bladerunner808

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Definitely put me down for spinnerbaits. I use them the "proper way" and time of year and size and color and even blade style depending on conditions - still nothing. What a waste of my time. Bass DO NOT come looking for these things. NEVER HAD A NIP on one in 30 years of fishing. Same goes for buzzbaits. Fished them last night at sundown at a spot where I have been SLAYING bass for the last 8 weeks... nothing - not even a swirl. Senkos and topwaters (spook type baits) are my 2 go-to baits. I ALWAYS START topwater and shallow and work down from there. If walk-the-dog style baits aren't doing it. I go to Senko style baits and catch bass by that point - never had a need to go down to crankbaits - although I have some beauties ready for any depth.

DEAD ON. I remember fishing here up north (PA) - where bass typically don't grow as big as other parts... 1992 - no cell phones with cameras, no digital cameras, just me and a baitcaster with a snagproof frog. Bank fishing pulling the frog through lilly pads. I had bites from big fish all day but not one hookup. Then after cleaning a birdsnest leaving my frog in 10 inches of muck RIGHT at my feet literally - WHOMP. The biggest fish I ever caught. Bent my pole in half and I had to drag it up the bank. I could put my fist in its mouth easy. I have NO IDEA how much it weighed but it was LONG @24". I could not comfortably lip it with one hand. At the time there was no internet so I figured wow - my biggest fish - but I felt so bad keeping it out of the water I plunked her right back in. Years later looking up the record for PA I saw it was somewhere around 10 pounds - I'm an idiot. I'm sure it was flirting right around there - but who knew? I've been fishing my whole life and I only kept ONE bass ever. My first one! I ran all the way home with it on the line when I was a kid. So YES - it will come to someone fishing a smaller body of water with well fed lunkers in the weeds - not on a lake at the hands of a depth-finder.

YES totally work. I catch fish outside of the tables - but the fish turn on almost to the minute. I am a dork and I printed out the tables for each month. I usually fish 2 to 4 days a week and I record my catches and lures used etc. right on the printed out table - or I tear it out of FLW magazine. 90% of my hot streaks are during those 2 prime hours each day. I plan my trips around them - but I will fish ANYTIME because I love fishing.