommend a small storm swimbait, in bluegill pattern off course. try finding a little deeper water, tapering off from more shallow areas. bass will usually cruise in areas like this, either for territory purposes or feeding. most ponds i fish in are usally like the one you stated, no cover hardly at all. just let the swimbait fall to the bottom, and start with a slow retreive, with some erratic twitches here and there. if that fails to produce, expiriment with retrieves, and go from there. -jeff

ok, first off, newbie here. well, to the forum at least. love the site! ok, so ive got a problem: there is a small private lake that i fish a lot, about 100 acres. now, i know there is a really good population of largemouth, REALY healthy, REALLY fat. but, this lake is also filled with gizzard shad. recently, i went out on a night trip, and shad are busting everywhere on the bank, pretty much all over the lake. ive threw just about everything, spinners, shallow cranks, buzzbaits, ect. and failed to hook up. ive even tried live shad, no luck. any tips on situations like this? i know for a fact that the bass are chasing these shad, because while castnetting for shad i managed to cathch a very chunky 3 pounder. sorry for being so long winded, just thought id ask here! -jeff