bonzai22

The bass are probably stunted from not having enough bait to go around. I think a jig would definitely be a good idea. I'm assuming there are bluegill in there so matching the colors of a jig to them could help get bigger bites.

I have had a snake get into my boat it was just a harmless green snake though. Saw him swimming toward the boat and tried to get away from it with the trolling motor. All of the sudden I couldn't see it anymore so I assumed it had swam off somewhere by shore. We fished the rest of the day left and drove an hour to a cracker barrel. When we get out of the car my friend sees the snakes head poking out of his boat motor and flipped out. The snake had crawled in his motor and coiled around it. It was one of the craziest things I've ever seen but we were able to get it out.

Ever since I started throwing the red eye shad it is all I have bought when it comes to lip less cranks. They have a very good color selection and I have caught a lot of fish on them.

Try fishing a weightless tube and dragging it really slowly. I have shallow pond that I fish sounds pretty similar. Right when the ice comes out I drag a tube really slowly and I can usually get a few bites.

I have one near my house and I do really well with a swim jig since its pretty weedy. Early in the year like this though I drag a weightless tube and catch a lot of fish that way.

My lakes just thawed out last week they usually don't spawn until May here.

If its colder water in the 40's I would slow roll a spinnerbait or fish a lip less crank on the windy banks. If it's water in the 50's I have caught a lot big fish on wind blown banks with a mid depth crank crashing the bottom the more wind the better for that.

I start out fishing ponds first since they open up quicker then wait a few weeks to start taking the boat out.

Sounds like a good time and lake for throwing a lipless crankbait in the submerged grass. If they are shallow and active I would throw a swim jig if they aren't active I would pitch something to the shallow weedlines or any kind of cover mixed with it up there.

One of the lakes I fish got a lot of rain last year and got really muddied up. I caught fish pitching a brush hog around shallow cover. A big bait usually helps them to locate it and rattles would help too.

I haven't caught many pure stripers but I have caught a lot of hybrids. They fight like freight trains and I catch a lot of them on lipless crankbaits. If you can find them schooling and busting on shad you can catch them on about anything.

Oh yeah I already got a fishing trip planned for next weekend.

I'm pretty sure atleast one of the new episodes of major league fishing they are fishing on that lake. I would check those out you could a lot of information from it.

Haven't caught one close to my personal best in the last few years but I did lose one that was extremely close. I saw it jump then it ended up diving down into some rocks and cut my line. My personal best is 7.31 and that fish was pretty similar so it possibly could have beat it.

I gotta say Chickamauga I definitely want to fish that lake the most.

We just got pounded with snow here usually early to mid march you can find open water on ponds in my area. You never know here though I hope it gets here quick I'm going crazy!

I would throw a lip less crank and try a bunch of different retrieves with it. Just a few weeks ago we had open water for about a week and I caught most of my fish on a chrome red eye. Then when you find a good area I would follow up with a shaky head with a wacky worm.

It would be a pretty far drive for you but newton is a really good lake. I haven't been there in the winter I think the fishing can be a little tough but some of the biggest bass are caught there this time of year.

I've only been kicked out of one neighborhood and I was kicked out multiple times because there was a guy with a clip board that had nothing better to do. First he said I had to have someone with me that lived there so I left. Then came back next time with somebody that lived there but they were just watching me fish. Then he told me they had to be fishing with me so he made me leave again. He seemed to make up new rules every time just to kick me out so eventually I stopped going. There were a lot of big fish in there so I think he just didn't want me sore mouthing all of his fish lol

Mine has gotten a lot worse. It never has the tanks anymore and it's pretty much the same every year. I remember going when I was really young and there was a lot more stuff there.

My style is definitely a finesse style. I like jigs, plastics, shaky heads and sometimes throw a drop shot. I will throw just about anything though the only thing I don't much confidence in is deep cranks. On the lakes I fish they follow seasonal patterns for spring then after that the lakes get really screwed up and you never know where the fish will be. I think this year I will try more junk fishing for that reason.

I've never caught a fishing rod but my dad caught an old fly rod and reel one time. It's pretty nice he has it in his sports room now.

I noticed that big time this year. I was throwing a shaky head with a dark green pumpkin colored worm when it was overcast when the sun came out I quit getting bites. I switched to a green pumpkin blue flash worm which has a bluish bottom with a lot of blue flake and started getting a bunch of bites again in the same spot.

I think 12 inches or less

For me it's a shaky head I caught a lot of fish and some bigguns on it.