Bankbeater

I use duo-lock snaps for some topwaters, crankbaits and lipless cranks. Everything else I tie on. I was a little kid the last time I used a snap swivel.

Tackle Warehouse and Bass Pro have the hook sizes listed in the description of the bait.

I have caught most of mine during the morning hours. Probably between 5 AM and Noon.

The two main rods I use for moving baits, and some topwater baits, is a BPS Tourney Special and a BPS Bionic Blade. They're strong rods and they have a good bend to them.

The first place I would try is the area between the drain and the cattails. I would think that food would fall into the water from the cattails and be pulled toward the drain.

^^^This. It gives the rocks a chance to warm up.

Sorry to hear this. Hopefully the group that manages your lake will change.

I would go across the lake to the left. It looks like the creek channel goes deep near some timber. I’d fish that area slowly with a jig and craw.

There are pics online of two bass that were caught out of Lake of the Ozarks about a month apart that went 10 pounds. I think this was 2 or 3 years ago. The story goes about 15 years ago a 12 pound bass was caught locally, and the picture was up in a nearby bait and tackle store. The store took the picture down because it was causing such a ruckus with everyone wanting to fish at that location.

Until the local stores stopped stocking it, I used it for years.

I use the first four, but I like a lipless crankbait instead of an A-rig.

Around vegetation I like a 4" or 6" plastic worm weighted with a 1/16 or 1/8 ounce weight. If there is no vegetation around I like a speed craw weighted the same way.

The majority of my plastics are grape, green pumpkin, black/blue, black, browns, and watermelon. I've got baits in bubble gum, shad, and white but those don't get used very much.

A grape colored Creme Scoundrel worm in the 6" size. I usually fish it with a 1/16 or 1/8 weight.

Around here it could be anytime from the middle of February to the middle of March.

Reminds me of Lake of the Ozarks.

I like to fish in deeper water with rip-rap nearby. In the winter these areas can pick up timber that has been floating around if they're near a spillway.

It went about 60 or so miles south of us Friday night into Saturday. We got some rain and flurries yesterday, but luckily that was all.

I tend to lean to the faster ratios. It’s easier to take up the line when the fish makes a run straight at you.

Probably fishing with jigs.

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I haven't fished with balsa baits in years. I use to have a bad time with them getting banged up around cover and rocks.

Well if the ponds here are going to freeze solid I wish they would hurry up and do it. I want to walk out to that stump and get my crankbait back.

For the past few years I haven’t used tubes at all. I have them in the box, but I never seem to fish with them.

Sounds like you caught it before it turned real ugly. Take it easy and just do what the doctors say.