Bankbeater

If I need action I will thread on a Fat Albert.

Caught my first bass on a purple 6” Creme worm many years ago. They are great fished weightless in the weeds.

Welcome.

Congratulations on that really nice bass!

Congratulations!

I always have at least one spinning rig with me. This time of year I might have 2 or 3.

6'6" and 7'0" mh/f. Both are more like a m/f than mh/f.

Mine has to be a beetlespin. I just cannot catch anything using those baits.

There is a lake near me that fills up with vegetation from about mid-May until the end of July. Almost all of it covers the shallow flats. Most people I see fishing stay away from that area because they don't want to get tangled up in the weeds, so I usually have the entire lower end of the lake to myself.

There has been many partly cloudy days when I’ve kept a topwater tied on all day fishing in coontail. When a cloud moves in front of the sun the topwater bite really turns on until the sun comes back out.

I quit deep cranking years ago. I stick to lipless cranks, spinnerbaits, and chatterbaits now.

The actual creek channel usually doesn't have a lot of timber in it. So I use the fish finder to find the creek bed and then drop anchor in the middle of it. From there I can cast all around the boat with plastics.

I’ve caught muskie on spinnerbaits, crankbaits, plastic worms, and jigs, but I’ve had the best luck with lipless crankbaits.

Shimano, Abu, Pflueger, and Daiwa.

All of my spinning reels are presidents. Last one I bought was for a ML rod back in 2016.

Nice one, congratulations!

All the vegetation is a little different. I look to see is it matted, submerged, just off of the bottom, thick, or sparse. After I see what the weeds look like I start fishing the water column to see what the bass are doing. Are they coming out of the weeds after prey, are they waiting until the prey comes close to the weeds? i use the same baits I fish with in water without vegetation. Topwaters, shallow crankbaits, and plastics or a jig on the bottom.

This time of year I like to circle the clumps of weeds on the surface and bring a super spot right past them from every angle. I just reel fast enough so the trebles don't pick anything up.

Most of the bass I have been catching have been dinks. I've had a couple of nice ones, but they have been far between. I've been catching around vegetation. Shallow or deep it doesn't matter.

The bass around here have been starting shallow in the flats around 3' to 4' then moving deeper around 9 AM, or when it starts getting hot. When the bass move deeper they are staying around vegetation.

Most of my baitcasters are around the 6.3 range.

This time of year I carry 2 baitcasters and 2 spinning. Baitcasters are for jigs and weighted t-rigs. Spinning are used for finesse plastics and light crankbaits. In the fall I will start carrying 5 or 6 depending on where I am fishing.

Green pumpkin and chartreuse pumpkin.

Nice bass! Congrats on the new PB!

I can cast sitting or standing, but I feel like I get a better hookset when I'm standing up.